Category: Reviews
Book Review: 55 Technology Projects for the Digital Classroom
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
The all-in-one K-8 toolkit for the lab specialist, classroom teacher and homeschooler, with a years-worth of simple-to-follow projects. Integrate technology into language arts, geography, history, problem solving, research skills, and science lesson plans and units of inquiry using teacher resources that meet NETS-S national guidelines and many state standards. The fifty-five projects are categorized by subject, program (software), and skill (grade) level. Each project includes standards met in three areas (higher-order thinking, technology-specific, and NETS-S), software required, time involved, suggested experience level, subject area supported, tech jargon, step-by-step lessons, extensions for deeper exploration, troubleshooting tips and project examples including reproducibles. Tech programs used are KidPix, all MS productivity software, Google Earth, typing software and online sites, email, Web 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis, internet start pages, social bookmarking and photo storage), Photoshop and Celestia. Also included is an Appendix of over 200 age-appropriate child-friendly websites. Skills taught include collaboration, communication, critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, creativity, digital citizenship, information fluency, presentation, and technology concepts. In short, it’s everything you’d need to successfully integrate technology into the twenty-first century classroom.
Weekend Websites #39: Big Huge Labs
Every Friday I’ll send you a wonderful website that my classes and my parents love. I think you’ll find they’ll be a favorite of your students as they are of mine.
Weekend Website #34: Block Posters
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Weekend Website #32: SqoolTube
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Weekend Website #30: Breathing Earth
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Weekend Website #28: Bing Maps
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Weekend Website #27: TED
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Weekend Website #26: Tagxedo
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How to Become Survivorman–or Bear Grylls–in Third Grade
If you want to spice up a unit on landforms, have students look into surviving these unique natural habitats. To get out with their lives, they’ll have to understand the flora and fauna, dangers and helpers. Here are some websites they can visit to improve their survival toolkit:
In the Jungle
http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/survival/wilderness/jungle-survival.htm
http://www.ehow.com/how_2242569_survive-rainforest.html
In the Desert
http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/survival/wilderness/desert-survival.htm
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/man-vs-wild-moab-desert.html
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/28208-man-vs-wild-moab-desert-canyon-obstacle-video.htm
In the Mountains
Weekend Website #21: Test Your Typing Speed
Drop by every Friday to discover what wonderful website my classes and parents loved this week. I think you’ll find they’ll be a favorite of yours as they are of mine.
