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=BL07 Differentiating Instruction through Technology (S. Allen)= Tracey McGrath & Brandon Lutz School District of Philadelphia

Presentation website: http://teach20.wikispaces.com/DIPD Presenters used Google form to assess participants knowledge of DI and gather participant information. (Link - Differentiated Knowledge Interest Survey) Defined differentiated instruction. Focus areas (how you can differentiate) - content/process/product Learn about the learners - readiness (background knowledge, skills), interests, learning profile Classroom considerations - time/resources/access/materials/curriculum

Getting started - Get to know your kids first!!

 * KWL charts - readiness assessment
 * pre-assessment (interest or readiness)
 * interest inventories
 * personality profiles
 * Google apps - Hempfield has student domain and teacher domain

Sample lessons

 * Exploring Poetry - assigned roles - artist, musician, writer, researcher
 * product was podcast
 * Choice boards - American Revolution - student choices...work individually, with a partner, with a small group
 * Options on boards - jeopardy game, newspaper, song or rap, radio show podcast, multimedia presentation, skit, timeline using Inspiration, comic strip
 * Content podcasts - The Pythagorean Theorem
 * [|http://www.prometheanplanet.com/server.php?show=nav.2813] teacher features - lessons are featured here using interactive whiteboards
 * Cell structures - using Voicethread - vote one cell part out of the cell
 * http://mrsmaineswiki.wikispaces.com/Cells
 * give students accounts under teacher account in Voicethread

Tools

 * Online collaboration tools
 * videoconferencing - iChat, Skype, Polycom, Elluminate
 * Wikis - only one student can work on a page on a time
 * Blogs
 * Ning
 * Google Apps
 * Yugma
 * Online whiteboards
 * Kids Teach - Helping each other learn together
 * Global online collaboration - can google these projects
 * Math Connections
 * Hugocabret Book Blog
 * Poetry collaboration
 * [|Follow Me Project]- classroom to classroom, home to home, school to school, world connections - stuffed animal travels and host adds content to wiki/blog/photo site
 * How do collaborations differentiate instruction? Allows choices for students in the product they create.
 * writing in blog
 * photography
 * create podcasts and vodcast
 * web 2.0 tools
 * create their own projects
 * share what they have learned in class
 * Create your own Follow Me Project
 * Create your own project - school, class, family
 * Webquests
 * Webquests about webquests
 * [|The Great Plant Escape]
 * Filamentality
 * Translators
 * Digital Storytelling
 * Kid pix
 * Garageband
 * Photobooth (create images)
 * iMovie
 * DiscoveryEducation (source of content & digital storytelling resources)
 * NetTrekker (source of content)
 * Web 2.0 Digital Storytelling Tools
 * Comic brush
 * Easybib.com - We use Noodle Bib at Hempfield. Talk to your librarian for more information.
 * Voicethread (education site)
 * Bubble Share
 * Sumo Paint
 * Gcast
 * [|Digital storytelling ideas]
 * Paint tools
 * Sumo paint
 * Others on presentation site
 * Presentation Tools
 * Screencasting - capture whiteboard presentation/content
 * Visual Literacy
 * Kidspiration
 * Mind42 - allows for collaboration
 * My Webspiration
 * Comic Life
 * Wordle
 * Glogster
 * Survey and Polling Tools
 * Zoho polls
 * Google forms
 * Survey Monkey
 * Poll Daddy
 * Poll Everywhere - can use cell phone to respond
 * Under resources - Cast Resource is very good.