2. Do you have or have you ever used a

smart board?
Raise your hand if you have!!
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3. A viewpoint from the students:
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You Tube Video

4. Technology is revolutionizing the way we

think work and play when we integrate
technology into the curriculum it
revolutionizing
 Students today need 21st century skills
 Engages students in the learning process
 Students acquire and use higher order
thinking, analysis and problem solving

5. Students take responsibilities for their

learning outcomes
 Teachers become guides and facilitators

6. Create a wanted poster of a fictitious or

real life outlaw utilizing Desktop
Publishing and Graphic/Paint/Draw
Software
 Create a newspaper from the time
period you are studying using Desktop
Publishing and Graphic/Paint/Draw
Software
 Create a multimedia and or video
presentation on current events and
issues Powerpoint or hyperstudio
 Make a travel guide using publisher

7. Visit NASA site to view recent information

 Watch any news channel during the
weather report
 Have students keep a daily log of their
nutrition, exercise, daily weather, or other
data
 Have students time their heart rates and
plot them on a graph in a spreadsheet
program

8. Use spreadsheets to show math

relationships, set up banks, or a
telephone company, a refreshment
business, or keep track of finances
 In algebra, have students figure out how
much money they could make at a car
wash by manipulating the variables.
Create a table of info and have students
create the formulas
 Use gaming and simulations to enhance
problem solving skills

9. Have students create a video presenting

persuasive information
 Create a online school or class
newspaper or literary publication
 Create a crossword puzzle
 Create a YouTube video
 Create a digital storytelling

10. How do you use computers in your

classroom?
How do you manage student use of

computers in your classroom?

11. Ensure equal access:

› Not everyone needs the same amount of
time to accomplish a given task
› For example: If a class is divided into five
groups, assign computer time one day
per group per week
› Avoid periods which will be interrupted
(e.g. by music)

12. Vary the usage and types of access

› Whole class work
› Group projects
› Partners
› Individuals
› Open-scheduling (e.g. 10 minutes per
person X the number of people)

13. Modifications:

› A printout of the results of the session is
helpful
 Applications that take advantage of the
multi-sensory capabilities of the computer
are recommended
 Have someone at the computer all of the
time:
 keep a log;
› Schedule use during early morning,
recess and lunch time

14. Arrange access to more computers:

› Send students out to use other
computers:
 to the library
 to the resource center;
 to a vacant classroom when those
students are at physical education or
music

15. Organizing aids:

› Use a journal to record usage.
› Post sign-up (and sign-out) sheets next to the
computer;
› Use a pocket chart with a card for each student;
they turn their cards over after a turn and when
all are done, they start over;
› Have a popsicle stick for each student and two
jars, one labeled “Been There” the other labeled
“Not Yet”. The students take the sticks out of one
jar and put them in the other as they complete
the work

16. Thematic Unit Stations

 Internet Projects
 Have students work in teams
 Virtual Fieldtrips
 Middle/High School stations spread out
activity over 3-5 days
 Use as a learning center
 When higher functioning students finish
they can use this center to play games

17. Please feel free to share effective ways that

you have successfully integrated technology
into your classroom

18. •Funbrain
•Fact Monster
•APlusMath
•PBSKids
•BrainPop
•Starfall
•Discovery Kids
•Smarttech
•Smart Board Online Training

19. E-textbook by Gary B. Shelly, Thomas J. Cashman,
Glenda A. Gunter, Randolph E. Gunter (2006)
Teachers Discovering Computers
(http://oc.course.com/sc/tdc5/index.cfm).
Integrating Technology and Digital Media in the
Classroom. – Ed. 5.ThomsonCourse Technology.