50 Teacher Tested Ideas
for Aligning the New Technology Standards in the Classroom

EALR 1—INTEGRATION
Students incorporate technology into all content areas by generating innovative ideas, collaborating, communicating, investigating, and solving problems.

Component 1.1 Innovate: Demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.

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Digital Stories
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/PhotoStory/default.mspx

Record original story digitally and illustrate, publishing a digital story

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Math Forum

http://www.mathforum.com/

Student groups solve and submit solutions to math problem of the week with an online expert

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PAWS Pet of the Week

http://www.pawskids.org/pets/pet_of_the_week_archive/hobo_-_september_21st_2007.html

Write an advertisement, describing a pet up for adoption, then have PAWS publish it, in order to get the pet adopted

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Portfolios

Store and present electronic portfolios of exemplary work

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Social Bookmarking

www.delicious.com

Use shared bookmarking websites to share research on chosen topic.

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Read Write Think

http://www.readwritethink.org

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Classroom Clipart

http://classroomclipart.com/

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Build a Prairie

www.bellmuseum.org/distancelearning/prairie/

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Learning Games

www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm

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The Artist’s Toolkit

www.artsconnected.org/toolkit

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The Art of Crime Detection

www.alifetimeofcolor.com/play/crimedetection/index.html

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Free Foto

http://www.freefoto.com/

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My Web Inspiration

http://www.mywebspiration.com

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Circuit Board Simulation

www.article19.com/shockwave/oz.htm

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Google Earth

http://earth.google.com

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Google Lit Trips

http://www.googlelittrips.org

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Picasa

http://picasa.google.com

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Panoramio

www.panoramio.com

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Social Bookmarking

http://www.diigo.com/

Use shared bookmarking websites to share research on chosen topic. Highlight parts of the shared webpage, or add sticky notes to it.

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Google Docs

http://docs.google.com

Collaborate online while group-writing a research or scientific paper.

Component 1.2 Collaborate: Use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively to support individual learning, and contribute to the learning of others.

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Wiki, blog, or a web page

Book discussions

Share book reviews and make book recommendations on a classroom wiki, blog, or webpage

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Online magazine

Share original written pieces and comment/edit using wiki, blog, or forum

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Virtual Field Trips www.uen.org/tours/fieldtrips2.shtml

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Rubistar

http://rubistar.4teachers.org

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iEarn

www.iearn.org

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StemStar

http://www.stemstar.com/

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Virtual museum

Create a virtual museum of artwork from a particular culture, and respond to artwork on a blog

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Gliffy

http://www.gliffy.com/

Create a flowchart of a designed computer program

Diagram a story before writing it

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Twiddla

http://twiddla.com/

Component 1.3 Investigate and Think Critically: Research, manage and evaluate information, and solve problems using digital tools and resources.

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Timerime

http://timerime.com/

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Footnote

Primary research tool for history

Highlight, research, share primary sources to collaborate and write a paper discussing the issues civil war widows faced after the war.

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Google News

http://news.google.com

Research the same current event told by several news agencies in different countries to analyze bias

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Microsoft Excel

Compare and contrast norms of healthy behavior by collecting and analyzing data on student health

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Microsoft Excel

Collect and analyze scientific data, and draw conclusions such as analyzing the migratory pattern of whales

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Forum, wiki, blog

Conduct a mock debate online (using a forum, wiki, or blog)

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Microsoft Powerpoint

Students demonstrate understanding and synthesis: i.e. Present causes of conflict of the revolutionary war

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Document camera

Primary students demonstrate mathematical patterns & deviations created using manipulatives

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Teacher/student created websites

Create a collaborative website to report results, share solutions, or publish original writing.

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InspireData + classroom blog

Share solutions to a mathematical problem.

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Cell phones

Use audience feedback to evaluate solutions to problems

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Twitter

Follow the development of a social issue in realtime by following blogs, twitters, relevant websites, and other online references

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Bookr

Create and share photo book of student’s community

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Voicethread

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Digital voice recorder, Flip video

Record student findings in the field, of water quality of a local pond

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Video camera

Record “how to” conduct today’s lab, for each science class

EALR 2— DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP
Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology systems and operations and practice safe, legal, and ethical behavior.

Component 2.1 Safety:Practice safe, legal, and ethical behavior in the use of information and technology.

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Netsmartz
http://www.netsmartz.org
http://www.netsmartz.org/resources/reallife.htm

Internet safety websites designed to help educators, families, and kids. Videos are especially informative and powerful. Use resources to inform students, parents, and community.

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Safeteens (and Safekids)

http:// www.safeteens.com

Parent / teacher information for helping kids understand the importance of being safe online, on cell phones, etc.

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PBS: Growing Up Online

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/

Frontline video for parents & teachers

Component 2.2 Operate: Understand and use technology systems.

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http://www.wikispaces.com

Set up a classroom wiki for student / expert collaboration to answer questions, define, problem solve

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Online forums

See your district / teacher website

Instead of a group / class discussion, online forums (in students’ words) provide a place where one can reflect first, and respond in a thoughtful manner. They then have time to “listen” by thoughtfully reading others’ comments, rather than thinking about what they need to say next.

Use online forums for:

51 Book discussions

52 Article analysis

53 Science lab discussion between / information for next class

54 Peer editing process for writers’ workshop

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Podcasts as Reading Assistance

Students read a printed podcast of a more difficult text, while listening to the podcast. They code their thinking as they read.

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Microsoft Word

Use MS Word to format a poem onto a water bottle present.

Component 2.3 Apply: Select and use software applications effectively and productively.

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Software: Inspiration

http://www.inspiration.com/Inspiration

brainstorm, organize concepts, essays, compare/contrast, use core subject templates to organize.

Software: Kidspiration

http://www.inspiration.com/Kidspiration

Kidspiration : organize concepts K-3 style (although intermediate teachers love this too)

Software: InspireData

http://www.inspiration.com/Kidspiration

build data literacy, develop analytical skills, and strengthen critical thinking using data.

57-59 Inspiration:

Some ideas: 1) organize and compare components of the economic stimulus package, 2) create a flowchart of the relationships between characters in Greek mythology (or any novel) 3) Organize any essay

60-62 Some ideas: 1) Enter photos of students & community building into Kidspiration’s library, have students create settings, then write about them, 2) Have students web their understandings of what plants need to grow, using the library and word bank, 3) As a group, brainstorm and organize parts of a whole-class story, then groups write their part.

63-65 InspireData: Some ideas: 1) graph earthquake magnitude and region, animating it in time series, 2) Look for a correlation between height and wingspan in birds, 3) investigate and graph the average amount of sleep students get.

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Google calendar

http://calendar.google.com

Shared, online calendars help students, teachers and parents communicate important information such as homework deadlines. They help parents help their children build accountability.

Share homework deadlines and links online, with parents and students. Students can plan completion of culminating projects.

Sign up for library lab times, or note conference times, curriculum night, school events, field trips.

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Youtube: Def Jam Poetry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3bbpj2hX6w&feature=related

Male role model poets motivate young writers.

“I wanna hear a poem where ideas kiss similes so deeply that metaphors get jealous.”

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Pics 4 Learning

http://pics4learning.com/

Find appropriate, free pictures for presentations

Component 2.4 Fluency: Adapt to change by transferring current knowledge to new and emerging technologies.

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Video

69-71 Some ideas: 1) Create a video advertisement persuading people to vote for a candidate of your choice, 2) created a video or simulation of important parts of the book Fahrenheit 451, 3) create a video interview with a character from the novel you’ve read, highlighting the important aspects of that person’s time and culture.