Teaching & Technology

First in a three-part series aimed at helping students learn to enjoy their books, share their reading with others, and increase their feelings of reading achievement. Grade Level 3-7.

Give your students a good start for the year, while you get to assess their computer knowledge and learning style - all in an easy, fun, and non-intimidating way using Microsoft Paint (every PC comes with it!)

This article in the Summer School for Teachers series is dedicated to the pursuit of technological knowledge. Why do we even teach technology? What standards should we adhere to? How can we assess the content we already have and align it within technological standards?

In this lesson, we're going to learn what it takes to create a Teacher's Technology Kit. If you start from the beginning and actually do what you read as you read it , you'll have a complete and ready-to-use kit by the time you're done reading. You can view it as ...

In this lesson, we're going to do the WebQuest. If you start from the beginning and actually do what you read as you read it, you'll have a complete and ready-to-use WebQuest by the time you're done reading.

This article posting is the chapter two title page and the first section of chapter two, "Focus on a Theme", for the "Creative Writing Laboratory" book. This is article #5 in the series.

This article posting is the third chapter of the first section, "Essentials and Basics" for the "Creative Writing Laboratory" book.

In learning how to analyze political cartoons, and then studying politics to create their own political cartoons, the students use artistic concepts to express their own views of the world.

Within this lesson, students will be "given" one million dollars - and work to spend the money on a socially beneficial project (building a no-kill animal shelter, creating a community for battered families, etc.)

Children Of The World will help the younger students- 1-4 - how to use the computer to listen to cultural music and watch video clips of other cultures. Perfect for geography and history blocks.