Teaching with Digital Content
“Don’t learn to use technology, use technology to learn.” me
Student Class Sources-
Old School –Classroom bound, Books,
VCR tapes, lectures, caulk board, overhead projectors
New School – Can learn anywhere/
anytime, Net books, Websites, Net books, I-pads, Smart
phones
Student Resources –
Old School - Text Books, Library,
lectures, field trips
New School- Internet World Book,
United Steaming and other education websites, Net books, I-pads, Smart phones
Moodle, Smartboards, virtual field trips, web 2.0
Student Assessment-
Old School- Written Test, Oral
exams, reports and essays
New School- Handheld Interactive
Response, Online quizzes, Project based assessments, movies, pod casts, and
student published projects
Student Improvement-
Old School- brings students to our
world, classrooms, books, lectures, note-taking, and teacher pushing lessons
onto students.
New-School- take lessons t to the students world, Internet, Notebooks, podcasts, video media,
games with students pulling lessons from teachers.
3 components- Classroom lesson
access to class materials
Websites- You websites at www.windsor.k12.il.us can be source of class synopsis, time frames,
materials, assignments and assessment links.
Student Class Sources Student Resources
Your School Website http://www.windsor.k12.il.us/technology/Using%20FrontPage%20to%20update%20your%20webpage.htm
Relative links
http://www.windsor.k12.il.us/technology/Adding%20links%20to%20your%20webpage.htm
Absolute links
http://www.windsor.k12.il.us/technology/absolute%20links%20to%20your%20webpage.htm
Develop through Frontpage
to outline class info, links to websites, pod casts or video clips from
available resources on a topic resource page. Link assessment materials,
PowerPoint or topic outlines.
Moodle http://www.windsor.k12.il.us/technology/Moodle%20for%20teachers.htm
Set up virtual classes with links
to resource martial and student assignment submission and grading. I can setup
up the class and you can setup the materials to cpver
in links to websites, podcasts, videos and allow fro a chat session, blogs or
set up for assignments to be turned on via Moodle. Testing and quizzes are also
available on Moodle.
Student Resources
There are many free and
subscription services that offer many valuable educational resources for your
classrooms. Many are searchable by Illinois Learning Standards, Subject and
Grade level.
A couple of exceptional
subscription services that we have are World Book and United Streaming,
there are links, as seen below, to each of these site at the bottom of each
school buildings home page.
Both offer searchable lesson plans by learning standards, subject and
grade level.
Untried Streaming has the ability
to easily produce online quizzes, which can be taken in the computer a lab and
the results will be complied automatically. Iedtreaming
Login-
World Book Login- windsor2
Password-bluedevils
United Streaming Login- windsorhs
Password-studnet
The
resources on the Online resources for Standards based Lessons
http://www.windsor.k12.il.us/schools/Online%20Resources%20for%20Standards%20based%20lessons.htm
http://www.windsor.k12.il.us/technology/teacher%20topics.htm
Teacher Tube
http://www.windsor.k12.il.us/technology/teacher%20topics.htm
Offer a vast array of resources which once
selected can be gathered onto a common document to place on your website, a
resource page. First we’ll take a look
around at some of what is available, ten how to produce an online resource page
for your webpage.
These same restores can also be
linked into Moodle to use as classroom resources.
How
to produce an online resources page
1. Open up a blank Word document.
2. Find your resources via web
search or resource site.
3. Go to the URL of the website,
select the URL, right click, copy
4. Pull up your Word document,
right click, paste
5. Repeat for as many links as you
want
6. In Word, go to File, save as
webpage ( make sure it is saved as .htm or .html )
7. Save the Word webpage in the W:
drive on your computer
8. Open FrontPage, go to your W:drive, open the page you want
the resources page linked to.
9. Type in a link name, select it,
right click, select Hyperlink, find the page you just saved in your W:drive and select as the link
10. File, save.
Student Assessment
Handheld Response
United Streaming http://www.windsor.k12.il.us/technology/Quiz%20Builder%20in%20United%20Streaming.htm
Moodle
http://www.windsor.k12.il.us/technology/Moodle%20for%20teachers.htm
Podcasts, Movie Maker
Interactive Board Basics
http://smarttech.com/us/Resources/Training
Smart Notebook 10.0
Smart Notebook Tips and Tricks
Smartboard
Lesson Example
Self-made lesson assessment.
Downloaded lesson and
Assessment
G-mail – Setup gmail
acconus for fre phone calls
and clould based document storage.
https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?service=mail&continue=http://mail.google.com/mail/e-11-220b46464d5e28350da9e7474a9424-908cc112098b4ff381005b55ba7c01cbf8e0f8e6&type=2
Skype- Setup for live conversations with other
classrooms around the world.
https://login.skype.com/account/signup-form?application=download&return_url=http://www.skype.com/go/downloading-page&intcmp=join