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 * Friday - June 20 - Peripherals in the Classroom -**

**Dive in and Make Your Tools Meaningful** . ..
Peripherals in the Classroom: Scanners, Cameras, Flash Drives, Cell Phones, iPods, etc......What else can you do with the peripherals in your classroom? Are you using them to their full potential? We've got lots of ideas for how you can use them to enhance your curriculum.

8:30 - 10:30 Camera Tips and Tricks [|l] -unpack camera - pixels - zooming features - batteries - sd cards - deleting photos - card readers - sharing

10:30-11:00- break and take photos

11:00-12:00 - iphoto basics. . . cropping and enhancing

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00 - Scanners/unpack

1:30-3:30- Integration Ideas, Share ideas on integration - comic life- For those who like a visual help [|ComicLife_basics.doc] - ipod shuffles, - belken recorders - flash drives, external hd - belken recorders

NONA ADDED THIS TO GET YOU STARTED THINKING Here are some ideas of ways I have used these peripherals in my classroom. I am sure you will all have many more ideas - - just felt bad I won't be there to share.

1. a cool tip - - I use a splitter and 2 diff colored ear bud sets, it makes untangling so much quicker and easier. 2. I reinforce concepts using songs about the skills we have already covered 3. This is a calming spot when some of my children get worked up - they listen and chill awhile - it really helps! 4. Children listen to songs from the Animated Literacy characters we teach in my class, Kdg and first grade 5. Stories from CD's so they can listen and read along 6. Short united streaming videos
 * ipod/shuffle**

1. __The children__ each took a picture of something red in the room. I put those pictures with a picture of each child and made a red book, using the book set up in iphoto. I printed it out myself. It was a real favorite because it had face pics in it, but also the pictures they took themselves! Lots of ownership makes for big successes even with little children. 2. Use pics from all year to make a class DVD for each family to have at the end of the year. 3. Took pictures of lego and block creations so the children would remember the "cool" stuff they made since we could not keep all their creations all year, but had to break them up and tear them down. . . at least they have a picture to remember what they created! 4. Took pictures of bulletin boards and other displays and filed them in the theme boxes so I will be able to remember if I want to try that project again. 5. I had face pictures of each child. We made a graph of the ages of the children in the room. They loved moving their picture to the next number when they had a birthday! 6. I also used the faces and they did several projects - they drew pictures of who they would like to go camping with - they each had their picture and someone else, they had to draw bodies and a camping scene. they picked a friends picture and their own - now they drew one the tortoise and one the hare - who won, you or your friend? They had to match the faces with the names as a matching game. 7. Used pictures taken of each child to put in a personalized certificate at the end of the year. 8. Made Mother's Day "seed packet" cards with their pictures on them - "Your precious seed is growing" and added it to a potted flower. 9. emailed random pictures of what children were doing during the day to parents. They seemed to appreciate a little insight into what happens in our class and it helps so much with home/school communications. 10. Took pictures of guest and field trips, then used the pictures in thank you notes and emails. 11. Took pictures of children doing things in room to label sections of the room, rather than buy the pre-made center labels, etc 12. Made a preposition book with children demonstrating toys and prepositions. 13. Took pictures of children doing things and printed them out - they used these pics as story starters to tell/write stories 14. Made a class list with pic and first names for children that needed to learn names. We used this list to write notes to each other in the writing center and learned to read other children's names. It was great at Valentines day! 15. I took a picture of each child and cut it into a circle and laminated it. I hot glued the picture to a juice can lid. Now the children can use these to "vote" on things, create graphs, answer group questions, etc. I was going to add a magnet to the back, but didn't this year. I used these all year for many fun activities. They were very durable. 16. Took pictures of special days, visitors, field trips, etc and then played them as slide shows as parents and children came and went. I rearrange my room often. Pictures help me remember how it was.
 * Camera**

I used garageband to record the children singing several songs and doing fingerplays. I used these recordings to play during slideshows and in my end of year DVD. It is fun to have our children singing the songs, and not use purchased recordings.
 * Garage Band** - I know we aren't really talking about this, but . ..

1. Drawings for podcasts - remember to make them square! 2. I created a picture and colored it, then scanned it in, so it looks like a child's coloring page. I use this page as the cover of my class handbook I send out each year and give to each new family when their child starts.
 * Scanner**

Pics in the classroom- A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
- bulletin board - coat rack - take home folders - birthday wall - rotations bag, math bag - desk tag with name
 * Personalize your classroom displays

- take pics of their pet - check out camera and then write about their pet. - take pics of their family - check out camera and write about their family -
 * Student Projects: - take pic of themselves with someone they like to play with- Friendship project

- label items if available or take pics for vocabulary building
 * Pics for ESL students:

-http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7123/jack.html
 * Writing lesson. . . How to Make a Jack-o-lantern- take pic of each step and then write about the step, then compile and create a class story

1.Have kids dress up as "what they want to be when they grow up" to illustrate career reports. 2.Take a series of pictures (1st step, 2nd step, etc) showing how to do something (how to add 2 numbers, how to conduct a science experiment, how to draw a picture in appleworks, etc 3.Record pattern block constructions, story maps, inventions, etc.  4. Use the 5 second movie option to record each student saying how they've used Math today, or what their favorite season is & why, or their definition of Science, etc. Assemble into a slideshow .  5. Take pictures of students in September, January, & February to watch them grow and change  6. Assign pairs of students to go on a walk through the school to find examples of geometric shapes (circles, triangles, parallel lines, obtuse angles, etc).  7. Create a virtual tour of your classroom. Have each student select an area to photograph and describe to create one page in a slideshow. Expand to create "tours" of your school and/or community. 8. Document the growth of a school project: planting & growing of a class garden, any school construction project, the tree outside your classroom window throughout the seasons, etc. 9. Create a "School Rules" or "Class Rules" book complete with illustrations of acceptable behaviors (with your students posing "caught" in appropriate activities). 10. Have teams of students take pictures of everyday things & put into document with English & Spanish/French vocabulary. Print out for a classroom "Pictionary". 11. Take pictures around town of easily recognizable signs (the McDonald's arches, the Big Boy, etc). Assemble into a book titled "I Can Read". Great to inspire confidence in K and 1st Grade beginning readers. 12.Assign a new "Class Photographer" each week. This student should have easy access to the digital camera. The assignment: to capture at least 1 photo of "learning in action" to be used in that week's newsletter home. Of course, s/he would also be responsible for 1 -2 sentences describing what's happening in the photo. 13.Record a series of student pictures as they act out a story they've read or that another student has written. Use as illustrations for the story or as a means for telling what happened first, etc. 14.Use photos of students to illustrate an "All About the Author" page for student published books. 15.Print out full-body photos of students in "poses". Cut out their picture from the background and glue into art projects ("This is me in Fall", "Me on the Ocean Floor", etc.). 16.Import student photos into Kid Pix. Use the Eraser Tool to erase the background. Use the Drawing tools to create pictures of the student in their Halloween costume, as their favorite Fairy Tale character, as Santa Claus ("What I would give to the World as a Present"), etc. 17.Fall introductions: Set up a template for a Classroom Trading Card. Each card should include the student's picture, their full name, and important facts about that student. Print out on card stock and have students had them out to each other so each student has a full class set. Post a set on a bulletin board, use as drawing cards to decide groups, who's next on the computer, etc. 18.Insert a digital picture of you on your "Welcome to my classroom" card that you send out before school starts. 19.Take a class picture and print on special iron-on paper for Class T shirts. Great to wear on Field Trips, for Field Day, etc. 20. Use student photos for "Student of the Week" displays, special certificates and awards. 21.Take lots of pictures when your class is on a field trip. Back in the classroom, each student can choose 1 picture to label with a short description of what was happening or why this was important or some tidbit they learned. Print a copy for all. 22.Take pictures of students with their families during open house. Make sure you label, so you will recognize parents at conferences later in the year. 23.Insert photos of each student into a word document (size them small enough so your whole class fits on one page). Label each picture with the student's name. Helpful for subs, parent helpers, and non-readers. 24.Use the page of student photos to help students take surveys. Insert the page into a plastic sheet, hand one student a vis a vis pen, and pair him/her up with another student who has a survey question on a clipboard. Once they've surveyed a fellow student, they can X out that student's picture to keep track of who hasn't been asked yet. I include my picture at the end so I know when the survey is officially over and they are ready to tally their results. 25.Have to disconnect cables to move your computer? Take several pictures of where the cables go so it's easier to reassemble. Do the same with bulletin boards that really worked for you. 26.Record pictures of bulky art projects to put into a student portfolio.
 * 26 other great ideas:

Ideas We Generated:

 * Photographer of the week-- show the week in review on Friday
 * Spotlight on me-- take pictures of your family and your home
 * Take pictures of the kids doing an activity and e-mail the picture to the parents
 * Center posters -- take pictures of kids in the activity center
 * Picture books
 * Scavenger Hunts-- take pictures first and tell them they need to find-
 * Who's your friend
 * Juice lids with pictures
 * Portfolio-- writing and art files
 * Podcasts- square paper
 * draw book projects and scan in to
 * Nasty has no place on the internet-- there is no delete
 * Skype classrooms for reading
 * Blank Check-- make things bigger
 * End of the year collage
 * Activity sheets for student learning
 * Reading - create story parts in each part. . . plot, character, setting etc
 * Math - Template for student use in life cycles, math etc

Podcasting Links:
[|Podcasting in Plain English] [|Podcasting in Education] [|Glenn’s Podcasting del.icio.us links]

Watch a 27 minute video about using cell phones in the classroom. This video was posted by Wesley Fryer http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/01/30/opening-minds-about-cell-phones-for-learning/