making amazing things happen with next to no money
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Jon CorippoGoogle Certified Teacher - Apple Distinguished Educator
Making Amazing Things Happen On Next To No Budget
We are the Cavalry
We raise the next generation
Why am telling you this?
Because ourjob is sacred.
Remembering that energizes us.
Doing our job takes energy.
Improving ourcraft takes even more energy!
It's a tough time to be aservant-leader.
So we need tobe energized.
So we must step up for them.
In way our predecessors never had to.
Some will bemoan the state of things...Others will step up.
“This will be ourfinest hour...”
Who here has a projector in their classroom?
Who knows or suspects they have students with Smartphones?
Who here has a computer labat their school?
We have some pretty good tools.
Let’s use them.
ONEPROJECTOR CLASSROOMIDEAS
A new way toteach grammar.
Using picturesand a projectorand paper to doall 8 parts of speech.
Get some funny pictures.
Use this form.Give me 3 nouns
Give me 3 adjectives
Give me 3 verbs
Give me 3 adverbs
Pics at IanJukes.com
Teach K-3?
Check out Starfall.
All 44 basic sounds.
Teach K-12?
Teach K-12?
UEN.ORG
Teach K-12?
HUNDREDS ofcool activities
Teach K-12?
HUNDREDS ofcool activities
Use video.
YouTube blocked at school?Use Tooble at home.
Teach Reading?
Mr Cliché
Use TV commercials
Why commercials?
Super memorable
Complete story in :30
Complex ideas
No “grade level”
Engaging
Characterization
Character Name
Description - looks Dialogue - what they say
Interior Monologue - what they thinkActions - things they do
Society - what characters in the book think about
this character
Created by: Jon Corippo
www.ctap7.org
Play a commercial
Kids reply on paper.
Three or four reps in one period.
Everything so far has been FREE.
Redeploy your lab.
Typical lab schedule.
45-60 min per week.
Let’s retaskthe time.
Every day for a week.
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5
In lab Out of Lab In lab Out of Lab In lab
Online research
In class writing
OnlineEssay
Grading/feedback
Final Copy
or PPT
Functional Reading StructureName ________________________ Number _______
General - Think Title - The Thesis or Controlling Main Idea
Focus Area or Supporting Idea
Book Name__________________________________ Author________________________
Other Books by this author (series) ______________________________________________
Publisher __________________________________ City___________ Copyright _________
Year ___________Number of Pages_____ Library of Congress Number /ISDN # _____________
Bibliography
Specific- Think Chapter
Focus Area or Supporting Idea Focus Area or Supporting Idea
Particulars - Think Details Particulars - Think Details Particulars - Think Details
2002 - Jon Corippo - Coarsegold Union School
Book Name__________________________________ Author________________________
Other Books by this author (series) ______________________________________________
Publisher __________________________________ City___________ Copyright _________
Year ___________Number of Pages_____ Library of Congress Number /ISDN # _____________
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Collect the data on paper.
Thesis
Focus
Facts
Acountability
Finish in the lab.
How can we leveragethe power they own?
BYOT/BYOD
We have all lusted for this.
Socrative.com
Socrative Web: No download needed for the teacher application. Just go to t.socrative.com, click registration, create a distinct virtual room number and you are ready to go in 60 seconds! You can use this site on any web browser laptop, desktop, or mobile device.
Actual instructions.
Instructions for your students:Go to m.socrative.com and enter your virtual room number and click "Join room"” - ready to go in 10 seconds!
Room 8889
Actual instructions.
Instructions for you:Go to m.socrative.com and enter your virtual room number and click "Join room"” - ready to go in 10 seconds!
Room 8889
Let’s do one.
Many activities.
Everything so far has been FREE.
Want an IWB?
How about $60?
Wacom Bamboo Pen TabletAbout $60
Scribblar.com - a Free Whiteboard
Scribblar.com - a Free Whiteboard
Scribblar.com - a Free Whiteboard
Wolfram Integration - Free
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Wolfram Integration - Free
Cost to you? About $60Cost per hour? Pennies
Payoff? HUGE
Need more computers?
You alreadyhave them.
Every school district I know has a “bone yard”
Bring them back to life for free
SimpleInterface
Student MonitorIncluded
OpenOfficeis Free
Hundredsof Free LearningApps
http://computersforlearning.gov/
FREE COMPUTERS FOR SCHOOLS
Extending our toolboxes.
Free and excellent are all around.
What arethe excuses?
Please yell out.
I have brought over ten districtsto G Apps.
I’ll be gladto help yours.Contact me.
How did I do?
AssessmentTime.
Do we have new ideas for projectors?
Are we able to use Smartphones in class?
Can we make the computerlab experience transformational?
