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Many educators are still very resistance to technology. And indeed, there are
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are being used in schools and the list is
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growing. These are also various methods
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to implement a technology and also a
that are equally if not more effective. And we can always choose NOT to use it in

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Extra! Extra! Read all about..What is Technology

Dennis Zions in Seoul
This word is a very “funny” word as there are many
different definitions and it often depends on the
context. However, in the case of education it often
refers to some tool, device or system that we use to
promote learning. Often the tool, device or system is
something very modern or new. We don’t often think of
pencil as a technology (although it is) but we would
think of a cell phone as a technology because it is
relatively new.

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Technology: The Bad Meets the Good

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Many educators are still very resistance to
technology. And indeed, there are many concerns as
shown below. But it may be in our better interest to
keep the real definition of technology in mind. It is
merely a tool or knowledge that is controllable. We can
can choose how to use it to address many of these
concerns. (see below as well) We can also use to create
many new pedagogical approaches that are equally if
not more effective. And we can always choose NOT to
use it in cases where it is more problematic than
applicable.Again, its effective use totally depends on
our own approaches. When we consider such, we may
find it to helpful if not very helpful. In anycase, we
should also realize that the question, "Should we use
technology" is moot given that our current world IS
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The "Y" for Technology

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Why Use Technology?

1. To prepare students for the real
world
2. Technology­mediated instruction
gives you more choices
3. To promote higher order learning
4. Technology can improve your
students researching skills
5. Technology can also support
constructivism
6. Opens up many ways for
knowledge transfer and
knowledge building
7. May be less red tape involved
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8. Great way to teach critical

thinking
9. Supports and promotes social
constructivist learning
10. Technology can ease many
other teacher duties in the
areas of planning, asessement
and classroom mangement.

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Hurrah! Tips for Teachers and Technology

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So at present you may desire to use technology in

your classroom or school. Or at least you may
understand the need to use technology in the classroom
with reservations or not. So where to go from here?
Whether you are already a big user and promoter of
technology or a resistant rookie, there are a number of
directions to consider or take with technology, that may
make its implementation easier, more effective and
more convenient. Consider the list below for helpful
tips on learning how to implement technology into
education.

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From Here?
1 . Get ideas on how to teach it
­ visited websites
­ Look at and evaluate various
online lesson plans, activiities
and other ideas
­ Read various angles provided
by researchers, educators
and bloggers
* Often, hundreds of people
have already taken the time
to provide ideas and also
crtique them
2. Read !
­ journals
­ books
­ other professional documents
* Read for "the Why" too and
not only "the How"
*Learn the the theory behind
the concepts and issues
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3. Write !
­ write your own journals and
essays
­ post messages online through
various knowledge platforms
­ publish other works to share
the wealth
4. Use tutorials
­ watch online videos for
dummies
­ view online presentations
­ engage in interactive software
5. Remember your teacher basics
when planning/mapping out
your lessons
­ write the course objective,
­ list your materials including
website links
­ created detailed lesson
strategies and other
structures
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6. Learn and implement sound

pedagogical formats
­ For example...TPAK

7. Tweak / Revise your found

ideas from good to great
­ Consider your students as
individual learners
­ Consider your class time
length
­ Proofread your work
­ Discuss your plans /
strategies with other
educators or even students
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­ Make other accommodations

especially for your
exceptional students
Also, keep the following in mind
8. Take preventative measures
with technology
­ Know the cons for the use of
your technology (ies)
­ Know your own limits (ex.
ability, resources,
accessiblity)
­ Find ways around any cons /
limits
­ Don't use technology when
you can't overcome your
barriers
9. Go Slowly with resolution!
­ Start with easy technologies
and work your way up
­ Limit your student's exposure
and time especially for
younger students
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1 0. Ask your students for help!

­ you may be surprised what
they know
or can figure our so fast
11 . Use technology to engage not
impress or entertain
­ limit the amount of graphics
or sound
­ limit the types or levels of
technology to be used
* KISS (Keep it simple
stupid!)
1 2. Locate and keep track of your
"go-to" resouces
­ bookmark the more useful
sites
­ keep track of good sources
that lead to other good sources
* spend hundreds not millions of
minutes online in your
preparation! ;)
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1 3. Don't be afraid to say "No" to

technology
and remember to use other
tools
­ use technology WITH
other approaches

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Pedagogical Methods for Technology Implementation

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There are a variety of technologies that are being

used in schools and the list is growing. These are also
various methods to implement a technology and also a
combination of multiple technologies at once. Effective
selection requires knowing not only your subject or
course of teaching but also other constraints including
your school environment, your resouces, your students
and yourself.
The following information provides broad
categorization only. Refer to the last section for more
specific sources to be considered. Also, remember the
following categories are not exclusive to themselves
and overlapping may occur. Also, the list is not an
exhaustive list either! Who wonders what exotic
technologies will be added next to the rapidly
growing list!

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One way to Categorize
Technology in Education...
1 . Knowledge Platforms
­ Knowledge Building boards
­ Online Course Platforms
­ Wikis
­ Blogs
­ Online Portfolios
Research Related
­ General educational news and
fact (eg. kids yahoo)
­ Biographies
­ Online excyclopedias
Simulations
­ Virtual laboratories
­ Virtual driving
­ Virtual sports
Collaborative Project and/or
Communication Technolog y
­ Global Collaborative Projects
­ Network Collaborative Projects
­ Other Institute Facilitated
Projects (ex. museum­based­
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­ Chatting Programs
­ Social Network Programs
Subject Specific
­ Social Studies / History /
Geography
­ Science and Technology
­ LA / English
­ Math­
­ Media
­ The Arts
­ PE and Health
Accommodation
­ Portable note­takers
­ Word­prediction software
­ Text­to­Speech
­ Enlarging­Texts
­ Note­taking
Assessment-
­ Performance assessment
­ Computer simulations
­ Oral Presentations
­ Paired explanations
­ Progress interviews
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­ Customized tests

Games
­ Quest
­ Virtual online worlds
­ Simple drill
­ Flash interactive
­ Simulation
Video
­ How to videos
­ Movies and tv shows
­ Demos
­ Performance
(ex. music)
­ News
M-platforms
­ Mobile devices
­ Cell phones
­ Calculators
­ Dictionaries
­ Cameras
­ Other portable
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Boards
­ Smartboards
­ Computer projection
screens
­ tablets
Go-to Sources
­ General internet sites
that link person to list of
other useful sites
Student Work Collection Websites
­ Online term papers
­ Online book reports
­ Online coles notes
­ Online sample essays
Teaching Assistance
­ Online graphic organizers
­ Online lesson plans
­ Online exercise / activity
handouts
­ Student Management Sites
(ex. online report cards)
Teacher Development
­ Open courseware and classes
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­ Online journals and other

scholar articles
Other
­ Webquests
­ Educational Utility Software
(ex. word processors, publishers,
sound recording)
­ Other Educational Interactive
Software (ex. geometer’s
sketchpad, graphic and
animation creation)
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Resources
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Here's an extensive list of resources. Enjoy!

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resource list below will be update promptly
with your additions!

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Knowledge Platforms
1. Blogspot (Blogger) - www.blogspot.com
2. Drupal- http://drupal.org/
3. ePearl - http://www.sjsd.net/~amckiel/epearl
- create electronic portfolios
4. Knowledge eCommons-
http://innovations.oise.utoronto.ca/edtech/index.php/Knowledge_eCommons_2.0
5. Knowledge Forum- http://www.knowledgeforum.com/
6. Moodle http://moodle.org/
7. Tumbir- http://www.tumblr.com/
8. Web CT (Blackboard) - http://www.blackboard.com/
9. Sakai- http://sakaiproject.org/
10. Wikipedia- http://www.wikipedia.org/

Research Related

1. Kids Yahoo- http://kids.yahoo.com/

2. Biography.com- http://www.biography.com/
3. Easy Bib- http://www.easybib.com/
4. Encyclopedia Britannica- http://www.britannica.com/
5. Digital Research Tools- http://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/\
6. Info Please- http://www.infoplease.com/

Collaborative Project and/or Communication Technology

1. http://www.facebook.com/- Facebook
2. http://groups.google.com/- Google Groups
3. http://www.ning.com/- Ning
4. http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/ - Yahoo! Groups
5. http://www.myspace.com/- MySpace
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Subject Specific

Language Arts

1.. Accessible Books: http://www.setbc.org/setbc/accessiblebooks/

Popular children’s books that have been “recreated” through the use of scanning and
recording to enable the non-reader to access them via technology. The graphics and text of a
selected book are displayed on the computer screen with narration added through either
digitized (human reader) or synthesized (computer speech) speech. Register for free access.

2. Bit Strips for Schools: http://www.bitstripsforschools.com/

This Canadian-created, web-based software program is described as a "youtube for
cartoons", Bitstrips for schools challenges students and staff alike to create avatars of
themselves which can then be developed into webcomics. Social networking and
collaboration are encouraged as student assignments can be emailed, printed and shared on
blogs and other websites. Licensed for all Ontario school boards.

3. Book Report Forms::

http://www.abcteach.com/directory/basics/reading/book_report_forms/
Templates for book reports.

4. BrainPOP : http://www.brainpop.com/
BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports
educators, and bolsters achievement by featuring free lesson plans, video tutorials,
professional development tools, graphic organizers, best practices, and much more. There is
also a K-3 version and an ESL version.

5. Centre for Digital Storytelling: http://www.storycenter.org/index1.html

It has played a leading role in popularizing the concept of digital story telling in education
for almost a decade.The center takes pride that its workshops have helped thousands of
students from K-12, educators, and ordinary people from various professions create digital
stories with little or no technical expertise.
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6. Choice Literacy: http://www.choiceliteracy.com/

Literacy coaches, teachers, and school leaders present the best of the tools, guides, literacy
lessons, and sage advice we've gathered and tucked away as we've worked together over the
years.

7. Goanimate- http://goanimate.com/

Make your own animation videos

8. Google Docs- > type google docs on any internet command line
- students can collaborate together online to create a writing piece

9. Great Typo Hunt: http://greattypohunt.com/

Two friends changing the world, one correction at a time. The site (and book) tells the story
of an epic journey across the US to fix typos in public spaces. Check out the blog to track
their mission.

10. Language Arts Lesson Plans & Resources:

http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edeng.htm
Indexed lesson plans and resources for spelling, grammar, punctuation, vocab, reading,
many levels of literature, poetry, mythology, drama and media.

11. ICT Games: http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.html

Literacy and numeracy games for young learners.

12. Language Arts Resources: http://www.uvm.edu/~jmorris/la2.html

A full and organized site that offers links on all topics within Language Arts.
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13. Magnetic Poetry: http://play.magpogames.com/

Play the games online - fun!

14. Natural Reader: http://www.naturalreaders.com/index.htm

Free text to speech software with high quality voices. It is compatible with many application
programs such as Microsoft Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Internet Explorer and it is
incredibly easy to use.

15. Photo Story:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx
Free download enables users to create a slideshow using digital photographs. This program
allows users to fix photo imperfections, add narration, motion and special effects as well as
include a customized soundtrack to their “show and tell” presentation.Often used for Digital
Story Telling where the students can reflect and/or demonstrate their learning by narrating a
story using images and simple music as part of their presentation.

16. Project Ebook: http://boyle.topcities.com/ebook/tldsb/

A school project, this site has over 30,000 e-books. Great for text-to-speech and text
manipulation for learners with literacy needs.

17. Read Write Think: http://www.readwritethink.org/

Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in
reading and language arts instruction.

18. SCORE Language Arts CyberGuides:

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/SCORE/cyberguide.html
Web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide
contains a student and teacher edition, a task and a process by which it may be completed,
teacher-selected web sites and a rubric.
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19. Scratch- http://scratch.mit.edu
Another make-your-own animation videos program.

20. Spelling City: http://www.spellingcity.com/

Spelling and vocabulary lists, practice, games and tests (with options for results to be sent to
the teacher or parent). Free registration.

21. Spezify – http://www.spezify.com/

The webpage is defined as: a search tool presenting results from a
large number of websites in different visual ways.

22. Starfall: http://www.starfall.com/

A free public service to motivate children to read with phonics.

23. Tumble Talking Books: http://www.tumblebooks.com/talkingbooks/

An online audiobook library with storybooks, novels and literacy games. Most public
libraries provide their patrons with access, so talk to your local librarian for free access!
Also try Learn Out Loud for more free audio books.

24. Web English Teacher: http://www.webenglishteacher.com/index.html

A comprehensive site that offers all sorts of tools for English teachers. Seriously... there's
tons of good stuff.

25.Writingfun- http://www.writingfun.com/
- online text organizers as an alternative fun way to follow the writing process for various
types of writing
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Math-

1. 1XL Math- http://www.ixl.com/

- online textbook style questions/exercises – nice alternative to doing textbook questions –
in class or for HW

2. AAA Math- http://www.aaamath.com/grade6.htm#topic205

- tonnes of lesson notes, drill activities and various types of games

3. Brainingcamp- http://www.brainingcamp.com/content/
- online activities to support student understanding of various concepts
- graphical lecture in most
- for grades 3? and up

4. Calculation Nation – http://www.calculationnation.org/

- various games for practising math skills

5. Geometer’s Sketchpad- http://www.dynamicgeometry.com/

- a licensed software but the trial version is free and be used again and again!
- lots of constructivist activities to help students learn math concepts “bottom up” on their
own

6. Gizmos - http://www.explorelearning.com/
- another licensed software but also with a free trial version for various math activities that
could be used to construct the class or to serve as a class launch
- suitable for grades 3 and up

7. Khan Academy –http://www.khanacademy.org/

- want a break from lecturing in front of the students? Choose from hundreds of lectures for
various math lessons. Play one and let the online lecturer teach for a change.
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8. Kidspiration – http://www.inspiration.com/Kidspiration
- allows students to build concept maps and other organizers for Language Arts and use
manipulatives for math

9. Math Circles – http://www.mathcircles.org/

- like literary circles but for math- another way to teach a math unit or subunit

10. Math Tools -

http://mathforum.org/mathtools/cell.html?co=m6&tp=8.3&sortBy=&offset=25&limit=25
- links to more drill activities and games

11. Natural Library ofVirtual Manipulatives- http://nlvm.usu.edu/

- online tools for working with math (can be used to launch class, in activities or for review
and HW)

12. Nelson Companion Site-

http://www.nelson.com/nelson/school/elementary/mathK8/companion.html
- lots of launch activities and practice activities or games for all math strands

13. Math Frog - http://cemc2.math.uwaterloo.ca/mathfrog/

- lots of math games for various subjects

14. Wolfram - http://www.wolframalpha.com/

- like an extended online calculator – the graphing calculator you are looking for! Yeah!

15. Tinkerplots – Data and Statistics - http://www.keypress.com/x5715.xml

– could be good for a project or just has other activities maybe
– might have to buy it
- for grades 4 –8
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C. Media / Critical Thinking

1. Media Awareness Network

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/index.cfm

2. Media Education Project

http://www.mediaeducationproject.ca/

3. Digital Citizenship
http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/

4. Digizen
http://www.digizen.org.uk/

Science and Technology

1. Action Bioscience
http://www.actionbioscience.org/
Lots of current issues to read for ideas and lesson/unit planning.

2. Alaska Seas and Rivers Curriculum

http://seagrant.uaf.edu/marine-ed/curriculum/grade-5/investigation-1.html
- yet another collections of lessons and ideas relating to sea and rivers

3. Aids Info
http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/
- alot of information on aids related information

4. Artic Health
http://www.arctichealth.org/healthtopiccircle.php
- mostly just information but could be useful for some units
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5. BBC TV
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/programmes/genres/factual/scienceandnature

- lots of small tv clips to give information on environment and technology to supplement

your class plans

6. California Academy of Sciences

http://www.calacademy.org/teachers/plan_a_visit.php
- a museum site that comes with its own database of lesson plans that oriented around visits
to its museum but you could still probably use a number of ideas from them for trips to field
trip sits and in the class too

7. Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence

http://cosee-central-gom.org/curriculum.htm
- Another database for lesson plans and just ideas. Most relate to Ocean science which in
turn relates to Earth, Weather and more

8. Climate Change Activities

http://www.gma.org/climate_change/index.html
- classroom activities for all grades

9. Climate Discovery Teacher Guide

http://eo.ucar.edu/educators/ClimateDiscovery/index.htm
- a wealth of detail lesson plans on climate and needed resources

10. Deep Earth Academy

http://www.oceanleadership.org/education/deep-earth-academy/educators/classroom-
activities/
- a variety of lesson plans and other sources for all grades
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11. Design Process
http://www.technologystudent.com/designpro/despro1.htm
- a GREAT resource for design technology units. This site goes into great detail on how to
create an ongoing design technology unit that does not involve recipe style procedures.
Rather, students are taken though the design process to create artifacts of their own in the
context of society and the environment. Lots of handouts are provided as well. Good
background information is given to help teachers understand the various social constraints
involved in designing an artifact.
Don't miss this site if you plan on teaching a design technology unit "STSE" style and in an
ongoing sense!

12. EE-LInk
http://eelink.net/pages/EE-Link+Introduction
.--> EE-Link is Environmental Education on the Internet

EE-Link is: 5800 links organized in 300 categories, 11,000+ visitors per day. Browse or
Search for resources for professional development, climate change, global warming, lesson
plans, endangered species, national and international events, jobs, activities for the
classroom, and more.

13. Exploratium
http://www.exploratorium.edu/who/educators
- in particular, check out the For Teachers box especially publications, activities and 10 cool
sites

14. Genscope- http://genscope.concord.org/

A learning environment that uses the computer to provide an alternative to text-based

science education. It provides teachers and learners with a new tool that enables students to
investigate scientific and mathematical concepts through direct manipulation and
experimentation.
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15. Good Road to Harmony
http://awesome.good.is/ecosystem/index.html#/home
- interesting road map to check out and explore with the kids

16. Intel Education

http://educate.intel.com/odyssey/StoryFinder.aspx?viewby=category
-tonnes of stories about teacher’s experiences which in turn provide tonnes of ideas and even
links to lesson plans and activities on science, technology and more

17. Larry Bencze's resource site for STSE

http://webspace.oise.utoronto.ca/~benczela/STSEedRes.html
I just noticed Larry's impressive list of sources recently even though I took a course with
him last summer. There are various links to information/ideas on STSE relationships and
STSE education. Browse around other parts of his site for more information as well.

18. Learn NC
http://www.learnnc.org/
- contains a variety of ideas, lesson plans and other resources for K-12 in various
subjects including science. Lots of alternative ideas for teaching.

19. Life Science Learning Center (From University of Rochester Medical Center)
http://lifesciences.envmed.rochester.edu/downloadcurriculum131206.html
- Here are some more detailed units on environmental science that you might use for some
classes. Most are high school with a few at the middle school level.

20. Moorea Coral Reef LTER Education

http://mcr.lternet.edu/education/
- another collections of lesson plans relating to coral reefs and the ocean.

21. National Geographic Xpeditions

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/education/xpeditions/lessons/matrix.html
- lesson plans for K-12
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22. National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
- mixture of useful information and links

23. Nature
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/category/for-educators/
- more lesson plans

24. Noaa ocean service education

http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/literacy.html
- has library of lesson plans, issues, questions. …but only about ocean related issues…

25. Ocean and You

http://oceanandyou.com/WhatIDo.html
- a few more lesson plans on ocean education

26. Ocean Portal

http://ocean.si.edu/for-educators/lessons/taxonomy/term/all/
- its content is also connected to ocean but....is also a great linking site to other sites of
various subjects/topics

27. PASTE
http://www.wepaste.org/journal.html
This site has 2 great features: a huge list of formal action oriented science journals / articles
(under the heading JASTE) and a more informal forum for writing and sharing posts. (under
the heading WEPASTE )
If you are looking for a nice list of other journals to read on STSE look in PASTE under
JASTE!

28. Partnership for Environmental Education and Rural Health (PEER)

http://peer.tamu.edu/MiniMods.asp
- here at this link you will find very detailed lessons plans that teach students science
through historical issues. These lesson plans could help to serve as models at least for how
to teach science through history in a more exciting way.
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29. Science Inquirer-free stuff
http://scienceinquirer.wikispaces.com/freestuff
- free stuff for educators
- also has a horde of links to other sites that in turn provide more info, lesson plans, ideas
etc.

30. Sea World

http://www.swbg-animals.org/just-for-teachers/index.htm
- More lesson plans here that focus on sea animials in general. The ones that I browsed
appear more limited than other sites but there are some useful ideas to be taken and
incorporated into better lessons.

31. STEPWISE
http://webspace.oise.utoronto.ca/~benczela/STEPWISE.html
This is another site created by Larry Bencze which gives a wealth of information on taking
action for sociopolitical issues.

32. Terrific Science

http://www.terrificscience.org/freebies/lessonexchange/teaching-ehs/
- this site has tonnes of ideas, lesson plans, workshop videos and more for all grades and
there is even a good list of more "STSE style" lesson plans involving for example case
studies, mock safety trials/investigations and more. Enjoy!
Also note, with most sites, you have to search through a number to find the "good"
ideas/plans among the bad. But a number look okay.

33. The Franklin Institute

http://www.fi.edu/learn/index.php
- same idea as #16 but with The Franklin Institute

34. Thinkport
http://www.thinkport.org/classroom/CONNECTIONS/lessons/society.tp
- this site is not too bad either. I has some good units/lessons plans on evironmental issues
that you might use to help you weave together an STSE oriented unit/set of classes
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35. Toxtown
http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/
(click For teachers once you enter the site)

36. Visible Proofs -

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/resources/bibliography_nonfiction.html
- click resources for bibliographies, radio interviews and web links

37. United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

http://www.epa.gov/epahome/learn.htm
-great online database of issues, science and technology
-lots of reading to do but with the science, technology and society all in one
- a few activities too

38. Wild BC
http://wildbc.org/index.php/programs/climate-change-education/
- more environmental activities / lesson plans to use to make some lessons / units (click
resources)

Social Studies

1. http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/historical - Atlas of Canada. Has a variety

of maps, data and lesson plans for different grades and topics.

2. http://www.craigmarlatt.com/school/canada_academic/ - An excellent resource for

teaching Grade 9 and/or Grade 12 Geography (Ontario Curriculum)

3.
http://www.greenwoodcollege.com/geography/Taylor&Nic/9geography/index.html#Introduc
tion

- another Geography resource for Geography of Canada (Ontario Curriculum)

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Accommodation

1. Babel Fish - http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

- text translator

Assessment-

1. Quiz star- more formal assessment- http://quizstar.4teachers.org/indexs.jsp

2. Rubric Makers
Rubric Creator: http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

3. What is FAST?
FAST is an anonymous online survey tool that automatically summarizes students'
impressions of a course and/or teacher and supplies the data directly to the teacher.
http://www.getfast.ca/

Games

1. Quest Atlantis- http://atlantis.crlt.indiana.edu/

2. SPORE- http://www.spore.com/ftl
3. Second Life - http://secondlife.com/
4. Skoolaborate- http://www.skoolaborate.com/

Video

1. http://www.cbc.ca/thenational/
- CBC National news and many other news BBC, CBS etc
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2. http://www.nfb.ca/ - National Film Board of Canada. An amazing resource for -
Canadian films that cover a variety of topics.

3. BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/
- BBC Learning Schools

Go-to Sources
- General internet sites that link person to list of other useful sites

1. http://www.edhelper.com/
Variety of lesson plans and activity and exercise handouts

2. Ed Tech- http://innovations.oise.utoronto.ca/edtech/index.php/Index
- Big list of educational technologies and information about them

3. http://www.lessonsplanspage.com/
- Free lesson plans

4. Wired School- http://sites.google.com/site/wiredschool/

- Another great –go to- source for technology and education

5. http://www.studentlink.org/
- More free lesson plans (have to pay)

Student Work Collection Websites

1. Writework- http://www.cheathouse.com/
2. Academic Term Papers- http://www.academictermpapers.com/
3. Pink Monkey - http://www.pinkmonkey.com/
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Teaching Assistance

1. Google Sketchup - http://sketchup.google.com/product/gsu.html

- create, modify and share 3D models

2. Hot Potatoes- http://hotpot.uvic.ca/

- Hot Potatoes 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.

3. Gliffy
http://www.gliffy.com/
- Diagram software

4. http://my.hrw.com/nsmedia/intgos/html/igo.htm - Holt interactive PDF graphic

organizers. A total winner, boasting over 30 different organizers, classified neatly into
various categories!!

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/
tonnes of lesson plans free! For teachers

5. Quiz star- more formal assessment

http://quizstar.4teachers.org/indexs.jsp

6. SMART Ideas- concept-mapping software brings the power of visual learning to your
classroom. It helps students visualize and analyze complex ideas by building multilevel
interactive maps. This fun, colorful software enables students to conceptualize information
more quickly. *Have to buy.
http://smarttech.com/smartideas

7. Worksheet Works-
http://www.worksheetworks.com/miscellanea/graphic-organizers.html
You can choose your own graphic organizer and then alter the settings to make it relevant
for YOUR lessons, activities, assignments...
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Teacher Development

1. http://cali.arizona.edu/maxnet/ - 20 different language programs offered including

Korean! :)
2. http://www.brandon-hall.com/ - employee learning and development
3. http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/- free interactive access for students to a
scanning electronic microscope
4. http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/ - Mandarin Chinese
5. http://www.elearningguild.com/- a community site for elearning professionals of
various sorts
6. http://faulkes-telescope.com/- students can remotely carrry out scientific
investigations through free access to robotic telescopes
7. http://www.handsonuniverse.org/- students can use image-processing software to
carry out a number of collaborative projects in astronomy
8. http://www.jhsph.edu/ - public health
9. http://www.kantalk.com/ - learn English
10. http://www.livemocha.com/- learn a variety of languages
11. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm - various subject courses
12. http://opencontent.org/wiki/index.php?title=Intro_Open_Ed_Syllabus- another open
ed
13. http://spanishpod.com/ - learn Spanish
14. http://nccphp.sph.unc.edu/training/index.php - public health

Other

1. Audacity- http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds
2. Glogster- http://edu.glogster.com/- make cool interactive posters
3. Hyper Studio- http://web.me.com/rogerwagner2/testdrive/about.html
- a program where a student can write, paint & draw, create animations, and make movies,
all in an interactive, non-linear project that is a whole, cohesive project, not just mere
fragments.
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4. Online whiteboard - http://www.imaginationcubed.com/
– its cool!
5. Prezi - http://prezi.com/
- create astonishing presentations live and on the web
6. Reading Made Easy- http://www.readingmadeeasy.ca/
7. http://www.scrapblog.com/
8. - make online scrapbooks
9. Scribus- http://www.scribus.net
Open Source Desktop Publishing
10. Voicethread- https://voicethread.com/?#u1696906
Many interesting and useful ways to create voice threads.
11. Webquest.org- http://webquest.org/index.php
12. Wordle- http://www.wordle.net/
- Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.

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Remember Me
Michael Zions in Korea

I hope this workshop and these handouts will serve

to be useful for you. At least it is my wish to put more
weight on the importance of technology in education.
Indeed, as I mentioned at the beginning, our world is
technology. Thus, education must follow suit
accordingly...and so much the teacher.
With this in mind, remember this quote:
"Those teacher who do not embrace
technology may soon be replaced by those
that do!"
Best of luck with your teaching!
Dennis Zions

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