Kelly Fischer
Email: kelly.fischer@fayette.kyschools.us
Website: dixielmc.com
Location: Dixie Elementary School, Lexington, KY, United States
Phone: (859)381-3116
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dixie-Magnet-Media-Center
Twitter: @dixielms
Debra Cox
Create
Students create "Biography Buddies" replicating their biography study. They use Vocaroo to record their monologue and generate a QR code.
Historical Self Portrait
After creating 19th Century historical self portraits, students reflected on their art, the process, and vision of living during this time period. View
My Hero
Following the completion of a "What Makes a Hero" unit, first graders wrote a persuasive paragraph. The entire class uploaded their images to one presentation in order to make a class ebook. View
Where I Live
Second graders were expressing difficulty in differentiating between city, state and country. We used Google Earth to locate each. Students took screen shots and imported them into the 30hands app. They recorded over each slide. View
Native American Dwelling
5th Grade students created Native American homes. The displays couldn't stay up forever, so they snapped a picture and used Thinglink to discuss important features. View: Native American Dwelling
Olympic Graph
4th Grade students were interested in the Olympic symbols this year! Since they were practicing reading a graph, groups of students used the 2014 medal count, along with a Big6 research activity, to create this Thinglink. View: Olympic Graph
All About Bears
Kindergarten students completed a month long Big3 research project on an animal of their choice. They used Popplet to organize their information and then created their Thinglink. 4th grade buddies helped out with the technology. View: All About Bears
Common Core Standards (to name a few) that I am asked to help with daily. I reach into my digital toolbox above to save the day!
- New technologies have broadened and expanded the role that speaking and listening play in acquiring and sharing knowledge and have tightened their link to other forms of communication. Digital texts confront students with the potential for continually updated content and dynamically changing combinations of words, graphics, images, hyperlinks, and embedded video and audio.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.4b Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. (Reading Foundational Skills)
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.K.6 With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1.6 With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1.7 Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of “how-to” books on a given topic and use them to write a sequence of instructions).
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.6 With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.6 With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades 2–3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.5.5 Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.6 With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of two pages in a single sitting.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.7 Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others.