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Site of the Week #4

2007-05-28T21:45:00.000-07:00

Site of the Week #4

http://www.eslcafe.com/
Dave’s ESL Café has a huge and excellent collection of ESL (English as a Second Language) links. This site includes a section for teachers, students, and everyone. Here you can find chat rooms, discussion boards, mailings lists, links, jobs, and more.
Illinois Learning Standards: http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/foreign_languages/standards.htm
Language Arts
Goal 1 Reading
Goal 3 Writing
Goal 4 Listening and speaking
Foreign Languages
Goal 28 - Communication
Goal 29 – Culture and Geography
Goal 30 – Connections and Application

Evidence-Based Posting #3

2007-05-28T21:41:00.000-07:00

Evidence-Based Posting #3

Power Point Presentation

2007-05-14T10:45:00.000-07:00

"The Internet Value for Students"

http://cuip.net/~bremess/TIEPortfolio/webquest/PowerPointPresentation.ppt

Site of the Week #3

2007-05-08T22:44:00.001-07:00

Adaptive Computers Products

http://www.makoa.org/computers.htm this website is dedicated to offer assistance in finding computer adaptive devices for persons with disabilities. The following are some of the categories included in the site:

ISBE Standards: Social/Emotional Learning (SEL)

SEL Goal 1 - Develop self-awareness and self-management skills to achieve school and life success.

NETS-T Standards: Social, Ethical, Legal, and Human Issues.

Teachers understand the social, ethical, legal, and human issues surrounding the use of technology in PK-12 schools and apply those principles in practice. Teachers:

Model and teach legal and ethical practice related to technology use.
Apply technology resources to enable and empower learners with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, and abilities.
Identify and use technology resources that affirm diversity
Promote safe and healthy use of technology resources.
Facilitate equitable access to technology resources for all students.

Evidence-Based Posting #2

2007-05-08T22:21:00.000-07:00

Internet Equity

After reading Chapter 11, I have a much better understanding of how to ensure equitable Internet access for each student in class and how technology tools and the internet can extend learning in powerful ways to all children in general. This is my first year in a K-12 environment (CPS), and from what I have observed, many teachers do not know about the different variety of assistive technology devices and tools available not only in the market but under Accessibility in the Windows system. The use of screen magnifier, on-screen keyboard and text-to-speech reader are not widely used or known among teachers. Students with learning disabilities without assistive technology devices are being denied full access to information and ideas to support engaged learning on the Internet.

Leu, D. J., D. D. Leu & J. Coiro. (2004). Teaching With the Internet K-12: New Literacies for New Times, 4^th Ed. Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon Publishers.

Hotlist

2007-05-08T00:21:00.000-07:00

Libraries

1. www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm
The Amazing Picture Machine. This web site is a filter search engine designed to make surfing safe for children, keeping out all inappropriate images. Images include topics from aircraft to architecture to animals.

2. www.nationalgeographic.com
The National Geographic site contains outstanding and constantly-changing interactive exhibits. Each section of the site includes educational components such as lesson plans and teacher resources.

Mathematics

3. http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
National Library of Virtual Manipulative. This website contains a library of web-based virtual manipulative for mathematics instruction. The resources include the following: Number & Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, and Data Analysis & Probability from grades K to 12. This is a great resource for math teachers to integrate technology in their curriculum. This site was designed by the Utah State University with the supported of The National Science Foundation.
Illinois Learning Standards. This site covers all the Illinois Learning Standards for Mathematics
State Goal 6 – Number SenseState Goal 7 – Estimation and MeasurementState Goal 8 – Algebra and Analytical MethodsState Goal 9 – Geometry State Goal 10 – Data Analysis and Probability

Museums

4. http://www.computerhistory.org/
The Computer History Museum focuses exclusively on the history of computing. It maintains a broad range of artifact, documentary and media-based source in computer history from 1939 to 1994. This website includes more than 2,000 published pages and thousands of images and documents. This site is managed and maintained by staff and volunteers at Computer History Museum. Sponsored by Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, and Macromedia.
This site covers the following learning standards for ISTE National Education Technology Standards for Students NET-S
Basic operations and concepts
Students demonstrate a sound understanding of the nature and operation of technology systems.
Social, ethical, and human issues
Students understand the ethical, cultural, and societal issues related to technology.
Students practice responsible use of technology systems, information, and software.
Students develop positive attitudes toward technology uses that support lifelong learning, collaboration, personal pursuits, and productivity

Lesson Plans/Classroom Resource

5. www.edhelper.com
This site boasts a huge collection of lesson plans, Web Quests, file downloads, and additional Web sites. Plus updated daily educational news.
operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), patterns, ratios and proportions.

6. www.teachnet.com
The Teachnet.com Web site is full of simple solutions for the everyday classroom. Instead of simply giving you lesson plans, this site gives you lesson plan ideas. Additional features include terrific advice about everything from decorating bulletin boards to increasing attendance to great five-minute activities for transitional moments during the day

7. www.thegateway.org
The Gateway to Educational Materials is a clearinghouse for educational materials, sponsored by the National Library of Education that contains over 1,550 Internet resources from more than 15 different organizations.

8. www.ed.gov/free
FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence) provides links to all educational resources from the federal government. Materials come from more than 50 agencies, including NASA, Departments of Energy, Agriculture, Treasury, Defense, and Labor, and the National Institute of Health.
STATE GOAL 16: Understand events, trends, individuals and movements shaping the history of Illinois, the United States and other nations.

9. http://www.disciplinehelp.com/teacher/
A reference for handling over 117 Misbehaviors at School and Home. A great website for classroom management. To analyze students’ misbehavior, the information is provide in four steps: 1. Behavior information, 2. Effects, 3. Action to take, and 4. Common mistakes.

10. http://www.emtech.net/index.shtml
Over 15,000 resources organized by topics for teachers, students, and parents. A great resource for any subject teacher.

11. http://vlib.org/Computing
This virtual museum includes an eclectic collection of World Wide Web hyperlinks connected with the history of computing and on-line computer-based exhibits available both locally and around the world.

12. http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
This website help teachers and students create different kinds of rubrics.

13. www.att.com/learningnetwork/index.html
AT&T Learning Network contains enough worthwhile information. There are numerous
listservs, tutorials, lesson plans, reference materials, management tips, contests,
online projects, and more.

14. www.educationworld.com
Education World is a mammoth educational clearinghouse with descriptions of
and links to over 110,000 prescreened Web pages.

15. http://school.discovery.com/schoolhome.html
Discovery Channel School offers a lot of everything. There are feature articles, lesson plans, multiple discussion groups, mailing lists, teleconferencing with experts, a software store,an internal resource search engine, Cyber Surfaris, and Kathy Shrock's Guide for
K–12 teachers.

Tutorials / Professional Development

16. http://www.atomiclearning.com
Atomic Learning is one of my favorite websites. It offers a variety of tutorials for learning PC and MAC software.

17. http://www.howstuffworks.com
How Stuff Works is a great place for students to learn about how things work. This site encourages students to explore how a computer works, what the motherboard does, or how the computer processes data with easy to understand explanations and great graphics.

18. http://www.kidzonline.org/TechTraining/
Nortel Networks Kidz Online Tech Training provides streamed media tutorials on different topics as 2D and 3D animation, Webpage creation, Digital Audio, Online Collaboration, Security and Ethics, and more. Technology integrated lesson plans are also available for most topics listed. Professional Periodicals and Resources

19. http://www.assortedstuff.com/stuff/ This site contains a bunch of reference material to train and assist any one who wants to publish on the web, work with digital images, and generally use technology to improve their professional practice.

20. http://www.mcmcse.com/
This website is a huge directory for computer technology and related tutorials, certification resources, subjects, and websites. It contains free study guides, practice exams, study tools, recommended reading, test tips, certification software and much more!!!

21. http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/KSD/IT/TSC/prof_dev/tutorials.html#peripherals
Kent School District Resources is an online professional development includes a great variety of Microsoft Office tutorials, (Outlook, Microsoft Office, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Front Page, Publisher, Access.), Standard software, (e.g.: Internet, Windows movie maker, Encarta.), and recommended software and tutorials and resources.

22. http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/professional_development/index.html
Basic Computer Skills

Hardware

23. http://reviews.cnet.com
This website includes product reviews, news, and videos; about the latest technology. It also help you find the right product at the right price by comparing prices, product reviews and technical specifications.

English as a Second Language

24. www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/eslcafe.html
Dave’s ESL Café has a huge and excellent collection of ESL links. This site also includes a chat room, discussion boards, mailings lists, links, and more.

25. http://inogolo.com/
Inogolo is a practical, easy-to-use website devoted to the English pronunciation of the names of people and places. The site contains a searchable database of names with both phonetic and audio pronunciations in English.

26. http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html
Free on-line translation in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Greek, Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

27. http://owl.english.purdue.edu
The Online Writing Lab of Purdue University, contains excellent resources, including handouts, tutorials, workshops, and links

Professional Periodicals and Resources

28. http://www.techlearning.com/resources/product_guide.php
This website provides software reviews as well as publications, ebooks, articles and resources for technology
29. http://worldbridges.net/
Worldbridges is a webcasting network of educators dedicated to helping those involved in educational technology, explore, discuss, learn and collaborate

30. http://www.educause.edu
This website include the following resources: Professional development activities, applied research, strategic policy advocacy, teaching and learning activities, online information services, print and electronic publications, including books, and reviews. The site includes 2,100 colleges, universities, and educational organization, including 200 corporations.

Learning Standards

31. http://www.isbe.net/ils/
Illinois learning standards by subject

32. http://www.cnets.iste.org
Technology Standards for teachers and students by grade

Assistive Technology

33. http://atto.buffalo.edu/
The Assistive Technology Training Online Project (ATTO) provides information on AT applications that help students with disabilities learn in elementary classrooms.

34. http://www.educational-software-directory.net/
Annotated links to reviews, publications, publishers, and related organizations. It offers a series of educational software products (website links) for students with special needs.

35. http://www.makoa.org/computers.htm
Adaptive technology devices for the disabled. This web site contains various devices for individuals with moderate to severe disabilities. Examples: motion detection devices and typing aids for paraplegics, special monitors and/or Braille printers for the blind.

Internet

36. http://www.learnthenet.com/english/index.html
Welcome to Learn the Net, a website dedicatedto helping you master this amazing medium. Links to 10000 of website including the following Visit the archives

37. http://www.staysafeonline.info/
Sponsored by the National Cyber Security Alliance (a government/industry group), Stay Safe Online works to educate the public on the importance of protecting personal computers from online intruders. It is a great website to educate students, teachers, and the public on the issues of computer safety. The site also contains a self-guided cyber security test, educational materials, and links to other Internet security sources

38. www.google.com
Google is a amazing search engine with technological innovations that ensure the most relevant results to any query.

39. http://www.livinginternet.com/
Living Internet is a free, in-depth reference about the Internet, prepared to provide information about this amazing invention. Even though this site was last update on January 2000, it is a great resource to learn about the history of the internet and its related services as email, networking, etc.

40. http://www.europeanschoolsproject.org/image/
This site is a school networking project between students from different schools in different parts of the world. Students take part in collaborative distance learning projects on any theme of common interest to the participating schools. This site is a great resource for teachers to implement asynchronous communication in the classroom and to expand the learning process. It also gives the teacher the opportunity to meet new colleagues and get an insight into other teaching methods and systems.

Site of the Week No. 2

2007-04-30T21:17:00.001-07:00

My site of the week No. 2 is the Computer Museum History Center

Site Description:
The Computer History Museum focuses exclusively on the history of computing. It maintains a broad range of artifact, documentary and media-based source in computer history from 1939 to 1994. This website includes more than 2,000 published pages and thousands of images and documents.

Author/Sponsor:
This site is managed and maintained by staff and volunteers at Computer History Museum. Sponsored by Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, and Macromedia.

Learning Standards
This site covers the following learning standards for ISTE National Education Technology Standards for Students NET-S.

Technology Foundation Standards for Students

Basic operations and concepts
Students demonstrate a sound understanding of the nature and operation of technology systems.
Social, ethical, and human issues
Students understand the ethical, cultural, and societal issues related to technology.
Students practice responsible use of technology systems, information, and software.
Students develop positive attitudes toward technology uses that support lifelong learning, collaboration, personal pursuits, and productivity

URL: http://www.computerhistory.org/

2007-04-30T21:17:00.000-07:00

2007-04-23T21:52:00.000-07:00

Evidence Based Posting No. 1

On Line Communication Tools

Traditionally, my learning process has been built around the classroom environment, where teachers and students meet at the same place and at the same time. Since, I started the TIE program I have experienced the use of different online communication tools (asynchronous and synchronous).

The invention of the Internet and the used of the World Wide Web has contributed to a new technology era. Now students do not have to set a foot on a classroom; rather, they can fulfill all the course requirements using the computer and the internet, as we are doing now. The use of online communication tools as for example: e-mails (asynchronous), IM, web conference (synchronous) have enhanced students learning. In the article Designing for the Virtual Interactive Classroom, Judith V. Boettcher state that “The shy students seem to talk more; students often graciously engage and support each other; they seem to reflect and express more thoughtful ideas in online forums; and busy students can learn anytime anywhere.” I agree with her, students may be more comfortable joining online discussions where they can take time to formulate their responses. In my opinion, all these bring more meaningful interactions with the teacher and promote the development and growth of the learning community through the used of student collaboration and group work; as long as access is available to all students, group projects can be assigned even though students cannot arrange for a common meeting time. Students that are absent from class will have the opportunity to participate and to get updates from other classmates or teacher about the activities done in class. I also found fascinate that these tools extend the classroom boundaries to virtual tours, museums, videos, etc.
The conflicts that I see of using asynchronous and synchronous technology in the classroom are:
In synchronous communication, all students have to be at their computers at the same time to participate; scheduling may be difficult. Synchronous technology generally requires special software or other equipment that is not available to all schools and to all students. In synchronous and asynchronous communication body language, such as gestures and facial expressions, are absent, which in some cases can make the conversation more difficult to follow and easier to misunderstand.

References

Judith V. Boettcher, "Designing for the Virtual Interactive Classroom," Campus Technology, 4/29/2005, http://www.campustechnology/article.aspx?aid=40223

V. Singh, M. Khasawneh, S. Bowling, “The Evaluation of Alternate Learning Systems: Asynchronous, Synchronous and Classroom,” Retrieved, 4/20/2007, http://www.ws.binghamton.edu/mkhasawn/Publications/Conference/Other/ICCAES%202002%20(Learning%20Systems).pdf

Site of the week No. 1

2007-04-22T20:52:00.000-07:00

My site of the week is the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives.

Site Description:
This website contains a library of web-based virtual manipulatives for mathematics instruction. The resources include the following: Number & Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, and Data Analysis & Probability from grades K to 12. This is a great resource for math teachers to integrate technology in their curriculum.

Author/Publisher:
This site was design by the Utah State University with the supported of The National Science Foundation.

Website Content:
1. Learning games
2. Pictures and illustrations

Illinois Learning Standards
This site covers all the Illinois Learning Standards for Mathematics
State Goal 6 – Number Sense
State Goal 7 – Estimation and Measurement
State Goal 8 – Algebra and Analytical Methods
State Goal 9 – Geometry
State Goal 10 – Data Analysis and Probability

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html