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Interactive online art activities and art history.

Michelle Moore uses technology to teach language art to elementary students. Video describes innovative methods of using the Internet as well as Microsoft Office programs to increase literacy skills.

BrainPop provides animated movies and follow-up quizzes/activities related to hundreds of curriculum topics in Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Art, Music, Health, and Technology. The movies are correlated to the Georgia Performance Standards, so you can select a standard (objective) and search for movies that are related to a specific standard.

The Wacom Bamboo is a cool pen tablet that allows one to "draw," so to speak, directly onto the computer with the virtual pen. You can also manipulate objects with it. Great for art classes and graphic-oriented projects

Teaching geography and language arts based on the story of Cinderella using Internet resources and computer software.

Although a few years old, this article, entitled "When Technology Integration Goes to Math Class," addresses some still very relevant issues and positive outcomes from the integration of technology into the mainstream math classroom. The article touches on the reasons why teachers have been more hesitant to move to the constructivist approaches now readily seen in language arts, social studies, and in some cases science classrooms. The article features the author's first attempt at this type of teaching in math: a telecollaborative project entitled "Statisitics: A Curiosity Factor."

Visit this site for lots of ideas about how to use these programs with your students. Inspiration is a program that makes it possible for students to plan their pre-writing as well as monitor their progress in Writer's Workshop. This is a great site for creating flow charts, as well.

brainstorm, visualization, graphic organizer(s), multiple intelligences, organize, engage students, software, program(s), social studies, science, language arts, visual learning, visual software, visual writing

A blog created by a classroom teacher and her 5th and 6th grade Language Arts classes which includes student book reviews, an author study podcast, an online book club and more.

This blog is a good example of how students can write book reviews to be shared with their peers. It will also be interesting to watch how their online book club develops. I look forward to their How 2 Videos especially the video on finding a good book!

Generates word clouds from text you enter. You can change the style and look of the output. Promoted as a toy but can be used to enter text to see prominence of themes (eg Declaration of Independence, mission statements, etc.)

generate word clouds can use in school for spelling and other language arts lessons

SuccessMaker is an excellent program that provides help and instruction in English, language arts, math, science, and social studies. According to the Pearson website, over 16,000 schools nationally use the 3,300 hours of supplemental instruction available. It is also used as part of SCORE! Educational Centers' after-school tutorial program. Each seperate program allows online interactivity to sync progress at home and school, as well.

This is a webquest for sixth grade language arts, and I'm bookmarking it because it's very similar to the format of the webquest I will be doing for Fahrenheit 451. It would be easy to follow this format and change the content as it suits you.

Students will write a descriptive paragraph about a fictional dinosaur character using writing process steps and extend their writing with illustration and Word Art title. Teachers in grades 3-5 can introduce the fun and easy tech integration aspects of this lesson into a writing lesson of their own.

Great lesson using creativity in a multimedia slide show using Kid Pix- this is a language arts lesson that contains elements of nouns, verbs, sequencing..etc. This lesson is great because it goes into what the students need to know before beginning the lesson and what the teacher needs to perpare into for everything to run smoothly.

A lesson integrating language arts and technology in the classroom. Older students are split up into groups and they are to create photo stories and newsletters for a younger classroom. This lessons says kindergarten, but depending on your grade level you could use a first or second grade class too. The sort of act as reporters and pick out photos and classroom stories to put into a layout program for that class.

This ISTE designed and inspired site offers help with K-12 professional development and school reform. The bookcase on the left side conatins a lot of good information, including curriculum and student stuff links that lead to resources in math, languages arts, the sciences, soical studies, and more.

Language arts instructor uses DyKnow Vision software to teach students to analyze literature.

Great space project ideas I could use in my classroom for a space unit where students are making galaxies and gases out of food and also art work.

Scratch is a Web 2.0 programming environment for beginners, where kids can use a simple programming syntax to create their own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art, and share their creations on the web. Students use built-in sprites or they can draw their own. Once the student finishes the game or animation, they can publish it online.

This is the hub for all educators interested in using the vast resources of the Smithsonian Institute for education. There is something for every subject represented here.

Well known actors read aloud favorite children's books. Captions can be turned on or off. Stories can not be downloaded and must be streamed. Good books!