Engaging Learners with MS Office Applications and Web 2.0 Tools
TIA Conference
June 23, 2009
Leecy Wise: leecy@coloradoadulted.org
CDE/AELFA
Four Corners Professional Development Resource Center
INTRODUCTION
INTERACT WITH CONTENT ONLINE
- http://mrssmoke.onsugar.com/3118203 - Websites to Generate Student Poetry Online
- http://www.googlelittrips.org/ -This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place... and so much more! Download trips, and get step by step instructions on how to create a trip and use Google Earth. Use the tabs at the top.
- http://www.learner.org/interactives/ - "Interactives" provides educators and students with strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in a variety of curricular areas. ->http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/index.html Read additional content in the left column
- http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/ - Science: The Environment
- http://www.shmoop.com/ - Shmoop engages students in literature, history, poetry and writing. “See many sides to the argument. Find your writing groove. Understand how lit and history are relevant today. We want to show your brain a good time. Our mission: To make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age. Shmoop is currently a Beta Test. To paraphrase Robert Frost, we know that we still have miles to go before we sleep.”
- http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/06/sparkle-box-thousands-of-free-things.html - Sparkle Box is a great resource for elementary and middle school teachers. You may download teaching materials for mathematics, reading, basic science lessons, geography basics, and lots of free posters for their classrooms.
- http://tilttv.blogspot.com/ - TILT: Teacher Improving Learning with Technology. This blog offers wonderful podcasts on how to do umpteen things with technology among learners.
- ThinkQuest – A site with student-created content of all kinds. Go to the library and enter keywords to search projects.
- http://www.thinkquest.org/en/projects/index.html - Sign up and have students submit a project. Vast content. Add to it!
- http://www.thinkquest.org/pls/html/think.library - Project library. Check out some 2009 winners
- http://www.yourchildlearns.com/us_map.htm - Interactive maps with lots of activities!
- http://www.eslcafe.com/ - Oldest ESL site on the Web, I believe, now with lots of interaction. Check the Stuff for Students link.
Beginning Readers and ESL
For a more complete list of resources, you may review a list I published in recent workshops at http://chiresources.pbworks.com/ESL-Computer-Activitiesand http://chiresources.pbworks.com/TTIX+-+ESL+Activities+Workshop andhttp://chiresources.pbworks.com/Technology-for-Pre-or-Early-Literate-Adults.
Read Write Think: Many fun activities with which to interact. Check out the Web Resources section for additional suggestions. The Student Materials Tab is loaded with good stuff for beginning speakers and readers.
GAMES (http://www.humorsphere.com/fun/ - “Are you usual or unusual?” )
Be sure to google “serious games” and explore the links! Google “game show templates!” Google “games!”
CREATE CONTENT
Class Marker: The ClassMarker online testing website is a professional, easy to use online quiz maker that marks your tests and quizzes for you. You simply create your quizzes and your learners or business clients take them online.http://www.classmarker.com/
Hot Potatoes: “The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a license. Check out the Hot Potatoes licensing terms and pricing on the Half-Baked Software Website.
http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ - Home
http://hotpot.uvic.ca/tutorials6.htm - Tutorials
http://chiresources.pbworks.com/LL+-+Februray+27%2C+2009 - Links, instructions and examples from a Hot Potatoes workshop in 2009.
Eduslide
http://www.eduslide.net/ - “Eduslide allows anyone to create educational content and deliver it online, free of charge. Within the system we offer different ways of presenting information, using testing modules, wikis, chat, blogs, slideshows, and more. We welcome requests to produce more lesson types.” ->http://www.eduslide.net/app/modules/learn/allCourses.php à Search Math
Audacity - http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ - Create sound files.
Slide Share
Google
Documents
Images
Blogs
Sites
Maps and Earth
http://sky.google.com ->http://earth.google.com/sky/skyedu.html
http://mars.google.com
http://moon.google.com
YouTube and Teacher Tube: Watch movies created by all sorts of folks. Have students upload their movies and share them. Embed movies into blogs and presentations. NOTE: Research the material before you assign it!
Support Resources
Blogging
MS APPLICATIONS
WORD (Tables, timelines, diagrams, charts, cloze, pictionaries, on and on)
POWERPOINT (All of the above with the added ease of creating interaction and options for automatic or manual presentation modes. Try the photo album for starters. Students can take their own learning to a higher level as they apply PP tools in creating and publishing slides.)
Jeopardy Question Banks
Activity: Create a Jeopardy game using the content list in the links below:
EXCEL (All of the above with the added ease of creating interaction through formulas!)
Activities:
1. Create an interactive map using the image below as a background. (http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan02/lehmann.htm )
2. Create an interactive crossword puzzle on parts of the body.
Google “Excel Projects” or “Excel Student Project” for great links to interactive Excel.
US Map to complete the activity: http://www.energycodes.gov/images/us_map_colored.gif
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