From the Classroom
Using Technology to Overcome Writing Barriers
By Dr. Arthur Stellar
For the Taunton Public School District, the annual Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) exams were an annual source of anxiety. This led the district to implement a Web-based writing program that gave students the practice they needed, and scores soared.
Teaching Mathematics with Virtual Manipulatives
By Judy Donovan
Save money and still show kids how to do math problems without expensive equipment. Virtual manipulatives are free and available to the entire class. You don't even need Internet access to use virtual manipulatives—many can be downloaded and used offline. What's Your Story?
By By T&L Editors
Kids use digital storytelling as a dynamic new writing tool. The Document Camera: Advancing Classroom Visual Technology
By By Joe Frisk
One educator's tale of discovering the many classroom uses of a document camera. How I Created My Podcasts
By By Steven Katz
Podcast 101 from start to finish of this teacher's first podcast. Students Become Animated, Drawing Connections to Lessons
By By Colin Hussey
Fifth-grade students in Virginia learning complex science subjects like the periodic table thanks to animation software. Collaborative Writing
By By Julia K. VanderMolen
Web-based collaborative writing tools offer a simple means to generate text exercises, research reports, and writing assignments in a collaborative mode. The authors discuss how Google Docs, ThinkFree, Zoho Writer, and WriteBoard can jazz up any writing curriculum. How Building Wings Helped Special Ed Students to Soar
By Caron Gibbert, Margaret Lee, Kathy Hillner, and Judy Nimmo
A simple AudioBook provides these Special Ed elementary-school students with a lot more than just an enjoyable story.
Let Students Be Your Guide—as Lesson Evaluators
By Carrie A. Calloway
Make students take part in their own learning by having them constructively criticize your lessons. Basic Technology Tools for Diverse Learning Needs
By Kathy Weise
Seemingly ordinary technology can make learning much more accessible for students with special needs. Picture This: Video Streaming To Your Classroom
By Julia VanderMolen
Here's how to use video to engage your students, part of the new generation accustomed to learning from video. The Many Virtues of the Virtual Lab
By P.R. Guruprasad
Put a science lab on the computer screen and you lose the smells and the physical hazards but gain student attention, understanding, and achievement. Teaching With Tunes: 21 Ideas for Incorporating Music Throughout the Curriculum
By Folwell Dunbar
Teach it with music; here are 21 ways to make your lessons sing. Web 2.0 Tools Motivate Student Creativity
By Cory Plough
Some ways that Web 2.0 tools help students express their creativity and allow a teacher to inspire his students. Even More Success with English Language Learning
By Larry Ferlazzo
The facilitator of a prize-winning program to teach reading via laptops reveals that the project is succeeding even better than first thought. Find out why. Web 2.0 Enhances Learning
By Amy Capelle
How to meet the needs of our digitally-literate clients by using Web 2.0 tools to make lessons come alive. Home Schoolers, Advanced Placement, and a Revolution In Distance-Learning Technology
By Mark Cruthers
Why shouldn't home-schooled students be able to take Advanced Placement courses? With this software they can—and do. What Are You Doing In That Computer Lab?
By Larry Ferlazzo
An award-winning educator offers creative ways to make your students' time in the computer lab both educationally sound and rewarding. Technology Rescues At-Risk Middle-Schoolers
By Dr. Ruth Forrester
How an innovative school using innovative technology helped save the day for middle-schoolers at risk of failure. Free Online Games Develop ESL Students' Language Skills
By Larry Ferlazzo
An award-winning educator offers a creative, entertaining, and engrossing way for ESL/EFL/ELL students to enhance their reading, writing, and speaking skills while having fun with free online text-based games. Assessment with Video and PowerPoint
By Greg Ososky
These auto-tech students have learned to teach themselves and assess themselves using hi-tech tools: videos and presentations. Video Contest Promotes Student Learning
By Jeff Doles
This cross-curriculum project taught students both the subject matter and that they could create something that will impact the larger group. Five Steps to Combat Bullying
By Jenna Andrews
Students use a comic strip program to tackle the serious issue of bullying. Blogging For and With Visually Impaired Students
By Julie Burger
How a teacher of visually impaired youngsters found the resources to help her students participate in blogging. Teaching Students to Become Media-Savvy Consumers
By Andrew Powell
An elementary-school teacher helps his international students cope with the pressures of consumerism thanks to a valuable thought-provoking website. Breaking News! Students Create Radio-Style Podcasts
By Christopher Young
Creating pop-radio style podcasts teaches a group of creative middle school students some very valuable skills. Giving Students A Voice Through Technology
By Patricia Sattler
How a generation fascinated by visual images discovered the benefits and fascinations of the spoken voice. Helping Young Students to Master Technology
By Nicole Luongo
Today’s elementary students will better hold their own in tomorrow’s world by learning some essential technology skills. Fireworks in Student Learning
By Michael J. Canino
A classroom educator reveals the true magic of technology — its role in involving students and making them want to learn. A "KLASS" Act: the Kennedy Launch Academy Simulation System
By Stephanie Stevenson
A simulated space shuttle launch helped these Florida middle school students learn some important lessons in math, science, and language arts as well as showing them that perseverance can solve seemingly impossible problems. And their teachers had fun, too. One-to-One Computing and Classroom Management
By Mike Hasley
The technology may be new, but the techniques for managing its use with your students haven't changed much — and here are some ideas. Storybook Settings: Google Earth in Language Arts
By Mechelle M. De Craene
Thanks to Google Earth your students will be able to "see" and understand the setting of any novel, no matter where on our planet it takes place. New versus Old: Which Is The Way to Better Learning?
By Christi Strike
We get it: Our students are tech-savvy. So how tech-savvy do we have to be to teach this new generation? Read this case study to see how it played out. Samuel L. Jackson, My ESL Students, and Me
By Larry Ferlazzo
Sophisticated marketing gimmicks intended for a fast-paced consumerist society of native speakers can be adapted to enable ESL students and their families to participate more fully in their adopted land, practice its language, and understand its customs. A 3-Dimensional World Builds Community Across Countries and Continents
By Regis Gilman, John Tashner, Steve Bronack, Richard Riedl and Amy Cheney
A sophisticated high-tech 3-dimension world full of avatars using innovative communication devices helps create a true sense of community among learners in higher ed separated by hundreds or even thousands of miles.
How The Red "MayDay Cup" Helps Students Learn Technology
By Kimberly A. Saucier
How some little red plastic cups not only save a technology teachers sanity but empower her students and create an atmosphere of shared learning. Classroom Web-controlled Receivers: Windows on the World
By Kevin C. Wise
The Web has made shortwave radio accessible to all, and now it can provide some fascinating learning in science as well as in social studies and literature. Ten Cool Ways To Use MS Word In Your Classroom
By Folwell Dunbar
Who knew that a mild-mannered ordinary word processing program was really a SuperProgram in disguise, allowing users to unleash their inner creative genius. GPS and Learning
By Charles Sinicki
It knows exactly where you are and can lead you to where you are not, which makes the GPS a great and inexpensive tool for the learning and team-building activities of a fascinating adventure called Geocaching. Give Students the "Write" Stuff With Online Learning Tools
By Scott Fellenbaum
How fifth- through eighth-graders improved their writing proficiency and their results on a state-mandated assessment with an easy-to-use and highly effective Web-based writing tool. Franklin Remixed: Learners Creating Knowledge
By Dana Devon
These middle school students used the "old" Web to learn about their subject and then shifted to powerful "new Web" or Web 2.0 tools to teach others what they had learned. Computers Help New Immigrants Learn English
By Larry Ferlazzo
At a high school where the typical English Language Learner may speak Hmong or Tonga or Russian at home, computers and high-speed Internet access help not only the students but also their families to learn English. Becoming Better Writers
By Algie Davis
Overworked teachers struggling to help their under-performing high school students master essential writing skills find that software helps their students to write better and improve test performance. CAD Helps Stem Student Aversion to STEM
By Rick Hebert
In this new global economy, our students must remain competitive in STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math - and CAD (Computer-Assisted Design) is one way to 'hook' students and get them interested in these essential academic areas. Handheld Educational Game Helps Students Spell
By Heather Voran
With Palm handhelds, a PAALM grant, and the right software, teachers help their students become better spellers. Ten Ways to Get Smart With SMARTboard
By Amber Price
An innovative educator shares some of her ideas for using an interactive whiteboard in her classroom. Make Writing InteraCTive with ICT
By Gamra Zenaidi
TechLearning's Tunisian correspondent, who is a writing teacher, offers suggestions on how to use technology to overcome student hesitancy to write. Impressionists on the Web Impress Budding Artists
By Lori Langnser
An art teacher demonstrates a series of her Web sites created to help her students better appreciate classic artists. Techno Tom Joins the Team
By Kae Roberts
It took 'a real animal' to make computer activity friendly and warm to this K-1 crowd -- as well as to the oh-so-sophisticated 5-6 group. Podcasting 101 -- How Educators Can Use This New Technology
By Mike Dionne
How to have students eagerly turning to their iPods for lessons and other relevant educational activities. 10 Smart Ideas for Using a Smartboard
By Amber Price
Some innovative ways to keep the rest of the class involved and engaged at their desks while their peers use the Smartboard. Tech & Text Teaching Techniques
By Susan Bishop
Fourth-graders learn to use both old and new sources (paper and electronic) to research a topic and present what they've learned. Outside the Walls Part 3
By Dan Lake
How one teacher learned to make the technology behind a Course Management System work for her and her students. Adventures in Video Storytelling
By Glenn English
Are you itching to use video with your students? Learn how a fifth grade teacher in Texas made his digital production debut and never looked back. Cracking Web Code in the Bronx
By Steve Feld
Cyberspace explorers at John F. Kennedy High School in New York have developed robust Web sites exploring Isaac Newton, King Tut, the discovery of da Vinci's workshop, and more. Think Outside the Box: Technology and Disabled Students
By Peter Dragula
Read about one teacher’s quest to transform a severely/moderate handicapped classroom using a blend of high- and low-tech tools. Project Moon Tree
By Joan Goble
What does a tree in Indiana have to do with NASA? Hear the amazing tale of a third grade class whose online research took on a life of its own. Spanish Stories
By Thane Williams
Learn about an engaging multimedia project that lets kids practice real-life foreign language skills. Multimedia Arts: Going the Distance
By Brandy (Marsh) Champlin
This Multimedia Arts program encompasses video production, digital photography, and computer art. Learn how students benefit. Review Sessions Take Quantum Leap
By TJ Fletcher
Learn about creating an online Chemistry review course for high school Chemistry classes. The review session was held on a school night before a test, and attended by 90% of the class. Case Study: Special Education
By Vicki Windman
Learn about a unique Web-based curriculum for developmentally delayed high school students. Reaching Reluctant Learners While Staying On-standard
By Sandra Meador
One would expect that a trip to the computer lab would perk up unmotivated students, but if they are unmotivated in class chances are they will be unmotivated in the computer lab. Here's how to help. My Experiences with Interactivity
By Brenda Wolters
Learn how a first/second grade teacher helps students using a brand new, exciting hands-on method that completely changed the way she teaches social studies and science. Film School's in Session
By Rosa Duarte
An educator harnesses digital moviemaking to boost student literacy. An Innovative Technology for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
By Linda Creamer
Special needs children benefit from a program that allows them to control their attention and establish a relationship between attention and behavior. Case Study: An Innovative Technology for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
By Linda Creamer
Special needs children benefit from a program that allows them to control their attention and establish a relationship between attention and behavior. First Lego League Robotics in the Classroom
The Lego Robotics competition is an engaging and meaningful way for fifth and sixth grade students to learn. Putting Reading Assessment and Achievement in the Palm of Your Hand
By Wendy Gallagher
Lexington Elementary School teachers in Lexington South Carolina are using handheld computers and mClass Reading software to improve reading strategies for students in grades K-3. S.O.A.P.* on a Rope
By Kathy Schrock
Students can become more productive by using a device that meets the personal file portability needs for use at home and in school. Real World Learning and Collaboration = Fun For All!
By Aven R. Baral
It's what the author likes to call organized chaos - the excitement of a newsroom - but elementary school students in grades three through five run this news studio and learn in the process. School Website Makes Business Sense
By Quentin D’Souza
School Website Makes Business Sense,Students went through the stages of Web site development, which led to using the Web site for other online collaborative projects and helped institute technology integration. How All Students Can Participate in Internet Research and Distance Education
By Christine Y. Mason and Richard Dodds
The very technologies that teachers and schools have come to rely on can present barriers to learning for some students. Find out how to help special education students overcome these barriers. Digital Dialogue
By William Ferriter
What impact do opportunities for electronic conversations have on student engagement in the middle grades classroom? Read how it works in a real classroom. Five Easy Ways to Integrate Computers Into the Health Science/Physical Education Curriculum
By Jennifer Harman
If you need to spark interest in health and phys ed classrooms, here are five easy ideas that are already prepared to get you started - all you have to do is use them. Honoring Student's Voices
By Maria Fico
Bronx WRITeS is a poetry writing and performance project that culminates with a District-wide Poetry Slam competition via videoconferencing. Learn how it is making a difference in students' lives. Integrating Computers and Science Inquiry: The C4E Model
By Kevin Wise
How do we integrate computers into our instructional practices to maximize student learning? Read a modest proposal. Moving Voices: Digital Filmmaking in the Global Classroom
By Mercedes del Rosario
IEARN's 'Moving Voices,' a project integrating digital filmmaking into the curriculum involves classrooms from the US and other countries that focus on the theme: What I want the world to know about my school. The Web and Hurricane Survival
By Rosemary Shaw
Living through two hurricanes with students required some fast thinking and web resources. Here's the story. Be the Light
By Karen VanWinkle
Are you looking for a way to harness student enthusiasm? Do you have a student whom you can't reach or who appears disconnected? These ideas about integrating technology can help. Intentionally Misleading Web Sites
By Frank Westcott
There are many intentionally misleading Web sites. Your students need to know that they exist and how to recognize them. You need to know what to do about them. Here's sound advice. Interacting With Computer Parts
By Genevieve Boston
These students learn to use computers by first learning the names and functions of each part. Then they classify each as either input or output devices. Read how this makes a difference. Word Processing for Learning Disabled Students
By Inga Townsend
These fifth-grade students transitioned from struggling to write single paragraphs to being able to write multiple paragraph essays and stories on a weekly basis. Read about the factors that contributed to their improvements. Appropriate Use of Technology in a Third Grade Classroom
By Johnny Hansell
Here’s how one third grade teacher matches technology with the curricular standards by using an established procedure and paying attention to using basic approaches. Scrabble with a Twist
By Mariana Monge
When students feel that they deserve a reward for working hard and want to play, here’s a fun activity that incorporates Language Arts and technology. The answers are included. The City: Our School Science Laboratory
By David Olivares
This self-contained high school classroom teacher whose students have no science laboratory but do have access to a modern computer lab found a way to teach science and make it come alive and be interesting. Math Art: Art as the Hub for Technology in Education
By Colette Stemple
Arts and Technology projects have proven to be a new life source for supporting the Arts curricula by incorporating technology projects for all disciplines into the Art classroom.. Using eBay To Educate
By Ian Williams
Fundraisers have been around as long as public education. Here’s how one teacher used eBay to teach students business concepts and make money for the school. Videoconferencing in Education
By Jody Howard-Kennedy
A videoconferencing initiative at Eastview Middle School has students interacting with people from all over the world right from their classrooms. All Quiet on the Discussion Front
By Marina Sapozhnikov
ESL students often appear reluctant to participate in online discussions, but the benefits are great and there are solutions for the problems. Read about them here. Handheld Hints
By Tony Vincent & Jerry Woodbridge
This interview with an expert handheld using educator provides answers to frequently asked questions, hints, tips, and more. Facilitation: the Anti-Lecture
By Kaarin Record
A lecture in and of itself is not a bad idea. It’s just its location, duration, and situation that create its bad reputation. It’s time for the good old lecture to be redesigned as THE DISCUSSION BOARD. Creating Video Lesson Plans
By Miguel Guhlin
Research shows that the use of video in the classroom can impact learning positively. Learn more about using video in teaching. Inclusion for Special Populations
By Eva Ng-Chin
Distance education via computer conferencing and Email has lessened communication barriers for persons with physical disabilities and can provide a sense of self-reliance, self confidence, and independence. Blogging in the Big Apple
By Jeffrey Piontek
Weblogs are becoming commonplace but educators ask about their potential with students. What could they use this new technology for and how does current research measure it? Supporting Technology Integration in K-20 Settings: May The JITTA Be With You
By Dina Rosen and Gregg Festa
In this Just-In-Time Instruction Program, a teaching assistant who is knowledgeable about technology supports students. Read about this intervention and its potential. Assistive/Adaptive Technology for Students with Multiple Disabilities
By John Beccaria III
Assistive technology can enhance the lives of those who cannot speak, hear, see or even walk. Read more about it. Wearing a Mask for Ease of Communication
By Louisa Lee
Virtual communication allows individuals the opportunity to be successful, develop a community based on common interests and goals, and gives them a safe arena to interact confidently... Which Online Project Is Right For Me?
By Rosemary Shaw
There are so many things you can do with online projects and so many online projects out there to choose from. How do you know which one is right for you and your students? Read these 10 factors to consider. Blended Model in the Elementary Classroom
By Lisa M. Abate
One teacher set up an online classroom space to fit with her traditional classroom and shares her experiences. Handhelds and Special Needs Students
By Karen Vitek
Handheld computers can be effective in assisting students with disabilities in improving their skills. Find out how in this article from a special education teacher. Bravely Go Where Few Have Gone Before with Digital Portfolios
By Elizabeth Beagle
Writing portfolios meet the twenty-first century. Students have access to a variety of technologies so why not use their world to enhance and evaluate their writing? Classroom Computer Integration at the High School Level
By Matt Gildersleeve
This group of At Risk students was more computer literate than many of the teachers instructing them. Here are some ways one teacher tapped into their skills. PowerPoint as an Interactive Multimedia Lesson
By Cynthia Flores Gautreau
By using a multimedia application such as PowerPoint, students can create group slideshows to achieve the benefits of the constructivist learning theories. Here’s how. Ten Tips and Tricks for the Online Student
By Mark Evans
People who are taking classes online will apply these tips, and those who teach online will suggest that their students read them. Cyberlab: An Ally for Teaching Scientific Collaboration
By Mike Calhoun
Web based activities can teach the importance of scientific reproducibility, peer review and the acceptance of different opinions - to middle school students. Videoconferencing at its Best: Nashville Opera Brings "How to Write an Opera" to USN Students
By Scott Merrick
This just one instance of where videoconferencing allowed distance learning to work its magic. Nashville Opera brought "How to Write an Opera" to Students. Implementing the Standards into Projects
By Rosemary Shaw
When creating an online project, begin by realizing that implementing National and State standards into your project is not only easy, it’s the best way to teach. Looking for Dark Skies
By Rosemary Shaw
In this project, students created sky maps, learned about light pollution, talked to local officials, and created web sites to demonstrate their learning. Mainstreaming Exceptional Students into Technology Classrooms
By Rosemary Shaw
Mainstreaming must address individual student needs and provide students with new opportunities and choices. Technology class is the perfect place for exceptional students. Introduction to Blogs and Blogging
By Michael Stach
Blogs are Internet journals that K-12 teachers can use to teach writing. Read about one example and visit the web resources listed. Biology at the River
By Julie Koop
The Carson River plays a key role in a hands-on, technology-based biology program that incorporates public awareness and environmental protection. A SMART Program for Teachers
By Marlene McGarrity
A National Science Foundation summer program introduces middle school computer teachers to building and programming a robot and challenges them to extend their knowledge of electronics. Teaching with Real Time Technology
By Clint Born
After using a two-way visual and audio communications system, the author says, Teaching is teaching no matter what media you employ. You need all the same elements. An Interactive Higher-Order Thinking Tool
By Scott A. Sinex
Excel offers educators at all levels an inexpensive and powerful tool for dynamic graphical visualization to enhance learner-centered instruction. Going Global
By Rosemary Shaw
We have to help students to live and work in a global community by choosing texts, lessons and projects that reflect what happens globally. How Building Homes Brought Lessons to Life
By Norma Barber
Norma looks for real-world situations to make classroom work meaningful. This not only was fun but it was free and fit several district requirements. Stirring Things Up: A Summer Program
By Michelle Reynolds
This technology and community based project exposed students to a variety of practical, creative skills including career and leadership training - and to gumbo. Creating Poetry Videos
By Melinda Storey
Poetry may be the least understood - or liked - of any creative writing classes. But this unit uses technology to hook students big time. An Internet Tour of Your School
By Rosemary Shaw
To show our school pride, we did two Internet projects showcasing our school and our town. We also recently installed a kiosk in our office that takes visitors on a virtual tours. Replacing One Cable with Another
By Tom Fuhrman
The s-video cable can turn even the least technology-savvy teacher into an instant game show producer and mind feeder to encourage student learning. Computer Clubs For Fun and Learning
By Rosemary Shaw
An after-school computer club can provide extra learning if projects are educational but also fun or involve parents and the community. Lights! Camera! Learning!
By Mark Feil
With inexpensive video editing systems you can put students in the limelight and make them active participants in lessons as well as in learning. A Collaborative Intergenerational Project
By Scott Merrick
Middle school students spent after-school hours tutoring senior citizens on the fine and not-so-fine points of computer usage and everyone benefited. Students Examine the Factors Affecting Marine Biodiversity
By Erik Berg
A Cape Cod high school marine science class investigates the biodiversity of a local estuary with the aid of data loggers. Saving My Sanity with Robo Demo
By Sabrina Sterling
You need the time, training and resources to integrate technology so that all students, whatever their learning styles, use it well. Here's some advice. Cost-Free Travel with Virtual Field Trips
By Roberta Devlin-Scherer
Virtual Field Trips are a favorite strategy for middle school classes because of their varied uses and ease in adapting items for presentation later. A Career Center Curriculum
By Kay Davenport and Hoogi Somerville
The Web and this career curriculum are great tools to help Arizona high school students learn about careers and make decisions about the future. Kindergarten Copyright
By Rosemary Shaw
We all know how important it is for teachers and students to understand copyright laws. You're never too young (or old) to learn about copyright. Connecting With Prospective College Students Online
By Paul Epstein
Being Technology Guy, the one question Bill is asked more often than any other is: Did you eat my last donut? The second most asked is a bit more relevant to this month... Handhelds in the Classroom - Tools for Teachers
By Cyndi Pride
Teachers found that handhelds were valuable tools that allowed them to record and access student information and organize teaching details in one small, portable device. A Checklist for Evaluating WebQuests
By Juanita Y. Benjamin
What makes a WebQuest a good one? What should you look for? Read advice and evaluation criteria for answers to these and other questions about WebQuests. Teaching Students How to do Online Research
By Rosemary Shaw
Students are never too young to learn how to do research and cite documents. Learn the six steps to online research that will help. A Special Project for a New School
By Ken Royal
This international project allows students in schools in different locations to compare student life today with that of their grandparents and elders.
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