Idea+Box

= = toc =Ideas for all disciplines=

Sock puppet poetry slam...broadcast on youstream with webcam...students can chat on the back channel

Boggle game with Promethean board...how can we randomize the letters? Get on this Stat Man

To-do List Current Events assignment - For newsworthy individuals (Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Rep/Dem senators, Leaders of foreign countries, banking industry CEO, etc.) create their detailed to-do list for a particular time period Geometry students make a bullseye for Probability lessons in other classes according to specific areas/probabilities Difference between number of democratic votes and number of republican votes on different historic/non-historic votes
 * Simple, quick current events assignment
 * Students will choose/be assigned an individual
 * Will need to research who they are, why they're important, what they are involved in

Comic strip story telling using digital cameras. We need to find a program that will insert the cartoon bubbles for speech.

Use of EtherPad to write collaboratively: One student writes from one perspective, the other writes from another perspective. The paper has a common theme/event/character/opinion/position/etc. (Example: writing as Gatsby and Daisy, Dem and Rep, Whig(sp?) and Torry(sp?), Beowulf and Grendel, 1 Canterbury Tales person vs. Another, Rich vs Poor in certain era, monarch vs despot, culture and culture, etc.)

=**Christiansen's Experimental Design Project**= //Planning lesson to take place 1/19/10// Link to Project Requirements

//Instructors: Christiansen, McKenzie, Swindells, Povilaitis//

Centers - Kids visit centers according to what they need
 * Filming techniques
 * Working with Movie Maker (Scott) / Photo Story...free upload from Microsoft
 * stop action photography and claymation if you can keep it simple
 * example: []
 * example: Vocab Larry stop motion vocabulary a little like Mr. Bill (narration and photos)

Photo Story Example: (photos and music, no narration) [|PhotoStory1.wmv]

Appropriate use - waivers, permissions, etc. Videotape lesson to be the most ultimate lesson ever (Doug)
 * Working with Slideshare
 * Actual filming or digital shooting (Scott)
 * Uploading content to the web
 * Podcasting (Activinspire, Jing, Activstudio, Audacity) web cams are available

I'd like kids to go to an area of need. I can be the utility man here, and also I need to be their authority for the actual content of the project. If one center isn't getting a lot of customers, then we can always divide kids between the two. Maybe after some initial instruction (15 min) then kids can work and we can assist.

15 minute demo of using movie maker
 * Scott - Movie Maker

1. Transferring video to computer **

2. Creating/manipulating video with movie maker
 * Organizing files for movie maker

15 minute demo of using Photo Story
 * Wendy - Photo Story**

1. Vocab Larry 2. How-to with Photo Story 3. Will need installed on a few machines in the room if students want to use this

=Tech Flex Sessions for 2010-2011= Skype in the Classrooms Social Networking (Twitter, Facebook, EdModo, etc) - In the classroom and building a PLN Backchannels in the Classroom (Edmodo, CoverItLive) Online Collaboration (Etherpad, Google Documents, Wikis, Ning, Google Wave, Crocodocs) Blogging and RSS feeds Interactive Whiteboard I-pod Touch in the Classroom Social Bookmarking (Delicious, Diigo)