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This Northwest Education Technology Consortium site features three strong examples of classroom integration of technology, one each from elementary, middle, and high school level.s. To provide valuable context, each example features background information about the school and teacher, how the projects was planned and organized, how students accessed technology, and how teachers assessed students work. Examples of student work are included. The format used is very engaging and provides a good model of how to present a unit.

French 4 consists of 4 Modules divided into 16 sections. Each section has 10 daily lessons, approximately 30 minutes each in length. It is important to work through Modules One, Two, and Three in this order, since the concepts build on each other. However Module Four can be inserted at appropriate times of the year. For example, Halloween can be done during the last two weeks of October. Note that in Module Four students can choose to do two of the five Sections. Therefore, in order to complete this course, students are expected to do 13 of the 16 Sections. Module One: My Classroom Module Two: Who Am I? Module Three: My Immediate Family Module Four: Holidays and Celebrations

French 4 consists of 4 Modules divided into 16 sections. Each section has 10 daily lessons, approximately 30 minutes each in length. It is important to work through Modules One, Two, and Three in this order, since the concepts build on each other. However Module Four can be inserted at appropriate times of the year. For example, Halloween can be done during the last two weeks of October. Note that in Module Four students can choose to do two of the five Sections. Therefore, in order to complete this course, students are expected to do 13 of the 16 Sections. Module One: My Classroom Module Two: Who Am I? Module Three: My Immediate Family Module Four: Holidays and Celebrations

This wiki documents work I'm doing with students/teachers in Prince Rupert at the Middle School Level. They requested tutorials more suitable for students so we met to decide the "basics" that would be covered. The teachers wanted simple 1-page handouts that they could use to introduce just one skill at a time in small amounts of classroom time or to mix and match for longer sessions.

This Prezi presentation shows how student input transformed their library from boring one-size-fits-all to a flexible space that works for kids.

Wiki I created to document what's happening as I work with a group of grade 8 teachers who want to help students acquire more tools and skills (both high and low tech) for use in high school.

Here's a set of websites I put together for students in grade 5 learning about continents but working below grade level.

Student contribute stories using multi-media featuring their heroes who have contributed to society. The content is searchable.

Have you ever wondered what a simile was or how to create one? Watch our video to learn all about them.

Created by students in a Grade 6/7 class.

Great video showing students working collaboratively at an astonishing number of SBs in the same room.

Allows you to drag videos from youtube to mix them together. Would be a great way to collect a series of videos on the same topic or collect your students' work in one location.

Page of resources created for students in a 4/5 class learning about Canada's Provinces and Territories but working below grade level.

This browser add-in reduces clutter and visual distractions on a page. It enables text readers such as Click Speak (Firefox) to work better. It could also be used to strip iffy ads from websites teachers want to use with students. In addition, Paul Hamilton reports that it also strips clutter from pages you're importing to Kurzweil using the KESI Virtual Printer. Wow!

This is a fantastic collection of Web Tools organized by type of learner: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. \n

This site offers 100 great web tools and classifies them according to learning styles. Students can bookmark it and choose the tools that will help them get projects done, or the teacher can help them choose one that will work best. Great tool!

Dipity is a free online timeliner tool . I've looked at several and think it may be the best for intermediate students to use. It's easy to create a free account and start working. The interface is very simple and requires no tutorial. Basically, each new event gives you boxes for title, date, upload a picture or video, url link, and description. You can share timelines out by email or automatically to popular online sites such as Diigo, Facebook, etc. iLearn website has a review of this timeliner and ideas for using it in the classroom in the July 22 2008 entry.

This is a great free site for kids to create and share stories in comic form. I tried it and found it to be a very simple interface. You select a page layout and can add your own pictures or pictures from the web. You add your choice of talk balloons and double click to add the text. You can also add text for titles. There are some good examples of student work on the site, e.g. on the French Revolution.

A variety of templates, tutorials, and graphic organizers introduce and explain the major forms of writing (narrative, persuasive, expository, research, response to literature) and help students develop practical writing skills - from coming up with a topic idea to publishing a polished work. Developed in collaboration with Microsoft for Learning Essentials, these tools offer solid instruction from the popular, research-based Write Source series of writing programs.

A set of downloadable tools designed to help students at every step of the learning process. These include tools for getting organized, learning, demonstrating what you know, working on projects, solving personal problems, and preparing for the future.

Learned about this from Kathy Rice. Great interactive activities and downloadable worksheets. Excellent quality educationally and good graphics; would work well on SMARTBoard. Jan and Jim had also used and said that Character Cards was a favourite activity. The only drawback was that content was stored online.

Website made by a grade 5 class in New York studying Canada. Really well done but contains some mistakes...would be fun to challenge kids to find them, e.g. on the BC page.

Amazing spelling site recommended by James Hollis (Teachers Love SMARTBoards). Input a list of spelling words and click test me, teach me, or play a game. The test me section gives the word orally , uses it in a sentence, and the student spells it and gets feedback. The teach me section spells the word orally and uses it in a sentence. The play a game section instantly generates games such as word search, crosswords, hangman using the spelling words. The games work great on a smartboard.