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Finding Quality Activitites for your students on tFinding Quality Activitites for your students on the Internet
- General Philosophy
- Single or multiple classroom computer learning stations, laptops, open labs: getting more productive use out of them
- Not play time!
- Students have to have direction at the computer.
- What's my angle?
- Benefits
- Increase Tech skills - Decrease the "Digital Divide"
- More effective & efficient
- Extra practice - skill building
- Sources
- EverydayMath.org
- Global Classroom
- AAAmath.com
- Some SPPS links pages
- Frost Lake
- Longfellow
- Mississippi
- Projects (Bigger)
- Virtual Media Center
- Scholastic.com
- Apple Learning Interchange
- UnitedStreaming teacher guides
- Read, Write, Think
- AtomicLearning.com
- Buddy Project
- Web Quests
- Will Steger
- http://www.techtrekers.com/webquests/
- Student Showcase
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Searching for your own
- Google
- Search Techniques. The fewer results the better!
- Wording your phrase
- Search Help
- Five tips:
1.Be specific!
2. Use quotes for phrases
3. Use + to require
4. Use - to exclude
5. Combine symbols as often as possible
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Side Issues
- No Printing without teacher permission! Ever!!
- Managing your bookmarks using IE
- Pathfinders for students
- Links page using Urban Planet
- AppleWorks links page
- Desktop favorites with icon
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Scheduling students
- Equal access Not a privilege!
- Demonstrations
- LCD?
- Kids helping kids
- Saving, recording results
- not for assessment - accountability
- Sound
- Headphones? External speakers?
- Regular Computer Lab time. Prep?
- Keyboarding instruction
- take advantage of skills learned in prep
- Suggest 5 minute starter activities
- Get your Bldg tech to help
- Browser set up i.e. Flash, QT
- Is On Guard really needed?
- Set up student user acct. with OS X
- Cool Tools
- Citation machine
- crossword puzzle maker
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