Integrating Technology in the Classroom

Sites explaining and/or demonstrating how to use technology in teaching and learning. Sites are more than lesson plans with activities that use technology in the classroom.

1. NatureShift!: linking learning to life
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 3 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 028270
   This web site, produced by the North Dakota Science Center, contains hands-on, problem-based activities, which are aligned with the NSES and National Social Studies Standards. The site helps children learn about concepts within science and technology, as well as about North Dakota history and geography.
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2. InTime: integrating new technologies into the methods of education
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 027659
   This Internet site offers a collection of online video vignettes that demonstrate how preK-12 teachers are integrating technology into their classroom lessons. Videos span all grade levels and subject areas and are also presented in a variety of languages, from English and Spanish to French and Kiswahili.
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3. WWW4teachers
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 010903
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site is a free, Web based monthly publication that provides a place where educators and others with interests in K to 12 education can encounter new ideas about technology's role in education. At this site they can express their opinions, share experiences, and be inspired and educated by other teachers' narratives about using technology in educational settings.
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4. LeTUS, the Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools
   Featured in ENC Focus  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): 6 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 024571
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for middle school science teachers, describes what the Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools (LeTUS) initiative is and how it has impacted urban classrooms. Formed from a collaboration involving Chicago Public Schools, Northwestern University, Detroit Public Schools, and the University of Michigan, LeTUS creates and implements project-based curricula that emphasize inquiry-based learning and technology integration.
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5. Apple Learning Interchange (ALI): igniting conversation, imagination, and improvement in education
   Featured in ENC Focus  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 016730
   This Internet site, maintained for K to 12 teachers by Apple Computers, offers an online resource for educators interested in professional development, creating and sharing curriculum resources, and building a worldwide community committed to finding even better ways to teach with technology. The homepage features a searchable catalog of selected Internet resources for teaching and learning, Units of Practice that provide ideas and examples for teaching with technology, and collaborative online projects as well as links to articles, news, and other events.
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6. A creative encounter of a numerical kind: a WebQuest for middle grades math students
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 6 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 028642
   This Internet site provides an activity designed to help middle grades math students better understand the base ten number system by helping an imaginary civilization develop a base four number system. The activity explores place value, counting, and different number systems as students are asked to create and name a series of original number symbols for their own base four number systems.
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7. An innovation odyssey: a world tour of innovative uses of technology in education
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 026477
   This Internet site is part of the Intel Innovation Education web site designed to promote math, science, and technology achievement in K-12 classrooms. Stemming from Intel's Odyssey Project launched in January 2002, this site provides users with a new story every school day that describes how teachers from around the world are using technology in their classrooms to support student learning.
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8. techs4schools
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 025112
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by TECH CORPS, provides information about its free online mentoring program for educators. TECH CORPS is a nonprofit organization, which partners Information Technology (IT) professionals with schools in an effort to enrich K-12 teaching and learning.
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9. ON-Math, Online Journal of School Mathematics
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 3 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 025860
   This Internet site features the Fall 2002 premier issue of the online journal developed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). The goal is to provide a range of ideas about teaching and learning mathematics.
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10. Early connections: technology in early childhood education
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): Pre-K - 3 Cost: Free ENC#: 025581
    This Internet site provides educators and childcare providers with resources and information for matching technology with the way young children learn at different developmental stages. The site is organized according to the settings in which educators and care providers work with young children: Child Care, Preschool, Kindergarten, Primary Grades, and Before/After School Programs.
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11. Square of life: studies in local and global environments
    Featured in ENC Focus  
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 1 - 5 Cost: Free ENC#: 026056
    This Internet site provides a collaborative online project for elementary school students to learn what living and nonliving things are found in different locations around the world. The project is performed in both the fall and spring of each school year, and registration in the form of a letter of introduction about the school and town is required for participation.
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12. NASA Quest
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 002984
    This World Wide Web site, supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Information Infrastructure Technology Applications (IITA) project and the High Performance Computing and Communication (HPCC) program, has been developed to provide support and services for K to 12 schools, teachers, and students to fully utilize the Internet, and its underlying information technologies, as a basic tool for learning. The Quest web includes sub nodes describing NASA online interactive projects, grants, ideas for using the Internet in schools, and other educational resources.
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13. iPhysics: interactive simulations of physics and physical science experiments
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 029740
    This web site contains over 60 different online experiments that explore fundamental physics concepts. Experiments allow students to manipulate variables, perform simulations with these variables, and then analyze the results.
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14. The Math Forum Internet mathematics library
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 014856
    This Internet site is an annotated catalog of mathematics and mathematics education web sites assembled by the Math Forum. It features hierarchical categories (mathematical topics, resource types, mathematics education topics, and educational levels) for browsing and a power searching feature for more defined searches.
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15. Internet detectives: a middle school social studies and library media project
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 009374
    This Internet site is a student-generated library of evaluated Internet resources. Developed through an initiative for middle school social studies students in the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD), the site offers reviews of more than 300 web sites.
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16. WebQuests
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2001 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 020713
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed by the San Diego City Schools for K-12 students, provides over 100 online teaching units based on the Webquest model. The model promotes inquiry-oriented activities in which most or all of the needed information is drawn from the Internet.
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17. classrooms@work/tools@hand: models of effective technology integration for professional development
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2001 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 020193
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for teacher professional development, presents real classrooms and their technology-enhanced learning projects. The Web site features three classroom projects that integrate mathematics, science, social studies, and language arts.
    
    Travel USA presents grade 4/5 project where student travel agents prepare a travel itinerary for a German family coming to the USA.
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18. tech Learning: the resource for education technology leaders
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2004 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 013283
    This Internet site presents an online version of TECHNOLOGY and LEARNING, a magazine created for K to 12 school administrators, teachers, and technology coordinators. An article in the issue reviewed, What does research say about technology's impact on education? from the editor of the print publication is included along with interviews from research experts and links to sources of information about related educational research.
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19. Building blocks of a WebQuest
    Featured in ENC Focus  
    Date: 2001 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 029142
    This Internet site offers advice and instruction for teachers on the construction of a webquest. Teachers find directions for every stage of webquest development, which include the introduction, task, process, evaluation, and conclusion.
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20. The Gateway to Educational Materials
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): Pre-K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 016952
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) project, features a searchable database of Internet lesson plans, activities, and projects for a variety of subjects, including educational technology, mathematics, and science. The GEM project is a consortium effort funded by the US Department of Education to provide K to 12 educators with access to the substantial, but uncataloged, collections of educational materials found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)