Research:

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Research

• Dream Machine or Nightmare?

Mary Lou Elliott Lisa Hallman Debby Hegler
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I love it when a good plan comes together.
George Peppard (the A-Team)
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Planning

• Group Planning
• Grade Level
• Teams
• Departments
• Collaboration With Individual Teachers

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Planning Guide
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Staff Development

• Technology Day
• After school or during planning period
• In-service activities
• Professional Growth Institute

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Teacher Support

• Research support tools
• MLA Format style
• Transparencies
• Student handouts
• Topic development
• Student instruction
• After school support for students

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Instructional Strategies

• PowerPoint
• How-to guides
• Web pages
• Literature connections
• Traditional Pathfinders

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Teaching with PowerPoint

• Using the Catalog
• Using DISCUS resources
• Evaluating websites

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PRINT SOURCES

• CATALOG

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
OR
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
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Call
Vol.
Title
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ONLINE SOURCES

• DISCUS

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Hardy, Thomas
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Title of the original source (italicized)
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How-to Guides

• Brochures
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Publisher
• Newspapers/Newsletters
• PowerPoint Presentations
• Specific online sources

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Web Pages

• Media Center Homepage
• Student Links
• Teacher Toolbox
• Technology Proficiency for Teachers
• Book Links

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Literature Connections

• Picture books
• Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco
• Rose Blanche by Roberto Innocenti
• The Wall by Eve Bunting
• True Story of the Three Little Pigs
  by Jon Scieszkas
• Novels
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

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Pathfinders

• Handouts with listed sources
• Hot Links in a web page
• Graphics

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Beyond Papers
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Beyond Papers

• 3-D objects
• Picture books
• Brochures
• Newsletters and Newspapers
• PowerPoint

• Paper Bag Bio
• Biopoem
• Recipe for an Event
• Resumé for a noted person
• Baseball cards

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Research Dream Machine or Nightmare?

• Some days its a little of both.