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Different ideas for integrating technology in the classroom- by a teacher!

Well done video on the use of Web 2.0 in classrooms. (Give it time to load. This is streaming video and is of higher quality than YouTube videos.)

In your Classroom Encourage student-centered learning.  Even young students can build web pages, embed images & video, and post documents.    For your Library Provide access to information sources, book lists, and links to good articles.  Have the resources stored for future use.   Throughout your District Host and share information between students, faculty and staff. Encourage staff development and shared resources across schools.   

The Monster Project encourages the development of reading and writing skills while integrating technology into the classroom. Using monsters as a vehicle, students exchange written descriptions via this wiki, and then recreate their partner's monster without ever looking at the "real thing". During the project, students create, discuss, describe, interpret, analyze, organize and assess their monsters as well as the monsters of their peers.

Using Web 2.0 technology (wikis) to support the integration of Web 2.0 into teaching and professional development. Click on your favorite Web 2.0 technology - or even better, one that you don't know much about - on the left side of the page to find out more information about that technology, and how to use it in the classroom.

For your summertime entertainment, but also to encourage your thinking on the role of creativity in our classrooms. Can tools such as Animoto, Aviary, BigHugeLabs, xtranormal, etc., be justified as a means to master what will be on the test, while also fostering creativity?

"What! A podcast? I know what you're thinking. Sounds complicated. Sounds expensive. Sounds, well, technical. The truth is, listening to podcasts or watching videocasts in your classroom couldn't be easier-or cheaper. If you have a computer and an Internet connection, you already have all the equipment you need."

"Removing classroom walls. Opening windows to our world."

CIESE sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet. We focus on projects that utilize real time data available from the Internet, and collaborative projects that utilize the Internet's potential to reach peers and experts around the world.

"After 25 years of incorporating technology in the learning space, we still may not have figured out how to do technology-related professional development that helps teachers use computers as part of the instructional process. After 25 years of having computers in schools, we still lack an approach that ensures teachers truly understand the benefits and appropriate uses of computers for instruction and that teachers actually use technology as part of teaching and learning."

Encourages teachers of students at all levels to use archival documents and to teach with primary source materials from the National Archives. The site offers discussions on how primary documents give form to history, instructions for building a school archive, and templates for document analysis worksheets.