Using your projector in your classroom
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This document provides a list of many free online resources that teachers can use with their projectors in the classroom, including: 1) Google Docs for online document creation and collaboration. 2) Websites for mind mapping, maps, slideshows, creative writing inspiration, attendance, morning messages/attention getters, virtual manipulatives, Skype, PowerPoint ideas, videos, current events, virtual field trips, timers, name generators, read alouds, dictionaries, transitions, shadow puppets, and tracing activities. 3) Suggestions to make the most of teaching moments by exploring online resources.
Using your projector in your classroom
- 1. Using Your Projector in Your Classroom By: Heather Lewis
- 2. Google Docs Google Docs is a suite of products that lets you create different kinds of online documents, work on them in real time with other people, and store your documents and your other files -- all online, and all for free. With an Internet connection, you can access your documents and files from any computer, anywhere in the world.
- 3. Mind-Mapping https://bubbl.us/ -Savable -Shareable -Printable -FREE
- 4. Mind-Mapping www.text2mindmap.com
- 5. Maps
- 6. Maps
- 7. Maps Google Maps https://maps.google. com/
- 9. PicLits PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture. http://www.piclits.com/compose_dragdrop.aspx
- 10. Taking Attendance Please Sign In: **Can also use Smart or Promethean Technologies
- 11. Morning Message Display information to get your students started for the day.
- 12. Good Morning Class! Today’s Problem: You have 1 million dollars to donate. Who would you donate it to and why?
- 13. Morning Attention Getter -Have a slideshow of pictures playing for students to look at when they come in
- 14. Morning Attention Getter -Show students a short video to “hook” their attention (helps get kids to class on time)
- 15. Virtual Manipulatives http://nlvm.usu.edu/
- 16. Virtual Manipulatives • http://www.mathplayground.com/math_manipulative s.html • http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/math ematics/ebook_assets/vmf/VMF-Interface.html • http://www.abcya.com/fraction_tiles.htm • http://www.mhhe.com/math/ltbmath/bennett_nelson 8e/VMK.html?initManip=patternBlocks • http://highered.mcgraw- hill.com/sites/0073519456/student_view0/virtual_manip ulative_kit.html • http://illuminations.nctm.org/
- 17. SKYPE Chat online with classrooms and people across the world!
- 18. PowerPoint • Display notes for classes • Display instructions • Cut down on preparation time • Use for more than one class • Share with the students
- 19. Ideas for using PowerPoint in the Classroom • Bell Ringers and Exit Slip Activities • Some textbook companies include a CD with pre-created classroom PowerPoints. • PowerPoint games such as Jeopardy can be used for reviews at the beginning or the year, before a test or state testing. • Modifications for students with disabilities. Teachers can print out the classroom notes so that a student with disabilities can focus on the teacher rather than focusing on writing down information from the PowerPoint and processing everything the teacher is saying.
- 20. Ideas for using PowerPoint in the Classroom • Presentations for parents such as open house. Set the PowerPoint to run automatically so parents can watch the presentation. • Student created PowerPoint's: Book Reviews. Historical Person Presentation, Flash Cards, Digital Books - students can turn a story they have written into a digital story book, Science Fair Presentations, Group Projects
- 21. Ideas for using PowerPoint in the Classroom • PowerPoint games such as Jeopardy can be used for reviews at the beginning or the year, before a test or state testing. • http://www.edtechnetwork.com /powerpoint.html
- 22. Model Examples • Show students an example • Model procedures and various assignments • Model expectations • Model correcting errors
- 23. Videos • United Streaming (Discovery Education) • http://www.discoveryeducation.com/
- 24. Videos • YouTube • SchoolTube • TeacherTube
- 25. Videos • YouTube • SchoolTube • TeacherTube
- 26. Prezi.com • Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them. The result: visually captivating presentations that lead your audience down a path of discovery. • Example: http://prezi.com/wxyivaj- 4yoq/martin-luther-king-jr/
- 27. Wordle.net
- 28. tagxedo.com
- 29. Current News/Events • CNN • Fox News • NY Times • ANY News Source Can be found online • Weather Resources • News for Kids: • http://www.dogonews.com • http://www.timeforkids.com/news
- 30. Virtual Field Trips • White House • Statue of Liberty • http://www.atozkidss tuff.com/trip.html
- 31. Free Online Timers • http://www.classtools.net /education-games- php/timer • http://www.online- stopwatch.com/classroo m-timers/ • http://www.timeme.com/
- 32. Free Online Random Name Generators • http://www.classtools. net/education-games- php/fruit_machine
- 33. Free Online Read Alouds • Tumble Books • http://www.storylineonline.net/ • http://www.barnesandnoble.co m/u/online-storytime-books- toys/379003588/ • http://storytimeforme.com/ • http://kids.aol.com/KOL/1/KOLJr Stories
- 34. Free Online Read Alouds • Tumble Books • http://www.storylineonline.net/ • http://www.barnesandnoble.co m/u/online-storytime-books- toys/379003588/ • http://storytimeforme.com/ • http://www.wegivebooks.org
- 35. Online dictionaries • Visual Dictionary: http://visual.merriam- webster.com/ • http://kids.yahoo.com /reference/dictionary/ english
- 36. Transitions/Brain Break • http://thestorystarter.c om/scribble.html • http://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=1_78Ck10tSE • Search Online or Youtube for Brain Break Videos
- 37. Shadow Puppets Story • Use the projector to allow students to make stories out of shadow puppets
- 38. Trace Things On Paper • Display picture • Trace onto butcher paper!
- 39. Teaching Moments • Make the most of a teaching point or teaching moment by exploring online to find answers
- 40. Endless Resources • http://www.edzone.n et/~mwestern/stuff.ht ml