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Let's Get to Know Each Other! [|All about Me Scavenger Hunt]

How do you get to know your students? 

Did you know that you can replace that document with an [|online survey]?

Do you differentiate your instruction?

[|Universal Design for Learning]

[|Auditory Activity (Misunderstood Minds)]

[|8 Lessons Learned on Differentiating Instruction]

[|Lesson Plan Template for Differentiated Instruction]

[|Using Technology to Support Diverse Learners]

[|Multiple Intelligences Quiz]

[|Quiz: How Do You Learn?]

[|Why Integrate Technology into the Curriculum? (+ video)]

[|Top 10 Technology Tips]

Check out this chart of Technology and Multiple Intelligences

International Society for Technology in Education  Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">

Videos: [|The Future of Work (Video)] [|12 Videos to Spark Educators' Thinking] [|Did You Know 4.0 (Video)] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|A Vision of K-12 Students Today (Video)]


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">HOMEWORK: Prior to participating in the following workshops, please create a list of topics that your students will be learning next school year. (You may categorize them by chapter if you would like.) Include the vocabulary, grammar, and/or cultural aspects that you would like the students to use when discussing each topic. Thank you! **

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">July 11th - Let's Blog in the Target Language! __

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to create a blog. You will then discover different approaches to blogging to improve your students' reading and writing skills in the target language.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|Top 100 Education Blogs]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|Edmodo - a free, education-based blogging website that is formatted similar to Facebook (a major motivator for getting students to want to use it)] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|Kidblog] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|Blogger] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|Zooblogs] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|Bloglines] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|21 Classes] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|Edublogs] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|10 Ways to Use Your Edublog] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|9 Steps to Set Up Your Class Blog (Scroll to Bottom of Page)] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|Tutorial on How to Use Edublogs]

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">July 12th - Let’s Voki in the Target Language! __

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how your students can create a Voki and record themselves speaking in the target language. You will then discover different uses of these Vokis to improve your students speaking and listening comprehension skills. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|Examples of Student Vokis] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|Voki for Education] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(Spanish) Lesson Plans with Voki <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|Blabberize] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|VoiceThread] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|AudioPal]

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">July 13th - Let’s Discover! __

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In this hands-on workshop, you will discover a wide-variety of online resources available for you and your students to use in the classroom. There's so much out there to improve your lessons, enhance your students' learning, and increase their enthusiasm and engagement! <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|71 Different Web 2.0 Tools] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Teach Web 2.0 Wiki <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|A Day in the Life of Web 2.0] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|Student Inquiry and Web 2.0] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[|Database of WebQuests]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|Jing - allows you to record your screen and talk] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|Animoto -] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">[|allows you to put together words, pictures, and music and create a very professional looking presentation] [|Voicethread - very interactive way to]<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">[|allow you and your students to post images and then comment on the images via typing or recording a comment] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|Top 25 Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers] [|Web 2.0 Toolbox for Educators] [|Top 100 Tools for Learning]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[|How to Use Google MyMaps]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[|Filamentality]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[|Spanish Picture Dictionary]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[|Example of Technology-Integrated, Differentiated Lesson]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[|Another example of Technology-Integrated, Differentiated Lesson]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[|Links to Websites for Teachers]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[|Wikimedia Commons (Images, Sounds, Videos)]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[|Music Videos and Lyrics]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[|Zachary Jones, Spanish Teacher]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[|Spanish Resources]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[|Vocaroo (Voice recording)]

[|Tween Tribune in Spanish]

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">July 14th - Let’s share! __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In this hands-on workshop, you will be asked to share your top two favorite projects to assign. (Don’t worry if technology isn’t incorporated into them, but be ready to explain why they are your favorite projects!) Brainstorming and collaboration will take place to incorporate technology into each project and you will leave with at least two more projects to incorporate into your classroom. [|Cora's Website] [|Cherie's Website] [|Tonya's Website] [|Mike's Website] [|Martine's Website] [|Kathleen's Website]

YCAL Grants Story Jumper Zooburst Glogster Lingt Quizlet



Was H.E.A.T. present in the lesson? Higher-order thinking Engaged learning Authenticity Technology use (appropriate technology use)

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Tests for Effective Integration: 1) An outsider would view the use of technology as a SEAMLESS part of daily instruction 2) You’d have trouble accomplishing your learning goals if the technology were removed 3) You can describe how the technology is enhancing instruction in 2-3 sentences 4) Students are generally interested and excited about learning

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The 6 Key Characteristics for a 21st Century Curriculum: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In authentic problem-based learning environments, students develop flexible knowledge, linked knowledge that is more easily activated and transferred to novel situations, more effective problem-solving skills and, perhaps most importantly, build skills of metacognition. Metacognition, the ability to monitor the quality and effectiveness of one’s own thinking, is a key to critical thinking, self-directed learning, and other key 21st century skills.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Involves collaboration and community
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Is based on authenticity and relevance
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Leverages real-world tools, resources, and methodologies
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Incorporates a rich continuum of teaching and learning strategies
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Is grounded in rich content with a 21st century context
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Creates linkages to the outside world