TechBuddies

For the next month or so, some of the 6th grade tech classes will be working with 2nd grade classes to help them with an animal research project!

You will be assigned a 2nd grader (or 2) to whom to be a "Tech Buddy". I will have the lists. To prepare, we will

1. make sure we know who our assigned buddies are (lists will be posted on bulletin board too) 2. become familiar with the websites provided (in your Google docs, I shared it with you) 3. become familiar with the idea of a storyboard- you'll be helping your 2nd g buddy complete his/ hers __http://www.printablepaper.net/category/storyboard__ 4. become familiar with using the iPad app ShowMe (you'll log in using their teachers' login) we will watch sample ShowMe's and how-to videos, and also I will demo it for you on the projector with my iPad and become familiar with taking a photo / saving a photo on the iPad for inserting it into the ShowMe

ShowMe video Sample ShowMe's: OSTRICH @http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=DrOxIpM GECKO http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=qzh70RU Mrs. Hooper's Tiger sample http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=VgfG83M

List of Tech Buddies:

5. become familiar with accessing ShowMe on the computer (for later viewing/ sharing).

Other notes:

To remember while working with the 2nd graders on this project: Help keep your 2nd grader on task- be a good role model. Help your 2nd grader, don't do it for them. We will set the ShowMe's to private. Have fun helping your tech buddy! This is a great digital citizenship opportunity!

Schedule: Class 1: research Class 2: a. finish research (if needed) b. copy / paste a picture to Word and print it image sites to use: pics4learning.com Flickr Creative Commons Fotopedia Any of the animal research sites in Gdocs c. Use Maps 101 to print a blank map of where in the world their animal lives

Class 3: use ShowMe to create presentation, gather photos of animal in its habitat, with its young, eating, etc. Class 4: If needed, finish up