Discovering Diamonds Accelerating Dreams CIITS AND DISCOVERY EDUCATION February 24, 2014 1:00 3:30 p.m. ROB PAUGH TIS / CIITS CERTIFIED TRAINER / DISCOVERY EDUCATION STAR / MIE
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Adapting CIITS for Gifted Students TRADITIONAL Classroom and District Assessments Whole Class Instructional Assignment GIFTED Small Group Instruction Alternate Assessments Using the Assessment Module for Differentiated Instruction Extended Assignments
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Performing Arts AH-05-3: Purposes for Creating the Arts: The arts have played a major role throughout the history of humans. As the result of the power of the arts to communicate on a basic human level, they continue to serve a variety of purposes in society. The arts are used for artistic expression to portray specific emotions or feelings, to tell stories in a narrative manner, to imitate nature and to persuade others. AH-05-1.1.1.a.6: Timbre (tone color) - recognize different qualities of musical sounds, orchestral instruments by family - brass, woodwind, string, percussion, how instrument sounds are produced, human voices (high voices, low voices)
Antonin Dvorak Symphony #9 From the New World New World Symphony NPR Podcast on Dvorak (web access required)
Segment from Symphony #9 English Horn Solo Marin Alsop Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Conductor Link to Marin s Video Published on Aug 15, 2012 BBC Proms 2012 from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Marin Alsop leads the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra in an excerpt from Dvořák's Symphony No 9 in E minor, 'From the New World'.
Melancholy Thesaurus online link
Visual Art AH-05-2.4.1: Students will describe or explain how visual art has been a part of cultures and time periods throughout history. AH-05-2.4.1.a: Cultures: Similarities and differences in the use of art (e.g., purposes for creating art, folk art) and elements of art and principles of design among cultures (e.g., how line, color, pattern, etc. are used in artworks), media in relation to these cultures (e.g., wood, fiber).
Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper Lady with an Ermine Mona Lisa Study of Horse
Ermine (Stoat) short tail weasel Queen Elizabeth 1585 "Ermine" portrait by Nicholas Hilliard
THE LADY WITH AN ERMINE DECODED DA VINCI STYLE
TCHAIKOVSKY TREPAK (RUSSIAN DANCE) FROM THE NUTCRACKER Ballet The Russian Influence American Musical Invasion STRAVINSKY INFERNAL DANCE OF KING KASHCHEI FROM THE FIREBIRD American Musical Invasion - May of 1891 Conducted the first orchestral concert in Carnegie Hall American Musical Invasion The American Period 1939-1971
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Insertion Options for CIITS Assessments / Assignments Embed Videos from various YOUTUBE Channels no length limits Upload from your computer - podcasts and music files MP3 files 4mb max Pictures resize to 90x90 Maps resize to 90x90 Formula Sheets Rubrics Reading Passages Math formulas
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Discovery Education and CIITS All Kentucky students and teachers have free access to Discovery Education Resources are available from Discovery Education via CIITS Additional Services TechBooks and Streaming Plus
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BGJHS Discovery Education Usage Facts Totals October 1, 2012 January 28, 2013 = 3,212 October 1, 2013 January 28, 2014 = 262,800 Our numbers are soft meaning we have more students using the services than being reported Our students share Chrome Books Some students use personal devices Rob s figures if we add 75% more to our totals based on sharing and personal devices - 197,100 additions Closer to real usage numbers 459,900
More Information about Discovery Education Services Anna Strassner Education Partnerships Manager Cell: 843-513-7788
Google Earth Lit Trips - http://www.google.com/earth/explore/showcase/ What is a Lit Trip? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkaqztcvwea#t=89 How to Videos Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzzd4jhslaw How to Videos Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayq0ccvwibc Tric resources - http://teachercenter.cciu.org/mod/page/view.php?id=1351 Google Lit Trips Ready for Download - http://www.googlelittrips.com/googlelit/downloads_etc..html Google Lit Trip Conference Materials - http://www.googlelittrips.com/googlelit/handouts.html
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Thank You for Attending DOOR PRIZES UP NEXT Robert Paugh TIS / CIITS Certified Trainer / Discovery Education Star / MIE BGJHS / Bowling Green Independent Schools Office: BGJHS 900 Campbell Lane Bowling Green, KY 42104 Telephone: 270-746-2290 (office) 270-779-9457 (cell) Email: robert.paugh@bgreen.kyschools.us