Education World: Technology Integration

This article includes 20 easy ways to include technology in your lessons and have students become involved during the lessons as well...making it a more student-centered approach in your classroom. Topics covered include all academic subjects and can be adapted to any grade level and type of modification. This website is helpful due to the fact that it includes where to go so that you can integrate technology in your class as well as how you can make it into an effective and meaningful lesson. Hope this helps!

Link: http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech146.shtml

Technology Memories

Can you remember the first time you used technology?...as an education tool? I can seriously remember the first time I used technology as an educational tool in second grade. It was actually a game called Super Munchers...and it was truly an amazing game. It helped develop math, vocabulary, and fast thinking skills. To me, even though this game was the simplest game (compared to Xbox, PS3, etc.), I can truly remember it making a difference in my life. I even had my parents buy it for me so that I could enjoy it on my own computer and in the school computer lab.

Here is a link so that you know what I'm talking about:

http://www.dosgamesonline.com/index/game/630/Super_Munchers.html

When do you remember first using technology as an educational tool? Did you realize it back then? Do you think it would have an effect on today's net generation students?

ESL Activities

This web site provides ESL activities that help English Language Learners (ELLs). Activities include role playing, examination rubrics for oral tests, discussion questions, and speaking activities.

Link:

http://www.eslgo.com/resources/sa.html

Pete's PowerPoint Station

Pete's PowerPoint Station is an excellent resource one can use in every kind of lesson when in the classroom. PowerPoint presentations in this site include every subject as well as every grade level. It also provides websites that can help students prepare for different academic subjects at different grade levels as well.

Link:

http://pppst.com/

Science & Technology Solar System Web Site

This Planet 10 web site provides visualization as well as simulation of the Solar System. Additionally, students can also create their own planet(s) and solar system on here with various qualities and characteristics. This can be used to introduce the planets as well as a review.

Activities to use in the classroom:

http://www.planet-science.com/randomise/index.html?page=/planet10/

Planet 10 Simulation Web Site:

http://www.planet-science.com/planet10/solar_preload.html

About the Blogger & the Blog's Purpose

I am a 23 year old first year elementary teacher who is about to finish her Master's in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Texas at Brownsville. I created this blog to suit current and future teachers' needs when it came to interdisciplinary studies in the classroom.

This blog was created for colleagues, education students and current teachers. In it, discussions and postings will include links and descriptions of how teachers can use what is linked in the classroom (videos, powerpoints, lesson plan ideas, etc.). This blog will consist of interdisciplinary resources any elementary teacher can use in the classroom including instructional technology with the integration of academic subjects: social studies, English, science, math, writing, foreign langauges, etc.