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Best Ideas for Teaching with Technology: A Practical Guide for Teachers, by Teachers
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Description: This practical, how-to guide makes it easy for teachers to incorporate the latest technology in their classes. Employing an informal workshop approach, the book avoids technical jargon and pays special attention to the needs of teachers who are expanding the use of computers in their classroom. The authors focus on what teachers do and how they can do it better, and provide a wide variety of proven tools, tips, and methods for enhancing these activities with technology.
Best Ideas for Teaching with Technology provides extensively illustrated tutorials for a wide variety of software, online tools, and teaching techniques. It covers everything from lesson plans, to time management, how to show animation, blogging, podcasts, laptop strategies, and much, much more. In addition, periodic updates to the text will be available on the authors' website.
Selected Contents:
Foreword by Alan November
Introduction
1. Lectures: Enhancing Teaching and Learning with Multimedia
Introduction
Multimedia Presentations with Images, Video, and Audio
Searching for Images, Audio, and Video: How to Find All That Good Stuff in the First Place
Using Video in the Classroom
BrowserPoint: Simple Web Site Presentations with Tabbed Browsing
Projectors: Sharing Your Screen with the Classroom
Getting Data into Your Classroom
Final Thoughts
2. Discussion and Communication
Introduction
Creative Uses of Email
Educational Uses of Blogging
Chatting
Bringing the World into Your Room: Skype and iChat
Final Thoughts
3. Note Taking and Organization
Introduction
Beyond the Trapper Keeper: Keeping Students Organized Online
Taking Notes with Computers
Software Tools for Taking Notes
The Future of Note Taking: Tablet PCs in the Classroom
Tracking Class Participation
Class Scribe: Sharing Class Notes Created By One Student
Taking One for the Team: Collaborative Note Taking
Final Thoughts
4. Guided Inquiry
Introduction
Online Scavenger Hunts
Virtual Tours
WebQuests
Google Earth
Select Web Sites for Guided-Inquiry Activities
Final Thoughts
5. Open Research
Introduction
"Why Johnny Can't Search": Searching with Key Terms
Google: For Better or Worse, the Number One Student Research Tool
Search Directories
Library Catalogues
Grokker Visual Searching
Five Online Collections
Final Thoughts
6. Homework
Introduction
Equity and Access
Assigning Online and Computer Homework
What to Do for Homework?
Examples of Short-Term Online Assignments in the Humanities
Final Thoughts
7. Writing
Introduction
Standard Formatting
Pre-Writing and Brainstorming
From Pre-Writing to Polishing: Best Practices for Writing with Word Processors
Beyond the Essay: Using Word Processors to Devise New Assessments
Writing Collaboratively with Wikis
Final Thoughts
8. Student Presentations
Introduction
Student PowerPoint Presentations
Recording and Editing Audio for Podcasting
Screencasting
Building Simple Web Sites with Google Page Creator
Final Thoughts
9. Assessment and Grading
Introduction
Online Tests and Quizzes
Giving Tests in an Online Environment
Electronic Commenting and Grading
Online Rubrics: Finding Them, Designing Them and Grading with Them
Electronic Gradebooks
The New Frontiers of Online Plagiarism
Final Thoughts
10. Class Management
Introduction
Teaching Strategies for the Computing Environment
Email: Getting on the Same Electronic Page
Course-Management Systems
Setting Up Your Own Class Web Site
You and Your IT Department
Acceptable Use Policies
Online Safety and Health
Recommended Professional Development Resources
Visions of the Future
Parting Thoughts
Index
Comment(s): "One part classroom-savvy, one part tech know-how, lots of illustrations, and a dash of humor: Best Ideas for Teaching with Technology can help anyone with classroom instruction. Tom Daccord and Justin Reich offer practical suggestions for getting more from your word processor. They also explore concept mapping applications and wikis as new strategies for empowering young writers. Web links and models provide additional support. Anyone who teaches will find these ideas invaluable!" -- Carla Beard, Webmaster of award-winning Web English Teacher website and 30-year English and Language Arts teacher
"Tom Daccord and Justin Reich are teachers' teachers. They write from the perspective of teachers whose focus is on student learning. Their recommendations for integrating a range of computer-based multimedia into the classroom are both creative and very practical--very doable for any teacher who is willing to use technology to bring learning to life. The writing is lucid and engaging and the ideas are sound because Tom and Justin have implemented them all during the course of their distinguished careers in the classroom." -- Bernie Poole, Webmaster of The EdIndex, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Review(s): Its practicality makes the book ideal for instructors who are eager to incorporate computers in their classes but might not have extensive experience in this area. The book is particularly valuable as a compilation of websites. Good teachers will use technology not as an end but rather as a means to making the classroom experience richer. Best Ideas for Teaching with Technology succeeds to the degree that it helps instructors stimulate students to think. Teaching History: A Journal of Methods
    
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