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Volume Two of
Tech Connect
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Joyce
L. Morris & Vermont Teachers
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University
of Vermont, College of Education & Social Services
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to add, please e-mail jmorris@uvm.edu |
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Productivity
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PK-12
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TrackStar is a multipurpose free website: Teachers can use this website as a starting point for online lessons and activities or access those shared by others. Simply collect Web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track. Create your own Track or use one of the hundreds of thousands already made by other educators. Other useful tools include:
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| PortaPortal provides free
space to post your favorite web links. You can create different
categories of links (science, language arts, brain teasers...etc.) You
can customize your layouts and colors and create your own login and
password and share this with anyone you wish to access your site. -provided by Kristen
Courcelle from Underhill Elementary School. |
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| Filamentality
is another online resource for creating online web pages. Educators can
make web pages that create hotlinks, scrapbooks, webquests and other
online resources for their students. Templates and tutorials guide you
through the process. Online free space remains for at least a
year and if you log in during that time, it is extended another 12
months. |
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Seating
Chart is in a PDF format and included to
help you remember who's who in your classes.
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Meeting Wizard is an
online free tool that facilitates the arrangement of meetings.
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Calculator's
online center offers a number of customizable calculators to
fit all your needs.
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| TuCows is a resource with all kinds of software for educators and others. Mac and Windows versions are available. All software is rated so you have a sense of its value. | ||
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Microsoft Teacher Templates lets you download
forms, awards, and letters to make it easier to communicate with
parents.
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| Atomic Learning is
the place to find quicktime instructional videos on how to use
application software for Macs and PCs. A generous number are free
although to access all resources, a subscription fee is required.
Their
Curriculum Tools are also useful and offer lesson plans and
Storyboard Pro, a tool to help students and teachers plan multimedia
projects. |
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| Zoomerang lets
you
create and administer online surveys. Sign up for a free account that
has most of the features of the not for free tool- provided by Pam
Holley from Mt Anthony Middle School |
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| Surveymonkey let you create
online surveys or quizzes for free. You
can create
all your own questions and different stules of questions (multiple
choice, short answer, fill in the blank, essay questions, etc. and the
data is compiled for you. -provided by Kristen Courcelle from Underhill Elementary School. |
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| Think.com is a site
provided by Oracle and offers free webspace and e-mail to educators. |
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Content, Software &
Multimedia
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| Grades 3-6 |
TUX
Paint is a free online drawing program where your students can post
their work. |
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PK-Adult
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KidsDomain provides downloads of freeware,
shareware and demos of lots of programs. Software reviews are also
included and encouraged.
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| Video Placement Worldwide provides free videos and print materials for permanent loans to educational institutions at all levels. Six weeks delivery is promised. | ||
| Science | Download giant high resolution science posters from the Wright Science Visualization Lab at Tufts. | |
| Find Sounds offers an array of sounds and sound effects. Legal and in .aiff, au and as wave, most programs will import them. | ||
| E-School Online's educational games and animations. You can arrange your own classroom to explore different styles or have your students dissect an eye. | ||
| Money & Economics |
Federal
Reserve Comics can be ordered in classroom quantities
to help explain concepts from the story of money to the story of
foreign exchange. Twelve stories are available. |
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| Edutopia
is a free magazine from the George Lucas Foundation with practical
ideas that incorporate best learning practices. |
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| Science and Math | Explore Learning is an interactive site to help students learn math and science | |
| Hearing Impaired Students,
literature |
The
Captioned Media Program offers offers over 4,000 free-loan,
educational and general-interest open-captioned videos literature
classics. Dvd's are also available just join but membership is free. |
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| The
Cartoon Network provides a free CD to educators on Character
Education |
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| Middle & HS |
Building
Homes of our Own is a CD-Rom Simulation on PC's for
middle
and highschool students. |
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| P-R
Posters provides free Printable 5x7 posters for your classroom.
Educational, Inspirational , and famous sayings. |
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| Creative Commons
is a non-profit organization that offers copyright information and
protection as well as links to non-copyrighted music, photos, and text
and lesson plans- provided by Milt
Gardner from SVSU |
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| Language Arts |
S.C.O.R.E.
Cyberguides are a must for any language arts teacher. They
are standards-based units of instrction on core works of literature- provided
by Kristina Hansen from Mt. Anthony Middle School |
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PK-Adult
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CultureQuest provides webspace, tools, and ideas to help you students participate in a telecommunication projectd with students from around the world. | |
| The Global School House has a number of free resources including some well structured telecommunication projects. | ||
| EPals offers a free network of teachers looking for telecommunication partners from several contintents. | ||
| Professional Information | ||
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Vermont Grade Expectations in Information Technology is downloadable as a PDF file | |
| An Educators Handbook of Technology Grade Expectations in Vermont resources. PDF file | ||
| Educating
the Net Generation is a free book with lots of tips for
appealing to millennium students. (PDF) |
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| Video Classroom is a site with video clips of classrooms integrating technology in K-through pre-service education. | ||
| Using the Knowledge Loom: Ideas and resources for Professional Development downloadable as PDF | ||
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What
Works in Classroom Instruction, by Robert J. Marzano, Barbara
B. Gaddy, Ceri Dean., Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning
(McREL), 2000. |
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