This week the Mano's put together their ideas on locating different sources that give teachers the ability to plan and design their own ways to bring technology into the classroom.
We've chosen a website that has multiple links to classroom tools for grade levels ranging K-5. The integrated lesson plans were created by teacher's all across the United States. Each grade level is sequentially divided into subjects that branch into activities that are now technology advanced to met that particular guideline or standard. Most of which include using resources such as computers to research, calculators to quantify, smart boards to present, etc. It is important to gain students interest while doing a lesson plan incorporating technology because so much is to be gained and learned.
Researching websites of already effectively composed lesson plans is just one way that teachers locate and integrate technology into their classroom. A lot more can be created simply by brainstorming with other instructors, workshops, tutorials, etc.
Additional resources: the ABC's of Technology in the Classroom (Copyrighted: themayflowerSD)
A = Apple, AIM, AOL, Audacity, Animoto, Avatar
B = Bluetooth, Blogspot
C = CPU, Core, Classroom 2.0
D = Digg, Del.icio.us, Diigo, Dopplr, Disqus, Dabbleboard, DropBox, DropCard
E = Explorer, Emule Edu20, Edmodo, Edublogs, Elluminate, Ebay
F = Facebook, Firefox, Flickr, FriendFeed, FriendFeed
G = Google, Glogster, Gravatar, Goodreads, GetSatisfaction
H = Hulu, HIT
I = Iphone, Inspiration, Iterasi
J = Java, Javascript, Jott, Jing
K = K-lite codec, Kazaa, Kidspiration
L = Linux, LinkedIn, Lizzer, LMS/LCMS, LibraryThing
M = MSN, Magmolia, MySpace, Mashable, MooURL
N = Napster, Ning
O = Office, OpenOffice, OpenID
P = Play Station, Plurk, pbWiki, Plaxo, Pandora, Ping.fm, PollDaddy, PayPal
