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Louise maine punxsutawney area schools @hurricanemaine

Poster session: Go local, share global: Inspiring kids with history or science

Standards addressed: Students worked collaboratively to find, mark for the Groundhog Club, photograph (with geotagging), and research information about each plant species. Students evaluated researched information and identified information to be shared in their final product. Students contributed collaboratively to a project wiki. Collaboratively, the students created materials useful for the Groundhog Club's new nature trail. Students cited and evaluated their use of materials and participated in collaborative writing to a target audience.

Purpose and objectives:

Participants will be able to see possibilities for student research and creation even if classes constrained by educational testing. Participants will be able to see use of project captured with BYOD devices, researched and created in an 1 to 1 laptop environment, but adaptable to other technology environments. Participants will be able to view researched information and student geotagged photos in Google Maps/Earth found in a collaborative wiki. Participants will see a variety of student projects created using QR codes and a variety of other applications for use by the local Groundhog Club for their nature trail.

Outline: 1. Share print description of the project, tasks and requirements of the groups, time spent in field work, collection of researched information, and group collaborative projects. 2. Demonstrate use of technologies to showcase geotagged pictures and information in the project. 3. Share a list of tools and resources used by collaborative groups in the creation of their products. 4. Share various assessments used throughout the project including the assessment of common core reading and writing standards.

Supporting research: 1. Candace Shively: http://www.teachersfirst.com/istecre8/2011/ (includes prezi here: http://prezi.com/qciylxpzdgkw/cycles-vs-checklists-fostering-creative-process-in-an-accountability-world/ 2. http://www.schrockguide.net/qr-codes-in-the-classroom.html 3. http://www.exprodat.com/blogs/blog_Geotagging-fieldwork-photos.htm 4. []

Presenter background: Louise Maine has been a science educator for 25 years for VA Beach Schools, St. Joseph, MI Public Schools, and recently Punxsutawney Area Schools. She has been a content contributor For TeachersFirst for the past 6 years. In the past, she has presented a poster session at ISTE about using a wiki as a central hub for learning in the classroom. She also presented a lecture session at ISTE on using Infographics as a formative assessment for learning Science. As a panel presenter at ISTE, she co-presented a creative initiative of the Source For Learning called MySciLife. Considering herself an innovative educator, she finds many opportunities to include inquiry and project based learning into the Biology curriculum.