Teaching with Technology
Topics:
Resources
Places to find Photos and Images (Graphics)
Skills Needed by Teachers
Services available for teaching with the Web
Content Sources
Web-Based Projects
WebQuests
Collaborative/Cooperative Learning
Digital Photography
Digital Video in Education
Graphic Organizers (Concept Maps, etc.)
Animation on Web Pages
Content Areas
Resources - At these sites, you will find information on a variety of topics related to Education
- Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
- www.marcopolo-education.org - This site provides standards-based Internet content and professional development for K-12 teachers.
- The Landmark Project - at this site, you will find resources in a variety of areas. Probably the most unique feature at this site, hosted by David Warlick, is the ability to use his site to create a SLATE, or Strategic Learning and Teaching Environment. You can also use SLATE's that have been created by other teachers.
- Tech Lesson of the Week - from Education World
- Rubistar - This free online service allows you to create rubrics.
- Teaching Methods - At this site, you will find a videos and descriptions of the following teaching strategies:
- Advance Organizers
- Brainstorming
- Cooperative Learning
- Demonstrations
- Dialog Journals
- Discovery Learning
- Discussions
- Hands-On Learning
- Multimedia Instruction
- Multiple Activities
- Peer Tutoring
- Project-Based Learning
- Questioning Techniques
- Simulations and Games
- Thematic Approach
- Tutorial Programs
- Whole Language Approach
- Writing -- Early Literacy
Places to find Graphic Files - Web Images (buttons, arrows, etc.) and Photos, Clip Art, and Sound Effect files
- Web Images (buttons, arrows, banners, etc)
- Backgrounds
- Photos
- ClipArt
- Sound effects
Skills Needed by Teachers
Services available for teaching with the Web
- TeacherWeb.com - this is a fee-based site for teachers to use to post items such as announcements, homework, etc. for their students.
- Assign-A-Day - this is one of many free services offered by HPRTC (High Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium).
- www.yourhomework.com - this site provides a free service that allows teachers to post their students' homework on the web
- www.schoolnotes.com - At this free site, you can post notes for your class.
Grade-book Software
Content Sources - You will find news articles at these sites that could be used to enhance your course.
- The New Yorks Times - College Times - In addition to articles in your subject area, you will find articles that discuss how to use these articles in your courses.
- CNN.fyi - a site that contains news for students and resources for teachers. Discussion questions and other methods of incorporating these articles into your lessons are given. News articles are provided that can be used in these areas: World Events/Culture, U.S.History/Government, Science/Technology, Business/Mathematics, Language & Fine Arts/Media, and Health/Life Skills.
- www.headlinespot.com - News from major cities and states.
Web-Based Projects
- TrackStar - helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) for use in lessons. The resource list remains visible allowing the user to easily stay on track.
- To see a TrackStar that I have created about Digital Video, click here.
- QuizStar - this free service, provided by the same folks that produced TrackStar, can be used to create online quizzes.
- Landmark Project - at this site, you can find resources that others have found related to your subject. You can create web-based projects using the SLATE site. The students can submit homework answers to you, the instructor, or engage in a an online discussion.
- TeacherWeb.com - At this site, you can create your own web site for your course but there is a subscription fee
WebQuests
- The WebQuest Page - by the Educational Technology Department at San Diego State University. This is where the WebQuest idea began.
- WebQuest Training Materials
- The WebQuest Design Process
- Create your own WebQuest at QuestGarden - http://webquest.org/questgarden/author/index.php
- WebQuest Taskonomy: A Taxonomy of Tasks - helps you design the Task portion of a Webquest by describing different kinds of tasks that can be asked of the students. Also see the page, Taskonomy in Pictures.
- Webquest Templates - these templates can be downloaded and used to create your own Webquest. Optionally, the HTML code can be placed in your own Web-authoring program (e.g., Netscape Composer, Adobe GoLive) and used to create the webquests.
- A WebQuest about WebQuests - written by Bernie Dodge, the originator of WebQuests.
- A RoadMap for Creating WebQuest - by Bernie Dodge
- Pre-writing Your WebQuest - an article by Tom March
- Some Thoughts about WebQuests - an article by Bernie Dodge, the originator of WebQuests.
- The Student WebQuest
- WebQuests - Be sure to click on the each of the tabs near the top (Explanation, Demonstration, Exploration, and Implementation)
- Working the Web for Education - Theory and Practice on Integrating the Web for Learning - the author of this article, Tom March, is a colleague of Bernie Dodge, the originator of WebQuests.
- Ten Stages of Working the Web for Education - by Tom March.
- Weaving the Web through your K-12 Curriculum - a WebQuest developed by two professors at University of Pittsburgh.
- Best WebQuests (bestwebquests.com)
- A Matrix of WebQuests - on this page, you will find links to Webquests categorized by grade level and by subject. The grade level includes Adult as well as elementary and high school level.
- Outside of the Diary - a WebQuest from the Western Michigan University's Tbought and Writing course (English 105).
- Science WebQuests
- Assessing WebQuests
Collaborative/Cooperative Learning
- Ask a Scientist - contains links to sites where experts in different areas of science can answer your question.
- Collaborative Projects with other schools - check this site out to see how your class can work with other classrooms in the United States on an project. Projects include human genetics and measuring the circumference of the earth.
Digital Photography
- B & H Photo Video Audio Pro
- Free pictures to use for learning - www.pics4learning.com
- iPhoto information - iPhoto is the free software that comes on all Macintoshes that allows you to catalog your digital photos and to perform some basic editing
- iPhoto site at Apple
- iPhoto Library Manager - With iPhoto Library Manager, you can split your photos up into any number of separate libraries, store them on any disk connected to your computer, and switch back and forth between them easily.
- "How To" Sites
- Digital Cameras
- Places to store and show your photos
- Be aware of the fact that joining the below mentioned web services may result in you receiving email solicitations from them. The information about each service is from a June 27, 2002 newspaper article and may be inaccurate in some details.
- Flickr - www.flickr.com
- photo.epson.com - unlimited storage fo photos. Allows for printing of high resolution images directly from the Web site; e-cards are available.
- www.hpphoto.com - 100 MB of storage. Pictures will be deleted if you don't log on at least once during a six-month period. Can print at home, plus free e-cards from your pictures. The sharing of photos is easier at Shutterfly. The printings not as seamless as at Epson. Dull email invitation. But the print-at-home quality is great.
- www.ofoto.com - unlimited storage. Archived CDs and photo greeting cards are available for your images. But friends have to register in order to see your pictures.
- www.shutterfly.com - Unlimited storage. Scrapbooks and greeting cards are available, each with a custom four-page design. A bland, pictureless email goes out to friends. Shutterfly is not as hard-sell about its prints as some competitors.
- www.snapfish.com - unlimited storage if you are an active member (spending money on a digital print, proceesing a roll of film, etc. at least once a year.
- www.imagestation.com - unlimited photos.
- Digital Photography in Education
Digital Video in Education
- Using Video in Education
- Examples of Digital Video in Education
- Great Debates in Medicine - At this site, you will see young students demonstrate historical accounts of Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, and others.
- Video Making Tools and Techniques
- Movie-making for Kids
- iMovie - this great software allows you to easily create digital movies on a Macintosh.
- Sound Clips
- FreeplayMusic - download free MP3 music clips
- www.sounddogs.com - free sound effects
- www.findsounds.com - free sound effects
- Information about Multimedia Sound file formats - at this page you will learn various characteristics of sound file formats such as size, compatibility, etc. According to this site, "The WAVE format is one of the most popular sound format on the Internet, and it is supported by all popular browsers. If you want recorded sound (music or speech) to be available to all your visitors, you should use the WAVE format.The MP3 format is the new and upcoming format for recorded music. If your website is about recorded music, the MP3 format is the choice of the future."
- Quicktime
- Final Cut Express
- Cellulo - this free Macintosh software allows you catalog your Quicktime movies using an interface similar to iTunes.
Graphic Organizers (Concept Maps, etc.)
Animation on Web Pages
Content Areas
All Subjects
- Blue Web'n - Blue Web'n is an online library of 1700+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools).
- Curriculum Ideas - from Adventures of CyberBee
- World Book articles
- Content Areas - from Technological Horizons in Education (T.H.E.) journal
- Crossword Puzzle Maker - this is an online puzzle maker
- Crossword Puzzle maker - from edhelper.com
- Puzzles - this page allows you to create all kinds of puzzles
- Enchanted Learning - At this site, which is geared mainly toward elementary education, you will find the following items:
- Printable Calendars - There are calendars for quite a variety of topics such as biomes, butterflies and moths, dinosaurs, endangered animals, farm topics, holidays and seasons, mammals, music, nocturnal animals, nursery rhymes, solar system, ocean animals, weather, and wheels (trucks, trains, and other vehicles).
- Picture Dictionary - some of the words have links to print outs that you can photocopy and give to your students.
- Label Me! printouts
- K-3 Theme Pages
- Geography
- U.S. States, Facts, Maps, and State Symbols
Reading
- Read-Write-Think - at this site, you will find lessons, standards, and Web resources.
Math
Science
- General Science
- Physics
- Chemical Science
- Biology
- Environmental Science
- Earth Sciences
- Astronomy
Social Sciences
- History
- U.S. History
- History Images and Documents
- World History
- Current Events
- U.S. Government
English, Literature and Language Arts
