504 Webinars

December 9th Katie Riddle & Alison Hischke makebeliefscomix.com - Students often have trouble breaking down complex works into basic themes and plots. One way to aid this is to have students create a short summary or visual representation of a key scene or moment in the text. This online interactive tool is an interesting and engaging way to have students to create their own short comic strips to help with their understanding of the text. Join us to see how this tool works and can be integrated into your classroom! 2:00pm Lauren Paul & Lorraine Siebold Quizlet Both in Biology and Math, vocabulary is necessary for communication about the content. We will be demonstrating how to use Quizlet in order to provide an opportunity for students to participate in a collaborative process of creating and defining words and learning from each other. 3:00 Drew Zemper, Mike Jahnke & Tiffany Liu Scribblar.com - an online collaborative white board that includes various drawing applications, and chat room applications. Join us for an inquiry lesson that can be both visually and aurally engaging! 4:15 p.m. Ryan Allen & Lauren Williams Thinking Blocks - Students always seem to struggle with understanding ratios and solving word problems involving ratios. Please join us as we demonstrate Thinking Blocks, an online tool designed to help students sharpen their understanding of ratios and ratio problems and to give them strategies for solving such problems. 4:30pm December 10th Meghan Milford & Michael Bindon XtraNormal.com Text-to-Movie, lets students type in text and create a movie script. This lesson plan from Biology will have students create a movie that sells their cell organelle based on function and importance within the cell. Fun with biology 4:00pm Lindsay Davis, Megan Getz & Vanessa Jakse We are going to explore the use of social networking sites, such as facebook, as a tool in English and History lessons. Students can use these sites to create fictional characters from novels or non-fictional characters from history, and interact with other "characters" from class. 4:30 pm December 11th Chris Irvine & Zina Scimemi-O’Sullivan letterpop.com Newspapers have always been used by historians to construct meanings of the past. Newspapers contain so much information and insight into the lives, thoughts and actions of people in the past. Join us as we explore the way that students can create newspapers that contain information from the past. This webinar will show how, through the creation of a newspaper, students will engage in a direct

conversation with history. 11 a.m. Bob Ause Museum Box I am going to show how a chemistry class can use Museum Box to study a group (column) of elements on the periodic table. Each student in the class will select an element and students whose elements are in the same group will build a Museum Box together. The six sides of each box will contain important information on the element in that box. 1 pm Stella Gorlin, Jenny Armstrong and Jen Aniano Museum Box Sick of traditional assessments? Want to help students learn to work with source materials and to develop historical arguments? Museum Box provides a creative forum in which students and teachers can use a variety of multimedia artifacts to build an argument or describe an historical period, person or event. Join us as we walk you through an interactive lesson plan using Museum Box. 2 pm Kerri Thelen & AmyWester Algebra tiles are blocks that math teachers use to help students understand operations on polynomials. However, they are expensive for teachers to purchase and often those who do have Algebra tiles do not have enough for each student to explore. A free online version of Algebra Tiles is provided by Mathsnet at http://mathsnet.net/algebra/tiles2.html which allows students with online access to work with algebra tiles. Please join us as we explore Mathsnet's Algebra Tiles and discuss ways to incorporate the tool into an algebra lesson. 2:30pm Sara Staten & Lara Hamza Storybird is a service that uses collaborative storytelling to help students create their own stories in a round robin manner, inspired by the visual works of contributing artists. It's a simple publishing platform that allows writers and artists (and our students!) to experiment, connect with art, and publish their stories. 2:30 Susan Rinaldi and Tracy Lent

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December 12th Todd Rakes & Kristina Morton Wordle.net is a tool that graphically represents the most common words used in a piece of writing. Students can use it to analyze text hat they are reading, pieces that they have written, or manipulate it to create a project. It can be used in any subject area. Noon Rachel Nisch & Caitlin Cullen Persuade Star In both our English and History classrooms, we are already realizing the less-than-positive response students have to the prospect of writing any type of paper, especially a persuasive essay. Hopefully Persuade Star will present the process of constructing an argument, designing a thesis, and providing support in an accessible, and who knows maybe even fun, way! 1:00 pm December 15th

Melanie Aho and Kendra Munro EtherPad. Collaborating on a paper or project can be a pain in the you-know-what, with the contributors constantly updating and emailing the most current version. This makes it difficult to track changes and practically impossible to keep track of what's what. EtherPad is the only webbased word processor that allows multiple users to create, update, and edit in "really real-time." Track changes with a unique color for each user, and watch it appear on everyone's screen immediately, no refreshing required. Join us as we explore the wealth of doors this application will open in the classroom, from note-taking to group projects and beyond! 4:00 pm December 16th Ryan McCarl & J.P. Horne

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Sam Lamonica & Stefan Amrine Writeboard.com - Collaborative writing can pose problems for even the most advanced students. Since students have different writing abilities and styles, it is a major task to unify their writing into a single representative document. Students edit one another’s sentences, eliminate incorrect ideas and rearrange whole sections before an essay is submitted. Writeboard allows the teacher to view this process. Writeboard is a completely free tool that helps students share their writing, edit each others work, and track their changes. 12 pm Kya Brown & John Heuser National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) has many cool math tools for math students in every grade. We will explore Transformations-Reflections (a geometry tool) and Right Triangle Solver (a trigonometry tool). These tools are an exciting way to teach basic trigonometry and introduce isometries. We hope that you will join us! 1 pm Sarah Prince, Carol Azizian & Bets Davies Novlet, a web application designed to support collaborative writing of non-linear stories in any language. Users can read stories written by other users, create their own ones, and choose the plot one likes most from several alternatives. 2 p.m. David Picking & Kim Garber GeoGebra is free and multi-platform (i.e. Mac or PC) dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that joins arithmetic, geometry, algebra and calculus. It offers multiple representations of objects in its graphics, algebra, and spreadsheet views that are all dynamically linked. 4 pm Sade Benjamin & Erin Harrison Evernote.com Type a text note. Clip a web page. Snap a photo. Grab a screenshot. Evernote will keep it all safe. Worried about loosing your notebook? Tired of writing your ideas on little pieces of paper? Evernote allows you to compile, organize, and keep your your essential notes, photos, websites, or to-do lists all in one space at the click of a button! 7 pm