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    The document describes how technology was used in a grade 2/3 classroom to teach about animals in British Columbia. It discusses two introductory videos shown - one about animals in BC and one showing animals behaving silly when no one is watching. It then describes how the main activity used an app called Tagxedo to have students compile words about assigned animals and display them visually. A PowerPoint was then used to show the Tagxedo pictures and discuss each animal. Finally, aboriginal animal art and the cultural symbolism of different animals was presented.

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    The use of Technology in

    Teaching
    (Grade 2/3)
    By: Danielle Driver

    School: Fairview Elementary Nanaimo BC


    The class is a grade 2/3 split. The students range
    very dynamic from a really low grade 2 to a high
    grade 3.

    The teacher has access to a SMART Board.


    The class size is approximately 20 students. ( about
    an even number of boys and girls).

    Our group used two videos during our day at Fairview. The first video on the left was
    used as an introductory video to animals in BC. The video displayed some basic animals
    that are native to BC and their habitats surrounding them. This is how we started our
    BC animal themed day.
    The second video on the right was a fun and silly video that we presented during snack
    time. This video captures what animals do when nobody is watching them. A hidden
    camera videotapes animals during the day and night of an active spot in the woods.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCQQWRs9m24
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkJK7pgGaec

    Tagxedos
    For our main activity of the day we used a website/app called Tagxedos. Students in groups compiled a
    group of words pertaining to the animal assigned to their group (such as: bear, wolf, whale, otter etc.).
    Students got these words from books that they had to scan through about the animal. Once students had
    enough words to describe what the animal was, what it ate and its habitat we came around with a laptop
    and applied their words in tagxedo which made a picture of words inside the animal it was about. We
    wanted to bring in IPad for each group to program their own words in, but the application wouldnt work
    the day before. So we just used one laptop.
    Then while the students were still working, we compiled the tagxedo pictures into a PowerPoint to
    display them on the overhead projector. Once it was displayed we went over each animal and its habitat
    using the words given.

    http://www.tagxedo.com/

    Examples of students tagxedos on next slide.

    For our last activity we did a introduction of Aboriginal understanding and relations to animals. We showed some
    animal art and went over what animals mean to the aboriginal peoples. (Such as: Eagle symbolizes grace and
    power.) As we discussed each one, we had pictures of the aboriginal art drawings of the animals. We also explained
    the symbolism of the animals (http://shop.slcc.ca/legends-symbology ) Such as the ones below:

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