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Technology Integration Ideas

     Geography/Google Earth (Google Earth is a free download and is loaded on most CESU computers)

• Google Earth for Educators:  http://www.alicechristie.org/gearth/getour.html
• Gone Google - a series of slides that show how to integrate a variety of Google Tools http://picasaweb.google.com/cheryl.davismhs/GoneGoogle#5079341745174536882
• Using Google Earth in education:  http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/08/back_to_school.html
• Using Google Earth http://www.teachinghacks.com/wiki/index.php?title=Google_Earth_101_for_Educat
• Google Maps

   

     Current Events

          Neweum: Today's Front Pages

     Communicate with students in other cultures

          Try this website to find classes in other countries to work with:  http://www.epals.com/

     Podcasts - Students create a radio news broadcast about a historical event

     Explorers

students take on the persona of an explorer and create an online journal/blog about the journey or several students work together to create a log of a journey taking on different roles OR students create a photostory, using images obtained online to recreate the journey (good spot for teaching about ethical use of online resources)

Here is an interesting site to explore that can teach kids about reading websites carefully:  http://allaboutexplorers.com/webquest

     Best of History Web Sites:  http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.shtml

    Web Page Creation 8th Grade - in conjunction with web page design for their "computer" class, have students create a website to illustrate a time period, to tour a country, etc.    or just use a free website builder such as Weebly or Webnode

   Web quests:   http://www.cesu.k12.vt.us/pdresources/webquests/webquests.htm

Digital Citizenship

     Good time to discuss use of Internet Resources (citation, use of "free" pictures, etc)

Have students create newspaper snippets http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp