Expanding the Boundaries in Watertown Schools BLC 2010 TONI CARLSON ERIN SEES MENA CIARLONE EILEEN DOHERTY DAN DRESSLER MAGGIE MATTSON
Educational Technology program Goals Educational Technology Program Goals promote and effectively use technology to improve instruction and professional productivity in all subjects enhance and develop 21st Century skills for students, teachers, and administrators combine hands on activities with creative thinking, problem solving, communication, and cooperative learning support students' growth as frequent, fluent, and discerning readers of a range of information resources and literary genres educate students to access, locate, evaluate, and use a variety of resources to support, deepen and enrich learning in all subjects
Glogster
A fourth grade State research project
EILEEN DOHERTY Edoherty@watertown.k12.ma.us
Glogster
I had My students chose a US state to research for a social studies state research project. One part of the project was to create a virtual poster of their state on Glogster. http://teacherweb.com/MA/WatertownHosmerElementary/Doherty/ap9.aspx
Blogging
A fifth grade teacher using student blogs
ERIN SEES www.erinsees.com esees@watertown.k12.ma.us
Blogging
I had students create a blog and use it as a digital portfolio for all their work. http://5life0910.blogspot.com/
Ning
A High School Visual Arts Class using Ning
S INSTRUCTOR @ WHSWEB MASTER FOR WATERTOWN PUBL DDressler@watertown.k12.ma.us
Ning
I had Students learn about the philosophy of surrealism and us e their own di http://whsphotosurrealism.ning.com http://www.watertown.k12.ma.us/dept/fapa/whs_09_10/splash.html
Creating student wiki spaces
A fifth grade term-long science project
MENA CIARLONE mciarlone@watertown.k12.ma.us
Introducing Wikis
The educational technology teacher and I introduced wikis to the students in my class. We explained that each student’s wiki would become a work in progress which would be based upon our science focus on adaptations.
Applications
Each assignment would introduce the students to a new application which would check for... content mastery creative application of content taught as well as critical thinking
Completed wikis
The students’ wikis became an integral part our class website.
http://teacherweb.com/MA/WatertownCunniffElementary/MsCiarlone/ap20.asp
VoiceThread and ISSUU
Third Grade Picturing Writing Projects
MAGGIE MATTSON mmattson@watertown.k12.ma.us
VoiceThread and Issuu
I had my students create two Picturing Writing Projects one on voicethread which has had over 10,000 hits and has collected comments from all over the world and the other showing the publishing of books on issuu.com. http://voicethread.com/share/119840/
http://www.teacherweb.com/MA/WatertownHosmerElementary/MrsMattson/
Thank you Watertown Public Schools, MA www.watertown.k12.ma.us