Designing A Virtual Classroom The Virtual classroomTM is a teaching and learning environment constructed in The Virtual classroom project has received substantial support from the http://www.njit.edu/CCCC/VC/Papers/Teaching.html
Extractions: Roxanne@eies.njit.edu The Virtual Classroom [TM] is a teaching and learning environment constructed in software, which supports collaborative learning among students who participate at times and places of their choosing, through computer networks. This paper describes experiences and results of utilizing Computer Mediated Communications structured to create a Virtual Classroom (VC). Emphasis is placed on guidelines for using the technology successfully by incorporating "collaborative learning" activities. Computer-Mediated Communication systems, especially when enhanced to create what we refer to as a Virtual Classroom, [TM] Generically, the Virtual Classroom is a teaching and learning environment located within a computer-mediated communication system. Rather than being built of steel and concrete, it consists of a set of group communication and work "spaces" and facilities that are constructed in software. Thus it is a "virtual" facility for interaction among the members of a class, rather than a physical space. Specifically, the Virtual Classroom
Integrated Technology Lesson Plans Teaching with the Web a compilation of ideas for using WWW resources as a Tips and ideas on classroom Integration for Little Kids - ideas to create http://www.internet4classrooms.com/integ_tech_lessons.htm
Extractions: Links Verified 08/23/05 Best Practices of Technology Integration - Michigan Dept of Education sponsors this site. Lessons divided by grade levels and subject areas. Need Acrobat Reader to access lessons. Cinquain lesson - Use this technology integration lesson in a variety of subjects. Creative Ways to Use your Existing Software - Ideas on how to use Word, PowerPoint, Paint, Access, and Excel in the classroom for tools and lessons. East Ramapo Instructional Technology - Integrated technology lessons for Grades K-4; uses word processing and Paint software. Fast Food Fun - Use the Internet and spreadsheets to find calories and fat in a typical fast food meal. Then visit the United States Department of Agriculture to find out more about healthy eating guidelines. High School Computer Lessons using Office - by Patricia Nicholson Internet Integration Activities - Student activities using Internet sites incorporated into the lesson. These are similar to Webguide lessons - using an Internet site to collect data and use it in creating a product.
On-Line Technology Practice Modules - PowerPoint Instructions on how to set up a PowerPoint presentation teaching the skill of classroom ideas and Game Templates Use with caution, there are some dead http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_powerpoint.htm
Extractions: Get the PowerPoint Viewer from Microsoft Basic Slide Show - XP on 7/3/05 Basic Slide Show - Office 97 If you are doing professional development training with this set of lessons, download a pre-training and post-training survey to evaluate your training effort Handouts to be used to support teaching of Creating a short slide presentation including all graphics, but none of the navigation links found on each page. H andouts to be used to support teaching of Creating a short slide presentation including very few graphics. Use this is your printing budget is limited.
Internet Projects The Grassroots Program If you have an idea for an Internet classroom project, To be eligible, your classroom project will need to use Internet http://www.cln.org/int_projects.html
Extractions: Internet Projects These sites will aid teachers who are looking for Internet project for their classes. Internet Projects typically involve some sort of joint venture in which students from different classes around the country, continent, or world work together. They are curriculum-based and will often involve each classroom obtaining local information, conducting research, and/or producing a product. Electronic sharing between classes can occur during the classwork itself or after the "product" has been prepared. Please read our EduWeb: Projects If you are looking for an Internet project partner outside of North America, be sure to check out EduWeb - there is a decidedly European flavour to the projects that are posted on their site. EduWeb is hosted by a U.K. internet service provider and provides search capabilities by grade and/or subject areas. They check all projects before they are posted for educational suitability and, as project start dates are passed, notices are removed from the database. Global Kids Commons In addition to sponsoring a number of Internet Projects, Global Commons Inc. offers the "Electronic Sister School Program" - a service through which schools are matched with other schools around the world. Schools then communicate with each other to set up either project or keypal exchanges.
Mind Works Learning Circle The sponsored projects take place both in the classroom and on the Here aresome ideas to help you organize classroom writing for the Mind Works http://www.iearn.org/circles/lcguide/mw/mw.html
Extractions: Mind Works is an writing theme designed to enhance creative and expository writing as well as develop different forms of self-expression. Student work in this Circle involves reading, writing, editing, and evaluating the work of other students. These critical language skills are developed in the context of meaningful writing activities. Mind Works promotes creative problem solving as a part of writing. The potential projects for this theme are diverse but there is a similar goal to all of them: to help student learn how to communication their thoughts and feelings in writing, then share and compare them with other students from distant places. The Circle publication for Mind Works is a literary magazine that might be called Creative Mind Works . The sponsored projects could be a specific form of writing such as: personal narratives, place poetry, city dialogues, school fables, local myths or personifications of local products. Or students can select a topic to sponsor and request different forms of expression on subjects like the family, jobs, schools or cities. A popular project is "circle" stories or poems. In these projects, one school begins a story or poem and each group adds to it. This theme allows for a wide range of writing projects. The material in this section parallels the Teacher's Guide and presents suggestions or ideas that are specific to the Mind Works Theme. This is an outline of the content in this section related to the different phases of Circle interaction. This file can be read from beginning to end to understand the Mind Works theme. Or, using the "hypertext" links from the phase structure of Learning Circles, it is easy to move back and forth from the general
Web-Based Resources, Teaching Today, Glencoe Online Topics covered in Teaching Today are classroom management, Teachers with aunique project idea are invited to submit a project proposal. http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/webresources.phtml/6
Extractions: Teaching Today publishes innovative teaching tips on a weekly basis. Written with the busy teacher in mind, each tip is concise, practical and easy to implement in the classroom right away. Topics covered in Teaching Today are classroom management, career development, high stakes testing, instruction and planning, parental involvement, reading in the content areas, using technology in the classroom, and portfolio development. Teaching Today also offers free weekly downloads that correspond to the tips. Our free downloads make implementing the teaching tips even easier. Teaching Today provides educational resources for teachers looking for everyday solutions to the challenges of the classroom.
Innovative Teaching - PDAs In The Classroom This is the last week to register for this year s eIditarod project. submit innovative uses of handhelds in the classroom; the Idea Bank is a collection http://surfaquarium.com/newsletter/pda.htm
Extractions: Happy New Year to subscribers everywhere! The search for sites on wireless keyboarding led me to that many more resources on handheld devices - or PDAs (personal digital assistants) - somuchso that it was worth devoting an entire issue on the subject! PDAs are small, portable, and can fit in the palm for your hand. They connect to your desktop computer so that you can easily share information between computers. Most importantly, they can run standard productivity applications like Word and Excel and the newer generation of PDAs includes wireless communication, as well. Not familiar with the range and scope of PDAs? Check out Ready or NotPDAs in the Classroom http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=6705
Language Arts Using the model, create an original poem as a class, incorporating ideas For instance, the classroom teacher would provide the lessons that give the http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/LanguageArts.html
The Choices Program | Teaching With The News The Choices Program and the Critical Oral History project both at Brown University s A pdf of this ballot is available for use in the classroom. http://www.choices.edu/curriculum_twtn.cfm
Extractions: Teaching with ... search Teaching with the News The CHOICES Program's Teaching with the News initiative provides online curriculum materials and ideas to connect the content of the classroom to the headlines in the news. Topics cover a range of foreign policy and international issues. The CHOICES Program also publishes a wide range of curriculum resources See the CHOICES homepage for what's new. We invite students to participate in an online ballot on the U.S. role in the world. Iraq: What's Ahead? Critical questions about Iraq's future and about the U.S. role in the region remain at the top of the American agenda. Iraq: What's Ahead? is an online lesson plan that engages students in consideration of a balanced range of views on the question of the U.S. presence in Iraq. What is our purpose? How long should we stay? The material is available at no charge from the Choices web site.
Mathematics Archives - K12 Internet Sites Teachers Helping Teachers Math Section A collection of teaching ideas and tipsfor classroom Compass classroom Compass is a collection of ideas and http://archives.math.utk.edu/k12.html
Extractions: K-12 Teaching Materials The following are Internet sites which contain significant collections of materials which can be used in the teaching of mathematics at the K-12 level. We have organized these materials into the following categories: Lesson Plans Columbia Education Center Mathematics Lesson Plans Explorer The Explorer is part of the Unified Network Informatics Technology for Education (UNITE) efforts at the University of Kansas. The Explorer is part of a research and development effort to establish an on time and user friendly means of delivering a full range of information resources to educators and students. This site includes information on software, lab materials, lesson plans, video tapes, etc. for the teaching of mathematics at the k-12 grade levels. ExploreMath.com Lesson Plans for the Graphing Calculator Lesson Plans using Geometer's Sketchpad Math Activities for K-12 Teachers In December, 1997, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center funded Dan Biezad, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, and Robin Ward, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, both of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, to develop materials for K-12 teachers based on aeronautical themes and NASA projects. One major goal of this project was to make the learning of mathematics more engaging and realistic for students, by using real-world applications.
Extractions: "My father grew up in a village in Taiwan....When he was 14 years old he left his home and went to Taipei, looking for a job....In 1979, my father came to Germany because he wanted to visit one of his cousins, but he liked it here and stayed. He worked as a cook in a Chinese Restaurant and his plan for the future was to be the owner of a Chinese Restaurant. Two years after his arrival in Germany we followed. At that time I was only five years old and I could only speak Chinese.... "Now we were all in Germany, my father worked as a cook, my mother stayed at home and took care of us and we went to school. But we only had visums (sic) for a few months, so we moved from state to state and tried to get a visum there. We moved for about five times until my father got an unlimited visum so that we were allowed to stay in Germany. Eleven years ago we moved to Hamburg and my father opened his own Chinese Restaurant.
Engagement Theory: Termlength projects done primarily outside the classroom are the most For students without much work experience, the idea of doing a project for an http://home.sprynet.com/~gkearsley/engage.htm
Extractions: Version: 4/5/99 Engagement Theory: A framework for technology-based teaching and learning Engagement theory has emerged from the authors' experiences teaching in electronic and distance education environments (see Shneiderman, 1994,1998; Shneiderman et al, 1995; Kearsley, 1997). The fundamental idea underlying engagement theory is that students must be meaningfully engaged in learning activities through interaction with others and worthwhile tasks. While in principle, such engagement could occur without the use of technology, we believe that technology can facilitate engagement in ways which are difficult to achieve otherwise. So engagement theory is intended to be a conceptual framework for technology-based learning and teaching. Although not directly derived from other theoretical frameworks for learning, it has much in common with many such frameworks. For example, with its emphasis on meaningful learning, it is very consistent with constructivist approaches. Because it emphasizes collaboration among peers and a community of learners, it can be aligned with situated learning theories. Because its focuses on experiential and self-directed learning, it is similar in nature to theories of adult learning (i.e., androgogy). Basic Principles By engaged learning, we mean that all student activities involve active cognitive processes such as creating, problem-solving, reasoning, decision-making, and evaluation. In addition, students are intrinsically motivated to learn due to the meaningful nature of the learning environment and activities.
Extractions: Gift Reminder The most complete collection of school supplies educational products teaching materials , classroom supplies and services for educators, parents and children. EduMart.com is proud to host educational catalogs from some of the top companies in the industry! If you have a favorite brand name click their name to be taken directly to their site where you can shop online from their catalogs with your order being filled by a local school supply store.
Apple Learning Interchange - Lesson Ideas is the place to find a growing library of creative ideas for lessons andclassroom projects using a variety of applications and teaching techniques. http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/ilife.html
Extractions: Apple Learning Interchange Home Support Advanced Search ... Site Map Search The Learning Interchanges' Lesson Ideas area is the place to find a growing library of creative ideas for lessons and classroom projects using a variety of applications and teaching techniques. You can bring the sights and sounds that excite and inspire students into your classroom with iLife, Keynote, and Safari from Apple. You may also find new techniques for using your favorite OS-X applications in the classroom. Teaching and learning become more relevant, and student performance soars.
Extractions: //document.write("") US Home Intel Worldwide Where to Buy Contact Us ... User Support Select a location for Intel Education United States Brazil Canada Costa Rica Czech Republic Egypt France Germany Ireland Israel Italy Japan Jordan Malaysia Mexico Poland Portugal Russia South Africa Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom Search Intel Education The Intel® Innovator A quarterly newsletter about Intel® Innovation in Education programs, tools, and resources for educators. Overview The Intel® Teach to the Future Workshop on Teaching Thinking with Technology is 24 to 40 hours of hands-on, face-to-face professional development. Focused on building effective technology integration skills, the workshop uses free online tools to sharpen students' higher-order thinking. Master Teachers (MTs) receive 40 hours (10 modules) of instruction. Each MT then determines which of the four workshop options to deliver to their Participant Teachers (PTs), from 24 to 40 hours (6 to 10 modules). Workshops for Master Teachers and Participant Teachers must follow the established Delivery Guidelines Workshop Modules
Classroom Management Topics Index | Power Tools | How-To Power Tools downloads, bulletin boards, how to projects for the classroom . Art idea build something out of styrofoam packing peanuts and glue, http://www.teachnet.com/how-to/manage/
Extractions: We've all known for a long time about soap and shampoo bottles that can be put to use in the classroom holding glue, water, whatever . Having just started wearing contact lenses, we've discovered another: the cleaning solution bottle. Smaller in size than soap bottles, with a flip top cap that won't get lost, these are great for glue, but you may want to use a small drill bit or a red-hot nail to make the hole larger. Anyone who wears contact lenses goes through this solution regularly, so have them save the bottles for you. Popcorn Day Reward your students with popcorn when they finally make it through their multiplication tables, to illustrate how steam and pressure can have explosive results, as an incentive to go one day without getting in trouble in the lunchroom or simply because it's Friday. Popcorn is quick and easy to make, doesn't cost much money and, no, a microwave oven is
The One-Computer Classroom | Getting Organized bulletin boards, how to projects for the classroom. Idea 2 I only teachLanguage Arts, so I usually center my power point lessons around English http://www.teachnet.com/how-to/organization/onecompclass040799.html
Extractions: We are fortunate in our district to have our computers linked to a TV which is mounted on a wall. It makes it easier to incorporate various software and the internet into daily lessons (I teach Reading/Language Arts). I also have two additional computers (one is a castoff from home) which the kids use in their free time as they finish their work. To enable some of my slower students to get some computer time, I occasionally use a roster with the kids' names to decide who will have computer time that day. Sometimes I'll start at the beginning, middle or end of the roster to allow everyone an equal chance of using the computer. Good luck! Using the computer effectively in the classroom can be a tricky business! Karen Idea #4
KET's Internet Projects List CIESE Online classroom Projects (Center for Improved Engineering and Some teaching resources are free; the student projects require a subscription. http://www.ket.org/Education/IN/projects.html
Extractions: Online Projects for the Beginning of the 2001/02 School Year Tips for Participating in Internet Classroom Projects Make Connections and Find Projects Follow an Adventure ... Miscellaneous FUN Online Activities Online Projects for the Beginning of the 2001/02 School Year Kidlink's "I Have a Dream" project helps youth realize their dreams about their future and a better world. Students are challenged to plan, design, and implement an Internet based project to realize their favored dreams in collaboration with peers in other countries. This educational program is for school classes and individual youth through secondary school level. Project Dates: September 15, 2001 to April 30, 2002. Sky Pictures Each week, for 6 weeks, participating classes (students ages 5 to 12 years) will exchange digital pictures of what their sky (horizon) looked like. Project Dates: September 17, 2001 to October 26, 2001. Each grade K-4 class will read, write and submit via email a book report of their choice for each one of the following genres: Fantasy, Animal Fiction, Fairy Tale, Realistic Fiction. Project Dates: October 7, 2001 to November 30, 2001. Story Writing Project 9: Connecting you Globally Six schools (students ages 5-13) will work together to write a story. When you register your class, you will join a Story Writing Group with five other classes. Each class will be assigned a one week period in which to write their paragraph and email it. Project Dates: September 23, 2001 to November 8, 2001.
MS Excel Resources projects and lessons; Teaching and Learning with MS EXCEL Data Sets Math and Spreadsheets as Mindtools in the classroom created by Carol Wortman http://www.sabine.k12.la.us/class/excel_resources.htm
Cyber English® Teaching Writing in a Web Based classroom A Case Study of Ted Nellen s Fran Bullin s classroom, South Carolina. Web Projects from Beacon School in NYC. http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/
Extractions: Teaching Writing in a Web Based Classroom: A Case Study of Ted Nellen's "Cyber English Class" by Liz Cushman Brandjes Internetworking: Professional Development through Online Connections by Dawn Hogue Education and Community: Telementoring Research Mentoring and the Internet O.K., Schools Are Wired. Now What? NYTimes, January, 9, 2000. What I Did on My Summer Vacation NYTimes August 5, 1999 Popular Teachers Become Pipeline to Corporations NYTimes August 5, 1999 Virtual Youth: Computer Club started by Cyber English scholars. 10.4.98 Hyper-Lit electronic school online June 98 Manhattan English Classroom Expands as Volunteers Adopt-A-Student Online CyberTimes June 6, 1997.
