Innovative Ideas in Education

Rick Bell

We as educators never get the time to share ideas and celebrate the innovative ways to integrate technology into our lessons.  Enjoy this round table discussion where all attending will have the opportunity to share examples of how they are able to integrate technology into their curriculum.  Walk out with some ideas to try with your class.

Workshop links, resources, and/or materials:

Here are some great resources to try:

WEB 2.0

• Wikis- pbwiki - Interactive website
• TIP blog  
• Edublogs - The best education-based blog I have come across
• EdTags - An educators way to share great web resources
• iGoogle - Google's homepage personalized to your liking  

Interactive Whiteboard Lessons

• Interactive walk-in.xls
• space word sort template1.ink
• mixed up words_hidden pic.ink

Audio

• VoiceThread - Record a conversation about a topic on the Internet

• Audacity - Audio editing program

 audacity-win-1.2.6.exe 

  alex.wav

Student Interactions with Technology

• Quizlet - a student created site for kids to review materials using memorization tools on the Internet
• Student-Response systems
•   ToonDoo - Create cartoons very easily and creatively with this website

   

Search Tools

• KartOO - visual meta search engine
• Pagebull - a new visual way to search