ct day of discovery - summer skills
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Mansfield Public Schools
Summer Skills Online
Steve SokoloskiPK-4 Technology Coordinator
[email protected]: stevesoko
Google + and Facebook: Steve Sokoloski
Nancy HovorkaPK-4 Technology Instructional Assistant
Pre-CECA Day of DiscoveryLincoln Middle School
Meridan, CTOctober 22, 2011
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Steve & Nancy
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Housekeeping• This presentation can be found at Slide Share:
http://tinyurl.com/dodctsummerskills
• Summer Skills Online: http://tinyurl.com/summerskills
• Lets use: dodctsummerskills, #dodctsummerskills for tagging about this presentation
• I welcome back channel twitter conversations during the presentation.
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Sometimes you just need to understand when you are being
told the right answer……
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Summer Skills Online
• Summer Skills online is a six week program using online content to keep kids connected to schoolwork over the summer, in an effort to avoid any lag time in September.
• It is not a remedial, or credit recovery or special education oriented summer school.
• Participation was voluntary and free to anyone wanted to sign up.
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Summer Skills Online Used…
• Discovery Education Assignment Builder
• Discover EducationQuiz Builder
• Wikispaces• Study Island• Spelling City• Imagechef.com• Google Maps• Blogspot
• YouTube• Google Forms• Google Docs• Flip Video Cameras• Camtasia• Format Factory• Flickr• Shelfari• Wikipedia• Tryscience.org
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Pleasure Reading
We asked students to participate in one of the many summer reading programs sponsored by
the School and Public Libraries.
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Math and Reading
• Weekly assignments from Study Island. • Study Island is a commercial, online program
that gives direct support to CMT objectives.• We use the program during the school year in
Grades 3 & 4 so all students are very familiar with the program.
• Program was set up to email weekly reports on student progress to parents.
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Spanish
• We created word clouds using: Imagechef.com – Word Mosaics
• It reviewed vocabulary taught in Grade 3 & 4.
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Spelling
• We used Spelling City, a commercial online line program to review spelling.
• Some of our teachers use this site during the year.
• We created special word lists for the summer.• We used the limited free version.
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Science
• Discovery Education Assignment Builder was used to create weekly assignments.
• Assignments were generally a set of videos and a topical lab.
• Discovery Education Quiz Builder was used to create a quiz for each assignment.
• The Assignment and Quiz were set up under and open URL and we got an email when the assignments were complete.
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Social Studies
• We created videos – Where in Mansfield is Mr. Sokoloski? (3rd grade) and Where in CT is Mr. Sokoloski? (4th grade).
• Videos were posted on the wiki (Flip video, converted to Flash by Format Factory).
• Answers were revealed the following week and a “push-pin” marker was added to a Google Map embedded on the wiki.
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Get Outta’ Here!
• We presented ideas for fun outside.• Hiking, foxtail games, frisbee, jump rope, were
some of the activities.• We used a variety of links to YouTube as
extensions to the activities.
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Stuck Inside
• What happens if it rains? A series of indoor activities for bad weather.
• How to play Flick Football, Yahtzee, Cup Stacking, Bocce with Socks and more.
• Again, additional links and YouTube videos supplemented the activities.
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Family Fun
• Just cool links we found.• A potpourri of links and videos in Art, Music,
and Science such as tryscience.org and arkive.org
• Simple projects, museum sponsored explorations.
• Site that supported some of the other activities of the week.
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Other Stuff
• We did get paid, at the rates used for the brick and mortar summer school staff.
• We found the picture of the chairs on Flickr, contacted the owner and got permission to use it as a logo with attribution.
• The blog was done on Google Blogspot, and we used free Shelfari account to create a widget to display books.
• We did find recommend two kid safe search engines – Ask Kids and Kidrex.org for Internet searching.
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Statistics
• We had 65 out of a possible 320 eligible students sign up.
• We had a solid core of about 25 regulars who did every lesson every week.
• We had about 20 who signed up and we had little or no evidence that they participated.
• Everybody got a prize!
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What Went Well?
• The overall design was appealing to kids and we had fun creating the material.
• We really tried to stay on top of any parent or technical issues around using the activities.
• Having everything online (sign-ups, extra handouts, tips, tutorials) made it easy to direct parents.
• The kids that were into it were really into it.
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What Didn’t Go So Well?
• Perhaps it was “too busy”.• Some minor echnical issues around Study
Island and Discovery. Now we know, we can avoid in the future.
• Wiki based web pages were unfamiliar to parents and caused some confusion.
• Students and parents didn’t respond to the blog as much as we expected.
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What Is Next?
• District decides if it has funding for next summer.
• We use the spring to do a better job of demonstrating blogs, and wikis to kids.
• Use Google Forms as a weekly check off rather than use a paper sheet.
• Use the paid version of Spelling City
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