Online Sites for Technology Integration

Online Sites for Technology Integration

AAIM, 2005

General Integration Sites

Technology Curriculum Integration Ideas!

Lists ways technology can be used in different curricular areas; very simple; a place to start, no links

Best Practices of Technology Integration

Michigan site—lesson plans, etc. that have been tried in the classroom

Technology in Education

Articles and research on technology integration

International Society for Technology in Education

Star Chart—Link at bottom of home page--CEO Forum’s Interactive School Technology and Readiness (STaR) Chart, a self-assessment tool designed to provide schools with the information they need to better integrate technology into their educational process. Here, you can complete an online, multiple-choice questionnaire that will provide you with instant feedback on how well your school is doing in this process.

Mountain Brook City Schools Technology Integration

Excellent general, subject and grade level web sites, pick a grade level then a subject—specific lessons and activities are given

Rubric for self-evaluation of teacher’s technology integration proficiency

Prince William County School Instructional Technology

http://www.pwcs.edu/i-tech/Integration.htm

Lots of links

Teacher Tap by Annette Lamb

Tons of resources and links including Libraries, Literature, and Information Literacy

A Questioning Toolkit—Jamie MacKenzie

Guidelines for creating school wide, cross-curricular essential questions for research projects.

Bellingham School District Online Research Investigations

http://www.bham.wednet.edu/studentgal/onlineresearch/newonline/online.htm

Online investigations--projects using the research cycle (questioning techniques)

Hotlists of Web Sites

Indices and Hotlists for Educators

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/links/index.html

Sites are good starting points for exploration. Each leads to a huge number of interesting and useful lessons, resources and activities for teachers, administrators, instructional designers, trainers, counselors and other educators.

Great Technology Web Sites

http://web.bsu.edu/00smtancock/EDRDG430/430greattechsites.html

Cool sites, including fonts, good for scrapbooking as well as other projects; click on Font Help for instructions on installing the new fonts (ABC Kids--Karen Richardson)

Literacy ideas—Family Literacy Backpacks, Weaving the Internet Through Your Elementary Literacy Curriculum

Kathy’s Guide for Educators Links to all kinds of excellent resources!!!

“The Icing on the Cake”

Kathy’s recommendations of best tools for integration; at bottom of right column is Kathy’s slide show entitled “The Icing on the Cake: Online Tools for Classroom Use;” handouts in pdf format are included for your use—just give Kathy credit; some of mine are repeated on Kathy’s

A Survey of Online Tools

Developed by Terry Jones, John Webb, Heidi Rehner, these links allow you to survey some of various online tools and templates used to create web-based educational activities

http://www.shrewsbury-ma.gov/schools/central/curriculum/index.html

Awesome!!! Websites for all grade levels arranged by curriculum—check this one out!!

More curriculum links; biographies

Standards

http://dwe.arkansas.gov/CurriculumFrameworks/indexframeworks.htm

(Students)

(Teachers)

(Administrators)

Internet Safety Sites

iSafe

i-SAFE America, Inc. is a non-profit foundation whose mission is to educate and empower youth to safely and responsibly take control of their Internet experiences.

The United States Congress has designated i-SAFE America, Inc., a non-profit Internet safety education foundation, to bring Internet safety education and awareness to the youth of the nation. i-SAFE is devoted to empowering students to take control of their Internet experiences by giving them vital knowledge that will enable them to act safely and responsibly. Founded in 1998, and designed as a proactive prevention-oriented Internet safety awareness program, i-SAFE America provides students with the critical-thinking and decision-making skills they need to recognize and avoid hazards in cyberspace and how to respond appropriately to those hazards.

NetSmartzKids

NetSmartz® is an interactive, educational safety resource from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) and Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) for children aged 5 to 17, parents, guardians, educators, and law enforcement that uses age-appropriate, 3-D activities to teach children how to stay safer on the Internet.

Childnet’s Kidsmart Project

Kidsmart is an award winning practical Internet safety advice website for schools, agencies and young people, produced by the children's Internet charity Childnet. To access resources such as lesson plans, leaflets, posters, activity days and interactive games.

Disney’s Surfswell Island

This is an excellent site for younger children with online, interactive safety games that reinforce safety issues of online behavior. Fun! And educational

Live Wire’s Internet Safety

Site is more appropriate for middle school and older. Games are realistic and scary! The Missing kit helps children recognize the dangers posed by predators who they meet on-line. The kit includes an interactive CD -ROM game and a training package for adults, including a Guide for Parents and Teachers and a disc with slide shows and manuals. The Missing game tells the story of a 14-year-old boy named Zack who goes to an on-line chat room and meets a mysterious stranger named Fantasma. Children take the role of detectives, helping both the Canadian and American police by collecting evidence and solving cryptograms.There are three versions of the Missing Kit.

Family Kit - Intended for individuals and families--$25.00
Workshop Kit - Best for school classes and youth groups--$99.00

Cool Stuff!!!

3D Word Art Generator

Tons of fonts, some with animation, clipart, dividers, buttons, arrows; lots of free stuff to use with PowerPoint, Word, FrontPage, etc. Put in your text, save to your computer and the text is stored as a jpg or gif.

Create 10 different kinds of puzzles

Microsoft templates for various projects

Keep a list of your favorites online so that you can access them from any computer

“TrackStar is your starting point for online lessons and activities. Simply collect Web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track. Create your own Track or use one of the hundreds of thousands already made by other educators. Search the database by subject, grade, or theme and standard for a quick and easy activity. There is a fun Track already made for each day of the year, too!”

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/

A webquest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web.

Five Rules for Writing a Great WebQuest—Bernie Dodge

Guidelines from the developer of the Webquest

“Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into learning activities. It combines the "filament" of the Web with a learner's ‘mentality.’ Support is built-in through Mentality Tips that guide you along the way. In the end, you'll create a Web-based activity you can share with others even if you don't know anything about HTML, Web servers, or all that www-dot stuff.”

“Module Maker—This Module Maker will show you how to build your own
Online Research Modules that will challenge your students to make up their own minds while supplying them with rich information to support such thinking.”

http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/cep/midlink/rub.multi.htm

Online rubrics for successful multimedia reports

Online and paper rubrics, change to suit yourself

Share pictures with family and friends; let them pay for the prints!!

Online quiz makers:

Not free--$39.95/year—cheaper for groups

The Hot Potatoes site includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a license. Check out the Hot Potatoes licensing terms and pricing on the Half-Baked Software Website--

Scavenger Hunts

http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr113.shtml

http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Class/est572/ccarella/act2.htm