Technology Resources
General ideas for video projectors:
- Incorporate images into a lesson
- Incorporate sounds into a lesson
- Incorporate video into a lesson
- Use a document camera to:
- Demonstrate a procedure (how to dissect a frog, how to mix paints...)
- Show original source documents
- Show fine details to the entire class
- Do something together as a class:
- Explore a website
- Play a game
- Use Google Earth or interactive maps to explore
- Edit a paper
- When you can't take your class to a computer lab
- Improve classroom procedures:
- Taking attendance
- Timing activities
- Assigning groups
- Changing seating charts
- Lesson Starter (Anticipatory Set, Set Induction)
- Display student work
- Writing Prompt (text, image, sound, video)
- Lauren's Ideas:
- Pinata
- Emergency lighthouse
- Shadow puppets
- Blind intruders
Websites for teachers:
General Teacher Resources:
- Scholastic resources for middle school teachers
- Scholastic resources for high school teachers
- Sandy Blankenship's big list of links
- DiscoverEducation school resources
- Blue Web N by AT&T
- Homeschool.com's Top 100 Educational Web Sites of 2008
- Technology Integration Made Easy
- ThinkFinity's Free Educational Resources for Everyone
- Tammy's Technology Tips for Teachers
- Reedy Tech: Helping Teachers Integrate Technology
- Lloyd's delicious teacher tagged sites
- Technology tutorials for teachers
Presentations:
- Jeopardy Templates for PowerPoint
- Classroom Game Templates and More
- PowerPoint extreme makeover tips for teachers using PowerPoint
- Tips and lessons on using PowerPoint
- PowerPoint pointers for teachers
Videos:
- iCue--innovative learning environment built around the archives from NBC News (Social Studies)
- Videos on Earth Science: Scientific Living
- YouTube (example 1, example 2)
- TeacherTube
- GodTube
- SchoolTube
Tools:
- Countdown Timers are good for cooperative learning. (online version)
- RubriStar creates and shares rubrics
- TrackStar: create and share webquests (collections of websites with annotation)
- Assign-A-Day: create online classroom calendars
- download YouTube videos (or check here)
- PollEverywhere.com create your own cellphone polls (example 1)
- Create your own graph paper (any size)
- Make your pictures really big with the rasterbator
Lesson Plans:
- Best Practices in Technology Integration lesson plan archive
- Library of Congress lesson plans
Digital Manipulative's:
- National Library of Virtual Manipulative's
- Gizmos--interactive math and science Manipulative's (not free)
- GeoGebra
Games:
- The Redistricting Game
- The Ruler Game (not really good with a projector, I just included this for John)
- Games for Change
Research Tools
- Internet Public Library
- NebraskaAccess - a great recourse from the Nebraska Library Commission
- Library Spot
- Bartleby.com--large database of books online, including reference books
- Library of Congress
Viewer Applications
Just for Fun:
- Wordle: change words into a picture
