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Easy Ways to Bring Technology to your Classroom!

Easy Ways to Bring Technology to your Classroom!. Resources to Implement into your Classroom and Curriculum. Easy Ways to Bring Technology Into your Classroom. Why Incorporate Technology?. Technology is everywhere! Creates high-interest lessons your students will love

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Easy Ways to Bring Technology to your Classroom!

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  1. Easy Ways to Bring Technology to your Classroom! Resources to Implement into your Classroom and Curriculum

  2. Easy Ways to Bring Technology Into your Classroom

  3. Why Incorporate Technology? • Technology is everywhere! • Creates high-interest lessons your students will love • Prepares students (and you!) for the future while staying up-to-date

  4. Today’s Session • Trackstar • Wordle • Image Chef • WordPress • PowerPoint • Lab Time

  5. Trackstar • http://trackstar.4teachers.org • Trackstar # 432009 for all of today’s websites • Ideal for: • Research • Projects • WebQuests • Quick Links List • Practice/Review

  6. Wordle • http://wordle.net/create • Ideal for • Introduction to a Unit • Summaries • Inferencing • Predicting

  7. WordPress • http://wordpress.com • Ideal for: • Group Responses • Reactions • Teacher Website • Region/Local Website

  8. Microsoft PowerPoint • Part of the Microsoft Office Package • Ideal for…A LOT!!! • Overview • Book Reports • Research Projects • Presentations • Review Games • NEW! Mouse Mischief

  9. Mouse Mischief • Free Software Download from Microsoft • Link available on Trackstar • Allows multiple “mice” to be used during a PowerPoint presentation. Great for interactive lessons!

  10. Example of a Mouse Mischief Slide: What’s your favorite piece of technology that you learned today? Wordle Image Chef WordPress PowerPoint

  11. Additional Ways to Use PowerPoint • Choose your own adventure • “Kentucky Derby” • “Jeopardy” (template available) • “Are you Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?” (template available) • “Who wants to be a Millionaire?” (template available) • “Show Me” • “Take Off, Touch Down”

  12. Operations within PowerPoint • Link text to websites or files: • Highlight part of your text • Select the “Insert” tab • Select “hyperlink” • Type in Web address or select file/program you would like to open

  13. Operations within PowerPoint • Link to another slide (ideal for choose your own adventure research projects) • Highlight text or a photo • Click “insert” tab • Select “Place in this Document” • Select the slide you want to “leap” to

  14. Operations within PowerPoint • Insert Image Chef image or Clip Art • Select the “Insert” tab • Select “Picture” if from a file or “Clip Art” • Adjust the Picture using the “Picture Tools” red tab (must click on the picture to edit it)

  15. Hands On Session • Try one…or more! • Trackstar and Wordpress require you to register a username.

  16. Thank you for Coming! • Any questions, feel free to e-mail me at c.golebiewski@gmail.com • Good luck!

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