Dr.
Moersch's Level of Technology Implementation Framework designed to accurately
measure authentic classroom technology use. The LoTi Framework focuses on
the use of technology as a tool within the context of student based instruction
with a constant emphasis on higher order thinking
Be World Wise - explore
the world as a virtual voyager
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.
Bowling Green School
District - lesson plan ideas that integrate the use of technology into
the curriculum for the purpose of professional learning and discussion
Cinquain lesson
- Use this technology integration lesson in a variety of subjects.
A
Day in the Life - This lesson examines how technology and media have changed
over the past fifty years, and how this has influenced everyday life. middle
school lesson
ETrip
- (PreK - 12) step by step directions for the
students, all subject areas - from the Instructional Technology Department,
Midway ISD, Waco,TX
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.
Buy Low, Sell
High - Students learn how to invest in corporate stocks by creating
investment "portfolios." They develop worksheets to track each portfolio's
performance, and then report results to the class. (Uses
MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)
Tell a
totem story - In this lesson, students will research their own family
history and create a totem pole to describe that history. (Uses
MS Word and PowerPoint)
World
Pizza - In this project, students embrace the best of both worlds
by first imagining a global pizza with ingredients from all over, and
then developing a savvy, sensitive plan to market the product in a very
particular place. (Uses MS Excel)
Task
Cards: Don't let the students wander aimlessly around the Internet. Create
tasks for Internet sites.
Technology
Curriculum Integration Ideas - Lists of ideas for various software such
as PowerPoint, Word, Web Activities, Hyperstudio categorized by subject areas.
Technology
Integration Made Easy - TIME Lessons were created to provide teachers
with an easy method of integrating computer skills into subject area content
from the classroom. These lessons are correlated with the N. C. Computer Curriculum
Technology
Integration Possibilities - From Longview ISD Instructional Technology
Specialists, an organizational graph of the different ways and types of integration
for teachers in the classroom. A good starting point to get an idea of the
many possibilities for the use of technology.
Technology Integration
Projects - Projects in all subject areas in all grades. Clear and concise
directions to complete student tasks, along with outcomes, activities,rubrics,
and resources. Excellent site for ideas on projects using technology integration.
Click on the Division sections to access the lessons.
Technology-Supported
Lessons Online - View the complete presentations demonstrating effective
technology integration methods in a variety of K-12 content areas.
Teaching with the
Web - from Kennesaw State University, organized by grade level - ideas
to get you started
Teaching with the Web
- a compilation of ideas for using WWW resources as a language teaching tool.
Web-bits
- A Web-Bit is a short, learning-based activity that uses the World Wide Web
as the resource for gaining information. The activities included in the Web-Bit
stress a variety of responses and emphasize critical thinking and higher-order
thinking skills.
What
do you want to use technology for? - Get ideas on how to utilize a certain
kind of technology or a combination of different technologies to accomplish
specific learning objectives.
Where
Do I Live? - social studies lesson plan on using neighborhood maps
Learning With
Technology Profile Tool - This profile tool will help you to compare your
current instructional practices with a set of indicators for engaged learning
and high-performance technology, a graph of your responses will be displayed
on the screen.
MyTarget - Web-based self-assessment
tool allows Indiana teachers to answer a series of questions. Then, with the
click of a button, the tool calculates results and recommends professional
development resources to fill the gaps. Click on Guest login at the top. It
will probably have the old guest data, but you can select your own answers.
Tool 2 is the Technology assessment part.
Sample
Administrator Technology Self-Assessment Tool - The purpose of developing
this sample tool is to assist superintendents, principals, and other administrators
in their leadership role of implementing appropriate technology in their schools.
Tech
Self Assessment - Tool to print off; divided into elementary, middle and
high school assessments.
Technology Self Assessment
Tool - Quia site. Online assessment, but it is sent to the person that
created the test. A good use of this would be to print out the test per teacher.
Learning With
Technology Profile Tool from North Central Regional Technology in Education
Consortium - This profile tool will help you to compare your current instructional
practices with a set of indicators for engaged learning and high-performance
technology. For each category, there is a description of the indicators and
examples that fall along a continuum. There are three examples for each indicator.
Select the example that best describes your current practice, even though
it may not represent your instructional goals, or the goals of your school
or district. You may select only one example for each indicator. At the
end you will see a box with the instruction, "Type text here." Type in your
first name and last initial and print your graph.
Technology
Self-Assessment Tool (TAST) - Used by the Massachusetts Department
of Education to help teachers determine their own levels of technology proficiency
and to identify personal technology professional development needs.
Teacher Self
Assessment Scale (posted by Bellingham Washington Public Schools) - All
teachers take this assessment in the spring of each year. Results are used
to plan professional development opportunities. Separate assessments are provided
for Elementary,
Middle,
and High
School teachers.
Idea Starters for using Technology in the Classroom ways to include a technology aspect into your lessons
as a book review to get others to read this book, including setting, characters,
plot, opinion of book, etc
for parents relaying information of upcoming projects that will be done
in class (this also will serve to help students understand the assignments
and activities they will be doing)
about an invention they have researched. Things that can be included are
graphics, why this invention is important, how much is it worth and why
it is worth buying, what the world would be like without this invention
and why every home should have one, how it is going to improve the quality
of life.
for their after-school club to help attain new members
create an ad for restaurants
create a brochure for a new day care
create ad for women factory workers after researching the era.
Newsletters:
Students can use a newsletter format to create:
Eye-Witness Reports- After studying an event in history, have students
report on various happenings during this time period,in first person, as
an eye-witness to the event. Class will create a newspaper dated the time
of the happenings.
Newsletter highlighting their after-school club events to share information
with the rest of the students.
Databases and Spreadsheets:
Set up a bookstore as a way of earning extra money for school events,
selling unusual items . Keep an inventory in a database and how many of
each item is needed and sold. Use Excel to keep a tally of the price of
items and income earned . Create a Price List to pass out to students and
future customers in Word or Excel.
Have students make a class inventory of furniture and art supplies on
hand in a database. Estimate needs of art supplies and what should be ordered
for class projects and the amount needed to purchase these in Excel.
Clubs can create a membership information database to share with students.
While doing Oral History Reports where students interview people on various
topics, enter data in a database and compare answers to various questions
and graph with Excel similarities and differences using various criteria
to set up the queries.
After studying a nutrition unit, create a survey in Word for fellow students
on their favorite cafeteria food. After the survey, students create a graph
depicting the survey results. Create database on food items selected and
nutritional information. Use queries to pull up data in various ways and
make graphs with data.
Compare stories read in class throughout the school year by creating a
database of story characters. Create queries to compare and contrast the
traits of main characters. This may also be used for story settings or plots
or any other story element.
Vacation Planner - create a budget in a spreadsheet
How I spent my day - create a spreadsheet on total hours and how each
was spent, then create a pie graph representing percentages.
Recipes - Menus and ingredients. Use formulas to increase for multiples.
Database of scientists of various centuries and their discoveries.
Daily log of nutrition.
Word Documents:
After discussing American Revolution or any other subject, have students
adopt a role by choosing a side and write a persuasive letter trying to
convince the other side to see things their way.
After discussing the Pilgrims and Indians, have students take on the role
of either group, Pilgrim or Indian, and write a friendly letter to the other,
thanking them for their help and inviting them to a big celebration to honor
their friendship.
While studying English grammar, instead of having the children copy from
their English text, have the students create their own sentences for others
to correct in a word processor document, saving them and then exchanging
the sentences with a partner.
English Grammar - Teacher type in some sentences for the class and save
document. Have students come up and make all the nouns red and all the pronouns
blue by highlighting and changing font color. Students can check each other.
Develop a multi-cultural calendar. After discussing two or three different
cultures, brainstorm with students various other cultures and have pairs
of students decide what ethnic or religious culture they would like to learn
about. After researching holidays and customs of cultures have students
enter data in a calendar layout. Create the calendar by using the Calendar
Wizard. In a separate word document, have students write a synopsis of the
holiday customs. Display the calendar in class and discuss the various holidays
as they appear through the school year.
The
WebGuide template
as a Word document - or - The WebGuide
template as an online template
