A fun way to practice using a projector and get your students to review important material!

 Have students complete a written classroom activity as if it was online.

Ask them to tweet the lesson – that is, have them write summaries of 140 characters or less, as if they were writing on Twitter. Or create a template for a web page and ask students to use it to design a webpage about the content they are studying.

Try a Webquest

Use technology as a topic for a writing assignment

 Create a class webpage

. For those of you just starting out, try Scholastic’s free Home Page Builder (http://teacher.scholastic.com/homepagebuilder/). Those of you with a little more experience may enjoy Webs.com (http://www.webs.com/),

se an online grading system

(http://www.mygradebook.com)

Do an email exchange

ave your students exchange emails with students in another school, city, state, or country – especially valuable if both sets of students are studying the same material

Give multimedia presentations – or have your students give them

a PowerPoint presentation that incorporates photographs, diagrams, sound effects, music, or video clips.

Supplement your lessons

A quick Internet search may help you identify ways to supplement your lessons with interesting new material

reate a class blog or wiki

ome teachers use blogs to drive outside-of-class discussion – particularly helpful for AP/IB students who are

motivated but short on class time. A wiki is a website that uses software which allows many different people t

o edit it (think Wikipedia)

 Listen to – or create – a Podcast.

Publish” your students’ work