Useful Downloads
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- Games for any classroom Jeopardy template, bingo,
baseball, all fun ways to review content and adaptable to all subjects.
- Demos, shareware and freeware programs for Macs
and Windows.
- These plugin's offer more transitions, effects,
and controls to iMovie2. Remember to place the plugin files in your
User/Library/iMovie/Plugins folder.
- You will need this program to view the video
case studies at the Video Classroom and some other sites.
- Indiana University has compiled a number of directions
for different computer applications. You can download these into Word
files.
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Electronic Portofolios
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- Learn what, why, how to make electronic portfolios.
Also see examples in K-12, pre-service, inservice and higher ed faculty
online portfolios by Joyce Morris
- Vermont Fest'2002 presentation by Joyce Morris
- There are a number of resources here including
instructions to a number of technology applications and links to exemplar
sites.
- Selected papers about integrating electronic
portfolios
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Web Design
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- The Yale Style Guide to Publishing serves as
a standard of web design as much as there is a standard.
- Arizona State University West resource.
- University of Central Florida -ideas of ways
to use a digital camera to promote learning.
- Online tutorial of webdesign and linked resources
- Well written and good information by Amar Almasude,
Francis Marion University
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Tech. Integration
Ideas
Some webquests used by UVM faculty:
You can find student created webquests at:
- Inquiry Block Science Webquests
- Literacy Block Author Study Webquests
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- Developed at Peabody College (Vanderbilt
University) in response to research results of How People Learn. Try
out some of these in a mini-course or develop your own using the strategies
of the Legacy Cycle.
- See how iMovie is being used in some interesting ways
in K-12 classrooms
- These are case
studies videos taped in real PreK-12 classrooms. You can
search for videos by subject and level and all deal with issues
related to integrating technology into classroom practice.
- Webquests are focused studies that use pre-selected
websites to research, investigate and interpret information found on
the Internet.
- A digital library of classrooms using technology.
Search by topic. Videos need real player
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Research
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- Free online version of report of National Research
Council (2000) John D. Bransford (Editor)
- This is
a free cooperative community designed for higher education students
and faculty. Connect with other community members and find
peer reviewed materials specifically for your discipline
- Linda Hammond Darling, Chris Dede
and Howard Gardner discuss assessment
in this web article.
- CARET is a project of the International Society
for Technology in Education in partnership with Educational Support
Systems. This site houses peer-reviewed studies that can be used to
guide your use of technology in teaching.
- Some numbers reflecting how many courses are
online, student use of e-mail, and other data about faculty and college
students use of technology
- Association of Small Computers in Education has some
interesting articles relevant to technology and pre-service teacher education.
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Online
Teaching
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- Some links to free online courses and strategies
and tools to help you take an online course.
- Readings, strategies and tools to help
you develop an online courses.
- Designs for e-Learning: A Vision and Emerging
Framework by Mary McNabb and Barbara McCombs, Co-directors of Vision Quest.
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PreService comprehensive
electronic portfolio systems
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- Kalamazoo’s Portfolio helps students understand
and articulate their educational experiences, describe their
goals and monitor their learning.
- A video explaining their electronic portfolio
system.
- Good examples of pre-service teacher portfolios and
the history of the project.
- Learn about efolio, a tool that they are using at Standford
to help students develop portfolios.
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Higher Ed Faculty
Portfolios
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- A comprehensive electronic portfolio system for faculty.
- San Diego State University, Philip Molebash
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K-12 Teaching
Portfolios
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- Learn about the assessment process in Vermont and how
to build your professional portfolio
- From North Carolina University
- The five standards for Vermont Licensure in PDF format.
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Commerically Web-based
portfolio programs
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- Outcomes Assessment Solutions
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