Integrating Technology In The ELA Classroom

Carla M. Jefferson
6th Grade ELA - Spaulding Middle
School
July 10, 2013
Integrating Various Technology
Devices to Enhance Instruction

“If we teach today as we
taught yesterday, we rob
our children of
tomorrow.”
-John Dewey
Food For Thought

Used
 Promethean Board
 ActivSlate
 ActivPens (Dual User)
 ActivExpression Devices
 iPad
 Netbooks
 Classroom website
 Student Blogging
 USA Testprep
 Compass Learning
 Web2.0 Tools

Class Dojo
ClassDojo is a
classroom tool that
helps teachers improve
behavior in their
classrooms quickly and
easily. It also captures
and generates data on
behavior that teachers
can share with parents
and administrators.
Cost - Free

Edmodo
Edmodo is a social
network that you
set up for your
class. It looks like,
feels like and
smells like
Facebook;
however, it employs
many safety
precautions that
keep students on
task.
Cost - Free

This web 2.0 tool uses cell
phones, laptops, and/or
tablets to gather feedback
from students. You can post
as many questions as you’d
like, which is nice if you have
several classes.
Cost - Free
Socrative

Game Templates
University of North Carolina - Wilming

Animoto
Use Animoto to
easily create
presentations and
videos with your
own images and
music, or choose
from a library of
stock files.
Teachers can apply
for a free Animoto
Plus account.
Cost - Free

Kidblog is a completely
protected blogging
platform made
specifically for
classrooms. Students
do not need email
addresses to sign up –
teachers can even sign

Quizlet
As one of the largest and most
popular flashcard creation
websites around, Quizlet allows
students and teachers to
customize their own “sets” of
flashcards. You can manage
access to the flashcards you
create and share them with your
students.
Cost - Free

Wordle
Create beautiful word clouds
from text that you provide. It
gives prominence to words
that appear most frequently.
You can save, print and
share your creation.
Cost - Free

Bitstrips
With bitstrips, you can
create your own
comicstrip.

Voki
Create a speaking
avatar.
Cost – Free for basic
account. Voki
Classroom is
$29.95/year.

Dropbox
Dropbox allows you to keep
files in a place where you
can always have access to
them! No more lugging that
computer around
everywhere! Many
teachers use it with their
students to share
documents, turn in
homework, etc.
Cost – Free (for first 2 GB –
can earn up to 18 GB
through various avenues)

Evernote
Evernote makes it easy to
remember things big and small
from your everyday life using your
computer, phone, tablet and the
web.
 Key features of Evernote:
 Create text, photo and audio
notes
 Clip web pages including text,
links, and images
 Synchronize your notes across
your devices
 Search for text within snapshots
and images

Explain
Everything
 Explain Everything is an easy-to-use
design, screencasting, and interactive
whiteboard tool that lets you
annotate, animate, narrate, import,
and export almost anything to and
from almost anywhere. Create
slides, draw in any color, add shapes,
add text, and use a laser pointer.
Rotate, move, scale, copy, paste,
clone, and lock any object added to
the stage. Add new or existing
photos and videos. Import various
types of files: PDF, Mp4, JPEG, etc.
Cost: $2.99

Screenr
Screenr is one of the best
instant screencast tools
available. It’s free and you
can record on your PC or
Mac, play it anywhere—
even on your iPhone and
there’s nothing to
download (as long as you
have JAVA installed on
your computer).
Cost - Free

Real Player
Downloader
Allows you to
download videos
to save onto your
computer. Works
great with
YouTube.
Included in your
free real player

Jing
Simple and FREE, Jing is
the perfect way to
enhance your fast-paced
online conversations.
Create images and videos
of what you see on your
computer screen, then
share them instantly!

QR Stuff
Create a QR Code
for ANYTHING!
Webpage, Contact
Info, Dropbox,
Video, etc.

ELA Sample Lesson
Interpreting Figurative
Language

Skill Focus:
Figurative Language
Indicator: RL 6.4
Determine the meaning of words
and phrases as they are used in a
text, including figurative and
connotative meanings; analyze the
impact of a specific word choice on
meaning and tone

The Skin I’m In
Figurative Language
Flipchart

Student Blogging
 Class Blog (www.kidblog.org)

Student Blogging
 Class Blog (www.kidblog.org)
The Skin I’m In – Being Popular
Blog Post

Assessment
Figurative Language
Quiz
Using Edmodo

Closure Activity:
CROWN
 Communicate what you learned -- briefly
summarize what you learned
 Reaction--what is your reaction to what
you learned
 Offer one sentence that sums up what
the whole lesson was about
 Where are some different places you
could use this?
 Note aspects that you feel you can
incorporate immediately

“We need to prepare
students for THEIR future
not OUR past.”
-Ian Jukes
Final Thoughts

Carla M. Jefferson
Carla.Jefferson@darlington.k12.
sc.us
Blog: Surviving Sixth Grade
http://survivingsixthgrade.edublogs.org
Facebook Page: Surviving Sixth Grade
Twitter: @mrsjeff2u
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