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WebQuests to Web 2.0: More than a Decade of Technology Ideas
Learn to connect the best technology approaches of the past with the potential of new technology to build effective, efficient, and appealing learning environments for today's young people. Learn More...
Beyond Googling: Applying Google Tools to Teaching and Learning
Google is much more than a search tool. From identifying quality text, audio, video, and images resources to exploring our world with Google Earth, learn practical applications of Google Tools in teaching and learning. Learn More...
Strong Nests, Successful Students: Skills & Strategies for 21st Century Learning
Birds are constantly rebuilding and strengthening their nests. Strong nests provide a nurturing environment for chicks to grow. Are you building a strong foundation for your students? Explore practical ideas and strategies for addressing the skills needed by 21st century learners. Through collaborations among media specialists, technology coordinators, and classroom teachers, we can motivate and challenge students across the curriculum.
Laptops & Lounge Chairs: Teaching and Learning at a Distance
With Internet, it's possible to teach and learn from anywhere. Find out how to design effective, efficient, and appealing online courses for high school level and beyond.
Is Anyone Out There? Online Discussions for High Level Thinking
Engaging online communities bring learning alive for today's students. From free-flow sharing of ideas to highly structured activities, discussions can be an efficient tool for online teaching and learning. Find out how to design purposeful, relevant, context-based discussion prompts and assignments. Explore options for participation and assessment. Finally, examine ways to become an effective facilitator and manager of online communication.
Creating Online Learning Environments that Rock!
Boring discussions, endless readings, and meaningless exercises are common gripes from online learners. Active online learning environments help students explore course essential content, become actively involved in this content, practice new learning, and share their understandings. Learn to identify thinking, processing, and product expectations. Then, design rich online learning experiences that include tutorials, interactives, expert interactions, case/field studies, simulations, role-playing, and other inquiry, problem, and project-based approaches.
Caldecotts Connections: Thematic Book-Internet Links
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Illustrations are a powerful way to draw children into the world of reading. Explore how to connect Caldecott award-winning books with online resources and technology-rich classroom projects. Participants will leave with book lists, web addresses, and software titles that can lay the foundation for your technology connections. Learn More...
Literature Ladders: Linking Books and Internet Resources
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Use books for children and young adults as the focal point for technology-rich thematic activities. From historical fiction to contemporary issues, popular literature can bring reading and the world alive for students. By adding the power of Internet, educators can build information-rich thematic technology connections and practical classroom projects. Learn More...
Meeting the Needs of All Students: Success through Differentiation and Technology
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Your students are interested, motivated, and ready to learn. You've got computers, resources, and Internet access. You've even got a lesson that addresses your exact grade level standards. What's missing? Nothing, unless your class is "normal". In a typical class, each child is unique. Some students won't be able to read the materials you've selected, a few won't find the activities challenging, and others will have difficulty with the concepts because they lack the life experiences of others. Use technology to help you differentiate the learning environment. This session explores ways to use the Internet to locate quality materials to address individual differences. In addition, ten tips are provided for connecting students to the learning environment through technology-rich resources. Learn More
Dive into WebQuests: Reading, Writing, and Web 2.0
Engage learners in motivating, standards-based activities that promote deep thinking and creative communications. When you combine quality Internet resources and effective technology tools with the power of Web 2.0 applications, learning comes alive for students. WebQuests are an inquiry-based approach to addressing standards that place emphasis on motivating assignments, authentic assessments, and developing independent readers and writers. In this workshop, you'll learn to locate, evaluate, adapt, use, create, and co-produce your own WebQuests. Learn More
The Potential of Second Life and Multi User Virtual Environments: Fun Plus Learning!
Immerse yourself and your students in engaging multi-user virtual environments such as Second Life. This wiki provides SLURLs (Second Life addresses) to explore. In addition, explore examples that highlight the potential of these worlds in teaching and learning across the curriculum. Learn More
Intellectual Freedom for Youth: Social Technology, Social Networks, and Collaborative Tools
Where do you stand? Explore how school library media programs and other educators can address key issues related to intellectual freedom and social technology for young people.
SCORE with Graphic Inquiry, Standards, and Deep Thinking
Use technology to support graphic inquiry to address standards and promote deep thinking. This winning combination focuses on Storytelling, Communication, Organization, Representation, Evidence.
Wiki World: Collaborative Learning through Technology
Use open editing software to engage students in exciting collaborative learning experiences. Promote reading, writing, and high level thinking across content areas and grade levels. Wikis are a quick and easy way to energize reluctant learners, promote classroom synergy, and encourage authentic learning. Learn More
Reading, Writing, and Wikis: Nurturing a Sense of Wonder Across the Curriculum
Combine collaborative technologies with effective teaching strategies to promote critical and creative thinking. From WebQuests to technology-enhanced Literature Circles, young people can become creators and contributors along with consumers of the Web. Use collaborative documents, concept maps, and wikis along with other technology to bring literature and learning alive.
Technology Treasures: Finding the Hidden Jewels
People often ask, how do you find all those great technology resources and ideas? How do you stay current when technologies change so quickly? How do you maintain a passion for teaching and learning? This session provides a dozen practical ideas for keeping up with the latest resources, learning technology tricks, and dealing with professional information overload. If you're drowning in blogs and yearning for easier ways to find those hidden technology jewels, come with me on a technology treasure hunt.
PowerPoint Sidekicks and Desktop Learning Spaces: Practical Engaging Project Starters
Create technology-based workspaces for students to organize their thoughts, ideas, and understandings. Apply existing technology tools such as PowerPoint to create engaging project starters. Whether introducing concepts, practicing essential skills, or transferring knowledge, starters provide an engaging space where students can share their understandings through writing, illustration, and sound communications. Learn More
Information Avalanche Rescue: RSS Feeds in the Classroom
Buried in blogs? Use RSS feeds to organize current information sources for the content area and grade level needs of you and your students.
It's easy to become overwhelmed by the information found in blogs, audioblogs, or vlogs. Most regular readers and listeners use a news aggregator and RSS feeds to help them manage their favorite resources. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication (RSS). Most blogs contain an RSS link. It's often at the bottom of a sidebar on the blog. You can use this file to subscribe to "feed" from this blog. You use a news aggregator to view a list of all the new resources from all your subscription feeds. Aggregator software generally allows you to see a master list and well as individual feeds. You can then choose what you want to read, hear, or see. You can also download these feeds to your iPod or other handheld device. Whether teaching students to evaluate information or compare multiple perspectives, RSS feeds can be a time-saving way to provide access to news and information for your students. This session will provide a dozen examples of using RSS feeds in the classroom. Learn More
Get FIT: Fired-up through Information and Technology
You've been there and you've done that... does technology really make a difference? Why bother? Because information fluency and technology integration help young people develop a passion for thinking and learning. Rethink technology use and transform traditional lessons into engaging learning experiences. Get FIT through practice, tools, authenticity, and lifestyle!
Analyze your learning environment to identify effective, efficient, and appealing lessons, tools, and resources to make it REAL (Relevant Engaging Authentic Learning) for today’s digital students. This session will provide dozens of practical, time-saving strategies for integrating technology into your classroom to promote critical and creative thinking across the curriculum. This workshop identifies those aspects of technology that contribute to student achievement and helps you transform traditional lessons into engaging learning experiences. It’s time to skip the fads and get FIT! Learn More
Technology Transformations: Digital Tools and Practical Projects that Activate Learning
Address standards, challenge students, and instill a love of learning in young people through engaging, innovative technology-rich resources and activities that don't take much time, but have high impact across content areas. Help students evaluate, synthesize and apply classroom content to address essential questions using digital scraps, primary sources, photographs, charts, graphs, audio, video, and other multimedia elements to create meaningful and powerful communications using free and low-cost tools. Transform the teaching and learning process!
In this workshop, you'll learn to design standards-based activities that use traditional and emerging software and online tools for addressing essential questions, producing practical projects, sharing student understandings, and applying alternative assessments. With today's digital tools, you don't need to be a expert illustrator, photographer, or videographer to create attractive and powerful digital projects across content areas. Explore innovative approaches to using multimedia tools that don't take much time, but have high impact. In addition, learn new tools for creating motivating projects such as e-scrapbooks, graphic novels, comics, and great media, history, or science fair projects.
This workshop will help you explore the possibilities and identify realistic ways to transform your traditional reading, writing, and subject area assignments into dynamic and motivating learning experiences that incorporate visuals, audio, and video elements. Learn about emerging technologies associated with Web 2.0 such as wikis, blogs, podcasts, and video sharing. Also, explore ways to use traditional tools like Microsoft PowerPoint in new ways. Regardless of whether you are a beginner looking for ways to enhance your teaching or an experienced technology-using-educator seeking new ideas and applications, this workshop is for you.
Digital Comics, Graphic Novels, Sequential Art, and Technology-Enhanced Learning
Let's address standards, challenge students, and instill a love of learning in young people through engaging, visually-rich resources and activities. Learn to integrate the growing body of quality print and web-based graphic reading resources for young people across the K12 curriculum. Beyond the superheroes of traditional comics, today's graphic communication projects help students synthesize and apply digital scraps, primary source documents, photographs, charts and graphics, and other visuals to create meaningful communications. Design standards-based activities that use traditional and emerging comic software such as Comic Life and online tools for producing graphic novels and other forms of sequential art for sharing students understandings and alternative assessment. With today's digital tools, you don't need to be a expert illustrator to use and create attractive and powerful digital comic projects across content areas.
A Farmer's Market of Healthy & Productive K-12 Internet Applications for the Classroom
Learn to select and integrate the best web-based content into your classroom. Like seeking out fresh, organic foods at the farmer's market, it's time to skip the junk food and stress healthy Internet habits. There's way too much "googling" going on and not enough emphasis on challenging assignments that apply the quality educational, governmental, non-profit, museum, library, and digital collections that contain effective, efficient, and appealing standards-aligned information and instruction. Like the classics of literature, learn to identify and use the best, current web-based resources in your content area including websites and electronic databases. Help students make good choices regarding the use of wikis, blogs, and other social and collaborative technologies. Apply practical strategies for enriching your technology resources through the use of open source software, free online tools and resources such as free images, audio, and video. Finally, build quality pathfinders and inquiry-based assignments without the time consuming process of creating full-blown WebQuests. Learn more
ABCs of Web 2.0: Avatars, Blogs, and Collaborative Wikis
Recently a whole new generation of web-based social, collaborative, and interactive technology tools have emerged with cute names like avatar, blog, podcast, wiki, and gliffy allowing students to easily work together to reach learning goals. With these new opportunities, comes the need to apply information skills within each subject area. How do we evaluate the content that comes from blogs and wikis? How do students cite these resources? How do we assess student postings or collaborative works? How do we design safe environments? What kinds of assignments make best use of these engaging technologies? As an increasing number of the websites incorporate these dynamic features, it becomes increasingly important to know the ABCs of Web 2.0. In this workshop we'll try out each of these technologies and identify realistic, practical applications for teaching and learning across the K12 curriculum. Learn more
Headwaters of Ideas and Information: Tracing the Technology Flow
How do I help young people distinguish fact from fiction when the lines drawn by news and entertainment are often blurred? How do I determine the origin of information found on the web? What skills are needed to weigh arguments and draw conclusions? How are wikis created? Should wikipedia be used as an information source? The key to addressing these questions lies in helping students understand the inquiry process, how ideas are generated, and the process of tracing the origin of information. This session provides practical ideas and examples to help students manage the technology, evaluate information, and synthesize ideas to become information fluent. Learn More (coming soon)
Integrating the Best of Web 2.0 in the School Library Media Program
From blogs and podcasts to wikis and virtual worlds, everyone's talking about the dynamic technology tools and resources available to educators and students. Let's separate the hype from what's realistic, relevant and practical for your library media program. What's effective, efficient, and appealing? What's just a fad? How do these technologies mesh with information and content standards? This workshop explores the possibilities and potential for using social, collaborative, and interactive technologies across the curriculum. From online book clubs and virtual literature circles to local history wikis and personal, information inquiry blogs, you'll find dozens of practical ideas to enrich your school library media program. Learn more (coming soon)
Symbiosis, Swarms, and Sensational Synergy: A New Approach to Collaboration
If you work in a "zoo" and think it's a "jungle" out there, it's time for a new approach to collaboration. Drawing inspiration from relationships in nature, this high energy workshop will stimulate new ideas for energizing teaching and learning across the curriculum. While reading, writing, and mathematics are tools for understanding and expressing ideas and information, curricular areas such as science, social studies, art, music, health, and physical education inspire students to be active and creative. From books and blogs to GPS and video projects, this workshop stresses practical strategies for collaborating with students and teachers across the curriculum to address standards, as well as promote a passion for learning. To survive in the "wilds" of today's schools, your classroom, computer labs, and school libraries must bring learning alive. Leave this session with a set of collaboration strategies that will bring the joy of teaching and learning back into your school. Learn more (coming soon)
High Tech Learning: Using Social, Collaborative, and Interactive Technologies in the Classroom
From blogs and podcasts to wikis and virtual worlds, everyone's talking about the dynamic technology tools and resources available to educators and students. Let's separate the hype from what's realistic, relevant and practical for the classroom. What educational technologies are effective, efficient, and appealing? This session explores the possibilities and potential for using social, collaborative, and interactive technologies in teaching and learning across disciplines. Regardless of whether you're seeking beginning or advanced applications, you'll find dozens of practical ideas to enrich the teaching and learning environment. Learn more
The Teacher Sandbox: Exploring the Potential of High Tech Learning
This engaging, hands-on workshop will immerse participants in the world of social, collaborative, and interactive technologies. Participants will explore and evaluate the potential of each technology as a tool for teaching and learning. The use of visual, auditory, and multimedia applications will be emphasized as a way to address different learning styles. The workshop will model effective technology use as well as provide templates, starters, and other resources to facilitate the creation of useful classroom materials. Whether you're a confident technology user or just getting started, this workshop is for people of all comfort levels. Learn more
Re-imagine, Rejuvenate, Renew: Beyond Library Media Specialist 2.0 Whether tracing the movement of a book character using Google Earth or video conferencing with colleagues from around the globe, there's never been a more exciting time to be a School Library Media Specialist. Like upgrading your software or adjusting to new equipment, change can be stressful. What's your role and the role of the school library media program in meeting the needs of learners today and tomorrow? How can we prepare a generation of motivated questioners, thinkers, and communicators who will harness the power of information and apply it in meaningful ways? This session will help you re-imagine, rejuvenate, and renew as you meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world. Learn More
Freedom or Nightmare: The Implications of Open Source Software
Freedom of access to the tools of technology helps bridge the digital divide. Open source software provides wonderful opportunities for teaching and learning. However before you press the download button, it's essential to understand the philosophies, implications, and responsibilities of its use. From super software like Audacity and TuxPaint to key organizations like SourceForge and Creative Commons, this session provide practical strategies for enriching your technology resources, planning for the future, and avoiding potential disasters. Learn more
Sharing Understandings: How Technology Impacts Learning
How can we draw upon the natural interests of young people to design engaging learning environments where learners actively voice their questions, organize their thinking, and share their understandings? How can we effectively and efficiently collect and track evidence of student learning? Let's create virtual workspaces for students to record their thoughts, ideas, and understandings. In this session, you'll apply technology tools you already have in your classroom such as PowerPoint and easy-to-use, open source software such as Audacity to create powerful project starters for your students. Learn more
The Balancing Act: Facing the Future with Emerging Technology
Riding the Waves: Facing the Future with Emerging Technology
It’s the best of times and the worst of times be an educator. Each emerging technology comes with new opportunities to address individual needs, alternative ways to motivate students, and innovative approaches to learning in an expanding world. At the same time these new tools and resources can have financial and program implications, trigger social and ethical concerns, and present professional development challenges. How are you dealing with the endless waves of technology pouring into your school?
No longer does one technology or a single solution fit everyone’s needs. This session explores strategies to balance the enthusiasm associated with new technology with the real-world programmatic and curricular implications. Blogs, wikis, podcasts, videocasts, and open source software are just a few of the emerging technologies prompting discussions about social networking, censorship, misinformation, plagiarism, and the role of technology in our schools. Are you riding the waves to exciting new places or drifting out to sea? This session will help you set a course for successful infusion of emerging technologies.Learn more Balancing Act - Learn more - Waves
Digital Photo Safaris and Authentic Learning Across the Curriculum
Bring your digital camera and join our photo safari! We'll learn to compose quality photographs, explore learner-friendly photo editing software, create engaging projects that go beyond the standards and promote authentic learning experiences. Choose from dozens of practical projects ideas across the curriculum. Let's bring the joy of learning back to the classroom! Learn more
E-scrapbooking Synergy: Where Natural and Virtual Worlds Meet
From local history videos to digital science fairs, authentic technology projects bring learning to life. Combine the power of place-based learning and technology tools to create synergy in your classroom. Promote deep understandings and address individual differences by combining the power of primary sources with student-produced text, photographs, graphs, audio, and video. Try out seven inquiry-based, e-scrapbooking starters that will boost student success across the curriculum. Learn more
Flight Plans for Learning: Differentiation & Deep Thinking through Technology
Fasten your seatbelts and enjoy the flight... the pilot's job is to provide a safe and successful journey. In much the same way, a teacher must design an age-appropriate environment where students can develop a love of learning. Each teacher designs their own flight plan to meet the individual needs of their children. Although the approaches may vary, the destination is the same. This session focuses on ways to differentiate reading, writing, and math experiences through technology-rich activities. It also examines ideas for developing inferential thinking across the curriculum. Finally, tips are provided for using virtual experiences such as virtual field trips and simulations to promote deep thinking. Learn more
The Power of Handhelds: Reading, Writing, & Math Across the Curriculum
When you combine handheld devices such as the Palm with practical applications and authentic assignments, educators can create a powerful environment for learning. This session examines the array of resources and tools that promote reading, writing, and math across the curriculum. From ebooks to visual information organizers, explore how handhelds complement your existing resources, expand learning opportunities, and facilitate differentiation. Learn more
Fun with Flash: Practical Applications Across the Curriculum
Can we address standards and have lots of fun at the same time? Yes! Adobe's Macromedia Flash is a great tool for creating cool multimedia animations, but did you know that this popular software is used to produce some of the most effective, efficient, and appealing instructional materials on the web? In this fast-paced session, you'll explore engaging Flash websites across content areas, as well as learn the basics of creating your own Flash projects! Learn more
Flash in a Flash: Practical Applications Across the Curriculum
Macromedia Flash is a great tool for creating cool multimedia animations, but did you know that this popular software is also used to produce effective, efficient, and appealing instructional materials? In this fast-paced hands-on workshop, you’ll create exciting, engaging Flash animations to address standards across content areas. Learn more
Inquiry, Imagination and Insight: Snapshots of Student Information Scientists at Work
Current research in teaching, learning, and technology provides insights into the changing needs of inquiring students and evolving roles of teacher librarians, technology coordinators, classroom teachers, and other instructional specialists as they collaborate to enrich the learning environment through a school-wide laboratory for information inquiry. This session will provide snapshots of what’s realistic, relevant, and practical as educators wade through the technology, resources, and research available to today’s young information scientists across the subject areas.
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Information Inquiry: Student Information Scientists and Instructional Specialists in the Learning Lab
Ready for a new vision for teaching and learning? Think of your school as a learning laboratory filled with wonderful information resources and technology tools and your role as a mentor to emerging information scientists. Explore how to facilitate the creation of information fluent young people who love learning.
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Technology Trekking: Exhausting, Exhilarating, and Energizing
Is it possible to be overwhelmed, baffled, and perplexed as well as eager, enthusiastic, and energized? How will you apply what you’ve learned to empower yourself and impact student learning? Now that you know how to use your laptop, GPS, and videophone to build multi-sensory learning environments filled with websites, Wikis, and WebQuests… what’s realistic, relevant, and practical? Follow a group of educators as they decide whether blogging and podcasting will lead to improved test scores or early retirement.
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Open the Door to Learning: Reading, Writing, and Technology-Rich Learning Across the K12 Curriculum
Reading opens the door to learning across the curriculum. In this workshop you'll learn to integrate standards-based, technology-enhanced reading and writing experiences into your curriculum; incorporate authentic, online primary source materials; and connect reading with web-based resources and activities including literature circles, collaborative projects, and blogs. Explore practical strategies to address essential skills, differentiate instruction to meet individual needs, and promote a love of reading. Learn more
Discover Dynamic Digital Worlds
Are you prepared to lead your program into unknown territory? Like the explorers of the past, librarians and educators are leading expeditions into exciting new worlds of information, inquiry, and innovation. From the bias of blogs to the boundaries of bandwidth, today’s knowledge adventurers face unique obstacles. This session provides strategies for planning and guiding a successful journey into dynamic digital worlds. Learn more
Survive and Thrive: Strategies for Leadership and Collaboration
To survive and thrive, your school library media program must play an indispensable role in the life of your school. This session provides practical leadership and collaboration techniques for invigorating your program by connecting to essential school functions, nurturing critical relationships, establishing exciting learning environments, and demonstrating the unique value of you and your program. Learn more
Building Partnerships: Transforming Learning through Data-Driven Collaborations
Like panning for gold, the school library media specialist must collaborate with teachers and administrators to sift through tons of data to discover the "nuggets" that will address the needs of learners. This session focuses on strategies for building collaborative relationships and developing effective, evidence-based programs that increase student achievement. Learn more
E-photography to E-scrapbooking: Thinking, Test Scores, and Beyond
Use your digital cameras, computers, and real-world experiences to promote deep thinking and increase test scores too! In this workshop, you’ll try out lots of practical ideas for creating powerful, time-saving assignments such as digital scrapbooks and photo journals that promote reading, writing, and content-area thinking. Learn strategies for using the tools you already have in new ways and have fun at the same time! For more information go to the workshop page.
Blogs and Blogging: A Homerun for Students, Teachers, and Technology
Blogs and Blogging: Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum
Blogs are the hottest new way to promote reading, writing, and thinking in all content areas and grade levels. In this workshop, you’ll learn to create and integrate these “web logs” into your classroom. Using free, simple, online tools, you and your students can add digital photos, web links, and multimedia elements to bring writing alive! If you want an easy way to promote thinking, address standards, and promote collaboration, let’s blog! For more information go to the workshop page.
Extreme Website Makeover: Javascripts, CSS, and Multimedia
You're building web pages, but are you creating a cool virtual environment? If you know the basics of web design and are ready to add some great new, interactive elements, this workshop is for you! Try out dozens of easy to implement approaches to enhance your website through simple javascripts, CSS, and multimedia features. Learn about using blogs, podcasting, and discussion groups through your website. Use these extensions along with Dreamweaver or other web development software to create your dream home on the web! For more information go to the workshop page.
Engaging Learners the SMARTboard Way
Interactive whiteboards are gaining in popularity in schools. SMART technology is one of the most popular interactive whiteboard options. This workshop explores a dozen ideas for using interactive whiteboards in the classroom, adapting existing Notebook projects, and integrating resources for each subject area. For more information go to the workshop page.
Keeping it REAL: Relevant, Engaging, Authentic Learning through Effective Technology Integration
This workshop explores technology-rich resources and activities that promote meaningful, standards-based learning. Explore ways to challenge students through real-world assignments that require little prep time, but promote creative and critical thinking in your subject area. Use technology to transform your classroom and meet the needs of today’s multi-sensory learners. Regardless of your subject area or technology skills, you’ll find lots of practical ideas to motivate your students. For more information go to the workshop page.
Transforming Classrooms: Using Assessment Data to Enrich the Learning Environment
Testing, testing, and more testing… does all this focus on assessment really lead to higher achievement? The answer is no... unless you’re using the test results to transform the teaching and learning environment in your classroom. Learn to create and implement a project-based learning environment with your students, reflect on the experience, and revise your approach and materials by focusing on topics, testing connections, techniques, and technology.
This session will help you address some of the following questions: How can test results help you impact teaching and learning? With large class sizes and limited time, what are realistic expectations? How can technology engage students in meaningful learning experiences?
Examine your existing instructional materials in-depth and identify ways that they can be enhanced by: focusing on essential questions and content, building testing connections, incorporating proven teaching and learning techniques, and integrating effective technology tools and resources. For more information go to the workshop page.
I-TOTEMS: Seven Essentials of Successful Technology-Rich Learning
To bridge the digital divide and address our diverse student population, apply the I-TOTEMS of technology-rich learning: information, time, opportunities, tools, experiences, motivation, and strategies. This session examines specific technology resources and tools that can be used to facilitate life-long learning and promote information fluency in K12 students across content areas.
What if education helped students learn to make informed decisions? What if it taught the art of learning? Let’s provide students with I-TOTEMS to help them connect their personal world with the global world.
I-totems are the information processes, resources, and tools students need to identify essential questions, evaluate multiple perspectives, and make informed decisions. I-totems involve Information, Time, Opportunities, Tools, Experiences, Motivation, and Strategies that students need to tell stories, show relationships, and describe understandings. Learning is a life long journey, not a 6, 12, or 16 year destination. It's about experiences, personal growth, and expanding understanding. It's about adventure and self-awareness. Learning is about stretching, challenging, and exploring. Technology-rich learning environments can provide the tools and atmosphere to support this type of 21st century learning.
GPS Devices and Place-based Learning
Explores ways GPS devices are integrated into classroom and community activities. Also, provides endless activity ideas and curriculum connections.
Whether talking about learning or a Global Positioning System device, it’s important to start where you are. This session examines how GPS devices are used in schools and community and provides endless activity ideas and curriculum connections. Place-based education connects schools with the local community by grounding learning in local phenomena and lived experiences. Rooted in Dewey’s focus on authentic learning, placed based approaches include cultural and historical studies, nature exploration, and real-world problem solving. Students use technology including GPS to mark, trace, track, identify, coordinate, and conduct experiments. In addition to many classroom activities, the session will explore Geocaching, benchmarking, and other established GPS-based projects.
Discussions, Chats, and Blogging: Interacting On the Web
Use the power of communication technology to help students share their understandings. Reading and writing in the content areas are more meaningful when they incorporate authentic tasks and audiences. Use discussions, chats, blogs, and other web-based tools to promote active learning.
Electronic Scrapbooking: A Tool for Analysis, Synthesis, and Technology-Rich Learning
Promote technology-rich learning and critical and creative thinking through visually-rich, hands-on electronic scrapbooking student projects across subject areas and grade levels.
By connecting with standards, authentic materials, and higher-order thinking activities, electronic scrapbooking becomes a powerful learning tool. Scrapbooking is the practice of combining photographs, memorabilia, and written narratives, poetry, quotations, stories, or other textual content into a scrapbook style album. Many different types of scrapbooks can be made including family histories, personal journals and memories, and historical records of organizations, military units, and other groups. Personal scrapbooks provide a unique view into the thoughts, lives, and activities of their creator(s). Some of the best and most valuable scrapbooks are simple, focused documents that are directed to one single topic, theme, or subject. Technology has expanded the techniques available for producing, duplicating, and distributing scrapbooks. This session provides specific examples and strategies for integrating electronic scrapbooking activities into the K12 classroom. For more information go to the workshop page.
Desktop Publishing: School - Home Communications
Learn to evaluate, plan, manage, and produce effective school-home communications such as newsletters. Build interdisciplinary student projects that involve children and young adults in the developing of meaningful, authentic communications.
From No Child Left Behind mandates to grass roots parent groups, schools and communities are increasingly seeking ways to build ongoing collaborative relationships. Regardless of whether you're using web development tools, word processing documents, or desktop publishing software, there are many ways to build effective school-community connections through effective communications. Newspapers, newsletters, and other documents are just a few of the many tools that can make parents and other members of the community feel a part of the school.
Electronic newsletters and websites are a great way to build positive relationships with parents. Photographs of children at work and play demonstrate for parents the supportive atmosphere of the classroom. Student produced artwork and articles show parents that their students are productive. The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) mandate emphasizes the importance of communication between schools and parents. NCLB also stresses the importance of reading and writing. These ideas are combined through the development of innovative, informative, and interdisciplinary approaches to school to home communications. This workshop guides participants through the process of evaluating existing communications, along with designing and producing their own print, electronic, and web-based newsletters. Rather than focusing on time-consuming technology tools, the workshop stresses using existing resources such as Microsoft Word and digital cameras. For more information go to the workshop page.
Virtual Adventures: Integrating, Adapting, and Creating Virtual Experiences
Learn to explore, use, modify, and build virtual field trips, interactive adventures, and other exciting, active learning experiences with your learners. Explore how simple tools such as PowerPoint can be used to develop these exciting virtual adventures.
Whether you'd like to explore a far off place from the safety your classroom or create your own online exhibit for others to experience, this website provides a great place to begin learning about virtual field trips. Many students come to school with very limited experiences. They may never have left the town or county where they live. Schools help children reach beyond their small world. The learning environments that we create impact the careers students choose and their paths later in life.
Why spend the time and effort? Scientifically-based evidence demonstrates the effectiveness of this approach that combines: authentic learning, real-world writing and audiences, inquiry-based learning, varied learning modalities, and flexible learning. For more information go to the workshop page.
The
Learning Keystone: Thinking, Reading, and Technology Equals Information
Fluency
Investigate realistic approaches for facilitating higher-order
thinking by using books, web resources, and other technology to promote
reading, writing, information
fluency and life-long habits of mind. This workshop will provide specific
strategies to increase student performance and success.
We’ve purchased hardware and software, built elaborate infrastructure, created an immense list of content, information, and technology standards, and developed a rigorous testing system. However these elements simply provide a foundation for the more important task of addressing information fluency. Help students bring their skills, experiences, and resources together to promote higher-order thinking and powerful “habits of mind” across the curriculum. This session goes beyond the basics to explore how traditional (i.e., books, conversations, maps, documents) and modern (i.e., Internet, audio, video) technology can provide an information-rich learning environment for higher-order thinking, reading, and writing across the content areas. Make learning active, meaningful, and motivating through a practical and easy-to-understand approach to information age learning.
Information fluency is the ability to apply the skills associated with information literacy, computer literacy and critical thinking to address and solve information problems across disciplines, across academic levels, and across information format structures. Information Fluency requires that students develop “habits of mind” that help learners bring their ideas together in to meaningful applications. In architecture, the keystone is the central wedge-shaped stone of an arch that locks its parts together. We’ve built the foundation and have the raw building materials, teachers and students just need the keystone to bring the ideas together. For more information go to the workshop page.
Enriching
Student Minds: Meaningful Learning Experiences through Technology-Rich
Information Inquiry
Learning
is about choices and challenges. Learn to develop technology-rich, inquiry-based
learning experiences. Create mental synergy by combining motivating
activities with critical and creative thinking.
Are we asking students to solve difficult problems? Are asking them to live fully and think deeply? Choices and challenges are what learning is all about. Technology provides the tools to develop rich inquiry-based, learning experiences. Traditional testing only gets to a small part of the things we learn in school. It doesn't address the talents and insights that are often the most useful aspects of school. In schools we often focus on the “thinking” aspect of the mind. However, human consciousness also involves perception, emotion, will, memory, and imagination. Without concentrating on these elements also we’re missing much of the power of the brain. In addition to thinking, reasoning, and knowledge, our brain also processes opinion, motivation, and desire. By focusing so closely on the rational side, we may be losing the power of synergy. By focusing so hard on critical thinking, we may miss wonderful opportunities for creativity.
A balanced curriculum doesn’t take more time. Instead, it focuses on both process and product. As students better understand the why’s and how’s of learning, they are better able to address essential content.
Metacognition involves asking students to “think about thinking”. Whether practicing math facts or making high-level decisions, students need to understand the process of thinking. Technology can help and hinder this process. Mindless drill and practice does nothing to help students understand the why’s of math. Having access to billions of web pages doesn’t help students make good decisions. Technology is only useful if students are information fluent.
We need to nurture the bodies and brains of our students. Rather than junk food, our brains need meaningful learning experiences that will promote mental connections, motivate students to go beyond the basics and encourage positive habits of mind. Like our bodies, our brains need variety. Although students might like ice cream for every meal, we know that they need well-balanced meals.
This session provides dozens of examples across grade levels and subject areas that address the need to provide choice and challenge as we focus on higher-order thinking. It also highlights an approach to information inquiry that promotes both critical and creative thinking using technology as a tool for questioning, data collection, synthesis, communication, and evaluation. For more information go to the workshop page.
The
Technology Race: Who Wins, the Tortoise or the Hare?
Explores strategies for creating practical K12 activities that combine
the power of technology with active learning and thinking to address
standards and meet individual needs.
The hare focuses on the technology, while the tortoise concentrates on active learning and thinking. They're both important elements of an engaging learning environment. Which will win the race? This session explores strategies for creating practical K-12 classroom activities that combine the power of popular technology tools and resources with active learning and thinking to address important standards and meet individual needs. From multimedia tools to Internet resources explore ways that you can use technology to help students succeed.
The session places particular emphasis on answering the question: what value does technology add to the learning experience? Then describes a dozen ways technology facilitates learning experiences: How can you use technology to provide… data for comparison, alternative perspectives, another sense, more reading resources, connections with parents, promote reading, global discussions, interesting starting points, quick resources, both critical and creative thinking, both content and information skills, and different ways of thinking? Next, the session discusses how to use technology to facilitate life experiences and promote life-long learning through a combination of content standards, information standards, critical thinking, and creative thinking. Finally, the presenter challenges teachers to find their “tipping point”. Specifically identifying those small changes that can make a big difference in teaching and learning with technology. For more information go to the workshop page.
Web
Portals: Rabbit Holes to Grand Gateways
Explore the spectrum of educational portal possibilities and the
continuum of portal options such as their focus, flexibility, and fees.
From very specific entry points to broad, general interest gateways, portals provide the starting point for millions of web users. This session examines the spectrum of possibilities and the continuum of portal options such as their focus, flexibility, and fees. The session also explores the specific needs of students and educators while providing a wealth of practical examples. For more information go to the workshop page.
From
Takeoff to Landing: Strategies for Successful Online Courses
Explore a wealth of real-world examples and practical ideas for
creating and enhancing your online courses.
From “frequent fliers” to “nervous newbies,” educators face a wide range of learners when teaching online. Successful courses must meet the individual needs of students, while still addressing course goals. This workshop provides a wealth of real-world examples and practical ideas for creating and enhancing your online courses. Going beyond the standard packages such as Blackboard, this workshop explores strategies for creating and incorporating web resources, email communications, threaded discussions, audio, video, images, and other technologies to build rich learning experiences for students. Offered by two educators who teach totally online, this workshop stresses ideas to ensure unique, interesting, and motivating courses. For more information go to the workshop page.
Information
Architecture for the Web
At this free website for educators and librarians, learn about information
architecture and website development through three, practical WebQuests
with hundreds of resources and activities.
Whether you're evaluating the quality of an existing website or designing
your own, the resources in this website will help you view web-based
information with a more critical eye. The website for this web poster
is located at http://eduscapes.com/arch/
Originally designed for professional development workshops and a university course, this free website contains hundreds of pages and activities. It is available to anyone who wants to learn more about information architecture and website development. Although the materials are aimed primarily at those interested in creating school and library websites, they should also be useful for anyone interested in developing effective, efficient, and appealing web-based environments.
The website is designed around three, inquiry-based learning projects that access three sets of resources. Section 1 materials focus on website and HTML basics. Learners explore and evaluate school and library websites. Links to hundreds of quality resources are provided. Next, users access resources to build a beginning level web page. Section 2 materials examine information architecture and website development. Emphasis is placed on designing effective websites for schools and libraries. Section 3 materials emphasize the development of active, living websites. Advanced content and technical aspects are explored.
Ready, Set, What's
Missing? Success through Differentiation and Technology
Your students are interested, motivated,
and ready to learn. You've got computers, resources, and Internet access.
You've even got a lesson that addresses your exact grade level standards.
What's missing? Nothing, unless your class is "normal". In a typical class, each child is unique.
Some students won't be able to read the materials you've selected, a
few won't find the activities challenging, and others will have difficulty
with the concepts because they lack the life experiences of others.
Use technology to help you differentiate the learning environment. This
session explores ways to use the Internet to locate quality materials
to address individual differences. In addition, ten tips are provided
for connecting students to the learning environment through technology-rich
resources.
Multimedia Seeds: A
Starting Point for Audio, Video, and Visual Resources on the Web
Seeds are the starting point of any
effective learning environment. Learn how to locate quality audio, video,
and visual elements on the web that can be integrated into a wide range
of technology-rich projects. In addition to specific resources, the
session focuses on the evaluation, selection, use, management, and integration
of online "multimedia resources". Issues such as access, copyright,
and censorship are also discussed. Multimedia literacy (i.e., visual
and auditory) and integration of multimedia resources into the K12 and
higher education curriculum are examined, along with techniques for
sharing and disseminating audio and visual elements (i.e., PowerPoint,
Word, Inspiration, web pages). Finally, remote (i.e., video conferencing,
streaming media) and emerging technologies (i.e., DVD) are highlighted.
Explore multimedia seeds that will help students and their teachers
grow a crop of great technology-rich projects.
Coasts to Corn Fields:
Real-world, Field-based Learning with Two-Way Satellite Systems
From bookmobiles and field-based projects
to rural schools and mobile labs, two-way satellite systems provide
a way to design a truly anywhere, anytime learning environment. Whether
students are collecting and uploading information at the beach, in
a field, or on a mountaintop, these systems allow high-speed, wireless
Internet access anywhere in North America. Popular with FEMA emergency
crews and full-time Rvers, these systems have recently found their
way into innovative K-12 and higher education institutions as a tool
to facilitate and encourage real-world, field-based learning at all
levels. This session explores examples of the many applications of
this exciting technology along with ways that laptops, handheld devices,
and other new technologies can be combined to build effective learning
environments for students.
Orchestrating Success:
Web-based Instruments for Technology Services and Support
Examine the design, creation, and delivery
of web-based modules for technology service and support as a means
to meet technology and professional development demands.
Faced with increased demands,
technology support and service departments have stretched their personnel
and resources to the limit. Are there any solutions other than bigger
budgets, added people, more time, more of everything? This session
will examine the design, creation, and delivery of web-based modules
for technology service and support as a means to meet technology and
professional development demands. It will look to the advantages and
limitations of such service and support strategies, provide models
and examples of these web instruments, and cover their evaluation
and evolution.
Join the Beam Team:
New Frontiers in Teaching and Learning
Join the "beam team" and explore new
frontiers of teaching and learning. No traffic jams, security lines,
or costly tickets for this trip. All you need is a thirst for knowledge,
a destination, and a guide to lead the way. From Palm Paradise to
Internet World, remember it's the journey and not the destination
that's most important. This session examines how technology can help
you address important standards, meet individual needs, and engage
students by taking you to new worlds of teaching and learning.
Avoiding Deja Vu:
A Diet of Technology Trends that Work
Haven't we done this before? Technologies,
innovations, standards, and educational strategies... we're constantly
bombarded by new and recycled information and opportunities. We can't
do everything. Like finding the right diet, we need to make good choices
that will have a lasting, positive impact on teaching and learning.
Rather than filling up on "junk food" technology, let's make fundamental
changes in how we view technology in the learning environment. This
session will provide specific strategies for matching the best of
traditional approaches with innovations that work.
The Octopus Odyssey:
Literature-Rich WebQuests, PowerQuests, and Inquiry-Based Learning
Do you feel like an octopus trying
to manage multiple classroom books or reading projects at once? You
don't need eight arms to be effective. Instead, you need eight strategies
for engaging your students and promoting a love of reading and inquiry.
This session explores practical, technology rich projects that will
engage students in reading.
The Technology Storm:
Fun and Frustration in the One Computer Classroom
Do you feel like you're in the middle
of a technology storm without an umbrella? Although many schools have
computer labs, portable laptops, and multiple classroom computers,
some teachers are still dealing with a single computer in the classroom
or a few old machines. Frustrated teachers ask, "What can I do with
just one computer?" This session explores ways that teachers and students
can use the computer in a large group setting to assess, present,
access information, communicate, and produce and publish. It also
examines how to use the computer as a teacher productivity tool and
set-up a learning center. Finally, the session will explore integration,
management, and technical issues.
Turning Dreams into
Reality: Using Technology to Address the Needs of All Children
Our children have gifts, talents, challenges,
and dreams. Technology can help you develop effective, efficient,
and appealing learning experiences to address the individual needs
of your students. This session will explore strategies for infusing
a wide range of technology tools to meet diverse needs while still
focusing on essential questions and standards. Learn to differentiate
learning experiences by selecting channels of communication (i.e.,
text, visual, auditory) and technology-rich activities that meet the
diverse prior experience, skills, and speeds of your students. Finally,
promote critical and creative thinking through the use of webquests,
powerquests, and other challenging, inquiry-based technology-rich
projects.
Lessons from the
Lizards: The Art of Adaptation in a Technology-Rich World
Like the reptiles, teachers must learn
to adapt. There's just no time to develop new materials to meet the
ever-changing standards. Instead, locate materials online, adapt existing
resources, and transform activities by focusing on critical and creative
thinking. This session demonstrates how to adapt the content, process,
product, and evaluation elements of technology-rich lessons to build
an effective learning environment in all content areas. From camouflage
to replication, apply practical strategies of adaptation to explore,
expand, and enhance existing teaching materials.
Stellar Classroom
Presentations: Promoting Active Thinking, Interaction, & Meaningful
Learning
Spinning graphics, bizarre sounds,
and wild transitions are popular ways to spice up traditional lectures
or boring slide shows, but they're not the best way to promote critical
and creative thinking. Instead, engage your students through effective
instructional strategies. PowerPoint presentations are plentiful in
today's classrooms. Are yours stagnant or stellar? You don't need
"bells and whistles" to produce a powerful presentation. Instead,
you need an essential question, quality content, and motivating teaching
strategies. This workshop focuses on the design and development of
stellar presentations that promote active thinking, interaction, and
meaningful learning.
Walls, Fences, Potholes,
and Orange Cones: Overcoming Barriers to Information Age Learning
Is your world always "under construction"?
Do you have a good program that you want to make great? It's time
to transcend the walls that block success and explore practical ideas
to balance the demands of educational standards with the importance
of life-long learning, global understanding, high level thinking,
and subject matter content. As we rethink our curriculum, let's consider
ways to ensure that all children have the information and technology
skills they need to be successful today and tomorrow. It's time to
jump into the construction zone, grab an orange cone, place it on
your head, and lead your school in constructing innovative ways of
thinking about teaching and learning.
Extreme Thinking:
Transforming Traditional Technology Projects into Effective Learning
Environments
From snowboarding to skysurfing, extreme
sports have stretched people's ideas about sports. We need "extreme
thinking" to take our technology-rich student projects to the next
level. It's time to rethink our assignments and redesign our assessments.
Generative and interactive projects challenge students to seek out
new ideas, build content connections, collaborate with others, and
develop flexible communications. This session will provide practical
ideas for "raising the bar" on student, technology-rich projects as
teachers and learners work together to transform the learning environment.
We'll examine levels of complexity in student products and explore
what's realistic in terms of matching standards and activities with
time and resources. From web projects to PowerPoint presentations,
we'll discuss options for evaluating collaborative, interactive, and
ongoing projects.
PANs, blogs, and
eActivism: Separating the Fads from the Trends
You've heard of WANs and LANs, but
what about your PAN (personal area network)? Your students do journaling,
but what about blogs? You use the web, but are you eActive? The dictionary
is bursting with new technology-rich words. Learn to separate the
fads from the trends that will really impact teaching and learning.
WebQuests, wireless laptops, and visual literacy are just a few of
the current trendsetters. Explore a dozen relevant trends for educators.
Catching the Best
of the Web: From Selection to Integration
Do you feel like you search and search,
yet come up with few quality resources? Are you concerned about the
quality of information on the Internet? You need a few good strategies
to "catch the best of the web." This session will help you find partners
on the web, identify quality resources, adapt online resources, and
develop practical, realistic approaches to integrating Internet into
your classroom. Finding good fishing buddies and the best fishing
hole is the key to catching the "best of the web."
Literature Circles
to EBookBuddies: Technology-Rich Learning, Libraries, Literature,
and Literacy
Technology is a powerful tool for information
access and communication. Literature circles have become a popular
way to differentiate instruction in the classroom. This session explores
the development of thematic units that focus on a set of related books.
Internet resources, educational software, and technology tools are
used to help students better understand the book and communicate their
ideas with others. Connecting learning, libraries, literature, and
literacy is critical in the information age. Webquests, online discussions,
auditory and visual resources, and other technology-rich tools provide
the foundation of an effective learner-centered approach to bring
reading alive for students of all ages.
Discover the New
World of Handhelds: Geocaching, Photo Essays, Data Collectors, and
More
A long time ago, people thought the
world was flat and desktop computers ruled. Schools are now discovering
a whole new world of technology that includes handheld computers such
as Palms and Handsprings, Global Positioning (GPS devices), digital
audio recorders, tiny digital cameras, smart keyboard, calculators,
and other small devices. Find a secret location, collaborate on projects,
share your results, and beam your homework. These small devices can
have a big impact on your classroom by adding a new dimension to accessing
and sharing information. It's not time to toss your desktop computer,
but it is time to explore this new world of powerful handheld devices.
Right now your toolbox has only one tool. This explosion of handhelds
provides a wealth of new tools to explore. This session will share
the variety of handheld tools and provide practical examples of integrating
these devices into the classroom.
Learning Luaus:
Building Technology-Rich Learning Environments
Learning Luaus bring teachers, students,
resources, and tools together in an exciting learning environment.
Learning in isolation lacks meaning and isn't much fun. Join others
for fun, authenticity, and synergy! Turn a lonely luau into a learning
luau! We'll do a series of four activities that focus on K-12 learners
as consumers, collaborators, creators, and communicators. Learners
as Consumers focuses on developing technology-rich, thematic, inquiry-based
learning environments that actively involve students in practical
literacy activities including reading, interpreting, and evaluating
words and visuals. Learners as Collaborators explores standards-based
projects that emphasize meaningful learning through working and sharing
with others both near and far. Questioning, information gathering
and organization, and project synthesis will be explored. Learners
as Creators focuses on ways to move projects from low-level copying
activities to high-level thinking and creating activities. Thinking
takes time, so emphasis will be placed on realistic activities that
make good use of time. Learners as Communicators focuses on a wide
range of ways that students can communicate their knowledge and skills
to real-world audiences. Emphasize will be placed on addressing individual
differences and alternatives to traditional assessment.
Technology Landscapes:
Adapting to Changing Learning Environments
Explore the changing landscapes of
learning through the "As" of the technology integration including
how to apply good practice, adapt current skills, activate learning
environment, address individual differences, acquire new partners,
and advance new ideas. Examine how Internet can be used as a tool
to facilitate learning. Find out how educators are changing the landscape
of teaching and learning through the use of technology. Regardless
of whether you feel like you're alone in the arctic or with friends
at the beach, this session will help you climb the mountain of success
with your technology projects.
Stuck in the Mud:
Bridging the Technology Knowing-Doing Gap
Are you spinning your wheels, but not
making much progress with technology integration? Most educators now
have lots of "technology stuff" and know what they should be doing...
but issues such as time, expertise, access, resources, and support
seem to get in the way. There's a gap between what we know we should
do and what we actually do. It's time to figure out how to most effectively
manage and integrate all the hardware, software, and other resources
available to enhance learning. This session will focus on strategies
for technology leaders that will spark the interests of your students,
teachers, and administrators.
Pigeon Power: Thinking
Simple in a Complex World
When you compare the outcome to the
time invested, are your technology projects really worth it? The problem
may be that we're thinking "big" instead of "small." There are hundreds
of ways to infuse technology into our curriculum without spending
hours surfing the web, learning software, and creating large-scale
projects. When it comes to technology, we need to start focusing on
simple projects that can become a transparent part of our curriculum
rather than complex, time-consuming endeavors. This session focuses
on practical ways to more effectively and efficiently engage learners
through simple, technology-rich activities that stimulate higher level
thinking. Did you know that in some cases carrier pigeons are still
the fastest way to move information? Sometimes you need to think simple
in a complex world.
Lumberjack Leadership:
School Administrators and Technology Integration
It's not easy being a lumberjack or
a school administrator. With difficult decisions, entrenched staffs,
and changing times, school administrations face an uphill battle when
it comes to technology integration. For the lumberjack it's not about
the cool clothes, the equipment, or cutting trees. The bottom line
is getting the lumber to market. For educators, the bottom line is
not the technology, but using these resources and tools to help students
access and process information, solve problems, make decisions, and
communicate ideas. Get out your chain saw and cut through the technology
and red tape to get to the bottom line, learning.
Information Technology
and the Curriculum: Unlock the World of Learning
Unlocking the world of learning requires
a convergence of technology, information, curriculum, standards, and
assessment. The key is to set a direction that connects curriculum
areas with information technology knowledge and skills. This session
helps you identify where in your teaching students need to access,
process, and communicate information. Then, exploring the technology
resources and tools needed to build these connections. Unlock the
link between information technology and the curriculum.
Beyond the Book: Matching Reading Standards and Technology-Rich Thematic Projects
The Internet is overflowing with resources
for teachers and students. Unfortunately, it's often difficult to
locate worthwhile resources and build effective, efficient, and appealing
curriculum materials. This workshop will help you create thematic,
web-based reading/literacy units that address common reading standards
and benchmarks. Learn to create web-based and technology-rich learning
materials with activities, projects, and performance assessments based
on reading benchmarks. Integrate a variety of web-based, reading resources
for students and teachers. Explore web-based, thematic units developed
by classroom teachers.
Developed by Annette Lamb, November 1998. Updated 4/08.