OH, THE PLACES YOU'LL GO WITH HOVERCAMS

Hall County Schools

Tonya Hanks

Agenda A demonstration of HoverCams and it's

basic features will begin the session. We will then share how to utilize HoverCams as a teacher tool (recording lessons, showing work, annotating over work on display, podcasting, jpegs...) and student tool (recording commentary, reading fluency, student e-portfolios, jpegs, podcasting...).

Basic Features of the Hovercam http://oestechtuesday.weebly.com/hovercams.ht

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9Vlanr7x0w&feature=related

Recorded Lessons

Recorded Lessons

Why Hover? Post video lessons on line to your teacher

web page so that students and parents can review and understand.

Record lessons or demonstrations in advance.

1. Co-teacher2. Substitute Communicate with Parents

Why Hover? Running Records Check for fluency Presentations Student Digital Portfolios Conferencing with students

Student Work

Student Work

Student Work

Student Work

Action Research Results The research conducted in this study provided insightful,

meaningful, and somewhat conclusive evidence that podcasting does bridge the gaps and alleviate communication barriers between the school and home and result in successful completion of assignments. The data collected from this study represented a very small sample, but overall the researchers have found podcasting to be very beneficial tool for parents, students and professionals in our field. The researchers will continue to utilize podcasting as a tool and even look forward to creating new endeavors in the classroom. Ultimately, the researchers found that podcasting was a much needed and much wanted tool and success of the research generated a substantial amount of enthusiasm within their professional community

Digital Portfolios http://oestechtuesday.weebly.com/hoverc

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