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Ten Best Uses of the Internet in the

ClassroomIDT 7064-M50 June 12, 2010 Tara Thomas

Lesson Plans

Online Professional Development

Student Research Resource

Virtual Tours

Online Publishing

Wed-enhanced Learning

Web-based Instruction

Online Class Communication

Skill Practice

Teaching Tools

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#1 Lesson Plans

Description Rationale: This site has many lesson plans, studentinteractive tools such as Cartoon Creator and other resources that are

innovative and exciting. Many are technologically based.

http://www.readwritethink.org

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Description Rationale: This site has information from experts aroundthe world. It can also be translated into different languages. It beats

staying late after school on Wednesdays for professional developmentlectures.

http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

#2 Online Professional

Development

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Description Rationale: This site really is sweet and safer than most search engines. Itfeatures On This Day and Birthdays concerning famous people and events . The school

librarians site features tweets from librarians. Who new librarians were so cool?

#3 Student Research Resource

http://www.sweetsearch.

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http://earth.go

#4 Virtual Tours

Description Rationale: What anawesome way to see what places really

look like. It could really enhance aSocial Studies lesson. Plus, we could

all virtually go to Disney World!

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Description Rationale: This site allows peers to really collaborate. Students won t have to wait anymore for their turn

to do their part on a project- less whining about taking turns!

http://docs.google.com38Qniqkie9gM6

#5 Online Publishing

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Description Rationale: I like the huge variety of subjects, videos and interactive experiences, games, blogs and quizzes

covered on this site.

#6 Web-enhanced Learnin

discovery.com/

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Description Rationale: This site has funny and

informative videos on many subjects. And, you cansee how current they are. Go U.S.A.!

#7 WebInstruct

.brainpop.com/

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Description Rationale: I just had to usetwo slides for this site. The way they have the videos aligned to the state

objectives makes you want to pay to get

full access.

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Description Rationale: This site is through Scholastic. Youhave a class home page and way to publish student work.

The tutorial is great. Plus, it makes you look like a very techsavvy teacher.

#8 Online Class Communication

stic.com/homepagedex.htm

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Description Rationale: This site is great for readingpractice for Pre-K-2 nd grade. Some ELL teachers haveused this as a way to teach phonics. I ve actually seenpre-K students learn to read with the help of this site.

ww.starfall.com/

#9 Skill Practice

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Description Rationale: Sometimes you just need a worksheet. This site offers customizable worksheets and word walls. It is a good resource to have when you need

written assessments for students on different levels.

#10 Teaching Toolshttp://edhelper.com/

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The tool that was new for me that Iused on this project is calledSnagit.http://www.techsmith.com/

This tool is screen capture softwarethat allows you to take a screenshotof a Web page, edit it and send itto outputs and output accessorieslike Microsoft PowerPoint. I foundout about it on the American

Association of School Librarianssite.

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/bestlist/bestwebsites.cfm