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Irene Julian
Raquel Romero
Tina Leone
Kory Chikes
PowerPoint created by Cindy Walsh & modified by Kory Chikes and Tina Leone
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Basics and benefits of Using ELMO
Review of ELMO’s features
How to integrate ELMO use into curriculum
Brainstorm enhancement of prior lessons
How to share and troubleshoot ELMO’s
Evaluation
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Participants will:
◦ Understand how the ELMO promotes Universal
Design for Learning, facilitating means of
expression, representation and engagement for all
learners.
◦ Learn how to connect, operate and understand the
features of the ELMO.
◦ View and design lessons utilizing an Elmo and
identify UDL “Look For’s”
◦ Learn to access web based resources for lesson
ideas and to trouble shoot technical issues.
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Multiple means of representation
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Multiple means of action and expression
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Multiple means of engagement
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This Elmo provides access to all
learners - Representation,
Engagement, Expression
A different kind of
engagement!
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Terms – Visualiser/Visual
Presenter/Document Camera
Definition: Elmo is a digital teaching tool that
can allow teachers and students to display
and share a much wider range of information
to the whole class.
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Static display
Dynamic display
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Representation
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Elmo is a very flexible teaching tool.
Display just about anything! From paper to a
person in the room.
All in color.
Once displayed - Point, annotate, zoom in
and out, or get different views (by turning the
arm/camera)
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Representation
and
engagement
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Students are able to see what is being
projected from any point in the class.
Can reduce crowding (decreasing behavior
problems, classroom management issues)
Enlarging an object improves students’
understanding of a concept.
Increases curiosity and reinforces teaching
points.
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Easy to learn
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Time saver
Teacher
benefits
◦ reduces the amount of lesson preparation activity,
such as copying & printing
◦ spend more time with students
◦ no time making overheads,
◦ photocopying a text into large scale,
◦ less time searching for graphics
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Representation
and
Engagement
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Allow teachers to demonstrate practical skills
to everyone at once, and then be able to
spend more time on those who need
additional support
Help ensure improved comprehension of
complex instructions.
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Almost everything can be so spontaneously and
flexibly put under the Elmo and shown to the
class.
Display a real object (insects, science
experiments)
Turns the classroom into a spontaneous and
dynamic learning environment.
Use the Elmo and turn mini creatures into
massive monsters! The visual nature of the Elmo
increases student engagement.
Enriches lessons
Representation
and
Engagement
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Students come to the board and be more
active with the class!
Action and
Expression
◦ Share their work
◦ Show what they have learned
◦ Inspire creativity
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Offer another way of communication that can
be developed between the teacher and the
whole class
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Easy!
Connect the Elmo with a projector, monitor or
interactive whiteboard and just switch it on.
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Place the item/material under the camera.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6L6ELQIw3Y
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VGA cable
S-video cable
Connect to computer
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On/Off
Menu
button
Focus click
right arrow
- far and
near
Brightness
manual or
auto plus/minus
buttons
below
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Pivot points base and top Camera head
moves 90 degrees
Arm 180 degrees
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Special adaptor to view a microscope
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Language arts
Math
Science
Art
Social Studies
Music
101 Ways to incorporate ELMO into classroom use
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Turns every book into a big book,
Model skills
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dictionary
thesaurus
where to find items, (table of contents etc.)
model writing (topic sentence, place quotes)
explain thought processes
Wooden blocks with letters (spelling)
Magazine articles, display maps and books,
Large and easy to see
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Demo Graphs
View manipulatives
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Microscope
Living things
Time lapsed photography
Liquid Measurement
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Display maps
Images
Articles
Projects
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Model activity
Show and Tell (even the delicate works of art)
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Can see what you are doing
Engaging students is easier for the teacher
Student sharing
Showing science lessons - living things
(tadpoles)
Read Alouds
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Let’s think…
◦ Take a lesson you have implemented in your
classroom
◦ Imagine adding the Elmo as a UDL tool
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What UDL benefits do you obtain?
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What are some of the processes in place at
schools that have ELMOs (sharing is required)
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MCPS website
◦ Elmo Document Camera Quick Tips
Elmo Document Camera Quick Tips. How to Use the Elmo (document
camera). Power Button. ... Using Books, Notes, or 3-D Objects with
Elmo. ... Links to YouTube how-to-videos…
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Copies of items from today’s lesson:
http://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/hiat/training/collab_cycle.shtm
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Teaching Tips: Classroom Use of ELMO Document Cameras
University of Missouri
http://ethemes.missouri.edu/themes/1582?locale=en
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Show Me Great Lessons by Karina Clemmons, Ed. D.
http://www.elmo.co.jp/doc-cam/case/testimonial/000066.html
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Elmo Demo with graphics
http://www.elmoglobal.com/en/html/tour/03.aspx
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Kim Simmons Boise State University
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhA-DZgBBFc&NR=1
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Please use the scantron to submit your
evaluation for this session before you leave.
Thank you!
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