This document discusses digital kits for differentiating instruction and engaging students. It defines a digital kit as a collection of digital materials like photos, videos, sounds and music based on a unit of instruction. The objectives are to learn how to collect these materials from sites online and how kits can be used by teachers and students. Examples of student projects using kits include slideshows, comics, movies and more. Tips are provided for successful projects, like scaffolding complexity and teaching technology skills. Reasons to use kits include differentiating instruction, focusing on standards and objectives, maximizing technology use, and engaging critical thinking. Sites to find media for kits are also listed.

1. Digital Kits for
Differentiation &
Engagement
Jennifer Gingerich
email: jennifergingerich@mac.com
http://web.mac.com/jennifergingerich
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2. Objectives
Learn how to collect digital materials (photos,
images, sounds, music, and video) that correlate
with your curriculum.
Experience how kits can be used by teachers to
differentiate instruction and by students to
express their learning in conjunction with a
variety of tools such as Inspiration, PowerPoint,
Comic Life, PhotoStory, and Web 2.0 tools.

3. What is a Digital Kit?
A collection of digital materials based upon a unit of instruction
Photos Video Segments Sounds
Music Web Sites Citations

4. What is a Digital Kit?
A collection of digital materials based upon a unit of instruction
Photos Video Segments Sounds
Music Web Sites Citations

5. Digital Kit Project Ideas
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Slide Show Presentation
Comic Strip Graphic Organizers
Web 2.0 Tools Podcast Movie

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7. Think Pair Share
How might you use a digital
kit in your classroom?
How might your students
use a digital kit in your classroom?

8. Think Pair Share
How might your students
use a digital kit in your classroom?

9. Tips for Project Success

10. Tips for Project Success
• Scaffold Project Type & Complexity

11. Tips for Project Success
• Scaffold Project Type & Complexity
• Provide Project Guidelines & Rubric

12. Tips for Project Success
• Scaffold Project Type & Complexity
• Provide Project Guidelines & Rubric
• Have Students Work in Pairs

13. Tips for Project Success
• Scaffold Project Type & Complexity
• Provide Project Guidelines & Rubric
• Have Students Work in Pairs
• Teach & Repeat Skills

14. Tips for Project Success
• Scaffold Project Type & Complexity
• Provide Project Guidelines & Rubric
• Have Students Work in Pairs
• Teach & Repeat Skills
• Identify & Use Student “Tech”sperts

15. Tips for Project Success
• Scaffold Project Type & Complexity
• Provide Project Guidelines & Rubric
• Have Students Work in Pairs
• Teach & Repeat Skills
• Identify & Use Student “Tech”sperts
• Set Timer for Choices and Saving

16. Tips for Project Success
• Scaffold Project Type & Complexity
• Provide Project Guidelines & Rubric
• Have Students Work in Pairs
• Teach & Repeat Skills
• Identify & Use Student “Tech”sperts
• Set Timer for Choices and Saving
• Your Ideas: ______________________

17. How to Build a Digital Kit
• Set up specific media
folders
• Download files
• Copy & Paste
Citations
• Distribute or Archive

18. Discovery streaming
Your One Stop Shop!

19. Downloading Video Segments
Copy and
Paste Citation
Right Click or
Control Click
to Download
Choose Your Format

20. Downloading DE Images
Copy and
Paste Citation
Choose Your Size and Download

21. Downloading DE Audio
Copy and
Paste Citation
Download the mp3 file

22. Download You Tube
from Zamzar
Copy and Choose video Link to download
Paste format converted file will be
YouTube URL sent to your email

23. Gathering Images
• Pics4Learning.com
• YES to SUPER SIZE
• Right Click or Ctrl +
Click on Photo or
Click on Download
• Copy and Paste
Citation

24. Finding Sounds
•FindSounds.com
•Keyword??
•Listen first
•Right Click or Ctrl
+ Click on Speaker
to Download

25. Collecting Music
• FreePlayMusic.com
• Search by Feeling
• Click on MP3 Time to
Download

26. Collection Tips and Tricks
• Right Click or Ctrl + Click to Download
• Check Video Type Windows Media (.asf) or Quicktime
(.mov)
• Save and Sort into Folder/Subfolders by Type
• Rename Files when necessary
• Copy and Paste Citation into Document

27. Why Use a Digital Kit?
• To differentiate the __________ and __________
and __________
• To focus on __________ and __________
• To make the most of time with __________
• To model appropriate _________ _________
• To engage students in thinking critically about _______
• To encourage teacher _________

28. Why Use a Digital Kit?
• To differentiate the __________ and __________
instruction
and __________
• To focus on __________ and __________
• To make the most of time with __________
• To model appropriate _________ _________
• To engage students in thinking critically about _______
• To encourage teacher _________

29. Why Use a Digital Kit?
• To differentiate the __________ and __________
instruction content
and __________
• To focus on __________ and __________
• To make the most of time with __________
• To model appropriate _________ _________
• To engage students in thinking critically about _______
• To encourage teacher _________

30. Why Use a Digital Kit?
• To differentiate the __________ and __________
instruction content
and __________
product
• To focus on __________ and __________
• To make the most of time with __________
• To model appropriate _________ _________
• To engage students in thinking critically about _______
• To encourage teacher _________

31. Why Use a Digital Kit?
• To differentiate the __________ and __________
instruction content
and __________
product
• To focus on __________ and __________
standards
• To make the most of time with __________
• To model appropriate _________ _________
• To engage students in thinking critically about _______
• To encourage teacher _________

32. Why Use a Digital Kit?
• To differentiate the __________ and __________
instruction content
and __________
product
• To focus on __________ and __________
standards objectives
• To make the most of time with __________
• To model appropriate _________ _________
• To engage students in thinking critically about _______
• To encourage teacher _________

33. Why Use a Digital Kit?
• To differentiate the __________ and __________
instruction content
and __________
product
• To focus on __________ and __________
standards objectives
• To make the most of time with __________
technology
• To model appropriate _________ _________
• To engage students in thinking critically about _______
• To encourage teacher _________

34. Why Use a Digital Kit?
• To differentiate the __________ and __________
instruction content
and __________
product
• To focus on __________ and __________
standards objectives
• To make the most of time with __________
technology
• To model appropriate _________ _________
material
• To engage students in thinking critically about _______
• To encourage teacher _________

35. Why Use a Digital Kit?
• To differentiate the __________ and __________
instruction content
and __________
product
• To focus on __________ and __________
standards objectives
• To make the most of time with __________
technology
• To model appropriate _________ _________
material selection
• To engage students in thinking critically about _______
• To encourage teacher _________

36. Why Use a Digital Kit?
• To differentiate the __________ and __________
instruction content
and __________
product
• To focus on __________ and __________
standards objectives
• To make the most of time with __________
technology
• To model appropriate _________ _________
material selection
• To engage students in thinking critically about _______
media
• To encourage teacher _________

37. Why Use a Digital Kit?
• To differentiate the __________ and __________
instruction content
and __________
product
• To focus on __________ and __________
standards objectives
• To make the most of time with __________
technology
• To model appropriate _________ _________
material selection
• To engage students in thinking critically about _______
media
• To encourage teacher _________
collaboration

38. If you build it...
...they will engage

39. If you build it...
...they will engage

40. Collections Sites
• Discovery streaming • American Memory Collection
discoveryeducation.commemory.loc.gov
• Pics 4 Learning • NASA Multimedia
pics4learning.com nasa.gov/multimedia
• Free Play Music • Wikimedia
freeplaymusic.com commons.wikimedia.org
• Find Sounds • Arkive arkive.org
findsounds.com
• Your Ideas: _____________