Tech+Integration+Videos

=**Technology Integration Videos**=

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Begin by posting the title of your video and link your title directly to the video so that the readers can watch it. Follow your heading with a paragraph about your video. Explain what it depicts, where it is taken and any other information that you feel it important for your audience to know.

 Technology Integration to Improve and Supplement Fluency and Speaking Skills for Second Graders //When fluent readers read aloud, the text flows as if strung together like pearls on a necklace, rather than sounding halting and choppy//. -Lisa Blau Podcasting is a great way to reinforce and supplement fluency instruction. I want parents to understand why fluency and speaking skills are important and how technology is an effective, inventive and hands-on way to increase their student’s skills, so we post our Podcasts on our classroom web page: Mrs. Stannard's Second Grade Webpage.

Technology Implementation for 9th Grade Physical Science
This video shows how online collaborative tools can be implemented into a class for the purpose of generating ideas and communicating with other class members for the purpose of solving a specific challenge. In this video, the teacher is able to guide students to the tool but allows the students to be the ones to use and benefit from the content that is created. Science standards, challenges faced, and issues for future use are addressed by the teacher.

[|Middle School Students Using Podcasting to Enhance Speaking and Writing Skills] Podcasting is a tool that is now being used to advanced Literacy skills in various schools. This video shows how it's being used with 7th grade students. It provides video coverage of students working on Podcasts, a student interview, and a teacher interview that provides information of how Podcasts are benefiting this NE Iowa school.

Tech Infusion Interview This video consists of an interview with the Electronic Media Studies instructor from Council Bluffs Community Schools. In this interview, the instructor discusses how he integrates technology into his curriculum. All of his courses incorporate cloud computing. This consists of students creating their own Google Sites for class where they upload all of their projects and daily journal entries for each assignment.

[|VoiceThread in 2nd Grade] VoiceThread is a type of digital storytelling software that allows users to tell a story with their own voice. This video shows how a 2nd grade teacher and a reading recovery teacher have used VoiceThread to supplement their curriculum. There are two interviews with the teachers and video of two second graders putting a VoiceThread together.

[|Mr. Mo's Robotics Class]Mindstorms NXT is a robotics software and curriculum that allows users to design, build, and program robots. This video shows how an industrial technology teacher uses the robotics program to teach students' about technology and engineering, as well as, enhance their math and science skills in the middle school. By the way, Cap'n Slappy is a fictional character created specifically for this video. It was created using the program at Blabberize.com. This program allows one to upload an image which can be modified to include a "mouth". The mouth will move to prerecorded sound or sound which is input using a microphone.

[|Hubbard Radcliffe Technology Program] This video was developed to highlight the technology advances that have been made throughout the district in terms of hardware and teaching practices. An interview was conducted with one of the district educators to discuss the impact interactive whiteboards have had on student motivation and engagement.

[|Using Laptops in a Second Grade Classroom] -Angi Webb This video highlights the use of laptops during literacy called the Daily 5. It shows different projects and websites that students use independently.

Using SevenStar Academy to Provide Online Courses This video is used to provide prospective students and parents with an overview of SevenStar Academy and its benefits as used for online high school classes.