Week+3+-+Harris+&+Hofer+Activity+Types

**Instructional Planning Activity Types Chart**
//**Make sure you have read the article for this week by Harris and Hofer! For this assignment you will think about an activity that you do in your class and consider some technologies that may support that activity in a different way based on your TPACK understanding. Some examples are provided below in different styles, you can decide how you will enter your contribution to the knowledge being constructed in the chart!**//

Click on the ** EDIT THIS PAGE ** to get started...remember to click ** SAVE **when you are finished! Revist this page to see what others have contributed! If all the rows have been used, click in the last row and then click on the table icon. Then, choose **Row**, **Add Row**, **Add below** to add another row for your entry. Collaboration using Google Docs, VoiceThread, Skype (getting in touch w/ people form that selected area) Web-Site development (such as Weebly) Use Wiffiti for backchannel during presentation || Analyzing - Graphing calculators, spreadsheets, graphing software. Reporting & Presenting - Google docs for collaboration between group members. || Students will record their experiment using a webcam, ipod, cell phone, or ipad. Students will use Online Graphing Calculators, spreadsheets and Geogebra to graph the data. Students will use Powerpoint or Prezi to present their experiment to the class. || Apply reading comprehension strategies, including making predictions, comparing and contrasting, recalling and summarizing After reading, they will write a summary of each chapter and post on class's online wiki || Project Guttenberg library, Diigo, wikispaces.com ||  || Windham || Listen to Audio examine core values || American History. After the unit on the Cold War, students will access files from "This I Believe" section from NPR's website. Student will write their own version of "This I Believe", based on Edward R. Murrow's 1950's radio broadcast. || Content found at: http://thisibelieve.org/ writing assignment at Wikispaces. com || Write a prompt book || Students create a prompt book (similar to a detailed movie script) based on one scene of the Shakespearean play //Macbeth// ||. Students could use software like Microsoft Moviemaker, Microsoft Sharepoint, Sony Movie Studio, etc. to create a visual portion of the prompt book showcasing their vision of how the scene could be adapted. || Jackson HS || Build a Model (equation) || Students will be working in groups to find a model equation that meets certain criteria based on a set of facts about an equation's first and second derivative. The groups will then create a Voice Thread to post and convince their classmates that their choice is a valid one. Each group will post their own as well as have to post comments on others' model equations/Voice Threads. Groups can use Google Docs or a class Wiki to communicate with each other. || TI-Nspire Graphing calculator with animation, TI-Interactive, Voice Threads, Google Docs, and a class Wiki || OHDELA HS (9th grade LA) || Plot Pyramid || Students will identify the 5 elements of plot, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution. Students will present their work to the class. || Students will create a VoiceThread using a Pixar short (from Youtube.com or DVD) to identify the varies elements of plot in the short video and post it for their peers to review and comment. || VoiceThread, PowerPoint, Paint- drawing || Lancaster High School || Listen to Audio || Low readers can listen to novels or parts of a novel. As the low readers increase ability have them create a podcast of themselves reading. || Podcasts, iTunes, online textbook || Windham Principal || Administrative Advice || As a principal I have seen our junior high team implement many of these activities The most successful are the assignments that differentiate and give kids a lot of hands on activities and ones that allow the kids to express their own individuality and opinions. Plan well and model well the first time use try things. || students love flip videos, movie maker and blogs || Alternative Education Academy || Craft and Structure || Students will infer how the a piece of literature would have been different had an event been omitted or altered in some way; students will evaluate a particular event and its importance to the theme, setting, and plot and how that event shaped the outcome of the plot; students will construct a scene in the story that demonstrates how the plot would have been altered had an event been omitted or altered using a format of choice such as a voice thread, wiki, animation, e-book, web-based mind map, video, etc. Students will present their creations to peers in small groups in a live learning class format. || Voice Thread, Wiki, Movie Maker, Podcasts, Youtube video, Prezi, web-based mind map creation tool such as MindMeister, Google Sites, Blogger, iPad-creating an iBook, eBook Compiler ||
 * **Participant Name** || **Activity Type** || **Brief Description** || **Possible Technologies** ||
 * Cheryl Ward || Listen to Audio || Students listen to recordings of speeches, music, radio broadcasts, oral histories, and lectures; digital or non-digital || Podcasts (“Great Speeches in History,” etc.), Audacity, Garageband, Odeo, Evoca, Podcast People ||
 * Teacher || Peer Feedback || In my class students give each other peer feedback on a writing project, but it would be great to do this electronically. || I may consider a wiki where they would post their writing and then others could comment sort of non private? Could use Google Docs and peers could comment using the comment option and it would be more private. ||
 * Annette Marino/Stanton Middle School || Math Game || Students would create a math review game on a particular unit including math concepts and vocabulary || Students could use smart powerpoint templates, puzzlemaker to design their game, as well as, Google Docs and/or Wiki to communicate with their group members sharing ideas and editing their work ||
 * Tina Norris/Coventry || View Presentation || Parents (my audience) view a presentation designed to educate them about the set up of the school, procedures and the type of experience they can expect for thier child in an orientation style gathering. || iMovie, Voice Thread to incorporate student perspectives, Power Point, Digital Imaging ||
 * Roger/Windham || Bio. prsentation || Student groups construct a "cell city" to describe how organelles in the cell are like the functioning features of a city. || Power Point, Voice Thread to collaborate during off school hours, Flip camera recording of presentation, Google Docs for making presentation more collaborative. ||
 * Thad Haines/Jackson High School || Present/Demonstrate || Students working in groups plan a trip to a selected biome (including flora/fauna, climate, socioeconomic factors and other relationships) || Presentation using (PPT, Prezi), Video(could edit via JayCut), Glogster,
 * Kevin Bowman/ Jackson HS || Experiment/Data Analysis/Report Results || Students perform an experiment, measure variables, analyze data, and report their results. || Measuring - Pasco Probeware(motion sensors, force sensors, timers, thermometers etc.)
 * This looks like a pretty cool activity. I've never heard of Pasco Probeware (I teach English), but it looks like a cool hands-on lab. --Kelli Marvin/ LHS ||
 * Tara Michels/OHDELA || Function Equation Experiment || Students perform an experiment that will produce data that fits a mathematical model(linear, quadratic, or exponential), report their findings, and make predictions based on model. || Students will use Voice Thread to discuss possible experiments.
 * Chris Callihan/Jackson High School || Create an illustrated map. Research.Do a presentation. || Students create an illustrated map of the various settings and places mentioned in the novel //The Kite Runner.// This map includes pictures of places that are historical and cultural landmarks, both in Afghanistan (such as the Buddhas of Baminyan) and the United states (such as the Golden Gate Bridge). Students also could research and collaborate on the cultural and historical significance in general and how these settings played an important role in the novel. This supports the Reading Applications:Literary Text Standard 2: Analyze the historical, social, and cultural context of setting. || Google Earth for illustrated map. Prezi, VoiceThread,PPT for presentation. Classroom wiki for collaboration. ||
 * This activity really caught my eye because I love the book. There is a great deal of relevant history and geography in //The Kite Runner//. I didn't know you could do an illustrated map in Google Earth. Really neat activity. I may adopt and adapt this one!! Kelli Marvin/LHS ||
 * Matt Gillispie/Lancaster High School || During reading activity/note taking || Students will read the first two chapters of Huck Finn online (Project Guttenberg). During the reading, students will annotate the online text by writing questions for parts they do not understand, making connections, predictions, highlighting surprising parts, and making general comments about characters. This supports Reading Processes:
 * ||  || There are so many skills addressed in this activity. Students are doing the learning instread of teachers doing the presenting. Denise Rooker/ LHS ||   ||   ||
 * Michael Williams/Belpre || Topic Debate || Students would be presented with several debatable issues from history ie: Should the U.S. have dropped atomic bombs on Japan? Students could choose a side and then would be assigned some who who opposed. The debates would take place in a blog where other students could view and comment as well after, the two main students presented their cases. || Internet for research. Blogging site (Google Apps/Blogster) ||
 * ||  || It would be interesting to add the Veteran's view point living in Washington County into this discussion using similar format and some Technology quidance from students. ||   ||
 * Barbara Balchick
 * Noel Franke/Jackson High School || Shakespeare Project
 * ||  || I really like this idea for teaching Shakespeare. Susan Hagerty/ Belpre High School ||   ||
 * ||  || What a great idea! Shakespeare is a tough read for a lot of kids this could be a good motivator making old content relevant. Maggie Ford Alternative Education Academy ||   ||
 * Waylon Massie, Jackson HS || Moment in History event reenactment || Students will choose a defining event in world history and build a mini-documentary around the causes, event, and repercussions. || Moviemaker for production, Internet, Google Docs, camera ||
 * Kelli Marvin/ Lancaster High School || Response to literature/ understanding context || Students will respond to "Teenage Wasteland" by Anne Tyler by looking up the lyrics to "Baba O'Riley" and identifying the allusion to it in the story. || Web search for the lyrics, YouTube to see the performance of the song, Gaggle.net social media wall to discuss the allusion,. ||
 * Jeff Strawser
 * Melinda Cales
 * ||  || I really like this Melinda! I teach 9th grade English as well, and I think the students would really enjoy this. I think I'll use it next year- thanks!!- Ashlin Streetman/Lancaster ||   ||
 * Joni Craver/ Alt. Education Academy || Presentation/Speech || Students will collaborate and help each other for any class presentation. || Students will create a Voice Thread to practice a presentation or speech. They will be able to get feedback from peers before they present so that they are able to show mastery when they present. They could even us a wiki for feedback as well. ||
 * Ashlin Streetman/ Lancaster High School || LIsten to audio || Students listen to stories or sections of novels or plays and draw/present the most important section. || Podcasts, iTunes, online textbook- audio
 * Dougle/Windham || Great Depression Presentation || Students act out a scene or create a video skit from the Great Depression era. Standing in line for soup kitchen, riding the rails as a teenage hobo, dust bowl, Hoovervilles, any scene from this era. || Flip cameras, internet for research, MovieMaker, PowerPoint, Video Editing software ||
 * Alysia Tinker/Windham (6th grade SS) || Creating a newspaper/magazine article || While learning about Paleolithic Era and the making of tools and use of fire s tudents will create a newspaper/magazine article that might have been seen after the invention of the wheel. || microsoft word, scrapblog, letterpop ||
 * Tracy Wigal / Belpre High School || Biome Presentation || Students will create a promotional travel presentation about a particular Biome. They will show where the biome is located, types of plants and animals, benefits of visiting there, what they would need to travel there, cost to get there, places to visit while there, and if there were certain times of year to visit. || Power Point, Voice Thread, Movie Maker, blogs, Glogster ||
 * Scott Miller/ Belpre High School || "How It's Made" Video || Students will create a video detailing how something is made similar to the video series on The Discovery Channel. || Flip Video, Movie Maker ||
 * Maggie Ford/ Alternative Education Academy || Compare and Contrast protagonist and antagonist of a story || Students will compare and contrast the traits of a protagonist and antagonist of a story of their choosing. Students will read the book using a reader. For students who need a reader an audiobook can be used. || Webspiration software, e-book reader, e-book, audio book ||
 * Denise Rooker/ Lancaster High School || Identify the author's use of direct and indirect characterization || Students will choose a main character in The Crucible and create two Wordle documents. One Wordle document will identify and show at least 10 different examples of direct characterization. The other Wordle document will identify and show 5 different examples of indirect characterization and infer what the reader has learned about the character. || Wordle, on line textbook, online textbook with reader audio support ||
 * Scott Matchett
 * Michael Chaffee
 * Deanne Spencer
 * Susan Hagerty/Belpre High School || Create presentation booklet for Learning Teams || Each semester, the learning teams group must develop a presentation booklet for their site manager. Student discuss the booklet during their final presentation at the site. This document requires multiple revisions and editing before it is published. || Google Docs would be a great way to do the editing for this type of document. ||
 * Tim spencer AEA || Flight Endurance per TSA requirements || Students will form teams of four and construct rubberband powered airplanes per rules/regulations of TSA standards. Each team memeber will build a different model and compare results. Students will be looking for the aircraft that is best suited to challenge in the state/national competitions. Students will meet weekly through video conference and discuss results per their flights. They will also exchange data per google docs of flight time and any modifications to the craft to gain better endurance. during this project students will perform a technical writing assignment that can be used for future students and flight endurance challenges. All data, photos, movie, etc will be placed on the student web page || Google doc, Skype, flip phone, Blogger, google sites ||
 * Dennis E. Belpre H.S. || Staff meeting points of discussion/ professional development ideas for planning agendas. || Plan Agenda for Staff meeting agenda and /or PD activites by communicating a of list of ideas to improve the building culture, ie. bullying and research the staff member awareness of 21st teaching and learning skills for PD activities. Staff members may communicate electronically with Team leaders to share their thoughts and needs. || Voice thread, Wordle, glogster. ||
 * Angie Henniger / Belpre H.S. || Use a class wiki to help students review for a test || Create a wiki for students to create a "cheat sheet" for their upcoming chapter test. Each student must contribute to the page at least once but they will all be able to use the contributions of others to help them review before a math test. || Wiki and possibly Geogebra and/or Voicethreads ||
 * Angie Henniger / Belpre H.S. || Use a class wiki to help students review for a test || Create a wiki for students to create a "cheat sheet" for their upcoming chapter test. Each student must contribute to the page at least once but they will all be able to use the contributions of others to help them review before a math test. || Wiki and possibly Geogebra and/or Voicethreads ||