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Technology Tools to Support Reading and Writing in the Elementary Classroom

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Technology Tools to Support Reading and Writing in the Elementary Classroom

June 26th

Pleasant Plains Elementary School

9:00 - 11:00

Instructor: Ashley Schoen

Workshop Description: Participants will explore the ways in which online resources like Nettrekker, BrainPop, TumbleBooks, MS Word,and MS PowerPoint can support reading and writing in the elementary classroom.

Outcome: Participants will increase skills in the use and integration of technology in classroom instruction.

Indicator: Participants will identify ways in which technology tools for reading and writing can be used in their instructional practice. Participants will create a lesson activity and/or template to be used in classroom instruction.

Prerequisite Skills:

Fundamentals of PC, Telecommunications – Email, Telecommunications – World Wide Web, and Word Processing.

Available Tools and Resources

Baltimore County Public Schools Databases

Take home handout for students

BCPS Library Information Services Page "Using Multimedia and Web 2.0 Tools" Chart & Info

Required Tools	Reading Tools	Writing Tools
Microsoft Word (Comments, AutoSummarize, Readability Statistics, Track Changes) Sample to work with: White Tailed Deer	VisualThesaurus (More Info) InfoPage	Word Clouds- Wordle Website Tagxedo Webpage Info Page (101 Ways to Use Tagxedo)
Microsoft PowerPoint (Text Box Object) Sample to work with: Baseball	Vocab Grabber (More Info) Info Page	Voki (Start Up Guide) Setting up classroom account Creating a Voki
netTrekker **netTrekker Search is changing at the end of July 2012** Video	Audacity (User Guide) How to record How to use	MakeBeliefsComix How to create Other ways to use and create
BrainPop Jr. and BrainPop		TimeToast Video on how to create one
Tumblebooks Info Page		ClassTools.net
		KidBlog (More Info)
		PBWorks Wiki *There is a 2 hour workshop available on this topic
		Edmodo (Introduction to Edmodo) (More Info) Edmodo by Edmodo Video on what Edmodo is How to use Edmodo *There is a 2 hour workshop available on this topic
		Programs- Kidspiration (More Info) There is a 2 hour workshop available on this topic Pixie 3 (More Info) There is a 2 hour workshop available on this topic