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Bubbl.us is an online, idea-web creater. It is simple to use, and can be shared and edited with others.

Bubbl.us is an online, idea-web creater. It is simple to use, and can be shared and edited with others. My students love using Inspiration but they cannot work on assignments at home since they do not have the software. This site does not have the robustness of Inspiration but it can be used at home and shared between a group.

Cherokee County, GA's program for getting technology tools to teachers who are motivated to use them. I listened to a podcast of their presentation at GAETC 2007. Sounds like a great way to use limited money to put technology into classrooms where it will be used. Teachers have to commit a lot of time to training, implementing lessons, and sharing what they did.

This example of technology integration involves the use of SMART Board technology. Teachers can use the provided instructions to post different versions of number grids and hundreds charts. Students then participate in routine activities where they drag counters over numbers or manipulate numbers and shapes to represent certain patterns on the posted grids.

really neat tool that students and teachers can use. It looks like a remote control and operates like one too. Students can use it to answer questions in the classroom along with teachers using it to create rosters, present and develop lesson, collect student responses. These are just a couple of aspects of the "Beyond Question" device

This website turns your students into cartoon artists. They can doodle, create a movie, build their own greeting card, or draw a comic strip using predesigned elements in this free multimedia software. Students can also build Avatars to use in the program. The "For Teachers" link provides additional help and digital story telling lesson plans for use in the classroom.

In this article, the author describes a project where students in a 4th grade classroom complete Internet-based lessons about each region of the United States. They then use presentation tools like PowerPoint (which could now be Web 2.0 presentations tools, since this article was published in 2002) to create take-home reports to share with their parents. This artcile has some great ideas and insights into things that could be done differently the next time. Technology upgrades would also make the lessons more interesting, being that it is 2008.

This article talks about a project that was used in a social studies curriculum for 4 or 5th grade students where there is technology integrated into internet based lessons. They also use technology to prepare reports. The beginning gives a quick introduction about technology and the internet in schools today to prepare children for real-world situations. Then it goes into describing the project given to the students and how it affected them.

Document cameras, also known as "visual presenters," are electronic presentation tools teachers and instructional technologists use to display anything from documents and drawings to 3-D renderings and other objects that cannot be displayed on a standard overhead projector. Through the use of a megapixel sensor camera (instead of a set of mirrors and light tables), images can be displayed on an interactive whiteboard or overhead screen just by placing the item on the presenter, therefore eliminating the need for transparencies. Most models also offer the ability to interface with other electronic media in order to display digital images and video.

This list is comprised of websites that include lessons that can be used in my Reading Applications classroom.

Hello! This is my list for the Curricular Focused/Useful category

This lesson hits around the 3-4th grade level. It is a fun activity that helps teach division through reading the book, When the Doorbell Rang to the class. The students get to have cookies and milk which anytime you use food in a lesson I have learned in motivating! They also will used kid pix for integration of technology after the story practicing creating problems for other students in the class to solve.

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.

From the simple, easy to use Interwrite Cricket (previous posting) to the versatile SMART Senteo, response systems, while already in use by instructional technologists in school computer labs, are quickly becoming a necessity in the mainstream classroom, as well. With this technology, students can make real-time, wireless responses to questions posted through a variety of software formats such as PowerPoint and Word. These "clicker" remotes offer the ability to answer/receive feedback on multiple-choice and true/false questions, while some allow for multi-line entry for open-ended questions. Set up is easy and takes just a few minutes. Assessment software is available, as well.

This lesson plan from the Smithsonian uses primary documents, in this case letters from people in Japanese-American interment camps, to discuss a particular era in history. It offers insight into different views of history and the power of primary documents. It also uses lots of great material from the Smithsonian archives.

This article also goes into how users use the information they find such as "fact checking," why they use the internet over other sources, and ways that they locate the information on the internet.

Summary article explains need to integrate technology in education to create students ready for today and tomorrow's work world. Technology integration also needed to develop creative and critical thinkers able to collaborate with others locally or far away to create authentic products shared with interested audiences outside the classroom. Article also discusses value of portfolios for assessment.

This article, retrieved from "Tools for TEKS- Integrating Technology in the Classroom" site, goes into why teachers should harness many of the new powers available to them now that read/write web (Web 2.0) programs are so readily available. Now that students have cell phones and are constantly posting to blogs, wikis, and YouTube, the author argues that we as teachers should put these things to good use in the classroom. Cell phones, as well as other digital audio and visual recording devices, can be used to gather and later present information for class projects.

From the simple, easy to use Interwrite Cricket to the versatile SMART Senteo (different posting), response systems, while already in use by instructional technologists in school computer labs, are quickly becoming a necessity in the mainstream classroom, as well. With this technology, students can make real-time, wireless responses to questions posted through a variety of software formats such as PowerPoint and Word. These "clicker" remotes offer the ability to answer/receive feedback on multiple-choice and true/false questions, while some allow for multi-line entry for open-ended questions. Set up is easy and takes just a few minutes. Assessment software is available, as well.

These videos, provided by the Apple Learning Interchange, provide a short snippet about a particular topic (in this case, the changes humans cause on animal habitats) and then launch into a multifaceted lesson. Teachers have a purpose, learning activities, resources, and examples of student projects to use to guide them through the provided lessons. Standards are clearly represented through an "Evidence of Learning" section (with rubrics) as well as NETS and 21st Century Learning Skills Alignments sections. Teachers can use many available photos and interviews during the lesson, as well.

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.

Use two fun Web 2.0 sites: LibraryThing and Goodreads. Both are fantastic book-oriented and library-oriented social-networking pages focused on something simple -- the books you love to read. Students can use sites to share book recommendations with one another.

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.