Technology

1. Technology Sara Brumfield, Heather Young, and Katie Mauel

2. By using various resources, technology can offer you an affordable way to appeal to the different learning styles of your students.

3. Find a Free Technology Based Resource: • On your laptop use the internet to find a technology based resources that students can use in your classroom such as: • An interactive online game • Free software disks • An educational video in your area of licensure • (NO YOUTUBE!)

4. Thesis: • We can, at little to no cost, bring technology, teaching, and learning resources into the classroom.

5. Before You Use Technology: • Before using internet resources with your students, check your districts policy on getting parent signatures. • It’s also important that you listen/watch entire clip, or play the entire game that you use with your students to ensure that it is appropriate for your students.

6. Importance of Using Technology • Change in student and teacher roles • Increased motivation and self-esteem • Technical skills • Accomplishment of more complex tasks • More collaboration with peers • Increased use of outside resources • Improved design skills/attention to audience

7. Audio • Speeches can easily be found online. • The animal sounds library from Sea World/Busch Gardens has various animal sounds and some resources for teachers to go with them.

8. Video • Social Studies Examples: • Video clips can be found on YouTube that are useful and fun for students. • You can also have your students create videos and put them on YouTube. • Math: • www.youtube.com - 9 multiplication table music video

9. Podcasts iTunes has many audio and video podcasts for free that are very useful in the classroom. They can be especially handy as students who miss class can download them from home. Early Childhood Example

10. Podcasts iTunes has many audio and video podcasts for free that are very useful in the classroom. They can be especially handy as students who miss class can download them from home. Social Studies Example

11. Web Pages • This example is social studies but any classroom teacher can often create a webpage through their school’s website. • You can create a homepage for your classroom where students can access resources from home.

12. Interactive Games • ELL: • http://www.marks-english-school.com/games.html • Math: • http://www.softschools.com/math/games • Early Childhood: • http://www.sesamestreet.org

13. Creating Games • You can create a game, like jeopardy, to use as a review or part of your lesson. • http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/PPT-games/ • This has many templates for games such as : Password, Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?, Wheel of Fortune, 20 Questions, Weakest Link…

14. Internet as a Research Tool • While wikipedia.com is not always a credible webpage, it is free, and it can be a useful starting point for students who are doing research. • Various Databases: • Google Scholar

15. Blog • Language Arts Example: • A teacher used a blog as a discussion forum for his students who were reading a novel together. • http://mrcsclassblog.blogspot.com/

16. Virtual Tours • Virtual tours are a great way to show your students places without having to take them out of the classroom. • This is especially nice for social studies classes.

17. Technology Grants • http://www.technologygrantnews.com/ • http://www.cpsb.org/Scripts/abshire/grants.asp • CPSB.org has a long list of grants that can be done by either a district, school or classroom teacher to receive a grant to fund classroom materials and technology • http://www.teachersnetwork.org/Grants/grants_technology.htm • Teachersnetwork.org also has a list of grants that can be filled out by classroom teachers for technology resources for your classroom. • Many of the grants say that you much be a member of a certain group so looking into a membership might be a good idea.

18. Professional Development Opportunities for Technology • Getting involved in your core area professional organizations provide opportunities for seminars on technology. • http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/prodev.htm

19. Bloom’s Taxonomy Using Technology • Knowledge: • Matching games (word to definition) • Comprehension: • Journaling, twittering • Application: • Circuit building online activity • Analysis: • Blogging • Synthesis: • Commenting, online polls (no correct answer) • Evaluation: • Making a video, wiki-ing, podcasting,

21. Class Poll Please get out your cell phones  www.polleverywhere.com

22. Importance of Using Technology • Change in student and teacher roles • Increased motivation and self-esteem • Technical skills • Accomplishment of more complex tasks • More collaboration with peers • Increased use of outside resources • Improved design skills/attention to audience

23. Summary • There are many free technology based resources that are very useful to your students. • In the current age of technology students are used to using technology everyday. By incorporating technology into your classroom you are engaging your students in a way that they enjoy.

24. Other Places to Find Free Technology or Useful Resources • http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ • http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/about/my-best-of-series/ • This is a blog by a teacher but has many links to useful sites. • Useful Web pages: • http://geogebra.com/ • http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/