Using just a computer and a printer, teachers follow step-by-step directions which guide them through using the most popular computer programs to create all those wonderful classroom enhancements that have always taken so much time to make.

Make and Take Technology

Lifter, Marsha

Adams, Marian

Visions Technology

This helpful manual details strategies for using technology to create powerful culturally diverse learning environments that encourage students to explore, solve problems, and learn how to work with others.

Global Project Based Learning with Technology

Standley, Mark

Hutchings, Kiyomi

This quick-paced, hands-on publication is jam-packed with ready-to-use activities and lesson plans featuring step-by-step instructions for using Inspiration. Each activity focuses on different skills and provides suggestions and examples of lessons in science, language arts, social studies, and more! Comes with a Hybrid CD. Requires Inspiration Software.

Make It with Inspiration 7.0

Sharp, Vicki

Designed for busy teachers, students, and other professionals Make It with Inspiration 7.5 (Macintosh/Windows) is an easy-to-use gude to the versatile program Inspiration. An activity-based approach helps you create concept maps, graphical organizers, character webs, and brainstorming diagrams in a matter of minutes. What sets this book apart from other books is its rich variety of activities, step-by-step tutorials, comprehensiveness, organization, and extensive use of visuals. In addition, the book includes curriculum standards, which are listed with each activity. Accompanying the book is a CD-ROM with templates and activity examples.

Make It with Inspiration 7.5

WebQuests are proving to be a re-energizer for teachers. Tired of presenting the same old lessons in the same old manner, teachers everywhere are desperate for a change. Technology is providing the perfect vehicle to cure their boredom and invigorate their classrooms. WebQuests are indeed the secret to guided empowerment. A technology-based WebQuest is a structured learning activity that requires students to conduct the bulk of their research and information gatering on the World Wide Web. WebQuests are, by nature, a fun and exciting new element being added to classroom presentations all over the world. Using WebQuests, teachers are engaging and perhaps re-engaging students like never before.

WebQuests: The Secret to Guided Empowerment

Brewer, Tony

Easily create concept maps, plan Web pages, outline papers, brainstorm, and develop multimedia projects! Make It with Inspiration 8® is designed for busy teachers, students, and other professionals. This easy-to-use book is written for Macintosh as well as Windows users. Organized in two parts, the book includes comprehensive tutorials and projects. The tutorial section allows the reader to work through two different projects and in the process learn how to use Inspiration 8®. The reader focuses on different skills-from adding links to inserting video. In the second part of the book the reader is shown over 25 projects covering major curriculum areas. The template activities section includes planning a Web page, understanding the different parts of the human skeleton, developing multimedia projects and more. Features: Project based tutorials Over 25 Projects CD-ROM with Templates and Examples Tips and Tricks Step-by-Step Directions Numerous Illustrations Includes resource template CD-ROM. Inspiration 8 software not included.

Make It With Inspiration 8.0

Vicki Sharp Ph.D.

Aligned with NSES Standards Enliven, enhance, and update your science lessons by integrating the resources and tools found on the Internet and on the classroom computer. Are you looking for new and creative ways to use the computer in your classroom or science lab? This book is packed full of clever ideas for quick and easy-to-create projects that integrate technology into all areas of the elementary curriculum. You ll be amazed at how these simple activities will excite your students while taking their learning and thinking to a new level. Grades K 8 Includes Tips and Shortcuts: A quick reference for Microsoft Excel basics and PowerPoint tips. Each activity specifies: Grade Level Appropriate Software Materials/Equipment Needed Web Resources Teacher s Role Student Instructions Web resources: Earth and Space Human Body Life Science Physical Science Science Fair and more! Generic activities: Game Template Poster Table Tent Word Search ...and more! PowerPoint activities: Animated Water Cycle Kite Bulletin Board Mold Garden Myth Busters ...and more! Inspiration and Kidspiration activities: I Would Like to Invent Pencil Properties Plant or Animal Venn Diagram Natural vs. Manmade ...and more! Excel activities: Plant Popup Timeline Space Explorations Weather Chart ...and more! Includes CD with completed activities. DOES NOT include application software.

50 Quick & Easy Science Computer Activities

Tammy Worcester

Bring the outside world into the classroom! People love to hear and tell stories. Students share stories about their families, friends, favorites, and travels. It's been said everyone has a story to tell. Digital storytelling gives children the opportunity to reflect on their experiences and use their imaginations. Up until now digital storytelling has been too technical for many students and teachers to successfully accomplish. By using the templates and resources in this kit, schoolchildren of almost any age can tell their stories through images, text and sound and share their stories with others.Award Winning Digital Storytelling Projects is a toolkit that makes it easy for students to create digital stories and helps teachers implement digital storytelling into their classrooms. The templates cover a wide variety of grade levels, curriculum areas and writing styles. The stories can be built in a wide variety of video or slideshow editing software. Grades 2 Adult. All subjects

Award Winning Digital Storytelling Projects

Dr. Arnie Abrams

You won't believe all the cool things you can do with Google Forms and Spreadsheets. In this book, you'll learn the basics, and then go beyond to develop activities that can help you collect and organize information, and collaborate to create new ideas through dozens of clever activities. Step-by-step instructions for: * Google Spreadsheets basics * Sharing spreadsheets for collaboration * Publishing spreadsheets as website * Google Forms basics * Exploring question types * Publishing and embedding forms * Viewing and analyzing data * Using and creating your own templates Student activities: * ABC Detective Agency * Am I a Square? * Book Reviews (moderated) * Classmate Comparison * Climates Comparison * Estimation Challenge * Getting Acquainted * Journal * Mad Lib * Quiz Bowl * Pixel Picture * Self-checking quiz * Voting * Who Am I? Teacher/classroom management activities: * Assessment rubrics * Assessment scoring * Assignment drop box * Attendance * Calendar * Charting student progress * Checklists * Grade book * Guest book * Help desk * Lesson plans * Parent contact info * Project design * Seating chart * Web resources list

Google Spreadsheets and Forms: 2nd Edition

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