Part 2: Resources
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General Resources
Technology Integration is a four part series on essential
questions, technology integration resources, web page design, and multimedia in
projects. Sections contain relevant opening essays and resources.
General Resources
for Technology Integration
Accessible
Technologies for All Students is an initiative of the Consortium of School
Networking, and includes publications about K-12 accessibility, technology
advantages and issues; best practices, presentations, self-assessment
tools for school districts, and more.
Assistive Technology Tutorials from the University at Buffalo are designed
to help you with reading and writing tools (e.g., Clicker 4, Co:Writer 4000,
products from IntelliTools, Write: Outloud), tools for visually impaired (e.g.,
JAWS for Windows, BrailleNote), and creating talking books (e.g., HyperStudio
4). Links to other tutorial sites are included.
A
Beginner's Guide to Integrating Technology, written by L. Jackson for
Education World (http://www.educationworld.com),
presents tips with a number of Web links on how to get started. Even the
most advanced Web user will find sites of value. Article is dated May 8,
2002.
Best Practices
of Technology Integration in Michigan is divided into elementary, middle,
and high school by subject and includes specific lessons with educational
objectives.
Burkhart's Technology Integration: Elementary School, Middle School, and
Special Needs.
Center for Implementing Technology in
Education (CITED.org)
Cyberbee is a Pacific Bell Blue Web'N
Site that helps teachers to integrate technology in the classroom. Content
contains curriculum ideas, research tools, how to's, curricular treasure hunts,
curriculum and technology links, conference notes, and a link to the journal for
Multimedia Schools for Cyberbee articles by Linda Joseph of Columbus (Ohio)
Public Schools. Linda Joseph is author of Net Curriculum: An
Educator's Guide to Using the Internet.
CyberSmart!, a curriculum
for K-8 that teaches students how to use the Internet in a S-M-A-R-T way, is
offered for free to schools nationwide by CyberSmart School Program and
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. The entire curriculum has five units with 20
topics, clustered by grade level: Internet Safety, Manners (social, ethical,
legal issues), Advertising, Research, and Technology.
 HOT:
Digital
Content in the Classroom is a free online tool from CAST, the Center for
Applied Special Technology. This toolkit is based on Universal Design for
Learning. "The Digital Content Toolkit provides information, support,
tools, ideas, models, research, and a community of practice for educators
interested in using flexible computer technologies to reach and teach diverse
learners."
- Learn digital content basics;
- Find free online and low-cost retail sources of digital content suitable
for the classroom;
- Learn how to create your own digital content;
- Discover ways to integrate digital content into your classroom and
curriculum;
- See model lessons that incorporate digital media.
- Share your ideas.
If any of your students have learning disabilities, visual impairments, or
reading impairments, CAST has developed an
eReader to help students access electronic text.
Ed Index by Bernie Poole at
the University of Pittsburgh contains an extensive set of resources for
elementary and secondary education, courseware download sites and
recommendations, education edindexers, basics of online learning, electronic
field trips, lesson plans, general resources for education, instructional design
for online learning, multimedia resources (video, still image, and audio),
online workshops and tutorials, reference tools, scavenger hunts and Web Quests,
special needs education, and education job search. Of particular interest:
The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology at
San Diego State University is a collection of short articles on a variety of
topics related to the fields of instructional design and education. Multimedia
is used to enhance learning, rather than just for decoration. Categories include
Cognition and Learning, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and
Evaluation. This site is useful for a quick review of learning theories, issues
regarding technology use in instruction, multimedia tools in action, phases in
project development, technical issues with multimedia, and more. For example,
click on "Multimedia and the Learning Process" under the heading
"Cognition and Learning." Leo Clemente presents a one-page summary of
experimental research of multimedia: differences in cognitive processes observed
with EEG. The experiment examined brain activity when exposed to different
media. There is an excellent short Shockwave simulation that shows how different
media types activate different parts of the brain.
Filamentality is a
fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through picking a topic,
searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into
learning activities. Teachers, students, and media specialists, for example, can
create hot links, subject samplers, treasure hunts, and WebQuests and
automatically see their work in a web page. This site is part of the
Knowledge Network Explorer from Pacific Bell's education program.
Getting Started
Enriching K-12 Curriculum with Internet Resources, written by P. Deubel, is
an imaginative, tutorial approach of a teacher's exploration of the Internet
with its enormous resource of materials to enrich K-12 curriculum. It is
located on this site and was featured in the summer 2002 online edition of Learning
& Leading with Technology.
Infosearcher is the online
complement to Information Searcher, a print newsletter designed to help K-12
professionals integrate technology into the curriculum. Cyber tours guide users
to learn about active learning sites, evaluating web sites, Internet search
strategies, teaching the Internet, integrating the web into curriculum and more.
Intel Innovation in Education is
a global program with objectives to improve math and science education in K-12,
to increase effective use of technology in teaching, to broaden access to
technology, and to increase the number of people pursuing technical
careers. The site contains learning unit and project plans, professional
development (including teaching with standards), and learning about current and
emerging technologies. Linked from the professional development section,
the June 2000 ISTE article, The
Next Small Thing: Handheld Computing for Educational Leaders, by Pownell
and Bailey is of particular interest.
Internet
Expeditions: Creating WebQuest Learning Environments by A. Lamb. This
site in workshop format provides several examples of WebQuests, tips, and
instructions for creating and integrating WebQuests into your curriculum.
Learning@Hand from GoKnow, Inc.
contains
"reviews of educational software for use for Palm OSŪ, and
helpful tips for integrating handheld devices into your classroom." Educators
can share their own lesson plans, and participate in the chat room. GoKnow
was developed by Elliot Soloway, Ronald Marx, and Joseph Krajcik of the
University of Michigan's Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education.
LETSNet is the
Learning Exchange for Teachers and Students at Michigan State University College
of Education, also sponsored by Ameritech. The mission of LETSNet is to
help K-12 teachers to develop their understanding of the Web and its use in
classrooms. Attention is given to mathematics, social studies, science,
and language arts and the content is informed by national work on curriculum
standards. Learn about the 10 big ideas driving the Internet in education:
field trips, teamwork, global connection, research, visualization, publishing,
individualizing, professional growth, home and community, and kids corner.
Read actual case studies of teacher experiences.
Lim's
strategies contain information on classroom discussions, cooperative
learning, classroom management, and web resources. Note Web Whacker for offline
Internet browsing.
NETS for Students
from the International Society for Technology in Education includes PreK-12
math activities for the one computer class or labs (includes strategies within
each setting) and more.
New
Horizons for Learning Teaching and Learning Strategies: Technology in Education contains descriptions of how
computers can be used to stimulate and develop writing skills, collaborate with
peers in foreign countries, do authentic kinds of research that is valuable to
the adult world, and do complex kinds of problem solving that would otherwise be
impossible without technology. Read articles on topics that include using
audio in online classrooms, learning through virtual reality, how technology can
be used to implement Multiple Intelligences theory, creating global learning
communities, integrating technology through student created multimedia projects,
and much more. A list of Internet projects and sites that provide support for
using web technologies is provided. Using technology in education is one
of the over 20 strategies for teaching and learning that are found at this site.
 PDAs
in the Classroom by Walter McKenzie is one of his newsletters (January 5, 2003)
on Innovative Teaching. If you are using PDAs in your instruction or
would like to, access the resources mentioned for ideas about their integration
into the curriculum.
Penn State
Teaching and Learning with Technology "provide[s] a quick reference for
faculty and instructional designers on current research and experience in the
development of instructional materials, technology-supported teaching and
learning and interactive class activities." Users will find sections on
the nature of the teaching/learning audience (e.g., learning styles, how people
learn, diversity), planning (e.g, objectives, assessment, design process,
storyboards), effective content, teaching processes, and Web considerations
(e.g., text readability, media, and development issues, and accessibility).
Issues in online learning and teaching are also included.
Strategies for Integrating Technology into Your Curriculum
is brought to you from the Grosse Pointe Public School System in Michigan.
Ten strategies with an extensive list of associated resources are provided:
conducting research, dialog with experts, using the web as a tutor, publishing
products, discussion, collaborative projects, using Web multimedia resources,
preparing students for information competencies, using technology to reform
learning, combine project based or problem based learning with multimedia, and
more on technology integration.
Teacher Tap will help
educators to answer common technology integration questions. Start with
search resources and techniques, electronic books and e-reading, visual
resources, intellectual property rights, online reference materials, primary
resources and real world data, projects, field trips, assessment, tutorials,
electronic portfolios, and so much more.
Technology & Learning eBooks Download eBooks on a number of topics,
includnig new tools that students use (podcasts, cell phones, blogs, social
networking), the potential of interactive technologies, online safety, 1:1
computing, whiteboards, VoIP and networking, mobile devices, and wireless.
techs4schools
was created by TECH CORPS and sponsored by Compaq to provide a free online
mentoring service to K-12 schools and educators. Volunteer IT
professionals assist educators across the country to provide step-by-step
technology assistance and information. Join a team and get your questions
answered in specialties such as:
- Networking (including Cisco, Novell, Intel, 3Com, Domino, Wireless, Basic,
and Other)
- Software (including publishing, Office, Lotus Notes, AppleWorks, and
Anti-virus)
- Hardware (including desktops and peripherals)
- Video Conferencing (including distance learning)
- Broadband (including phone and cable)
- Internet (including browsers, portals, communication, and web design)
- Operating Systems (Mac OS, Windows, Unix and Linux)
webTeacher is a web
tutorial brought to you by TECH CORPS and Cable in the Classroom. Learn
how to find information on the web; how to communicate via email, newsgroups,
mail lists and videoconferencing; and how to work with multimedia. Then
learn about building your own web page, using digital cameras, scanners, and web
cams. Web resources for your classroom include content resources, lesson
plans, and Internet safety.
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