VTFEST+2012

Keynote Speaker: Breakawaygames "Soccer Games regarding fairness to women.

Session I:

Supplementing Teaching with Gaming: Phyllis Tate, Media Center Direction: Dorset School

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K-5 Activities created and approved by certified teachers. Featured games There are also apps for the iPad. Keyboard Zoo ABC ORDER might be good for our ELL kids. Type Rocket Cup Stacking Keyboarding skills

Word Bingo Spanish

5th Grade: Just for Fun Build a Bridge: This program might help with a bridge building activity for tech design class. There are a variety of levels

Lure of the Labyrinth: MIT (Fablevision) Free Definitely a middle grades game

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5th Grade Math teacher has them play different games Fractions, Ratios, Proportions (Monster Cafeteria) (Testing Lab) (Shipping) Collaboration between students Each game has three different levels

Educator resources Resources for planning the math in each puzzle (really tells you how to play these games) Shows which standards are being used, clarification of the math that is being used. You can print out the math in the puzzle to help teachers teach students how to use the game.

BigBrainz: Timez Attack Practice facts: Free and Fee based. This will be a high interest game. Dungeon Free Environment, 35 dollars per 3rd grade student then the rest of the school can use it. Data is stored on their site, can be installed at home. Software has to be downloaded. Takes some time to load due to the heavy graphics. Once it loads it works fine. Helps with retention levels according to the 4th grade teacher. One student wrote the company with an idea for an environment.

Oregon Trail (Free on-line version) and Civilization IV (Ancient Civilizations) are role playing games: You need to purchase these games on CD. Students work in pairs.

Find games that work and the kids respond positively. Understand material classroom even more.

Kerpoof: Multimedia done by Disney and National Science Foundation: Heavy on bandwidth Spell a picture, make a picture, card, make a movie, timelines for a movie. Pick backgrounds, characters

Scratch: Program games: Tutorials on-line, wiki for educators

Minecraft: Lego type game

Session II Smartboards and the Common Core: Brian St. John Schofield ChristineDurso@teq.com send an email for access to CCCMappingProject sample training@teq.com support@teq.com

Safari Montage TEQ offers Free Webinars you can use live or through archives www.teq.com/pd Idea Resources How does one coordinate the shift in curriculum..... The Common Core Curriculum Maps ($25 to join) ELA based 6 units, each unit is broken into categories Scholastic shows you ties between common core and their classes.

6 Main Shifts: Read as much non fiction as fiction Learn More about fewer key topics

Pull Tabs and Common Core

Ideas for ELA Writing: Listen, Informational Text (Reader Version?) How to add sound in to a smarboard file: Must be an mp3 file: From a CD into iTunes will be an mp3 Write it Go to drop down play sound find a song open go to object attach sound You can also record the sound, it can give directions

You use drop down menu from the object to link to web, other pages in the smartboard file.

Have ELL kids record sentences you pre-program to check their reading. It could be a whole passage. Science 360: A free website also on iPad Take a picture of a famous person and attach a sound Free information Society has lots of free speeches.

Activity Builder: New Page What do I want my students to do Graph: Grid from gallery Go to camera Deselect capture to page capture image clone infinite puzzle piece activity builder edit drag setting switch from fade out to snap to center bounce back

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