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**Always On: Starting Simple**


 * //INTEGRATION IDEAS… just to get you started thinking…//**

1) Create a concept map in Inspiration 2) Students take notes 3) Create Keynote Presentations (or PowerPoint slideshows) 4) Podcasting 5) Internet 6) Comic Life 7) Blogging 8) Digital Portfolios 9) Wikis - group collaborates and adds to a webpage 10) Google Docs 11) Spreadsheets 12) Historical character impersonations 13) Foreign language speaking and listening 14) Guest speakers via Skype or iChat 15) Digital interview... ask the expert, etc. 16) Peer editing 17) Draw with Paintbrush 18) Postcards from History/Geography 19) Photoshop or PhotoBooth - perspective writing (put student’s head on famous figure’s body, Mt. Rushmore, animal, etc.... and write from that point of view). 20) Photo Scavenger Hunt 21) iWeb - students create website projects easily 22) Interviews of grandparents, community members, etc... find an extraordinary story in the ordinary around us 23) Digital storytelling 24) Newscasts 25) Brochures 26) Commercials 27) Jingles for remembering content 28) Roving Reporter - one student each day in charge of re-creating the lesson for all to review later on (could be a blog, podcast, video tutorial series, etc., or just a pdf document of the daily notes) 29) Photoessay or Photojournal 30) Venn diagram - compare/contrast 31) Digital Posters 32) Menus - 33) Digital scavenger hunt-
 * a) Blank concept map template- students add content
 * b) Cluster of disorganized concepts- students arrange and organize, adding connectors
 * c) Students create their own concept map
 * a) Cloze method: students fill in blanks
 * a) Students create Keynotes to review material and/or teach others about a topic
 * b) Teachers share keynotes for student review
 * c) “Game Show” type reviews- either student or teacher-created
 * a) Students create podcasts on individual topics
 * b) Teachers create podcasts for review or extension
 * a) Interactive websites
 * b) Internet for Research
 * c) del.icio.us online bookmarks
 * a) Stages in a scientific process
 * b) Highlights of a science experiment
 * c) Creative writing- Comic Books
 * d) Historical timelines
 * a) Journal writing
 * b) Virtual Debate
 * c) Panel Discussion
 * a) Mini-Wikipedia where everyone contributes to a collective body of knowledge
 * a) To collaborate and/or plan group projects
 * a) Create a statistical survey or research to collect real world data
 * b) Analyze data, sort, create graphs and charts, etc.
 * a) “Wish you were here” paragraph writing
 * b) PhotoBooth to superimpose student photos on backgrounds
 * a) My-Space/Facebook-type pages for historical figures, literary characters, scientists, mathematicians, elements of the periodic table, etc.
 * a) “Then and Now”
 * a) historically accurate meals
 * b) Prices converted to other units for computational practice
 * a) Students find example of geometric principles or vocabulary words, etc., and take photos of them
 * b) Students find examples of real-world applications of scientific concepts on the Internet and assemble their collection in a Keynote presentation