As the first generation of computer-literate students works their way through the school system, they are learning from interactive programs.
The technology also helps teachers craft individual lesson plans based on a student's ability and share data with parents.
She said she brings her students to the computer lab before she starts any new chapter in math to give the class a pre-test. Odyssey creates an instant spreadsheet for Clipper, showing her how every student answered each question.
That lets Clipper know which lessons she can cover quickly, which ones she will have to dwell on to make sure her students understand, and whether she needs to create any special challenges for students who might get bored by the subject matter.
''It's become a tool that not only helps guide group instruction, but also individualizes it.''
Parkland has devoted many of teacher workshops to computer skills training, Giaquinto said.
Another strength of the program is that parents can log onto the Web site and track their child's performance,
And if a student forgets a textbook at school, a parent can get access to the whole volume over the Internet.
The books online are so similar to their print versions that students can complete assignment without the print textbooks.
This is a blog post from Presentation Zen on storyboarding. Embedded in the blog post is a video from Disney about their use of storyboarding. The post and video might be useful to share with students when developing projects that are best organized through storyboards.
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4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use.
Over the past few years, I have been collecting interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 70+ videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use.