Linda+R.+&+Mark+S.

How can Voicethread, Glogster and iCue enhance the effectiveness of differentiation in secondary English classes? From Kristy: This should be very interesting that you are teaching your lesson to teachers and then videotaping. Will you be trying to capture their lesson planning process for when they use these tools to integrate and differentiate with students? Or will you focus on the teachers brainstorming? I can't wait to learn more! We will tape them in the process of using the software; we will tape them participating in a differentiated lesson on the software and in a second lesson on Hamlet; and then we will ask them how they might use the software to support differentiation in a diverse classroom setting. Experienced teachers in Hoke County Schools participating in an Advanced Curriculum Differentiation course will be taught how to use these three tools, and will then discuss applications for these tools in differentiating for the needs of learners. A video of these teachers' perspectives will be made and shared with a class of novice English teachers.
 * ** Your Compelling Question **
 * ** Proposed resources you will use. **

For the experienced teachers involved in an advanced course on differentiation, they first needed a lesson on each of the three tools chosen - Voicethread, Glogster and iCue. Two of the teachers had seen Voicethread and Glogster demonstrated at a Conference, but none had ever used any one of the three. So a demonstration was done of each, then teachers had time to get comfortable with the tools. After a discussion about how to use these tools to differentiate for the needs of different levels of learners, a group of the teachers participated in a videotaped forum describing how they would use a specific tool in their own classroom. For the novice English teachers presently doing student teaching, the class session will begin with a modeling of differentiation. They will be given a learning contract that asks them to determine their present proficiency with Voicethread, Glogster and iCue. If they are not proficient, they will learn those 2.0 tools in the computer lab. If they are proficient, they will immediately use those tools with choices of activities that teach them about differentiation using Hamlet. Then they will debrief and watch the video of the experienced teachers, after which Mark will present differentiated resources and lesson ideas on Hamlet.
 * ** Possible lesson ideas. Think about TPACK. What content will you focus on? What pedagogical approaches will you use? What technologies will you use? **

First with a group of about 20 experienced teachers in Hoke County Public Schools at Hoke County High School; then with novice teachers at NCSU
 * **Where will the ILP be implemented? Provide some information about the context in which you will conduct the project.**

Experienced teachers in Hoke County taking an advanced differentiation course AND novice teachers doing their practice teaching in English.
 * **Please include the following:**
 * **What is your target age group?**

We will use “English IV” NCSCOC objectives to strike a balance between our actual audiences (current and future high school English teachers) and our imagined audience (a diverse classroom of high school students in an English IV class). Please see the learning objectives in full at this link: English IV: [] 1.01 – 1.03 2.02 and 2.04; and 4.01 – 4.03. We will differentiate the curriculum to approach these objectives in three strata: one stratum for struggling learners, one for mid-level learners, and one for learners ready for complex tasks. We will then segue into a group discussion in which all learners will combine their insights.
 * **What NCSCOS learning objectives will your ILP address?**

10/1-2 - Completed the first video and training with the Hoke County teachers
 * **What is your timeline for implementing and completing your ILP?**

10/ 5 - Met and planned the training for the novice teachers.

10/11 - Complete learning contract for novice teachers to model differentiation - Linda

10/10 - Complete outline for the differentiated Shakespeare lessons - Mark 10/12 - Met and developed a more detailed script for each phase of our two-hour lesson. Discussed details of what we want to capture on film when we lead our workshop. Established a date / time / location for our workshop: November 8th, 7 - 9 PM in Poe 417. 10/18 - Met again; Mark had uploaded Shakespeare videos, and Linda has secured the children's version of Hamlet

10/26 - Meet at 3 - Poe Hall - Outline questions to be addressed on video from November 8 lesson - Mark will have video presentations of Hamlet ready on one of the software programs - Linda will develop a bulleted list of differentiation criteria with a few illustrations

11/1 - Meet at Digital Media Lab - D.H. Hill Library - Worked on Storyboard. - Mark finished editing three video version of Hamlet to find usable clips to illustrate differentiation.

11/2 - Start working on written product - each draft 1 - 2 pages on our part: "Grounded in theory" - We will discuss how differentiation is reflective of Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development Theory and Carol Tomlinson's criteria for developing tiered lessons.

11/4 - Mark completed the Glogster for the 11/8 presentation; working on Voicethread 11/5 - Mark gets e-mail out to Monday evening class participants. 11/6 - Linda completes editing of multiple videos of Hoke County teacher interviews and segments them by Cool Tool being discussed. 11/8 - Mark and Linda presented 2-hour Workshop for novice teachers in Poe Hall Computer Lab. Gave teachers handouts on using iCue, Glogster and Voicethread, as well as CD Mark created related to differentiating Hamlet. 11/10- Linda attended iMovie workshop at D.H. Hill Media Lab


 * **What materials and resources do you need to be successful?**
 * We are gathering children's books related to Hamlet as well as video clips and web sites.

Looking forward to seeing your ILP project evolve! Hiller

Mark, Here's the e-mail from Kristy on differentiation for high school using technology. Give it a look. Linda

Linda,

This is the PB Works Differentiation Wiki that is just being started: @http://hsdifferentiation.pbworks.com/

You will find the Instructional Technology Resources on the Wiki: @http://wcpss.pbworks.com/

I haven't actually hot linked the English/Language Arts resources yet, but many of the other resources would certainly work in English - especially Digital Media. Have a look. I hope you'll find it useful. I will be updating the English links soon. **Kristy Meyrick** **Instructional Technology **
 * Wake County Public Schools **
 *  (919)713-0654 **
 *  kmeyrick@wcpss.net **

Tech Integration **Wiki** Mark, Here's my first draft of the ILP Paper. Edit and revise away!!! Okay, here's the draft we did of the Storyboard.