NETA 2012: Ten Simple Project Ideas and Apps for your Social Studies Classroom Mr. Greg Miller Mr. Phil Payne 8th Grade Soc. St. Secondary Soc. St. Seward Middle School Centennial Public Schools Seward, NE Utica, NE greg.miller@sewardschools.org phil.payne@centennialpublic.org WELCOME AND THANKS FOR VISITING TODAY! This session will introduce you to ten simple apps and/or technology based projects that can help make Social Studies “come alive” in your classroom. Applications and projects to be shared include: Google Chrome Apps, iMovie, Garageband, podcasts, etc. AND how they can be used for projects such as Virtual Scrapbooks, Infomercials, Newsreels, virtual tours for historical research and others. Designed to help you formulate ideas for your own classroom! Mr. Greg Miller (Seward Middle School)* * Special credit to Mrs. Lois Dietsch of Seward Middle School for her leadership and collaboration on these projects! 1) Virtual Scrapbooks (Keynote, iMovie, scanning, etc) - samples from Westward Expansion project (explain process, etc) will be shared click HERE to go to Student Samples page 2) Newsreels (iMovie) samples from Roaring 20s project will be shared click HERE to go to Student Samples page 3) Infomercials (iMovie) - samples from Westward Expansion will be shared - click HERE to go to Student Samples page Eyewitness to History project (Glogster) - student sample click HERE Using your own website to make internet sessions simpler how I use iWed to help make internet based lessons much easier Click HERE to go to my classroom activities page (or see the banner above) Mr. Phil Payne (Centennial Public Schools) 1) “Coordinates” App (Google Chrome) - finding and using latitude/longitude of known locations (5 Themes Geography) 2) “Art Project” App (Google Chrome) - Rennaisance Art research project (Virtual images of Renaissance Art) 3) Google Earth as a geographic learning tool - using Google Earth to find and learn about various locations 4) “Ancient History Encyclopedia” App (Google Chrome) - excellent research tool for project based learning 5) using Google accounts to help with saving student projects, etc no more flashdrives! I’ll help explain how JUST ADDED Historical Facebook (Word doc) template (courtesy of Mr. Lance Mosier - Westside schools) click here ---> facebooktemplate.doc Also added: PDFs of our presentations from NETA Click HERE for the uploads page from NETA’s website PLEASE FEEL FREE TO EMAIL US IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR WOULD LIKE MORE INFORMATION! Thanks again for stopping by! mailto:greg.miller@sewardschools.orgmailto:phil.payne@centennialpublic.orghttp://connectseward.org/edu/sms/miller/Mr._Miller_8th_Social_Studies/NETA_samples.htmlhttp://connectseward.org/edu/sms/miller/Mr._Miller_8th_Social_Studies/NETA_samples.htmlhttp://connectseward.org/edu/sms/miller/Mr._Miller_8th_Social_Studies/NETA_samples.htmlhttp://www.glogster.com/thelilkahuna/poster-glog-by-thelilkahuna/g-6llsqde3r178449vm8r90a0http://connectseward.org/edu/sms/miller/Mr._Miller_8th_Social_Studies/Classroom_Activities.htmlNETA_2012_files/facebooktemplate.dochttp://center.uoregon.edu/conferences/NETA/2012/program/search_results.php?selection_id=474144&search_specs=shapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_6shapeimage_2_link_7shapeimage_2_link_8