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Identify 2 technologies that would be helpful in your classroom to assist students in creating different types of products for 21st century learning.

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I think that 2 technologies that would support 21stcentury learning would be: iPod touches and GPS units.
 * Your name:Roger Eakins**
 * Your school:Windham H.S.**
 * Description of Idea or link to product URL:**

1. I am still researching the iPod touches for podcasts. From various things I have read, I think this would be a great mobile device to use occasionally for a science project. I believe if you use the tool too often, it does lose some of its charm. I would like to create a project that would be primarily completed in the field. I would like to take the class outside for a few days and have them use iPods and Flip cameras. This could be done around our school, so no transportation necessary. I could do a lesson on botany and have students identify 20-25 plants (trees, bushes, flowers, weeds etc.). They would be required to film the plant in its entirety, take lab notes on the iPod and collect any other information that I would require from them. I would provide a check list as well as a rubric for scoring. If it rains, they could do some Internet research (plant names, scientific names, uses of plant etc.) in my room. Final product could be in some form of a podcast. Our team is tentatively planning to attend a workshop this fall on “podcasts for assessments”. Once I attend this workshop, I will be better prepared for what I want to do.

2. I also teach math (trig. and calc.). I would like to incorporate the use of mobile GPS units into these classes. I could set up several geocaches around our school and have students search them out using the mobile GPS system. I attended an eTech conference last year and I bought a book on “Geocaching in Education”. This manual has lessons for K-12 students and the use of GPS’s for geocaching. As they complete the geocaching assignment, I would also request that it is filmed with a Flip camera.

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**Your school: Belpre High School ** **Description of Idea or link to product URL: ** I think two ideas that I could use to support 21st century learning would be using blogs to post class notes and an online program called The Writing Reviser to revise and edit student writing.
 * Your name: Susan Hagerty **
 * 1) I have used blogs for several years in my Language Arts 12 class. This year, in addition to the posting their responses to the weekly blog topic, students in the class will be assigned with posting the daily class notes on the blog as well. This activity will accomplish two things: 1) Encourage my seniors to take more careful notes in class since they will be responsible for sharing these with the other students; 2) Assist students who are absent by making the blog a more efficient learning tool for students.


 * 1) While at the High Schools That Work conference last week, I learned about an online editing software called The Writing Reviser. It is available through a site called SAS Curriculum Pathways ([|www.sas.com/CP]). The Writing Reviser allows students to enter their essays into the program, and then the program provides immediate feedback to the student about areas in the essay that may need to be revised. The program provides a list of areas that need revision and as students make the revisions to their essays, the list changes. This list would be good for teachers because then the teachers can see areas of weakness that may need to be retaught. The program can also be used for all content areas in grades 6-12. The only drawbacks to the program are as follows: the program isn’t free and students can’t save their essays directly to the program. They would have to copy and paste to a Microsoft Word document. I am still exploring information about the cost of this program, but I think it has great potential to help guide students more effectively in the revision part of the writing process.

Your Name: Dougle Hankins Your School: Windham High School Description: Google sites, and blogging

I think two technologies that could enhance 21st Century learning is google sites and blogging.
 * 1) Google: Google has a number of different functions now besides being just a search engine. Students can collaborate by sharing projects. They can also build their own webpages. One idea I would like to explore more is the building of webpages. Once a student constructs a timeline of the life, each page being a specific time period, complete with pictures and history, other students can view the different web pages and also critique them.
 * 2) Blogging: I have just recently become a fan of blogging. I think it could be a valuable resource for teachers and students to collaborate and be very creative with classroom material. I do need more experience and knowledge working with blogs before I implement them into classroom instruction, but I realize the potential is there. Students could keep journals for my Sociology class using blogs. Currently the students use the old fashioned paper and pencil method. The blogging would allow them to transform ideas into a blog and allow creativity.

**Your school: Belpre High School ** **Description of Idea or link to product URL: ** Three technologies that would assist students in creating different types of products for 21st century learning are: 1. Geogebra: math students can use the graphing and drawing software to demonstrate many mathematical processes and proofs to others. 2. Voicethread: students can record their explanation of what they did on Geogebra. 3. Wiki: students can post their Geogebra applet along with their voice thread to a class wiki.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Your name: Angie Henniger **