A workshop by
Wesley A. Fryer

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Workshop Description: Looking for practical ideas for using both classroom computers and the school computer lab to integrate technology into your existing curriculum? This session will present a variety of tried and tested methods, both for using technology effectively during whole-class instruction as well as for small-group student projects. Participants will learn how to locate and use a multitude of existing technology projects, to avoid "re-inventing the wheel," as well as sensible ways customize technology-infused lessons to meet the needs of diverse learners as well as TAKS requirements.

Outline

1. Introductions and Foundations
2. Web-Based Computer Aided Instruction
3. Why Project Based Learning and Inquiry in Education?
4. Internet Research Tools & Strategies
5. Student Technology Product Options
6. Webquests
7. Telecomputing Projects
8. Assessment by Rubric
9. Copyright / Fair Use
10. Recommend Reading

1. Introductions and Foundations

Philosophies:

1. No stupid questions.
2. Use technology to authentically engage students and communicate.
3. Goals:
   1. Walk away with 1 or 2 realistic / practical ideas for technology integration in your classroom
   2. Encourage you to INFOMATE, not merely ACCOMODATE with technology

The INTERNET ≠ Your TELEVISION

Inspiration Brainstorming Demo (www.inspiration.com)

1. Turn / Pair / Share
2. What specific reasons did you come to this workshop? (specific expectations)

Foundations:

1. File Saving Basics
2. Creating / Using Template Files
3. PowerPoint QuickStart

Accomodation vs Infomation (Alan November)

1. Accomodation: Doing what you did before, but just using technology this time
2. Infomation: Doing instructional things impossible or much harder / more time consuming without technology, expanding the walls of your classroom, learning and communicating in authentic ways for the 21st century

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2. Web-Based Computer Aided Instruction

What is CAI? According to WikiPedia:

"Computer Assisted Instruction refers to a system of educational instruction performed almost entirely by computer. Such systems typically incorporate functions such as:

• Assessing student capabilities with a pre-test
• Presenting educational materials in a navigable form
• Providing repetitive drills to improve the student's command of knowledge
• Possibly, providing game-based drills to increase learning enjoyment
• Assessing student progress with a post-test
• Routing students through a series of courseware instructional programs.
• Recording student scores and progress for later inspection by a courseware instructor"

www.quia.com

Quia Quickstart

3. Why Project Based Learning and Inquiry in Education?

Official Goals many in 21st Century Classrooms:

1. Help students pass standardized assessments
2. Survive and keep our head above water

The Goals we need in 21st Century Classrooms:

1. Help students truly engage in worthwhile learning activities
2. Help students develop literacy skills they will need for life
3. Help students develop problem solving and teamwork skills
4. Help students develop character and ethics
5. Help students develop experiences and schema for lifetime learning

Differentiated Instruction helps students learn

• Technology provides many ways to differentiate!

Video clip examples:

1. A Remarkable Transformation: Story of Union City, New Jersey schools
2. Urban Academy: Where Testing Is Anything But Standard

4. Internet Research Tools & Strategies

Google Search Math (method suggested by David Warlick)

• Peform a simple keyword search
• Look at search hits and refine
  • enclose phrases in quotation marks
  • preceed terms to include with a plus (+)
  • preceed terms to NOT include with a minus (-)
• Use Google Advanced Search

Backtracking a website

• Determine the source: "Martin Luther King, Jr. - A True Historical Examination."

5. Student Technology Product Options

Word Processing Products:

• Student Brochure
• Scavenger Hunt (Iditarod project)
• Map Activity (Hurricane Tracking: Student product, background/links)
• Vacation Planner (Caribbean planner)

Spreadsheet Products:

• Timeline and Graphs (Volcano project, Volcanoworld site)
• Kids Graphing Page from US Dept of Education - http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/

Multimedia Presentation / Slideshow Products:

Image SlideShow / Movie

• "We Didn't Start the Fire" video example (background)
• Grass Born to Be Stepped On: Women’s Rights in China

Movie making software how-to guides:

1. iMovie: www.wtvi.com/teks/imovie
2. MovieMaker2: www.wtvi.com/teks/moviemaker

6. Webquests

The WebQuest Page at San Diego State University - http://webquest.sdsu.edu

Instant WebQuest - www.instantprojects.org/webquest

7. Telecomputing Projects

1. ePals Classroom Exchange - www.epals.com
2. EyeWitness to History - history through the eyes of those who lived it - www.eyewitnesstohistory.com
3. Find an Expert: Electronic Emissary Project - http://emissary.wm.edu
4. Global Grocery List Project - http://landmark-project.com/ggl/index.html
5. The JASON Foundation for Education - http://www.jasonproject.org
6. Meet Children's Authors - www.tesan.vuurwerk.nl/diaries/t3/authors.htm
7. Be a Consumer Hero! - www3.sympatico.ca/dalia/buy0/
8. Global Schoolnet's Internet Project Registry - www.gsn.org/gsh/pr/
9. Global Nomads: Interactive, international teleconferencing - www.gng.org

Many more examples on my workshop "Educational Telecomputing Projects" - www.wtvi.com/teks/tcp/

8. Assessment by Rubric

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Assessment Rubrics - http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html

Rubistar: http://rubistar.4teachers.org

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9. Copyright / Fair Use

For Works Cited / Bibliographies:

• Citation Machine - http://citationmachine.net
• Easy Bib - www.easybib.com

Copyright:

1. "Copyright 101 for Educators: Winter 2003" - www.wtvi.com/teks/02_03_articles/copyright.html
2. Crash Course in Copyright from UT - www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm
3. "Copyright Primer for Administrators" by Hall Davidson
4. More Copyright / Fair Use resources on my Tools for the TEKS Intellectual Property tools page (www.wtvi.com/teks/tools/intellectual_property.html) and Copyright social bookmarks (http://del.icio.us/wfryer/Copyright).

Digital Dishonesty:

1. Strategies to Address Digital Plagiarism (Article) - www.wtvi.com/teks/04_05_articles/digital_plagiarism.html
2. Digital Dishonesty: Trends and Tools to Address Them (Presentation) - www.wtvi.com/teks/digital-dishonesty

10. Recommend Reading

Tools and Techniques from my "Tools for the TEKS: Integrating Technology in the Classroom" website - www.wtvi.com/teks/tools

Other Topics / Areas

• Virtual Labs
• Writing Assessment Software

Technology Integration Lesson Examples: Rush Elementary - www.lubbockisd.org/rush/lessons