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Dianne Brewster

Multimedia in the Classroom - 0 views

  • Decide on relevant standards and benchmarks Decide if multimedia is appropriate Decide which learning outcomes are desired Decide on appropriate assessment measures
  • DECIDE
  • Inventory available hardware and software Determine the grouping strategy and roles Specify length/duration of activity Design a lesson/unit plan with a multimedia activity
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  • DESIGN
  • Media development skills Classroom management and configuration Facilitating multimedia activities
  • DELIVER
  • Student checklists Evaluation options Reflection and revision
  • VALUATE
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    Always determine if the use of multimedia is appropriate to a particular activity
Sharon Antal

Kidzone - Fun Facts for Kids! - 0 views

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    Free printable activity worksheets, custom tracer pages, from pre-k through 5th grade
Kelsey Everton

Going Batty: A Bat Wequest for Second Grade: Introduction - 0 views

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    Such a fun activity for 2nd grade students, especially around Halloween!! Students learn all about bats so that they can convince their teachers to turn the classrooms into bat caves! Each pair creates a slide about bats that is put into a slideshow to show the teachers!
Gertrude Okyere

Animal Tracks - A good yarn: Knitters make sweaters for penguins after oil spill - 0 views

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    Science in the News. A way to activate those "i wonder how.." questions from students
Courtney M

TeachersFirst's Copyright and Fair Use Resources - 2 views

  • This collection includes instructional activities about copyright and collections/tools to use images, music, and texts legally, either through Fair Use or Creative Commons licensing. Use these resources to model and teach ethical use of electronic media or to find copyright-safe raw materials for student projects.
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      Basically, this site condenses links to websites explaining all about what teachers can do without breaking any copyright laws, to websites with suggestions or ideas about how to teach students about copyrights, and the first site in the list is to images that are copyright free!
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    This website is a wonderful resource for any teacher. It provides links to guide the teacher in fair use laws, suggests ways to teach about copyright laws, and provides a link to copyright-free images! It's really a one -stop-shop for everything copyright.
Kelsey Everton

What Digital Native children can teach the rest of us about technology - 0 views

  • “focused on giving children a real voice in the broader, often very adult, discussion of future technologies and real-world problem solving.”
  • they can teach us not only about their own needs and desires, but also about our own future preferences and how technology might help us solve bigger, global problems
  • digital natives allow us to see unrestrained possibilities for Web-based developments
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  • We found that today’s children intuit a very seamless connection between online and offline worlds
  • A strong trend in the pictures the children drew was a break down in the barrier between the physical and digital worlds, with children appearing to see no difference between ‘real’ and ‘computer-based’ activities.
  • today’s children see technological devices as a natural extension of themselves
  • Current initiatives include Trash to Treasure, another illustration-based study which looks to kids for new ways to recycle and manage waste
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    This is a great article on what our students, the "Digital Natives" can teach us about technology! I have highlighted what I found to be the most interesting and insightful quotes from the article!
Katie Danner

Exploring blogs during silent reading - 0 views

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    The kids love this option! Rotate groups to the computers to read and respond to kids' blogs, explore nonfiction topics
Courtney M

Edheads - Crash Scene Investigation - CSI - Forensic Science - Math - 0 views

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    For older kids, this could be kinda fun for problem solving skills and math skills. .
Courtney M

Edheads - The Compound Machine - Simple Machines and Forces - Compound Machines - 0 views

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    This game reinforces compoung machines knowledge by having students think what machines will best work to solve problems.
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