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=K-12 Teaching and Learning Resource Links=

Teaching Multimedia to High School Students
[|Show it and They will Know it with Powerpoint] A chemistry teacher demonstrates how to unharness the power of a Powerpoint presentation. Believe it or not, he says, Powerpoint was not invented to take the lecture notes from the chalkboard to a projection screen. He illustrates three ways to perceive Powerpoint.

[|Virtual Manipulatives] Virtual Manipulatives is a NSF supported website to that helps keep mathematics from being taught as a spectator subject. Engage the student and help them visualize relationships and concepts through this interactive approach to learning.

[|Filamentality for Web Based Projects] Create a set of approved Internet research links for your class and turn them into an online learning activities. Site helps you meet NET standards for students.

[|Interactive History Lessons] Explore world history through this interactive, animated website. Many of the animations show how the event impacted history, and many animations give a step by step tour of the historical event.

[|Learning Resource for Improving Literacy] Learning Resources helps improve basic reading skills with real life stories that will engage the older, struggling, reading student.

Teaching Video Technology to High School Students
[|Learning via a Cell Phone] Open a hot debate in your class. Read Marc Prinsky's article and challenge your students to think critically, visualize the future, and create their own video lesson to demonsrate how to learn through a cell phone.

[|Teaching with Film and Video] Promote discussion in your classroom. Sample lesson plans are availabe here with discussion questions for before and after viewing and listening activites. Teach History, Government, English or other high school subjects through the use of video.

[|Bio.video]Engage your students with these video biography clips. Learn about Vincent Van Gogh in the artist section or study Black History with 155 related video clips available. Build your lesson around this quality video site.

[|Video Gallery by History Channel]Find famous speeches at this website. Analyze these famous speeches in your Journalism or English class. Include videos about historical figures, mysteries of history, this day in history, and other topics to enrich your instruction.

[|Interactive Lesson on the movie The Net] This unit is from a course called Cyberspace English. Use this unit or develop your own using this unit as a guideline.

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Learning and Teaching with Technology to Middle School Students
[|Create a Personal Weather Web Page] ntroduce the world wide web to your students. Show them how to be a part of the action by having them create their own dynamic web page. Focus on the weather or have your students pick a subject. Teach creative thinking through mapping, research by finding data sources, and create a finished web page with relevant graphics.

[|Create Your Own Music Video] Engage your students by having them tell a story through music and video. Teach kids about multimedia and interpersonal communication skills through project based learning. Have your students storyboard, collaborate, animate, and author their own music video.

[|Do Cameras Lie?] Open your social studies lesson with a technology spin. If you see it, can you believe it? Go to the photographymuseum.com website and learn about photographic fictions. Teach your kids how to think critically by analyzing photograph tricks and accidents and let them apply those skills to your lesson.

[|Ask An Expert!] Ask an Expert is a kid friendly site designed to help students, teachers, and parents. Use this site with most any subject. When doing a classroom research project, ask a question and ask an expert. First, explore the expert's website and then email a real live person for additional help. Build a child's self confidence in reaching out and talking to others to help better understand the world they live in.

[|Learn about Podcasting] Find, subscribe, create, and publish a podcast. Teach across all topics and TEKS by allowing your students to brainstorm, research, write, and produce their own podcast.

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Learning and Teaching with Technology to Elementary School Students
[|Create A Teacher Classroom Page] Create your own classroom page for free. Learn first hand the technology skills you want to share with your students. Share your favorite links for your children to explore at home with their parents to enrich your lessons. Post your students work and instill the desire to learn and to care about what they do. Empower your parents with your personal classroom page.

[|Internet for Teachers] Make your life easier. Internet for Teachers is a one stop resource for assessment tools, awards and certificates, bulletin boards, books to make, calendars, and flash cards.

[|All about Me Online Scavenger Hunt] Find out what happened on the day you were born or the meaning of your name. Follow the link to find out how old you are in hours and minutes or what the Scrabble score of your name is. Have fun with your elementary students by introducing them to the resources availabe to them on the world wide web.

[|Fun School] Let your kids have fun and learn at funschool.com. Learn about snakes, rats, and lizzards through games, crafts, wordplays, and quizzes. Practice math facts by letting your students shoot down space craft while doing addition. Puzzles, math games, and language arts games are available to supplement in classroom instruction.

[|Great Websites for Kids] Explore a collection of websites published by the American Library Association. Learn about animals, the arts, language arts, history, science and more.