iPod+Kristie

 3-D Project Legacy **How do we know we have been successful? **

 1. Students are reporting on their experience - (2 - 3 students sharing - recorded on video) b elow..

**2. Students have acquired new technology skills that they had not had previously**.

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**In the 6 short weeks that we had the ipods in our classroom I believe that we touched on all of the skills in the 21 Century list in one way or another. ======

Ø The ability to create relevant, high-quality products
 **3. Students have learned about digital citzenship**

**We discussed digital citizenship on a daily basis. It became part of the dialogue within our classroom .**


 * a. advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology b. exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity c. demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning **

The students and I spent a lot of time discussing respect and proper usage of the equipment. It amazed me that I had games and fun apps on the ipod, but not once did I ever find a student off task when they were specifically instructed to use the ipods for an educational purpose.

 **4. How has our teaching changed? What practices will you continue?**

-I am more willing to implement this technology into my classroom on a regular basis. I will encourage the students to put the useful, educational apps, on their own ipods for use in the classroom.

 **5. What are some best practices?**

-Using the ipods for brainstorming, vocabulary, reading short stories, having mini recesses, using the internet for reference

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> **6. Listing what I have learned and what were some of the challenges**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">-Initially, the cameras were a challenge; however, after the novelty wore off they were not a problem.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> **7. Personal growth as a learner on an online collaborative environment.**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">-It was nice to see what was happening with other people using the 3D technology.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> **8. What are some tips for next time users?**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">-Give your students a free class to explore the ipods.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">-During this time create a set of mutually agreed upon expectations to follow…really stress respect.


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> 9. What is your legacy piece? **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">-Video

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 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> 10. Sample lessons - share 2 lessons that you taught using the equipment **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">1. Using the SimpleMindX I had the students create a mind map of words to describe people in their lives that have affected them in a positive way. They then needed to create another map that describing the people in the main character of our novel’s life that impacted him. From here they needed to narrow this list down for themselves and choose the one person who they could write about in a personal response. In our novel the main character goes to the top of a hill and rolls an ancestor rock down the hill to roll away anger and to acknowledge those people who made a difference in his life. The students then needed to take that person they chose and write a paragraph on that person and <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> their significance.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">2. Using the Dictionary.com app the students completed Social Studies vocabulary. They thought it was cool that they could speak into the app and it would find the word. It was very handy to have Wikipedia app as well for reference for them.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">3. Short stories and the ipods have been a blessing. I have loaded the Bathroom Reader app; which is full of useful information, but it also has free classic short stories on the app. The students loved reading on the ipods, highlighting the words that they didn’t know and then using the dictionary app to help them.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">4. I played Jeopardy review with the ipods. When a question would come up the students had to type the answer into the notes utility and show their answer…it was great to see all of the ipods up with the answers proudly displayed.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">5. I used the video camera in my Film Studies option. The students filmed and then edited Bullying Awareness videos using the cameras. They were a great success…so much better to use then the bulky old video cameras and tripods.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> **11. Websites, tools, or apps that you used with your students**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Wallwisher.com <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Video camera, still camera <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Dictionary.com app <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Thesaurus app <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Bathroom Reader app <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Italk app <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Graffiti creator app <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">SimpleMind X app <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">This day in History app <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Wikipedia app <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">301+ short stories app <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Notes tool

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> **12. Other unexpected findings from your projec**t

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> Just how excited the kids were to use the technology for learning. Many of them have loaded the same apps on their personal ipods and phones and use them on a regular basis.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> **13. Final thoughts about your project**.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> It was an amazing project to be a part of. The excitement of my students and the engagement that they had was very rewarding. I loved coming in and they would be asking, “can we learn with the ipods today?”


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> 14. Would you recommend to use this equipment? **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I would recommend to use this equipment. I would suggest to use it more as a reference and an engagement tool, rather than a “project” tool.