Technology Integration

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Part Three: Technology Integration

 

This learning module offers you three distinct ways to integrate technology into your learning and into your curriculum development for students. You will practice web navigation, e-mailing the experts, and PowerPoint presentation development.

Step #1 – Web Navigation(Back to top)
  
Activity #1:(Back to top)

 

Go to the On-Line Expeditions web site at www.ctcexpeditions.org and click on Amazon 2003. Then, click on Amazon Student Research and select a curricular area (animals, deforestation, Find a web site you would like to explore, and evaluate the web site information based on the criteria listed below. Create a evaluation of the site using the attached rubric based on the criteria below.

 

Download a rubric from the University of Albany "Evaluating Internet Resources".

  

Activity #2:(Back to top)

Go to your favorite search engine (www.yahoo.com, www.google.com, etc.) and conduct a web site for one of the curricular themes (animals, deforestation, etc.). Enter different search names to see if the sites that come up are different, more extensive, more useful, etc. For example:

Amazon animals
Amazon rainforest animals
Amazon river animals
Tropical forest animals

Explore a few of the web sites you find and apply the above web site evaluation criteria (in your mind) to the web site. Provide a one sentence description of the site and give the site a one-to-five star rating based on the criteria and whether the site would be useful to your grade level students.

Example:

Animals of the Rainforest     Great site that provides a roster of animals that you click on and access photos, chartacteristics, habitat, and other great information

  
Step #2– E-Mail the Experts(Back to top)
  
Name: Jennifer James
Your Email:: jjames@otis.edu
School: Otis Elementary
Teacher: Ms. Raizurehand
Grade: 6th
Expert: Rhan Flatin
Question: Why is protecting the Amazon Rain Forest so important?

 
Step #3– Submit (Back to top)
  

Activity #3:(Back to top)
Go to www.ctcexpeditions.org, and click on Amazon 2003. Then click on E-mail the Experts. Formulate a question (using the template on the site) that is related to the Amazon content, and that is a specific, more in-depth question to which you don’t know the answer. Forward copy of your question and e-mail response to the course instructor.
Step #3 - PowerPoint Presentations ( Download the powerpoint presentations below for examples by clicking on the picture)


  

Activity #4:(Back to top)

Create a PowerPoint presentation based on the Proposition/Support framework provided below. Submit to your instructor as an e-mail attachment. The presentation should include the following components:

Title

  
Inquiry Question  
Proposition  
Supporting Material: Facts
Statistics
Examples
Expert Authority
Logic and Reasoning
Closing Statements  
Web Site Bibliography  

 

For tutorial help with creating PowerPoint presentations, follow these instructions:

1. Open the PowerPoint program on your computer.

2. Go to the Help bar to the far right at the very top of your screen.

3. Open PowerPoint Help Contents.

4. Depending on your technical assistance needs, click on one of the following help menu items (start, add, change, slides, text, pictures, special effects, etc.)

5. For further assistance, contact your instructor or a classmate.

 

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