Choice+Sampling

**CHOICES (scroll down for more choices)**  **Excel Excellence!** View comments/answers as you hover over the tiny red triangles. Add two of your own answers to the document. Show another team after you have added your own ideas too. Look over the instructions to brainstorm how you’d create your own or to find out how to add a comment. Choose one: create comments to label contenents in the "ExcelExperiment" OR create comments labeling the parts of Cornell Notes in the "CornellComment." Instructions for creating and adding your own comments are in the Excel Label Comments download.



**Discovery Education Exploration! (formerly Discovery Streaming) ** View one of two sample lessons. Then go through the steps of creating one of your own. If you like this, you can continue make a real lesson this afternoon.

**Progress with PowerPoint!** Interact with a nonlinear PowerPoint. Draw a mind map of connections for a topic where this interaction would work for you. Social Studies could you imagine doing this with a land acquision map so that students click on a region and see the Louisiana Purchase?

**Animoto Action!** View an Animoto slideshow about health. Venn diagram characteristics of Animoto, compare with Photo Story or PowerPoint. Which presentation would be the best way for students to convey their understanding. The link to Animoto is below the sample. media type="custom" key="7530425" There is a helpful animoto quick sheet on this great website... **Animoto Quick Sheet**

media type="custom" key="7531765" Podcast Ponder! ===Listen to the podcast on the right about 21st century job market. Ponder how you would manage the volume created by students listening to varied information in your class. The PLAY button is at the bottom left. ===

Document Differentiation!
=== View the primary and secondary document and consider how differentiation would allow you to offer more documents by having choices. Make a list of documents you could include. Don’t forget those wonderful ancillaries (primary & secondary sources), maps, brochures, cartoons, and eEdition textbooks. === ===Go to this site to view political advertisements from a half century's elections. living room candidate ===

Cartoon Creations!
===Go to cartoon maker. When you finish adding content and humor, share your creation with another team. You can download the information handout for a tour of several cartoon making sites. ===

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[[image:mobilewireless:21stCartoon2.JPG]] [[file:ComicsInTheClassroom.pdf]]
Voice yourself with Voki! ===<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Express yourself (or someone famous) by adding audio to avatars. Add your Voki to this wiki page (you must sign up and be a member to edit the page) or just play with the site looking for potential--there is a free version. The link to Voki! is below the sample.=== media type="custom" key="7531757"

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Welcome to WallWisher! <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Post your sticky note on our classroom wall at WallWisher. Click on the Post a sticky at the bottom right of the screen shot. Tell how you could use this forum for student expression? media type="custom" key="7531887"

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Wiki Wonderings! <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Click on the discussion tab above to reflect on what you will have to let go of in your lesson design to allow yourself to experiment with differentiation. You can also respond to the wonderings of your classmates. Caution: only one person can edit at a time—work on your anchor if you have to wait a moment. The following document helps explain how to set up a wiki.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Survey Smorgasbord! <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">In an era where we are surveyed all the time, be selective. Complete this survey which explores what types of questions are available in NetStart and when they are best used. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">NetStart Survey <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> The following document helps you with the how to for instructional uses for your website.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Will You Webcam? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Use a netbook’s webcam(accessed with Window’s Movie Maker), or flip video camera, or other camera to record how you might use the webcam to let students demonstrate their understanding.

=<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">TRADITIONAL CHOICES = //**Remember, with computers you can rethink rotation stations. Be sure to include traditional stations so that students can get up and move!!! Remember the computer is not a station--it is the pen and paper that can go to a station. You can have folder with the questions, and card, and constuction paper, and maps, and whatever you usually do--but the students will travel to that station with the netbook.**// We are not really doing these choices today, but they are included so that you can imagine how they can be included with other digital choices.

Picture This with Pictoword! <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Create a picture from the word “differentiation”. The word becomes the picture of its definition. See the samples in the construction corner. Display your work on the document camera.

Can U Kinesthetic Vocabulary? <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Create a whole body physical motion that demonstrates the definition of differentiation. Pairs can both present the same motion together or may work together doing different actions when they present.

Managing with Physical Models! <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">After viewing sample room set ups, create a design that would work in your classroom that would allow for management of the mobile wireless lab. Put your name on it and add it to the display.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Finally!Foldables! <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">In the creation corner view the samples and create a foldable that includes 3 important points about managing your mobile wireless lab.