tcea spec. ed. presentation
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Presentation for TCEA on integrating technology and Web 2.0 tools into the special ed classroom.TRANSCRIPT
Web 2.0 in the Special Ed Classroom
Pamela Cranford
Scott S. Floyd
White Oak ISD
http://scottsfloyd.edublogs.org1
Discarded Stand Alones - GRAB THEM!!!
Language Arts Activities Spelling
TAKS Practice PassagesTreasure Mountain - Reading Comprehension
Reader Rabbit - Parts of Speechand More
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Students can experience success working side by side at their own level.
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Weekly Spelling Tests
Each student takes the weekly spelling test as a ClassServer assignment. The format is designed to match the 4th grade TAKS Writing assessment.
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Students have comprehension questions before them, and the CD cues them when a question is coming up by saying, “Quick Quiz”.
Students mark their answer in pen and self-check when the correct answer is given for immediate feedback.
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Do my students love Technology? Just ask them!
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Technology Tuesdays
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• Technology Folders
Each student has a Technology Folder. This folder contains a grid with the name of each program that is loaded on our
computers. Students choose, load, and record their program by marking the grid with the date. The same program may not be repeated more than twice before at least 2 additional
programs are used by the student.
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Roughneck Research
Book Study
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We did a book study on Snowflake Bentley. Subjects integrated included math, social
studies, science, and reading.
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ClassServer Lesson
Students read a brief history of Wilson Bentley’s life.www.snowflakebentley.com
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In this lesson, students follow hyperlinks to show what they have learned about the Snowflake Man from Jericho, Vermont.
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Next, we went to the weather website to complete a comparison/contrast document of the weather in Jericho to the weather in
White Oak.
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Students followed one hyperlink to a site that allowed them to cut an online snowflake and add it to the blizzard. We viewed
snowflakes cut by students in Italy and other countries. We searched White Oak, Texas, and viewed snowflakes cut by other
students in our town.
www.popularfront.com/snowdays/
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Students Visit our Elementary Library
We sent out invitations to the Primary and Intermediate Campuses asking them to come to the Elementary Library to
view a video loop of the first photographs ever taken of individual snowflakes.
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Fastt Math
At last year’s TCEA Conference, I was lucky enough to win this program at one of the sessions. It is being used in our Math Lab
to aid RtI Students with Math Fluency.
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Mystery Motivator
Technology is an excellent Behavior Management tool as well. I use Dr. William Jenson’s Mystery Motivator idea from Tough Kids Toolbox. Not only are students being rewarded, but they are
actually practicing decoding, attention to details, reading comprehension, vocabulary development, and
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PODCASTS
Inclusion - Color Poems by 5th Grade
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PODCASTS
Blending GT and Sp. Ed - A guest reader - A Christmas Star
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PODCASTS
Author Study - A Salute to Seuss by 4th Grade
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PODCASTS
Pirate Story - Self-directed literacy
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Parent Communication5th Grade Science Field Trip to the Nature Center www.etwwf.org
Special Ed Roughneck Research Spider Research Lesson Plans www.etwwf.org
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Parent CommunicationEmail - Email - Email ! ! !DimDim Conference Call - Sp. Ed Homebound Student
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Next GREAT ProjectsPortable science labs for nature centerFlash drives so that students can take data back and forth from home to school and visa versa.Transfer all Class Server lessons to MoodleBooks on tape to be transferred to iPodsWiki for class projects
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Web 2.0 in the Special Ed Classroom
Pamela Cranford - [email protected]
Scott S. Floyd - [email protected] and http://scottsfloyd.edublogs.org
White Oak ISD
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