Applications in Educational Technology: Resources

EDST 220 Required Resources

3rd Grade Technology Use Survey - Digital Survey

4th Grade Classroom Newsletter - September 12th-16th- Sample Newsletter

Water Cycle Digital Story Book - Digital Story Book

Crater Lake- Slide Show

Create Your Own Store Glog - Lesson Plan Outline

Create Your Own Store Lesson Plan - A Technology Rich PBL

Target Audience Worksheet - Brainstorming Activity

Lesson Plan Standards- Standards specific for Lesson Plan above

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Video - Project-Based Learning: An Overview: Teaching to the standardized tests, lowers standards

Dabble Board: The Whiteboard Reinvented

DoPDF: How to print as PDF

Google Translate: Translate documents into multiple languages

Neat Chat: Private and Printable Chat Room

Hiking the Appalachian Trail: A PBL lesson plan

WebQwest: A WebQwest about WebQqests

WebQwest: How to build a WebQwest

Blog Header: Designing a Blog Header in Photoshop

ClustrMaps:Maps showing the location of the people visiting your site

TrackStar: A links list of approved and annotated links

Haring Kids:Interactive Coloring books, art lesson plans, games, screen savers, books etc

Quia: Games, lesson plans, jeopardy, etc in multiple subjects and levels

New York Philharmonic Kid Zone:
Interactive music games, puzzles, instrument knowledge, composing, musician information

Interactive Educational Websites:

Examples of Web 2.0 applications

Web-Based Communities (ThinkQuest)
Web Apps (bubbl.us)
Social Networking (Facebook)
Video Sharing (YouTube)
Wikis (wikispaces)
Blogs (Blogger)
Mashups (Daylightmap; Trendsmap)
Tagging
RSS Feeds
Podcasting (Education Podcasting Network)
Social Bookmarking (Diigo, Delicious)
Photo Sharing (Flickr, Picasa)
VoIP (Skype, Wetoku)
Collaborative News Sites (Newsvine, Digg)
IM/Tweets (Twitter, Yammer)

Yammer: Private Social Networking Site; classroom discussions

Edmodo: Private social networking site, looks like facebook, used to upload assignments, grades, communication with students, etc.

Schoology: Private social networking site, looks like facebook, used to upload assignments, grades, communication with students, calendars, etc.

Virtual Reality Sites:

Whyville

Classroom applications (again, just a few of many possibilities):

Language training/learning
3D rendering
Data repository
Practice and apply knowledge
Finances
Social and Network Etiquette
Educational Games

Second Life

Classroom Applications (again, just a few of many possibilities):

Language Training/leanring
3D rendering (design and create buildings)
Data Repository
Practice and apply knowledge

The Twitter Experiment: How to use Twitter in the classroom

Social Networking in the Classroom...Yes or No?

The Danger of Social Networking (Note: this is a PBL student production!)

Wetoku

Wetoku Tutorial: PDF file

Differentiated Instrutction

Differentiated Instruction Ignites Elementary School Learning: Using technology to differentiate instruction.

Read Please: Download application and it will read aloud anything it sees on the screen.

Pictures for Learning: Browse pictures by subject to enhance curriculum.

Electronic Venn Diagram:Create your own Venn Diagram Digitally.

Exploratorium: Explore, Play, and Discover: The Museum of Science, Art, and Human Perception.

Bridge Building: Differentiating Manipulatives.

The Great Wall of China Virtual Field Trip: Interactive field trips.

Read, Write, Think: Classroom resources, lesson plans, student interactive activities, printouts

Goodnight Stories: Create your own ending to a story, fill in a blank story, read along etc.

Superhero Squad: Create your own comic.

Using Technology to Differentiate Instruction

Using Technology to Differentiate Instruction (overview)
Why Add Tech to DI?
Using Technology to Differentiate Instruction Across Grade Levels
Using Technology to Differentiate Instruction (specific examples)
Best Practices of Tech Integration in Michigan

Technology Unit:

These articles may give you ideas for possible technology unit outcomes.

Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy Resources
The Project Approach (not all projects here are tech-based, but you may be able to adapt ideas to the final project requirements)

Educational Technology Realities