EDIT 7500 @ UGA

Expeditiary learning involves students in deep inquiry into various topics.

This podcast explores various ways to engage students in their reading and writing using the power of the Internet. Gain insight to ways you can capitalize on Internet resources to help students read, write, collaborate, and most importantly, be creative. This podcast examines practices such as blogging, wikis, digital storytelling and more.

Anna Adam interviewed Amy with Inspiration Software. She shared a little about what Inspiration and Kidspiration are - both mind-mapping software applications - and specifically about some of the new features of Kidspiration 3 which includes new symbols, new prepared teacher activities, and a whole math view with new math applications.

Richard Wanderman, a dyslexic adult, shares his story about how technology helped him become a successful teacher, software developer, writer, and renowned consultant. Richard has experienced first-hand how access to technology truly can showcase a learning disabled child's real intelligence and transform his or her life.

java applet for trig functions

Interactive lessons that are avaliable for preview and purchase

Provides a tiny URL from a long one AND provides statistics about who visits the budURL.

These web-based modules would be especially helpful to a teacher teaching a life-skills unit in conjunction with instruction by a guidance counselor. All five lessons (important relationships, resolving disputes, dealing with loss, rules and roles, and celebrations and family gatherings) all center around important people in children's lives, namely friends and family. Students can interact with the website and post feelings about what they've learned. The Kidlink site is great overall.

Lots of calc tutorials and applets

Collection of activities and interactions for Calc

a short video clips in which you can pick from to watch and learn about nasa. There are short interview of people who work for Nasa and space missions and what they do. Very neat for looking at different types of jobs for children.

BrainPop is a highly-regarded, Flash-based video site that offers an array of movies on all kinds of curricular topics covered during the school year. This particular site provides the framework for a teacher to teach a lesson on animal habitats. Beyond just watching the movie and answering the quiz questions, the educator site gives the objectives, materials, preparation, lesson procedures, vocabulary, and extension activities to do with the students. You will have to create a free educator account to gain access to this page.

This is a video that can be played for classes of various sizes, as it captivates your attention with relevant examples and graphics. The teacher on the video takes you through each step in the process of converting fractions to decimals in a way that is easy to understand and relate to. The pictures that are used are very current (Michael Phelps, Barack Obama, etc.), making it even more fun. Independent practice and extension activities could be easily planned after watching.

This lesson plan--sure to be popular!--asks students to participate in a debate on whether video games help with literacy, based on a NYTimes article by Motoko Rich. This lesson allows kids to be reflective and analyze the differences between media beyond the debate question itself.

Lesson: Students from around the world can share essays on what morals are important to them and respond to the essays of others.

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

A new font for dyslexics makes sentences a snap. Read Regular treats individual letters as unique shapes so that the traditional uniformity of letters in many fonts doesn't so easily confound the struggling reader.

Handheld technology gives autistic students a learning boost -- and a social one.

Article looking at tech integration into teaching practice.

Using Blabberize to share poetry.