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Chapter 5 - Nonlinguistic Representation
Chapter Recommendations:
1. Use graphic organizers to represent knowledge.
2. Have students create physicals models of the knowledge.
3. Have students generate mental pictures of the knowledge they are learning.
4. Use pictures or pictographs to represent knowledge.
5. Have students engage in kinesthetic activities representing the knowledge.
Nintendo Wii allows kinesthetic learniners to fully apply their strengths.
Lego/Log robotics
Science probeware for temperature, light, and sound probes.
1. Use graphic organizers to represent knowledge.
2. Have students create physicals models of the knowledge.
3. Have students generate mental pictures of the knowledge they are learning.
4. Use pictures or pictographs to represent knowledge.
5. Have students engage in kinesthetic activities representing the knowledge.
Nintendo Wii allows kinesthetic learniners to fully apply their strengths.
Lego/Log robotics
Science probeware for temperature, light, and sound probes.
Word Processing Applications:
Use the clip art feature of Microsoft word to insert a picture to represent the word.
Spreadsheet Software:
Reformatting the data, paste them into Microsoft Excel, Plotting on and XY scatter plot:
Earthquake Info
Earthquake Info
Organizing & Brainstorming Software:
Gliffy.com
Gliffy user manual
Fur.ly
Multiurl.com
Weblist.me
Wordle
More Organizing & Brainstorming Ideas
Use organizers to help facilitate the classification, organization, storage, and recollection of information into our long-term memory. SIx common types of pattern organizers are: Conceptual/Descriptive, Generalization/Principle, Time-Sequence, Episode, and Process/Cause-Effect.
Nonlinguistic Representation Power Point
Nonlinguistic Templates in Word(Can be opened on Smartboard)
Gliffy user manual
Fur.ly
Multiurl.com
Weblist.me
Wordle
More Organizing & Brainstorming Ideas
Use organizers to help facilitate the classification, organization, storage, and recollection of information into our long-term memory. SIx common types of pattern organizers are: Conceptual/Descriptive, Generalization/Principle, Time-Sequence, Episode, and Process/Cause-Effect.
Nonlinguistic Representation Power Point
Nonlinguistic Templates in Word(Can be opened on Smartboard)
Data Collection Tools:
1. Digital Probes:
Vernier: Light, Temperature
2. Digital Microscopes:
Take Pictures, Movies, Time-Lapse images
Vernier: Light, Temperature
2. Digital Microscopes:
Take Pictures, Movies, Time-Lapse images
Multimedia:
Student created and contains at least two of the following: audio, video, graphics, animations, and text.
"It is essential that students understand the significance of copyright and fair use"
Fair Use Guidelines
Open-access sources: have more relaxed laws regarding student use.
Free Play Music: free of charge for entire song for an education-related movie
Creative Commoms: help students and teachers to locate audio, video, images, text and educational resources for projects.
"It is essential that students understand the significance of copyright and fair use"
Fair Use Guidelines
Open-access sources: have more relaxed laws regarding student use.
Free Play Music: free of charge for entire song for an education-related movie
Creative Commoms: help students and teachers to locate audio, video, images, text and educational resources for projects.
Presentations: Power Point
Jefferson County Schools - Power Point Collection
Resources from Microsoft
PowerPoint in the Classroom : cartoon guide to using powerpoint
Items to consider in a project rubric:
1. Content accuracy
2. Length of presentation (number of slides)
3. Slide layout (e.g., amount of text and number of graphics, titles, sounds, animations)
4. Background graphics appropriate for audience and theme
5. Software requirements (Quicktime, Java, Flash, Windows Media Player)
6. File size (compressing pictures will help a lot with this)
7. Storage and delivery requirements
8. Color schemes
Resources from Microsoft
PowerPoint in the Classroom : cartoon guide to using powerpoint
Items to consider in a project rubric:
1. Content accuracy
2. Length of presentation (number of slides)
3. Slide layout (e.g., amount of text and number of graphics, titles, sounds, animations)
4. Background graphics appropriate for audience and theme
5. Software requirements (Quicktime, Java, Flash, Windows Media Player)
6. File size (compressing pictures will help a lot with this)
7. Storage and delivery requirements
8. Color schemes
Animations:
Animation Factory: royalty free animated click art, animations, video backgrounds, power point templates, backdrops, web graphics, etc.
Animation/Cartoon Makers:
GoAnimate for educators
GoAnimate:
Xtranormal:
Animation/Cartoon Makers:
GoAnimate for educators
GoAnimate:
Xtranormal:
Movies and Video:
Video Production
PhotoPeach
Animoto:
Step 1: Write the script:
Write the exact words the actors will read or speak. "To be sure of timing, the actors should read the script aloud and time it. Remind them to allow time for pauses or transitions between ideas."
Step 2: Storyboarding:
The purpose of the sotryboard is to give students an idea of the images, settings, and props they will need for the movie.
Step 3: Shooting the video:
Still or Video Camera
Step 4: Importing the video and images:
Windows Movie Maker - on every machine
Photo Story free download (located on v drive in the photostory folder)
Step 5: Video Editing:
"Students should have a collection of video clips, still images, and audio clips on a computer. They might also want to use the computer's microphone to "lay down" and audio track that will play under a series of still or video images. .. Edit all clicps before ading the transitions between them. Once the movie is rough-edited, studens can add a title at the beginning and credits at the end."
Step 6: Adding Music:
Now students can add appropriate music. "Because the movies they are creating are for educational purposes, they may incorporate copyrighted music, provided that they purchases this music legally and limit the selected clips to no more than 30 seconds or 10 percent of the song's full length, whichever is less."
Direct students to royal free music.
Freeplaymusic.com is copyright-free, students should still cite the source in the credits.
Step 7: Saving and sharing the movie:
Students should make sure they save their movie in its final form. (.wav format and select location as u drive, if location is not selected, project automatically save to the hard drive of the computer.)
PhotoStory
PhotoPeach
Animoto:
Step 1: Write the script:
Write the exact words the actors will read or speak. "To be sure of timing, the actors should read the script aloud and time it. Remind them to allow time for pauses or transitions between ideas."
Step 2: Storyboarding:
The purpose of the sotryboard is to give students an idea of the images, settings, and props they will need for the movie.
Step 3: Shooting the video:
Still or Video Camera
Step 4: Importing the video and images:
Windows Movie Maker - on every machine
Photo Story free download (located on v drive in the photostory folder)
Step 5: Video Editing:
"Students should have a collection of video clips, still images, and audio clips on a computer. They might also want to use the computer's microphone to "lay down" and audio track that will play under a series of still or video images. .. Edit all clicps before ading the transitions between them. Once the movie is rough-edited, studens can add a title at the beginning and credits at the end."
Step 6: Adding Music:
Now students can add appropriate music. "Because the movies they are creating are for educational purposes, they may incorporate copyrighted music, provided that they purchases this music legally and limit the selected clips to no more than 30 seconds or 10 percent of the song's full length, whichever is less."
Direct students to royal free music.
Freeplaymusic.com is copyright-free, students should still cite the source in the credits.
Step 7: Saving and sharing the movie:
Students should make sure they save their movie in its final form. (.wav format and select location as u drive, if location is not selected, project automatically save to the hard drive of the computer.)
PhotoStory
Web Resources:
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (Math All Grades)
I know that (Pre K - 6 all subjects)
Know it all (K-12 most subjects, search by grade/subject)
Surviving Everest: Interactive site by National Geographic allows students to explore the conditions that climbers must endure while scaling Mount Everest. Streaming video, games.
DigiTales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories:
Our TimeLines:
iCan Film Festival: San Fernando student-created movies
I know that (Pre K - 6 all subjects)
Know it all (K-12 most subjects, search by grade/subject)
Surviving Everest: Interactive site by National Geographic allows students to explore the conditions that climbers must endure while scaling Mount Everest. Streaming video, games.
DigiTales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories:
Our TimeLines:
iCan Film Festival: San Fernando student-created movies
Stokes County School System - Department of Technology
