Life Skills:

• Thinking & Reasoning
• Communication

Summary:
In this class, participants adapt one of their curriculum unit plans to incorporate multimedia presentations and online tools. UEN provides a variety of web tools for teachers including online educational videos, my.uen, www.activities, online lesson plans, and others that are reviewed.

Participants use the www.activities tool to create an activity that uses higher-order thinking questions to prompt Internet research.

They prepare a multimedia presentation using PowerPoint, Presentations, Virtual Tours or SURWEB.

Participants use research-proven information literacy strategies to incorporate other Internet resources into their curriculum unit.

At the end of the workshop, teachers have a unit plan enhanced with quality technology resources ready to teach to their students.

Materials:
Below the manual for the two-day class is attached in both MS Word (.doc) format and as an Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) file.

Attachments

• tech-to-teach-manual.doc
  Manual in MS Word format.
• tech-to-teach-manual.pdf
  Manual in Adobe .pdf format.

Background For Teachers:
The class and manual refer to a number of websites and articles that provide a foundation of Internet understanding, as well as standards for educational use of technology. Just a few are highlighted below (for a complete list, download the manual).

Web Sites

• 6 Compelling Reasons to Use the Internet (SURWEB show)
  Created by Rick Gaisford, the state Education Technology specialist, this site provides example Web sites for different educational uses.
• Evaluating Web Sites – Kathy Schrock’s resources web page
  Access worksheets students can use to evaluate Web sites, as well as practice sites and helpful strategies for teaching with the Internet.
• Internet History Timeline
  See a timeline of the development of the Internet including major benchmarks in its history.
• Internet Search Strategies Tutorial
  Explore strategies to improve your efficiency searching on the Internet.
• National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) from ISTE
  Visit this site for information on technology standards for students, teachers and administrators. These standards resulted from a multi-year project from the International Society for Technology in Education.

Assessment Plan:
Assignment

Use the UEN online Lesson Plan creation tool to write your instructional plan.

Include the following items:

• Questions or objectives for the instructional plan and core standard(s) it addresses.
• Web link to a www.Activity you create. Appeal to higher-order thinking skills when designing the questions or tasks for these Internet activities. (Link using the materials button in the lesson plan tool.)
• Reference to at least one item in Pioneer that you use; OR provide a handout for an assignment where your students use Pioneer resources. (Provide a bibliographic reference under materials or background, OR attach assignment instructions under the materials button.
• A multimedia presentation (PowerPoint show, Virtual Tour or SURWEB show) that utilizes materials from the Internet. (Attach the PPT show, or link to the online media show from the materials or background buttons.)
• Assessment plan for students – a rubric, exam, or multimedia project. Either describe the assessment plan, or associate a rubric created with the UEN online Rubric Creation tool.

Author:
Victoria Rasmussen

Created Date :
Dec 30 2003 17:38 PM