Team Name: Northeast Nuts
Team members: Karen Foley, Susan Barron and Victoria Macha
School: Nixon, Barron
Abstract: We want to use Glogster to incorporate technology into the district curriculum at the same time allow parents to instantly view what the students are working on in the classroom.. We also want to get away from paper and pencil lessons that are rather boring and bring excitement back to the classroom.
Problem, Issue, or Possibility: How can we incorporate technology into the district’s packed curriculum while sharing with parents what we are learning at school?
Objectives and Assessment: We think our project will be a small first step to show other teachers how technology can be simply added into an already full day. It seems like we hear more and more often about how there is no time to teach or use technology during the day. We think if teachers will try just this one small change that they will discover that technology doesn’t have to be some huge unreachable goal but can be a highly motivating way to enhance what they are already teaching. We also think that our parents involvement will increase if parents have access to projects like this that show what is being accomplished in the classroom. We plan to prove that this will work by having other campus teachers have their classes build Glogs about what is happening in their classrooms.
Implementation Plan: Timeline –
Sept.11: Our group joined with another group and discussed coming up with a new project. We decided on Glogster as a way of enhancing the curriculum.
Sept.29: We met with Robert Rocha at Nixon to learn more about Glogster
Oct .13: We met with Karen at Fannin to get help with any problems that we might be facing with Glogster
Oct. 20: We met again with Robert Rocha at Nixon. We worked on adding sound clips and a slide show to the Glog page
Groups will work on projects individually.
After the project debut, we would also like to share Glogster with teachers at a faculty meeting and help others if they would like to implement the use in their classroom. We would also like to survey parents to see what they thought about Glogster!
Evaluation and Results: Technical Skills Learned:
Use of digital camera
Use of video camera
How to to use garage band to record voices and save to a MP3 file
How to use Movie Maker to make a movie of photos
How to organize information in order to put it on a glog page
How to use photos and images and give copyright information.
Other Skills Learned:
How to work cooperatively in a group
Determine what type of information is important to include in a presentation.
Artifacts and Documentation: The URL’s below are some of the artifacts that were created through this grant:
http://sh7emnd.edu.glogster.com/wait-till-helen-comes-poster/
http://skkyad2.edu.glogster.com/glog-4221-7904/
http://srfwx5t.edu.glogster.com/glog-1788-2253/
http://sjs59n4.edu.glogster.com/glog-1603-8705/
http://kdfoley.edu.glogster.com/kb-december-glog/
http://kdfoley.edu.glogster.com/kb-november-glog/
http://kdfoley.edu.glogster.com/kb-october-glog/
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I love your action research and I especially loved your Glog examples! Great job on being so creative with them. this year, I had my students research Children’s Noble Peace Prize winners and in pairs, students created a Glog about the person they researched. It was really powerful.
Another tool I have found useful and easy to incorporate into my curriculum is SideVibe. They just made their Premium account free so it is easy to use for many, many students. I think you can have up to 250 students per account. The software allows you to download a web page or video and then create an activity or discussion to go along with it. Students can watch the video or check out the web page and respond to a question you give, multiple choice test or essay assignment right then and there! Really cool.
Thanks for sharing and great job!
Heidi Hutchison
Glogster is a good way to “get started” and allow parents to “see” what their children are creating/constructing. I like the idea that you are drawing the parents in but hope the “helicopter” parent drama won’t take over the students developing curation and budding creativity.
P.S. Love Heidi’s comment and ideas and can’t wait to use SideVibe!