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Welcome to the central communications point for
the Middle Level Technology Integration Course. This website
will directly support Middle Staff that are participating in the
course. Participants should check here often to view on-going
additions to the resources and information that will accompany the
course as we progress through the 2004-2005 school year. We
encourage others members of our school community to stop in and
keep track as well.
We hope that participants will submit additional resources and materials
relating to course subjects that those in the wider school community
might benefit from and use. A primary goal of this course
is to develop a greater capacity and willingness to share the knowledge
capital that exists within our school community. To submit
additional resources or materials contact Coach
Arnold.
COURSE
OBJECTIVES:
1.
Develop an active Community of Practice between teachers
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Increase the technology integration capacity of teachers to broaden
enhance student learning and instructional practices.
3.
Construct Class Websites that improve communication and access to
learning resources for students and parents.
4.
Restructure the student ePortfolio process to positively impact
student performance and educational practice.
As
this page grows longer... don't forget to
keep up with the Course
Calendar page. Many resources in addition to
the outline of class assignments is provided in this calendar format.
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Click
links (right) to try tools > |
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Course Spotlight |
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Unleash
your creativity and make your digital film for free! Choose
a background scene, characters, animated actions, dialog,
introduction, and ending credits. Put your name as the producer
and email the movie to your friends! You can also signup at
no cost as a registered user, which gives you access to more
advanced features, such as being able to save or edit the
movies that you create.
AWESOME
- Thanks to Dave Bain for the link!
Sample
Movies:
Dave
Mark
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Overview
of Features and Functions
FreshPond.net
promotes professional collaboration by supplying a convenient
way to share ideas and strategies for improving student learning.
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Teachers can use FreshPond.net's Web-based tools to develop
and publish lessons and Web pages.
- Groups of teachers can work collaboratively to develop model
lessons that address areas of the curriculum that are targets
for improvement.
- Teams of educators can easily communicate with each other
and access common files, lessons, and Web pages.
Learn
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Educational
Web Adventures (Eduweb®)
is an award-winning developer of online learning experiences.
They seek to engage the many ways people learn with the thoughtful
application of learning theory, imaginative conceptualizations,
and unflinching evaluation. Their broad experience in museum
and K-12 education, combined with a deep subject knowledge
of art, history and science, have helped to produce over 75
immersive, interactive, and in-depth adventures about art,
science, history, and technology.
If
you are thinking of meaningful ways to have technology help
inspire learning and student performance, this is a great
resource to utilize.
I
have used several of these activities with students in the
past and they were a big-hit with students. As a teacher,
I felt that it was some of the best time I asked students
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DigitalCurriculum:
DigitalCurriculum's
comprehensive learning environment integrates full-length
educational videos, key concept video clips, still images,
Encyclopedia Britannica content, teacher guides, lesson plans
and interactive online assessments and assignments into an
unlimited learning tool for teachers, students and administrators.
DigitalCurriculum comprises some 90,000 educational multimedia
components for every K-12 subject, with correlations to state
and national standards, multiple bit-rate encoding for school
and home use, and simple incorporation of local content.
If
you are interested in trying this out, email me and I will
send you the login information for the Trial account.
I will also share this with class members at the next class
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KitZu:
The premise of KitZu is that if students are supplied with the
basic building blocks of a project first (i.e., graphics, music,
sound, video clips, etc.), then it will be easier to use technology
applications (iMovie, Pinnacle, PowerPoint, VideoBlender) to
build engaging works. As they master the technology, they will
progress from building projects with supplied materials to project
where they find their own resources---a strategy that results
in truly authentic assessment as measured by the projects produced.
To support this scaffolding strategy, the development
of an online database (kitZu) is underway that will allow kits
and their assets to be stored, searched for and downloaded by
teachers and students in the classroom.
This is a project
we might consider valuable as part of an instructional model
for technology integration.
 Read
how kits scaffold the integration of multimedia FlashPaper
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For
more "kits" check out this site www.schoolhousevideo.org
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iKeepBookmarks.com
allows you to upload , and keep, your bookmarks
on the web for free. You can access them at
any time , from any computer... anywhere
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- Do
you want to use your bookmarks at work
and at home?
- Do
you use more than one computer?
- Wish
you could share your favorite pages with
friends and colleagues?
- Ever
had to start your favorites, or bookmarks, over when you
bought a new computer?
- Do
you want an easy to maintain set of links?
- Would
you like to give your students an easy way to access favorite
sites?
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Using
tables to arrange content |
Navigating
to pages in Contribute |
Modify
table properties |
Creating
a new page |
Creating
hyperlinks |
Editing
an existing page |
Adding
images to a page |
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construction |
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| Course
Calendar |
Things
to Think About - Website Design |
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Click
calendar icon below to view
on-line calendar
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Tools |
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As a part of this course,
teachers will examine the way that people can use technology to
think collaboratively. We will be using a variety of on-line
applications that are examples of tools that have been designed
for people to more effectively work in teams, share knowledge, and
save time by contributing to "group think". At the
same time the tools we have selected to work together in this course
are capable of being integrated use with students in the classroom
(a great example of modeling). Below are key links that will take
you to different "work spaces" that are part of this course.
Clicking on the links
below will take you to the work spaces we are using in this course.
Contribute: Starting Point page for your own web
page work.
NiceNet:
Courseware application for managing asynchronous class activities
Blogger:
Weblog application for personal or group reflection and dialog.
Think.com:
Free Website & Email for everyone in your school
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