Weaving Best Practices and Technology Integration
Best Practices
Tech Strategies & Ideas
Web Sites & Web 2.0+ Apps
Identify Similarities and Differences
*Synthesize and restructure Information
Venn Diagrams (WORD
TEMPLATE)
Comparison Matrix
Classifying (Word
sort/Analogies)
www.quia.com
Interactive: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroomresources/
www.wordle.net
Summarizing and Notetaking
*Synthesizing and re-stating the “essence” of
information
Sequencing/Timelines
Main Idea and Details
www.preceden.com
www.timetoast.com
www.tiki-toki.com
Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition
*Addresses attitudes and beliefs
*Differentiate in connecting between effort and
achievement
Productivity tools:
Certificate Makers
Templates in WORD
http://www.crayola.com
Interactive
quizzes/activities
Wordles-Vocabulary
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.htm
Homework Help-Discovery Education
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/students/index.cfm
Interactive quizzes
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.htm
Wordles – www.wordle.net
CPS – Classroom Performance System-practice quizzes
Blogs
CPS – Team Activities
http://www.dentonisd.org/Page/4981 - Blog Photos-Writing
prompts
www.eInstuction.com
Classroom Performance
System
Survey Monkey
ePortfolio
Rubrics
http://www.einstruction.com/solutions/k-12
www.surveymonkey.com
www.edmodo.com
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?ts=1372538414
Homework and Practice
*Practice
*Review
*Apply knowledge
Cooperative Learning
*Interaction with others
-formal
-informal
Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback
*Establish a direction for learning
Hollye Knox, M. Ed, Master Technology Teacher 2013-2014
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Weaving Best Practices and Technology Integration
Best Practices
Tech Strategies & Ideas
Web Sites & Web 2.0+ Apps
Generating and testing a Hypothesis
*Analysis, invention, experimentation, decision
making and problem solving
*Key question: What if?
You Be the Historian
Maps
http://americanhistory.si.edu/springer/
How maps solve problems:
http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/unpacking/maps
q1.php
www.gind.k12.va.us/resources/graphicalorganizers
Question, Cues, and Advanced Organizers
*Connecting to what is known and what is needed
to be learn.
http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/graphic-organizers.html
Graphic organizers
Anticipation Guides
Textbook resources-Holt
http://my.hrw.com/nsmedia/intgos/html/igo.htm
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroomresources/printouts/anticipation-guide-30578.html
Nonlinguistic Representations
*Enhance ability to represent and elaborate on
knowledge using mental images
Graphic representations
Mental pictures
Video
Physical models
Drawings
Kinesthetic activities
Hollye Knox, M. Ed, Master Technology Teacher 2013-2014
www.animoto.com
www.mentormob.com (playlists)
www.prezi.com
http://www.drawastickman.com/
Wordles – www.wordle.net
http://printcutfold.com/activities.html
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