Transcript Instructional Technology In The Classroom

Instructional Technology
In The Classroom
Beverly E. Horner
August 12, 13, and 14
This Is Why We Teach
Compliments of the
Virginia Education Association
VEA
Teaching, Learning, Leading
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SITES TO VIEW AND SAVE
 http://www.ideastations.org/
 e-KLIPS
 Video clips for educators and students
 Log In is preferred but not required
 Search by SOL, keyword, or phrase
 Can only be streamed, not downloaded
MORE GREAT SITES
 http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/resources/solt
echintegration.htm
Rockingham County Public Schools
http://206.113.131.136/ITRT/
Fauquier County Technology Matrix
http://www.ttaconline.org/staff/sol/sol.asp?
SOL lesson plans
FREE MUSIC AND CLIP ART
 http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/
 http://www.awesomeclipartforeducators.co
m/
 http://pics4learning.com/
Break
FREE CHATS
 http://twitter.com/
 http://edublogs.org/
 http://jottit.com/
 http://skypeguide.blogspot.com/2008/04/establishing-whocan-call-or-chat-with.html
Rubistar
 http://4teachers.org/
RubiStar is a free tool to help teachers
create quality rubrics.
INSPIRATION , KIDSPIRATION &
INSPIREDATA
 Introduce InspireData and show templates
 Review templates in your content area
 Create Surveys to use with students and
parents that are online
Hot Potatoes
 The Hot Potatoes suite is a set of six
authoring tools, created by the Research
and Development team at the University of
Victoria Humanities Computing and Media
Centre. They enable you to create
interactive Web-based exercises of
several basic types.
 Create and upload to Edline
Qwizdom How To:
 After opening Qwizdom, click on New
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Activity
Name it
Click on New Set
Use drop down to change type of test and
choices
Click where it prompts you to Click to Add
Question
Qwizdom Continued
 Create an answer slide
 To add a pic—click on the camera and
double click on the image you want
 To add equations—click the square root
symbol, click on the screen where you
want the equation, pick the equation and
fill in the numbers
Break
Good Guys In, Bad Guys
Out
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJSg8T
S8cmg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoj5Scm7
HaY&feature=related
Photo Story
 This is a free
download
Windows MovieMaker
List ways to use with classroom instruction
1. Making commercials
2. Documenting events
3. Showing timelines
4. Recording information learned
Examples of Instruction
 Smoking
Commercials
WEBTOOLS4U2USE
 http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/We
btools4U2Use
 Web 2.0 sites allow one to read AND write!
 Web 2.0 sites offer the opportunity to
share and/or collaborate on the work.
 Web 2.0 tools provide digital equity.
 Handout
Essential Conditions for Technology
Integration
 Handout
 Conduct survey
 View results
 Discuss The TPACK Game
 Handout
Smart Boards
 In order to use this software, you must
have the Smart Notebook installed on your
computer
Recommended Search Engines
Search Engine
Address
Remarks
Ask
www.ask.com
Exalead
www.exalead.com From France; Use
for Link Checking
KartOO
www.kartoo.com
From France; Visual
Results Display
Yahoo
www.yahoo.com
Use for Link
Checking
Windows Live
www.live.com
Microsoft
INTERNET SAFETY
 https://www.edline.net/GroupHome.page
Go to your content area of instruction and
review the Internet Safety lessons. Pick
one you would like to teach and decide
how and when you would implement the
lesson.
Maintaining Your Computer
 First delete items in your recycle bin
 Then, go to start, all programs,
accessories, system tools, disk clean up—
let your computer work
 Then do the same thing, only go to disk
defragmenter instead of disk clean up—
and again give your computer time to work
Online Sites
Use at home and school
 Study Island www.studyisland.com
 Username- first initial and last name.cbes
 Password- first name
 Big Chalk/Proquest elibrary
http://www.proquestk12.com
 User name-45-1331
 Password-bigchalk
More Sites
 Encyclopedia Britannica:
 http://school.eb.com
 User name- colonialbeach
 Password- student
Sites Continued
 Gale Virtual Resources (Thomson Gale)
 http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/va_s_202_
0021
 Password- schools