Integrating Educational Technologies into Your Classrooms

Dr. Cristiana Assumpção is a co-founder of the online Earth2Class Workshops for Teachers and Educational Technology Coordinator at COLÉGIO BANDEIRANTES in São Paulo, Brasil. She earned her doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University, in Instructional Technology and Media (2002.) On this page, she shares some of the information she uses in her teacher enhancement programs offered through her school and elsewhere in Brasil.

Notes from 60-hour Professional Development Course on Educational Technology
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Suggestions from Dr. Cristiana Assumpção for successfully integrating a variety of educational technologies into your teaching:

    Tips on How to Manage Collaborative Group Work in the Classroom

    Using Digital Cameras in the Classroom

    Using "The Monster Project" in Your Classroom

Electronic Teacher-Student Communication Strategies

     Using Online Interactive Strategies

Filamentality

     Filamentality

PowerPoint Games

    Templates for Creating PowerPoint Games   

Reducing Image Sizes

     Suggestion for Windows XP

SUGGESTIONS FOR USING GOOGLE EARTH -- Steve Kluge

     Viewing Google Earth Files

     DLESE NY Landscape Regions in Google Earth:
    http://www.bedford.k12.ny.us/flhs/science/geoscience/skluge/dlesege/default.html

    About the DLESE NY Landscape Regions In Google Earth Project:
     http://www.bedford.k12.ny.us/flhs/science/geoscience/skluge/dlesege/about.html

Selected suggestions by other educators:

Locating Third-Party PowerPoints

    Suggestions from Brian Hugick (Somers H.S.)

Creating "Hangman" Games for Students

    Suggestions from Charles Burrows (Spring Valley H.S.)

Creating Podcasts

     Suggestions from Michael Breed (Chenango Valley HS, NY)

    Let's get Down to Earth ... Science (Podcast lessons by Michael Breed)

Education Multimedia Visualization Center (Suggested by Ijaz Akhtar, Science Teacher
Theater Arts Production Company School): http://emvc.geol.ucsb.edu/downloads.php

Marco Polo -- Internet Content for the Classroom

SERC (Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College):
     "On the Cutting Edge: Professional Development for Geoscience Faculty."
Of particular interest:
      Teaching Geoscience with Visualizations
      Developing Effective Online Educational Resources in the Geosciences

Teachers' Domain Multimedia resources for the Classroom and professional Development:
http://www.teachersdomain.org/

TERC HANDS-ON: A publication for mathematics and science educators (Fall/Winter 2003, v. 26, no. 2) 
"Teachers as Educational Designers" http://esbd.terc.edu/homepage/esbd_article.pdf

"Seven Deadly Sins of Power Point Presentations" from Dr. Joseph Sommerville
http://entrepreneurs.about.com/cs/marketing/a/7sinsofppt.htm

"ES Videos" by Rod Benson, Helena (MT) High School
     I have recently posted several Earth Science-related videos on the Teacher
Tube web site.  The videos, which show demonstrations and activities, are
each about 3 minutes long.  The titles are listed below.

To view the videos, go to www.teachertube.com and then enter "Rod Benson"
into the search box.  You will also find information about how to access
student handouts, answer keys, etc.