Technology Integration Ideas That Works

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Technology Integration Ideas That Works

• Article By Linda Starr
• PowerPoint Created By Brianna Nelson

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Web Sites

• Technology used most often
• for student projects is the World Wide Web
• The internet is loaded with
• activities for all types of classes
• Ideas
• Assign students to research areas of a particular
  subject by going onto the internet, collect
  pictures, info and present results to the class
• Internet scavenger hunts

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More Ideas

• Puzzlemaker.com
• http//refdesk.com/
• ePals.com Works on writing skills, exchange
  weather and compare communities
• Virtual Field Trips
• Thomas Jeffersons Monticello
• Brainboosters.com
• Check daily weather in states that students are
  studying in social studies

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PowerPoint and Excel

• Excel
• Create charts and graphs and
• compare and contrast results
• Used to tally results for any kind
• of question
• Create game boards or patterns,
• calendars or timelines
• Use spreadsheets to chart different observations

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• PowerPoint
• Projects may be presented in an interactive way
• Use as a game show format
• Can accompany oral reports on curricular topics

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Word Processing

• Create newsletters, magazines, advertisements,
  flyers, business cards, web pages, using columns
  create newspapers based on topics from colonial
  times
• With drawing tools you can create pictures,
  logos, puzzles, illustrated stories, cookbooks

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Miscellaneous Technology Tools

• Groups of students can select a campaign manager
  and a candidate and create films ads promoting
  candidates
• Have students scan drawings to add to their
  written reports
• Digital cameras
• Growing plants, changing
• seasons, field trips

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Teachers

• Use PowerPoint to spice up lectures by including
  pictures, sounds, and music to enhance info
• Hook up a microscope to computer
• Promote technology, encourage online projects
• Visit other teachers web sites to get technology
  integration ideas or meet with other teachers to
  share ideas