ASSIGNMENTS:
Click
here to complete a quick survey that will help me better understand
what you already know about technology and what you would like to learn
further through this course. Due after our first class session.
Digital
video gives students and teachers the chance to be multimedia authors.
Links
here to resources for doing your own videos.
Why
should we use technology in K-12 classrooms? Improving student
achievement
might be one reason, but there are at least two other reasons often
given
for using technology. Read more about these rationales and see if you
can
find examples of them in your own experience.
Learn about
electronic concept
mapping tools which can stimulate higher level and visual thinking
skills.
Read about how teachers use these tools in their classroom.
What should students, teachers, and administrators know how to do with
technology in their work? And what would exemplary implementations of
these standards look like? Read more from the International Socieity
for Technology in Education (ISTE).
Get acquainted
with some valuable websites for educators as you answer these questions
in a cyberhunt or "Internet Scavenger Hunt" format.
Learn about web
search strategies to use in your classroom. Educator specific
resources, subject directories versus search engines, and kid-friendly
search engines are some of the topics addressed here.
Interested in joining a community of thousands of educators that use
web-based resources to create inquiry-based activities for a variety of
K-12 content? Read more...
Have a look at some sample teacher websites, and link here for resources to build your own website.
RESOURCES
Students at Pacific University have access to
a technology library of equipment such as laptops, digital still
cameras, and digital video cameras. Click here to check out equipment!
Learn more about Logo, the computing language for K-12 students that
started a learning "mindstorm" and its more recent cousin--Lego
programmable objects.
Paint programs are
readily available on many school computers, and are a surprisingly
versatile
tool that can be adapted to many worthwhile learning tasks under the
general notion of "draw what you learned." On this page I show
the steps for drawing the parts of a volcano.
Learn the basics
about image file formats to better understand how to utilize your
digital camera or scanner.
Learn more about educational applications for this dynamic new technology tool.
- OTEN
mini-grants--Pacific University and 5 other Oregon private institutions
form the Oregon Technology Education Network (OTEN). Mini-grants are
for $500. The recipient presents their work at the Spring OTEN
conference. Many Pacific student have been awarded grants.
- Toshiba Foundation grants--The
Toshiba America Foundation promotes quality science and
mathematics education in U.S. schools. Grants are made for programs and
activities that improve teaching and learning in science and
mathematics, grades K-12. The Foundation focuses its grant making on
inquiry-based projects designed by individual teachers, and small teams
of teachers, for use in their own classrooms (text edited from their
website).
-
Judi
Harris' Virtual Architecture
This site
describes a wide array of
telecollaborative projects that K-12 educators are doing with their
students.
I suggest this might be an especially good resource for educators who
want
to find some terrific projects to consider using in their teaching. This
is
the website for her excellent book Virtual
Architecture. We aren't reading it for this class, but if you
want to begin at the beginning of her website...
- Resources for finding projects to do with
your class
More details about
our work using presentation software.
More details about
our assignment integrating text and graphics in a word processing
document.
Animal Hands is
an activity in which we used the public domain program NIH Image to
help us identify x-rays of different animal's hands. At this link you
can get
the lesson plan, software, and images for this lesson and several other
math/science/social studies activities to use in your classroom. This
activity was found at
the Center for Image Processing
in Education site, which features a number of excellent resources.
Additional resources
for the course: (some
links not yet functioning!)
Here are the
details about this assignment
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