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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.
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."
If you're a language arts or foreign language teacher using Microsoft Word, teach your students how to use the Text to Table feature.
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.
Type PLEASE WAIT FOR INSTRUCTIONS on 8½ by 11 papers, laminate them, and tape one sheet to the top of every monitor
Have students turn off their monitors when you're giving directions.
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.
This is a New Tech Network school that is supposed to be one of the best in terms of whole-school integration of project-based learning in a one-to-one environment.
Educational Leadership article provides 7 strategies to make projects meaningful for students. Let's get beyond PowerPoint presentations. Supports the rigor that teachers are expected to support with Core Contend Standards.
roject VoiceScape welcomes good ideas, films-in-progress or completed short films made by aspiring filmmakers in grades 7-12. The program provides mentorship to young filmmakers and showcases their work on a variety of PBS/POV related media. Fifteen young people will be selected for Project VoiceScape and will be honored in June 2011 at a ceremony in Washington, DC.
Wow...this video gives a great explanation of how our current students see technology as an essential part of their everyday lives. Show this to anyone who doesn't get it, and explore the whole project when you get a chance
Project Tomorrow will be issuing the full results of its Speak Up survey of students and parents in the next few weeks, but the organization released “Ten Things Everyone Should Know about K-12 Students’ Views on Digital Learning” earlier this month, in conjunction with Digital Learning Day. The findings come from Project Tomorrow’s survey of more than 364,000 students last fall.
This is a great example of how you can use Voicethread and Wordle to create a simple project on the topic of digital citizenship. I think the student and teacher could dig a lot deeper, but I really like the concept. This is perfect for NY CL.
Nice tie-in to Social Studies projects (most likely 8th grade). The trees that still live from the time of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima are called, Hibaku trees (A-bombed trees) -- I've sent away for some seeds for us.
this is a quote about simCEO from Edutopia-
What if students created their own companies, complete with business plans? What if they could also buy and sell stocks in classmates' companies? What if they could see how stock prices fluctuated over a 10-year period rather than just a few weeks?
The result of that brainstorming became an online simulation called SimCEO. Luebbe, principal of American International School of Budapest, has been fine-tuning his creation by sharing it with educators around the world. They have surprised him by taking projects in directions he never imagined.
He expected teachers to focus on financial literacy and entrepreneurship. But some have brought in different content. "They might set the simulation in Colonial America or New York in the 1920s," Luebbe says, then ask students to consider how historical factors would have affected market prices. Because teachers determine all the content, he adds, "they can bring in demographic data, real or fictional news, historical events -- whatever they want." The game becomes an open platform for teacher innovation.""
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What if all middle and high school students had to watch this and then form groups of three or four and create their own similar video (or just stage it) to share their own story of caution for younger students?
New online learning network we started late this year at a high school I'm working in. Some good ESL projects in here -- make sure to check out Of Mice and Men!
Us ethe internet to collaborate internationally on projects that make a difference to the world. i first joined some of these in Australia in the 90s...
This interactive art pad is an excellent tool to allow students the opportunity to create quick and easy painting projects. I really like that you can rewatch the process and see how the painter created their piece. It also provides you with a link so the painting lives on the web.