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Links for Teachers Integrating Technology
Learning
Technologies Media Library
http://library.learningtech.net/index.php?PHPSESSID=c421c0b7265d46d52e8c
This is a library of multimedia clips created in Windows Media or
Microsoft Producer.
Content areas include English-Language Arts, Mathematics, History-Social Science,
Science, Visual and Performing Art, Foreign Language, Physical Education, and Health.
Also searchable by keyword and target audience. Main page located at
http://www.icoe.k12.ca.us/ICOE/Departments/LT/. Some media available in Spanish.
Created by the Imperial County Office of Education, Imperial County, California.
ReadWriteThink
Student Materials
http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp
ReadWriteThink offers a collection of tools to support literacy
learning
in the K-12 classroom. These interactive tools can be used to supplement
a variety of lessons and provide an opportunity for students to use
technology while developing their literacy skills. Click on the name of
each interactive for a brief description of the tool and a list of the
ReadWriteThink lessons that use the tool. Use these lessons, or develop
your own. Selection is pretty extensive; for example: Animal Inquiry -
invites elementary students to explore animal facts and habitats using
writing prompts to guide and record their findings; Circle Plot Diagram
- prewriting graphic organizer for students writing original stories
with a circular plot structure; Comic Creator - invites students to
compose their own comic strips ; or Drama Map - students analyzing a
play can map out the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and
resolution. There are many more to choose from. ReadWriteThink is a
partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the MarcoPolo
Education Foundation.
C.R.E.A.T.E.
for Mississippi Lesson Plans
http://www.create.cett.msstate.edu/create/classroom/index.asp
The C.R.E.A.T.E.
for Mississippi Project is a working model for on-site,
on-going technology professional development, "just-in-time" support for
technology use, and technology-infused curriculum modules. There are
over 200 technology-infused lessons. Emphasis was placed on aligning
each lesson with the state of Mississippi curriculum frameworks, the
TerraNova standards, and the National Educational Technology Standards
for Students (NETS). Full text of the appropriate standards are included
so that teachers from other states can determine which of their state
standards align with standards listed in the lessons. C·R·E·A·T·E for
Mississippi lessons represent the four curriculum areas of Language
Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. There are also How-To
handouts on a wide variety of topics and professional development
modules. A great tool for educators seeking lesson plans.
Teaching and
Learning (Apple Learning Interchange)
http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/teaching.html
Designed to make lessons come alive and enable intra-peer
learning
as they share how digital learning is transforming their classrooms.
Enjoy the broad range of content offered below which ranges
from engaging lesson plans, lesson "starter" ideas, student projects,
virtual field trips, videos, interviews and more. Includes Teaching
Practices and Lesson Ideas. Other sections of the Apple Learning
Interchange should be of interest to teachers. Check it out!
Begin With The
End for An Incredible Journey
With a "driving question" to guide their work, and with "desired
outcomes"
established right up front, students at Marin School of Arts & Technology
(MSAT) in Novato, California, collaborate in exploring topics such as their
local watershed area. Results are incorporated into their television
broadcast news simulations and a public exhibition. Teachers at this new
school learn to reach outside their specific subject areas to lead students
through thoughtfully structured integrated projects while developing their
personal and academic skills. Read on! 1. Begin With The End: Marin School
of Arts & Technology In this new high school where projects are at the heart
of teaching and learning, interconnected systems of students, teachers and
watersheds develop. MSAT students and teachers connect information derived
from collecting and studying data about the local watershed with skills developed
within their classrooms. They analyze and synthesize data and transform their
findings into scripts, slide shows, scale models of the watershed area, and live
presentations to community members about their comparisons and conclusions.
Our
coverage of this story includes:
* An Incredible Journey -- article:
http://www.edutopia.org/php/article.php?id=Art_1145
Learning
Circuits (ASTD)
http://www.learningcircuits.org/
Learning Circuits was created to promote and aid the use of
e-learning,
creating a body of knowledge about how to use technology efficiently and
effectively for learning. It delivers a fully interactive Website with
discussions, demos and resources, and articles on a weekly basis. A
bi-weekly opt-in email newsletter, LC Express, sends news, teasers, and
links to subscribers. There are nearly 500 articles on the website which
cover e-learning, design and development, management and
implementation, tools and technology, trends and research, and case
studies. ASTD American Society for Training & Development ) is a leading
association of workplace learning and performance professionals
including members from organizations, corporations, businesses,
government, academia, consulting firms, and product and service
suppliers.
Open Video Project http://www.open-video.org/
...an initiative "to make available a repository of digitized video content
for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other
research communities"; great content here to support the curriculum.
Primary Games -
Curriculum Guide
http://www.primarygames.com/curriculum/index.htm
Looking for a game to match your school's curriculum? Use the
Curriculum
Guide to find the right game or activity to meet your classroom needs.
The guide is broken up into four areas: Math, Language Arts, Science and
Social Studies. Within each subject area, a checklist shows the skills
and grade level appropriateness of each activity. The games were
assembled and evaluated by Susan Shuey Beasley, Technology Support
Specialist at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology,
Alexandria, VA.
Requires Flash
and Shockwave.
Plagiarism
http://www.csd99.k12.il.us/north/library/plagiarism.htm
...a
well-done high school library site which includes why
and how students plagiarize, identifies strategies of detection,
and provides useful methods of prevention.
More on Plagiarism
http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfbhl/wiu/plagiarism.htm
Plagiarism and the Web
http://www.aresearchguide.com/6plagiar.html
Plagiarism Links for Student Plagiarism
http://www.ncusd203.org/central/html/where/plagiarism_stoppers.html
Plagiarism Stoppers: A Teacher's Guide
http://mail.nvnet.org/~cooper_j/plagiarism/
Plagiarism Workshop WebQuest for Students
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html
Purdue University OWL: Avoiding Plagiarism
http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/plagiarism/preventing/index.cfm
Univeristy of Alberta: Preventing Plagiarism
Nortel Networks Kidz
Online (NNKOL)
http://www.kidzonline.org/TechTraining/
Nortel Networks Kidz Online Tech Training provides streamed media on an
array of topics (Animation, Net Basics, Digital Audio, Online
Collaboration, Digital Imaging, Security and Ethics, and more). For each
technology topic there are several videos and lessons which: a) help
teachers learn new technology skills and b) can be used with students to
help teach technology. Technology integrated lesson plans are also
available for most topics listed. Once a teacher has learned new
technology skills, they can search for standards-based core academic
lesson plans http://www.kidzonline.org/LessonPlans/
that integrate
that technology.
Center for Digital
Storytelling
http://www.storycenter.org/
The Center for Digital Storytelling is a non-profit project development,
training, and research organization dedicated to assisting people in
using digital media to tell meaningful stories from their lives. Their
focus is on developing large-scale projects for community, educational
and business institutions. Case Studies provide examples. Articles &
Publications such as the Digital Storytelling Cookbook
(http://www.storycenter.org/cookbook.pdf)
provide information for
getting started.