Welcome To Mother Hale Academy’s Monthly Technology Staff Development Meeting

1. WelcomeTo Mother Hale Academy’sMonthly Technology Staff DevelopmentMeeting

2. I3 Title IID Team • K. Hamm Supervisor • S. Santiago Content Area • T. O’Blines Tech

3. What Is I3 Title II D New York City Department of Education Districts 9 and 7 are collaborating with the Bronx Office of Instructional Technology, National Staff Development Council (NSDC), and Fordham University, to apply as an “Eligible Local Partnership.” Districts 9 and 7 along with Fordham University propose: “Transforming Leadership into 21st Century Schools: Inclusive, Innovative, Interdisciplinary”;an initiative that will make a positive impact on the academic achievement of students in grades K-12 schools living in the applying districts. The goal of this project is to raise student achievement levels appreciably by changing the instructional environment of schools, and providing professional development opportunities to school-based teams. For the purposes of this proposal, school-based teams will consist of a school administrator, instructional technology specialist, and a content area specialist (coach or lead teacher). The targeted school-based teams will receive professional development in three identified core competency areas: (1) training skills development as they relate to the adult learner; (2) 21st Century technology skills development; and (3) technology integration in English Language Arts (ELA) using Web 2.0 collaboration tools.

4. I3 Team Vision

5. Mother Hale AcademyTechnology Committee • Technology Committee Members: • Tashon McKeithan Principal • Katherine Hamm Asst Principal • Sylvia Santiago 5th Gr. • Tracy O’Blines Tech • Yolanda Smith 1st Gr. • Maribel Betancourt 2nd Gr. • Kathleen Casey 3rd Gr. • Chiffon Granger 4th Gr. • Melissa Fighera Sp Ed

6. Purpose The technology plan is designed to support the following strategic plan initiative: • Integrate technology across the curriculum. • Improve both standards and student engagement. • Create an interactive learning environment. • Make this school a 21st Century environment

7. How intend to accomplish our goals Increase student access to technology: • · Through the use of interactive white boards in every classroom • · 2 fully equipped Computer Labs • · 2 fully equipped Science Labs • · Laptop carts • · Digital Media Club • · Technology Afterschool Club - build school web page (Goal) • · Uptown Education online Cross Curriculum Program (can be used in home/school) • · Class/School Websites/Wikis??? • · Writing Matters • More Inter "active" games that Teach Curriculum • School-Class Newsletter • Keyboard Program - train / teach

8. Staff Development Increase the knowledge and ability to integrate technology into their instruction in meaningful ways. • Teaching application programs to enhance learning • Demo Lessons • Create Wikispaces/ Web Page for Communication with the community and staff • Create Interactive Lessons • Online Portfolios

9. TechnologyStaff Development How To Use: Inspiration, The Graph Club Program & The Time Liner Program

10. Inspiration Is an essential tool students can learn to rely on to plan, research and complete projects successfully. With the integrated Diagram and Outline Views, they create graphic organizers and expand topics into writing. This powerful combination encourages learning in multiple modes. As a result, students gain and retain a better understanding of concepts and demonstrate knowledge, improving their performance across the curriculum.

12. A web is a visual map that shows how different categories of information relate to each other. Webs are particularly useful as a brainstorming and organizational tool for writing, as well as for analyzing stories and characterization. Webs

13. Idea Maps Idea maps help students generate ideas and develop thoughts visually. They are used for brainstorming and prewriting exercises and for producing plans and solving problems

14. Concept Maps Concept maps graphically illustrate relationships between ideas. In a concept map, two or more concepts are linked by words that describe their relationship.

15. From the Main Idea Symbol, click the Rapidfire Button on the top toolbar and type in a subcategory topic then hit Enter. This will pop out your Subcategory Symbols.  From the Main Idea Symbol you can click the Create then a directional green dot, and you will create subtopic symbols in that direction.

16. Interchangeable You can take a diagram created in inspiration and convert into An Outline, A Word Document, Power Point, Web Pages and A Graphic File

17. Let’s watch a demo about Inspiration

18. Let’s Use What We Learned Use the Organization Sheet Provide to create an Inspiration Graphic Organizer, showing the Structure of command and responsibilities of P.S. 65x. Ex. President, Vice President, Secretary of State, etc

19. What Is The Graph Club Program? • The Graph Club provides a motivating, manipulative environment that introduces students to the power of graphs and gives them the skills they need to organize,display, and interpret data effectively.

20. Why Should I Use This Program? • Designed for students in grades K– 4, The Graph Club is an innovative and easy-to-use tool for creating, exploring, interpreting, and printing graphs. With The Graph Club, students create and compare up to five different representations of the same data — a picture graph, bar graph, line graph, circle graph, and table. • They describe and interpret graphs in the on-screen notebook, and print their graphs in a variety of layouts and sizes — from standard to poster size. • The program also includes a built-in library of cross-curricular activities aligned to state and NCTM standards.

21. Choosing the Right Graph Type Children need to understand that different types of graphs are used to describe different kinds of data. Consider these guidelines when planning and implementing graphing activities with your class. • Table All kinds of data • Picture Things that can be counted • Bar Things that can be counted or measured • Line Things that change over time, trends • Circle Parts of a whole, parts of a set

22. Tutorial

23. What Did You Learn?

24. Let’s Use What We Learned Let’s make a Graph

25. Let’s Get Started • Use the Organization Sheet Provide to make graphs • Ex. A Graph showing the most frequently use beginning letter (of the last name) of the staff of P.S. 65 • Ex. Number of teachers on each grade • etc

26. Use any type of graphs you wish Remember you have 5 types of graphs to choose from to create & compare • Bar • Line • Picture • Circle • Table

27. Reminder • Label your graphs • Title • Your X and Y axis • Use Colors and Graphics • You can also use the note book feature to explain your work

28. Time Liner

29. What Is Time Liner • TimeLiner is a practical and easy-to-use tool for creating and printing timelines of historical, contemporary, and future events. This software is very easy to use. You simply type events or items in any order, and Timeliner does the rest. The program puts everything in chronological order and figures out the correct spacing. Time lines can easily be merged edited, and printed. You can add graphics, sounds, movies, notes, and titles; customize font sizes, styles and colors.

30. Great Ideas from the Classroom!! • Student autobiographies are constructed using Timeliner. Students consult with their families and select an important event for each year, then create their autobiography timeline in Timeliner. Each child selects one important event from his autobiography and use a Quick Cam video recorder to record each other telling about that event. They should also take a digital picture of each other to include in their multimedia timeline. Students learn how to import .avi files into their work, as well as digital pictures. They should add flags from the states in which they were born and chose backgrounds. Then use the Slide Show format and show their autobiography timeline to the rest of the class and parents. Students meet writing requirements such as developing notes for important content, organizing information in a graphic format, and prioritizing information with this project

31. TimeLiner Basics

33. Create a New Time Line 1. Click to select Yearly/Monthly and then click OK. 2. From the Format menu, choose Date Format. Under Start the Year, choose August and then click OK. 3. Type “September 2” in the box directly under When. Press the Tab key and type “First day of school” in the box directly under What. 4. Press the Return/Enter key. Type “June 26”. Press the Tab key and type “Last day of school”. Notice this event has been placed in chronological order, above September 2. 5. Press the Return/Enter key twice and type “November 27”. Press the Tab key and type “Thanksgiving Break.” 6. Press the Return/Enter key and type "February 16 - 20". Press the Tab key and type “Mid – Winter Recess."

34. Edit and Delete Events 1. Click on the November 27 event to select it. 2. Now click Edit on the clock menu (on the left side of your screen). The Edit Event box opens, enabling you to edit your event. 3. Click the box next to the word “to” and enter an end date of November 28. 4. Click OK; notice an End column has appeared. 5. Click another event and click Delete on the clock. Click Cancel, since you really don’t want to delete this event. If you mistakenly delete an event, you can choose Undo Delete from the Edit menu (only right after you delete it.) Deleting removes an event permanently from all five views of a time line.

35. place to go for a “bird’s-eye view” of all of your time line information. * The When column shows the date of an event. Some events may have a I I starting date and an ending date. To show both dates, simply choose Use Event Range in the Format menu. The When column will become the Start column, and an End column will be added. * Press Tab. * The What column is where you enter the information for an event. — * Press Enter to get another blank line. You can now type a new date and event.

36. Resources to use with Timeliner • Fact Monster • Monster Timeline Archive • Flag Day Timeline • The Food Timeline • Hurricane SeasonInformation Please • Year by Year 1900-2002 • Google Image Search • School Year Timeline sample to download

37. TimeLiner Tutorial http://www.tomsnyder.com/timelinerxe/