Instructional Technology In The Classroom

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Instructional Technology In The Classroom

• Beverly E. Horner
• August 12, 13, and 14

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This Is Why We Teach

• Compliments of the
• Virginia Education Association
• VEA
• Teaching, Learning, Leading

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CREATING A PORTAPORTAL

• Go to www.portaportal.com
• To view my Portaportal type bvhorner, bhorner,
  or bhorner2 in guest access
• This is the page to create your own portaportal
  that allows you to save and categorize your
  favorite web sites.

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PortaPortal

• If you want to find what other PortaPortal users
  are bookmarking, do a quick Google search with a
  search something like this
• music portaportals

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SITES TO VIEW AND SAVE

• http//www.ideastations.org/
• e-KLIPS
• Video clips for educators and students
• Log In is preferred but not required
• Search by SOL, keyword, or phrase
• Can only be streamed, not downloaded

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MORE GREAT SITES

• http//www.rockingham.k12.va.us/resources/soltechi
  ntegration.htm
• Rockingham County Public Schools
• http//206.113.131.136/ITRT/
• Fauquier County Technology Matrix
• http//www.ttaconline.org/staff/sol/sol.asp?
• SOL lesson plans

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FREE MUSIC AND CLIP ART

• http//www.royaltyfreemusic.com/
• http//www.awesomeclipartforeducators.com/
• http//pics4learning.com/

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Break
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FREE CHATS

• http//twitter.com/
• http//edublogs.org/
• http//jottit.com/
• http//skype-guide.blogspot.com/2008/04/establishi
  ng-who-can-call-or-chat-with.html

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Rubistar

• http//4teachers.org/
• RubiStar is a free tool to help teachers create
  quality rubrics.

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INSPIRATION , KIDSPIRATION INSPIREDATA

• Introduce InspireData and show templates
• Review templates in your content area
• Create Surveys to use with students and parents
  that are online

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Hot Potatoes

• The Hot Potatoes suite is a set of six authoring
  tools, created by the Research and Development
  team at the University of Victoria Humanities
  Computing and Media Centre. They enable you to
  create interactive Web-based exercises of several
  basic types.
• Create and upload to Edline

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Qwizdom How To

• After opening Qwizdom, click on New Activity
• Name it
• Click on New Set
• Use drop down to change type of test and choices
• Click where it prompts you to Click to Add
  Question

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Qwizdom Continued

• Create an answer slide
• To add a picclick on the camera and double click
  on the image you want
• To add equationsclick the square root symbol,
  click on the screen where you want the equation,
  pick the equation and fill in the numbers

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Break
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Good Guys In, Bad Guys Out

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vGJSg8TS8cmg
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vhoj5Scm7HaYfeature
  related

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Photo Story

• This is a free download

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Windows MovieMaker

• List ways to use with classroom instruction
• Making commercials
• Documenting events
• Showing timelines
• Recording information learned

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Examples of Instruction

• Smoking Commercials

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WEBTOOLS4U2USE

• http//webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/Webtools4U2Us
  e
• Web 2.0 sites allow one to read AND write!
• Web 2.0 sites offer the opportunity to share
  and/or collaborate on the work.
• Web 2.0 tools provide digital equity.
• Handout

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Essential Conditions for Technology Integration

• Handout
• Conduct survey
• View results
• Discuss The TPACK Game
• Handout

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Smart Boards

• In order to use this software, you must have the
  Smart Notebook installed on your computer

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Recommended Search Engines
Search Engine Address Remarks
Ask www.ask.com
Exalead www.exalead.com From France Use for Link Checking
KartOO www.kartoo.com From France Visual Results Display
Yahoo www.yahoo.com Use for Link Checking
Windows Live www.live.com Microsoft
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INTERNET SAFETY

• https//www.edline.net/GroupHome.page
• Go to your content area of instruction and review
  the Internet Safety lessons. Pick one you would
  like to teach and decide how and when you would
  implement the lesson.

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Maintaining Your Computer

• First delete items in your recycle bin
• Then, go to start, all programs, accessories,
  system tools, disk clean uplet your computer
  work
• Then do the same thing, only go to disk
  defragmenter instead of disk clean upand again
  give your computer time to work

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Online Sites Use at home and school

• Study Island www.studyisland.com
• Username- first initial and last name.cbes
• Password- first name
• Big Chalk/Proquest elibrary http//www.proquestk12
  .com
• User name-45-1331
• Password-bigchalk

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More Sites

• Encyclopedia Britannica
• http//school.eb.com
• User name- colonialbeach
• Password- student

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Sites Continued

• Gale Virtual Resources (Thomson Gale)
• http//infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/va_s_202_0021
• Password- schools