Power Ranger Meeting Minutes
Friday, March 18, 2005
Room 2113
- 55 attending -
1.
Opening Activity: Think -- Pair -- Share
TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION
PowerRangers were asked at the beginning of the period
to write down the best technology supported project and/or artifact that they
had done or seen with students. They
worked in groups to identify
and compare varying levels of technology integration as presented in three "scenarios"
which depicted the stages of technology integration: Literacy (Beginning or
Entry level), Adapation (Use it for anything, just use it! = same stories, new
tools) and Transformation (New learning stories, with new tools). Rangers also
received an outline of these three levels as defined by Educational Technology
Planners. (ETP).
Examples shared
included:
Adaptation:
- Intro to Business:
International Business Pyramid
- Finding shapes - Geometry
PowerPoint presentation
- State of the world
Atlas -- PowerPoint presentation
- Roman Government PowerPoint
presentation
- Geometers Sketchpad
for translating shifting graphs to find rules
- Use Inspiration to
extend definitions
- Psychology -- students
created “trading cards” of famous “Psych guys”
- Pictures of students
in FMP
- Scavenger Hunt Pictures
into a PowerPoint presentation
- BrainPop
- United Streaming videos
w/handouts
- Used TUM Solver: students
located houses/ins they wanted to buy and their expected salary for their
career
- College Board web
search
- Online Quizzes
- Using CAD system to
design furniture
- Grammar Exercises
on Dianna Hacker website
- CareerCruising.com
- Leaning reproductive
anatomy with interactive diagrams
- History of food: Timeline
- Math: Quadrilateral
labs
- Essay writing: modeling
using data projector
- Sonic Boom: web-based
homework with video clips
- Water Fountain project
- Webpage for club
Transformation
- e-mail discussions
in class
- Chat-room discussions
- -blogging with other classes
- Animated (Claymation)
Poetry Movies from student written poetry
- Astronomy project
News Broadcast - iMovie
- PSA for Persuasion
- Laura Brown
- Macbeth “trailer”
-- iMovie
- Poetry Project --
iMovie
- Study Skills -- iMovie
in Summer class
- Student created screenplays
from online and book research, then created video for their script
- Endangered Species
Webquest
- Webquest on rocks
- Webquest on politics
- Building hovercraft
with list of supplies and not much instruction
2. PowerRangers
graphed technology use onto pie-charts:
Based upon 1) Experiences in your classroom/job/title, and 2)
your observation of other classrooms/areas:
What percentage
of student use of technology is Literacy? Adapting? or Transforming?
(The charts below
represent an average of all responses).
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