Teaching Technology

Through Interest Projects

by Jennifer Katherine Brooks

Activity 2: What Are Your Interests?

• Instructional Slide Show: What Are Your Interests? (.pdf)
• Sample Student Slide Show Presentations: Groundhogs (.pdf) and The White Rose (.pdf)

Activity 3: Finalizing Topic/Project Requirements

• Instructional Slide Show: Finalizing Topic & Project Requirements(.pdf)
  • National Technology Standards for Students: www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-students/nets-student-standards-2007.aspx

Activity 4: Basic Computer Information

• Sample: Research Document for Pizza (.doc)
• Sample: Sources Document for Pizza(.doc)
  • Basic Computer Information: www.KeepVid.com
  • Free word processing program: www.openoffice.org
  • Free Online Typing Programs:
    BBC Typing: www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing
    Sense-Lang: www.sense-lang.org/typing
    Power Typing: www.powertyping.com
    Typing Web: www.typingweb.com

Activity 5: Researching on the Internet

• Free Web Instruction Sites:
  www.websitebuilders.com/how-to
  www.google.com/educators/digitalliteracy.html
  www.google.com/educators/index.html
  www.creativecommons.org

Activity 6: Bibliography Information

• Free Bibliography Sites:
  www.aresearchguide.com/12biblio.html
  www.easybib.com

Activity 7: Slide Show Presentation

• Sample Student Slide Show Presentations: Groundhogs (.pdf) and The White Rose(.pdf)
  • Free Slide Show Program: www.openoffice.org

Activity 8: Documentary Movie Presentation

• Free Movie Making Progams:
  Photo Story 3 for Windows®: www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11132
  Windows® Live Movie Maker: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-live/movie-maker-get-started
• Sample Student Documentary Movie Presentations:
  iMovie - Italy (.m4v)
  Photo Story 3 for Windows® - D-Day (.wmv), Disney Cruise Line (.wmv),
  Make a Wish Foundation, Egypt (.wmv)
  Windows® Live Moviemaker - George Washington (.wmv)

Activity 9: Scratch Animation Presentation

• Free Scratch Program: www.scratch.mit.edu
• Free Scratch Teaching Tools: www.info.scratch.mit.edu/Educators
• Sample Student Scratch Presentations: Stone Mountain, GA, (.sb) and Olaf and Byorgen (.sb)

Activity 10: Classroom Blogging

• Sample Classroom Blog: http://aimforthestars.wordpress.com/
• Google: http://blogger.com
• Word Press: http://wordpress.com
• Teaching Technology Through Interest Projects Blog: http://interestprojects.blogspot.com/

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