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Don’t Be Sheepish: Showing What You Know with Presentation Software

Don’t Be Sheepish: Showing What You Know with Presentation Software. Jen O’Halloran & Daria Taylor Montgomery County Public Schools. Who Are We? . Jen O’Halloran Strawberry Knoll ES 6 years experience MLS from University of Maryland Briefly taught 2 nd grade.

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Don’t Be Sheepish: Showing What You Know with Presentation Software

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  1. Don’t Be Sheepish: Showing What You Know with Presentation Software Jen O’Halloran & Daria Taylor Montgomery County Public Schools

  2. Who Are We? • Jen O’Halloran • Strawberry Knoll ES • 6 years experience • MLS from University of Maryland • Briefly taught 2nd grade Terry Martorana, SKES Media Assistant, and I on Halloween, 2006.

  3. Who Are We? • Daria Taylor • Clarksburg Elementary School • 8 years experience • MLS from University of Maryland • 3rd and 5th grade teacher in former life

  4. Session Overview • Intro to three types of software: Pixie, PowerPoint and Photostory • Examples of projects for K, 2, 3, 4 and Staff • Planning for each project • Questions & Resource CDs

  5. Our Goals • Provide multiple examples of how to incorporate effective use of presentation software into instruction of students and staff • Provide files for you to take back and apply to your instruction (located on the Wiki!)

  6. Pixie • Creativity software program that allows students to use pre-created templates, OR create original art and writing. • Slideshow feature

  7. PowerPoint • What can we say that you don’t already know?

  8. Photo Story • Free downloadable software from Microsoft • Allows you to upload digital pictures and create slideshows with transitions, special effects, background music, and narration

  9. Beginning With the End in Mind • Examples of final products • Most examples were collaborations between LMS and classroom teacher • Will share vision of adapted projects when presenting planning process

  10. Project Examples

  11. Kindergarten • Margaret Wise Brown author study • Living Things Research Project • Both projects incorporated writing and drawing using the Pixie Software • Project started with Literature connection in Media Center and then some kind of writing activity • Each student created one Pixie slide and class books/slideshows were then created (used templates created by LMS)

  12. Second Grade Biography • Pixie slideshows created by individual students • Reading/Language Arts and Social Studies connections • 4-5 lab sessions, including one for Gallery Walk • Prior work in classrooms to complete storyboards • Slides created from templates

  13. Third Grade • Writing project based on informative paragraphs the students wrote in class • Four 45-minute sessions in the computer lab (could definitely have benefited from adding 2 more sessions) • No templates were used – students used Pixie tools described in introductory lesson • Students created one slide for each sentence in paragraph and then created slideshow

  14. Fourth Grade Native Americans • Group project meeting Social Studies and Writing outcomes • Bi-weekly sessions for 6 weeks • Collaboration with 2 classes and their social studies teacher • Students used template created in PowerPoint • Slides are examples from final product

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