Revised December 19, 2003
Training topics will include:
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Institutes will be held at the
Parsons Complex
70 West River Street
Milford, CT 06460
203-783-3422
2nd Floor Conference Room
8:00 - 2:30
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Dates: January 8, 9, 12, 13, 14 |
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Guidelines and forms for Teacher and Class Websites in Milford
From Now On
Educational Technology for Engaged Learning
Educational Technology for Literacy
By Jamie McKenzie
• The Internet-only Research
Approach
•The Slam Dunk Digital Lesson
•The Problem is the Lesson
Teaching and Technology
A PBS TeacherSource site that allows you to find lessons in in your discipline
and grade level.
21st Century Literacies
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/21stcent/
Webquest Resources
This page has information about webquest and how to create them. It also have
several excellent examples.
Webquests Created
by Milford Teachers
Surweb -MultiMedia Maker
At this site you can create multimedia presentations and matching quizzes students
can take and the results will be emailed to you. There are thousands of images,
sound files, animations or you can use your own images and sound files. There
are many lessons you can use that were created by others.
ThinkQuest - Library
of Entries
These are websites created by students from around the world for a competition.
It is best to look at the winners as they have
been evaluated for there accuracy and design.
A Visit to Copyright Bay
http://www.stfrancis.edu/cid/copyrightbay/
These thorny, legal issues are presented in a fun tutorial that lets you navigate
Fair Use Harbor, visit Murky Waters, and crash on Infringement Reef. Fair Use
Harbor includes information about AV Materials, Multimedia, Single copies, Multiple
copies, and Distance Learning. You can take a Shakedown Cruise to test your
knowledge.
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
http://www.chillingeffects.org/
This website offers background material and explanations of copyright law. Brought to you by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Global Schoolhouse - Home of Networked Project-Based
Learning
http://gsh.org/
Look for projects to join or sponsor your own.
Intel Innovation in Education
http://www97.intel.com/education/index.asp
My Drop Box
http://www.mydropbox.com
The Impact
of Plagiarism
http://www.gananda.org/library/mshslibrary/plagexamples.htm
Citation
Machine
http://www.landmark-project.com/citation_machine/cm.php
Citation
Maker
http://oslis.k12.or.us/secondary/howto/cited
Asking the Essential
Questions
http://www.biopoint.com/ibr/askquestion.html
Applying
Bloom's Taxonomy
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/dalton.htm
Creating Essential
Questions
http://www.galileo.org/tips/essential_questions.html
Framing Essential Questions
http://www.fno.org/sept96/questions.html
Essential
Questions
http://www.criticalthinking.org/University/3catquest.html
Activity for Evaluating Websites
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Critical Evaluation Information
Critical Thinking About What You See on the Web
"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"
Using the Internet for School Reports
Four Nets for Better Searching
Rubistar
Create Rubrics for your Project-Based Learning Activities
RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not
have the time to develop them from scratch.
Rubrics for Web Lessons
from Bernie Dodge and Nancy Pickett
Articles on the use of rubrics. Links to rubric makers and samples.
Rubrics from Teach-nology
Allows you to type in your criteria and print out a rubric
Project Based
Learning Checklists
Make customized checklists in the old format in which you check off from suggestions
or new format which has drop down menus and checklist ideas, also in Spanish.
Select by subject and grade level to get suggestions for criteria
QuizStar
With this free web-based utility, you can create a custom quiz that students
can take online at school or at home.