4-6+Technology+Inservice

===__Research Media Literacy__ – How can we move beyond Google and create more meaningful research projects? This session will focus on web tools and search strategies to help your students become savvy searchers. A review of Nettrekker and Google Custom Search will be shared, as well as ways to use Google Apps to organize the research process, and resources for finding copyright free images. Time will be given for teachers to work on building shared custom search engines that are grade level specific.===

[|Nettrekker] Grade Level Custom Search Engines Other Search Tools for Kids

===__Designing Interactive Learning Opportunities__ – [|Discovery Education] includes so much more than just videos. This session will focus on using the media available in Discovery Streaming to create writing prompts, quizzes, and assignments designed for your students. Learn how to give your students access to the skill builders and math explanations and overviews for review from home.===

= = Discovery Streaming Tips and Tricks

=== ===__**Assessment Tools**__ – What do you want students to learn as a result of this activity? Participants in this session will discuss ways to manage and assess projects that incorporate technology. We will focus on web tools that can help in designing assessments for student projects and learning including the [|SAS assessment] builder and [|Rubistar]. We will also brainstorm ways to "turn up the H.E.A.T." on classroom activities.===

[|Quick Check Survey] Assessment Resources [|More Assessment Rubrics and Graphic Organizers] [|Assessing Teacher Technology Projects] (How does YOURS measure up?) Go to the [|Discovery Assignment Page]. Enter this code: **T3D2C-4DB6** Briefly look over the resources listed.

===__Visual Literacy__ – Helping students to be visually literate is a 21st century skill. Learning, reading, and writing with photographs, diagrams, maps, tables, time lines and storyboards help make learning more powerful. This session will focus on ways to find and incorporate these tools and resources in your classroom instruction.===

Visual Literacy Links for Teachers & Students Graphic Organizers

===__Tools for Differentiating Instruction__ – Are you searching for some new tools to meet the needs of your students? This session will focus on using [|SAS], [|Thinkfinity], and [|Wolfram/Alpha] to find materials, lessons, interactives, and data to make learning meaningful at different levels.===

Finding Materials to Differentiate Instruction