INSYS 497

Complete document explaining Blooms taxonomy --> digital taxonomy

Here's the web 2.0 tool I presented in class.

This excellent note taking tool has many uses. Check it out and see for yourself!

The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments.

Organized kid friendly sites!!

QuestGarden is an online authoring tool, community and hosting service that is designed to make it easier and quicker to create a high quality WebQuest. No knowledge of web editing or uploading is required. Prompts, guides and examples are provided for each step of the process. Images, worksheets and other documents can easily be attached or embedded in the WebQuest, and users have complete control over the appearance of the final lesson.

A Podcast about the children's books we love and why we love them - recorded in our favourite coffee shop

Action packed math site for elementary and middle school students featuring math games, math word problems, math worksheets, logic puzzles, and math videos.

Information on how to use Evernote of which I will demonstrate in class on 12/4.

Information on how to use Evernote.

IBM® Pass It Along is a peer-to-peer knowledge exchange network whose basic premise is that everyone has expertise to share. Anyone can package his expertise into bite-sized nuggets of knowledge called topics, which can be "passed on" to others. Over time, an informal community of contributors, experts, and learners develops around these nuggets of knowledge.