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Interactive storytelling site sponsored by the Delaware Art Muceum. You can listen to stories and create them. If you create, you can write or record the story. Definitely a tool we should share with teachers.
Always run through a technology lesson before presenting it to the class -- and always have a back-up lesson prepared in case the technology fails.
Type directions for frequently used computer operations -- opening programs, inserting clip art, printing documents, and so on -- on index cards, laminate them, and connect them with a circle ring. Keep a set next to each computer.
If you're a language arts or foreign language teacher using Microsoft Word, teach your students how to use the Text to Table feature.
When working on lengthy technology projects, print out step-by-step instructions. Include
some that say "Save your work; do not go any further until you help your neighbors reach this point."
Turn your classroom into a museum. After a lesson using presentation software, allow students to walk around the room and view everyone else's work
Post a list of all your rules for technology use in a visible place
Attach plastic hooks to monitors to hang headphones on when they're not being used.
Have students turn off their monitors when you're giving directions.
Type PLEASE WAIT FOR INSTRUCTIONS on 8½ by 11 papers, laminate them, and tape one sheet to the top of every monitor
When working in a computer lab, assign each student a computer.
Have each student keep a Tech Folder for storing ongoing technology projects
When students are working on small group technology projects on classroom computers, divide the tasks so some students are working on the computers while others are working at their desks on another part of the project
Provide a sign-up sheet for the computers. When one group is finished using the computers, they must notify the next group that it's their turn.
Set up teams of computer helpers,
Never assume you know it all! Offer a free pencil to any student who teaches you something you didn't know.