1. Extreme Makeover: Classroom
Edition
Amy Keith – Secondary Literacy Coach
Nash Rocky Mount Public Schools

2. 1876
“This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be
seriously considered as a means of
communication. The device is inherently of no
value to us.”
-- Western Union internal memo, 1876

3. Poll Everywhere
 What do you think of when you hear the words
“common core”?

4. Food for Thought….
 "Adolescents entering the adult world in the 21st
century will read and write more than at any other
time in human history. They will need advanced
levels of literacy to perform their jobs, run their
households, act as citizens, and conduct their
personal lives." -- Richard Vaca, author of
Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning
Across the Curriculum
 They (students) actively seek the wide, deep,
and thoughtful engagement with high-quality
literary and informational texts that builds
knowledge, enlarges experience, and
broadens worldviews
*Common Core Standards – English Language

5. Something to Think About….
 If we want to move the useful adoption of
technology forward, it is crucial for educators to
learn to listen, to observe, to ask, and to try all the
new methods their students have already figured
out, and do so regularly.
 Change is the order of the day in our kids' 21st-
century lives. It ought to be the order of the day in
their schools as well. Not only would students
welcome it, they will soon demand it.
 The biggest question about technology and
schools in the 21st century is not so much "What
can it do?" but, rather, "When will we get to do it?"
http://www.edutopia.org/adopt-and-adapt

6. OUR GOAL FOR TODAY:
“We must open the doors of opportunity. But we
must also equip our people to walk through those
doors.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson

8. Tool #2 EduCreations
Educreations - Teach what you know. Learn what
you don't.

9. Tool # 3 Discovery Education and
Voice Threads
Rechenka's Egg

10. VoiceThread
 To view our VoiceThread click on the following
link:
http://voicethread.com/share/3030505/

11. VoiceThread Instructions
Create your slide(s) using any program: Word, Publisher,
PowerPoint, ActivInspire, etc…
Save your file as a PDF.
Once on the VoiceThread website, you will need to click
„Create‟
Upload your PDF file(s)
Once uploaded, you can choose to share the presentation
with others. If you‟re doing this in a classroom, where
students have their own accounts, you will need to do this.
Once others have access to your presentation, you are
ready to comment (voice, text, video, or phone).

12. Tool #5 PowerPoint

13. Tool #6 Glogster
http://www.glogster.com/coachamy/anansi-
example/g-6l16c46vka7b14tkkn5saa0

14. Tool #7 Paideia/Seminar

15. Tool #8 Thinking Maps

16. Tool # 9 Poll Everywhere

17. Poll Everywhere Instructions
Create a free account at https://www.polleverywhere.com/signup
Log in with user name and password
On home page find "create your first poll"
Enter Poll question
Decide "how my audience will respond?" (Multiple choice or open ended)
Select Create
New screen opens with directions for audience.
Sit and wait for the responses to come in.

18. Tool #10 Stixy
 http://www.stixy.com/guest/255228

19. Sharing Time