In your school district, Internet access is available in all classrooms. Most teachers use the Internet for research. You would like to integrate the Internet in the classroom in a meaningful way; however, you need some ideas about how to start. Where can you find sources to use that can be integrated into your classroom appropriate to their age? What I want you to do is list 2 sources (with the appropriate grade level) that you think would be useful to you with a one paragraph description of what each website is about. Hopefully others will find these helpful also. Your reply this time should be to look up one of these sites from one of your classmates and give your opinion of it. Hope your surfing is profitable.
October 29, 2009 at 6:40 pm |
http://www.kidsknowit.com/
http://www.factmonster.com/
Kids know it is a website that has a bunch of activities and games for the subject of your choosing. It’s fun and attractive to a child’s eye.It offers many categories to read an learn about, as long as funny educational jokes. Seems more for the elementary levels, but beneficial none the less.
Fact monster is a website that offers encycopedias, thesaureses, almanacs, and dictionaries that are geared specifically toward the student level. It has a homework center that gives specific details on how to complete certain assignments, and a game and quizzing section. Students have the opportunity to learn in any content area, as well as use the website as a tool for homework efficiency. I liked it alot!
November 9, 2009 at 8:25 pm |
Wow, that KidsKnowIt website is loads of fun! I listened to a few of the songs (a little dated, but fun and silly, not to mention in abundance and variety and all digitally avaliable for FREE), I watched a video about lasers and scored pretty well on the quiz afterwards, and worked on matching countries to the map of Africa. This site really makes learning fun, and in all different areas!
FactMonster is another great site! Thank you Kristen for sharing these sites. On this site I found current events, both US and world, read about a few sports superstitions, and used some math flashcards. Needless to say, I was hardly even getting started. What a wealth of information.
November 9, 2009 at 8:39 pm |
http://www.kidsknowit.com looks like a great website for students to go on and learn about a variety of subjects. It looks very interesting and will defintitely catch kids attention. It uses vocabulary that they would understand and the site is layed out so it makes it easy for kids to use. Kids can learn a lot about the subjects on there and it is very informative. This was a good find
November 11, 2009 at 2:46 am |
I checked out the kidsknowit.com website and it really was attractive to the eye, which helps students because they need to be drawn to the interactive learning and it can’t be lame and boring. It was geared more towards younger students, but it seemed beneficial. The other website was great with plenty of activities and tools for the students. The game quizzing section was neat and seemed like the students would really learn from this tool.
October 29, 2009 at 11:07 pm |
unitedstreaming.com has some great activities for students to do on the internet.This website has many different things that allow for students to explore content areas and allows for anyone content area to be specific! This website is so laid out perfectly and allows for students to know and repeat activities until they fully understand them.
funbrain.com is the second website i would use. I think that it would be very helpful since it really allows for students to learn in a fun way. I think that it would truly help them to realize that learning is not very boring and can be a good way to learn and explore the community in education as a student.
October 30, 2009 at 4:29 am |
I really love the funbrain.com website. That has so many great activities and games on it. I especially like the games at the “Playground.” This whole website would great for a morning exercise or just something fun to get the kids brains working. I am definately going to mark this one in My Favorites. Thanks!
October 30, 2009 at 6:06 am |
I liked the one you found because it was connected to Discovery which is a trusted source. The site looked professional and gave you free tools you could use along with media you could use in the classroom. Also if the students liked the website they could go to the online store and purchase a video about the subject or topic they were interested in.
October 29, 2009 at 11:15 pm |
The first thing I did to find information on how to incorporate the internet into the classroom was going to Pageflakes and searching on the “Browse all Flakes” link but I didn’t find anything there or on the teacher resources given on my home page. I next went to google and found http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/internet/internet-in-the%20classroom.htm. This website is supported by AT&T and was pretty comprehensive in giving support to teachers about the task of integrating the internet into the classroom. I liked the website because it not only gave general approach ideas but also examples of what software or websites to use to help in starting the process. The website even gives ideas to use for specific ages of students, out of the box ideas such as emaling back and forth with students from other parts of the world and setting up a classroom website. One thing to note about the website is that it promotes a function called “Filimentality”, which is a tool/format to use in internet searching.
The next website I looked at was http://www.cln.org/integrating.html, which stems from the Community Learning Network (cln). This website was more of a springboard from which teachers could do their own research on how to integrate the internet into the classroom than the previous website I mentioned. It gives basic ideas such as “Internet Projects”, and then when you click on the topic it gives you a bunch of places to look for ways to bring internet projects into their classroom. So to me you could use both of the websites I listed; the first one to give you ideas on how to go about integrating the technology into the classroom and the second website would be useful in incorporating more specific parts of the process.
October 30, 2009 at 3:52 am |
http://www.scholastic.com/wordgirl/synonym_toast.htm
this website is for third to twelfth grade and is pretty fun. word games are great for students becuase in this case it helps them end the monotony of using the same word repeatedly by teaching them synonyms. this site also has many other games that would great for preffered activity time or something students can do once they are done with thier work.
http://www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/shakespeare/games.html#
this site is geared toward the older grades for sure and it was really fun. this is a big deal because i’m not a huge shakespeare fan. there are about five different games on this site. one is based on translating old english to present day verbage. another asks you to name that play. these games not only teach about shakespeares plays but again they’re humorus and his sacastic humor makes it funny.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/readingmachine/readingmachine018.shtml
this is the site where the other two were found and there are many others there as well. check ‘em out!
November 11, 2009 at 5:32 am |
I bookmarked the Shakespeare site as I think it would be a great resource for students who are beginning a unit devoted to the Bard. The games are fun and would be a good challenge for students.
Word Girl is cool too- sometimes my kids watch her on PBS. This could be a fun site to do something silly and still be learning… I know my 3 year old loves to play games like this on PBS Kids.
October 30, 2009 at 4:14 am |
Kindergarten-Fourth Grade
http://www.sachem.edu/dept/sd/smartboard/Elementary%20Resources.htm
This is an awesome website! This website has many websites within it that are made for the smartboard. They all include educational interactive games. Some of them can also be used on the regular computer.
Any Grade Level
http://flashcarddb.com/
This is a website to make your own flash cards on the computer. Then the students can study and quiz themselves or the entire class can use the flash cards on the smartboard. You as the teacher or the students can make flashcards on any topic such as vocabulary words, science, foreign languages, etc. Anyone who makes the flash cards they will then be posted and all of the students can choose to study or take the quiz. The best part is it’s FREE!
P.S. It is Thursday October 29, 2009 9:14 pm.
October 30, 2009 at 4:27 am |
http://www.kidsknowit.com- This website allows students to learn in a different, fun, free way. Students can choose whether they want to learn about Geology, Biology, Math, Spelling, etc. There are also free educational podcasts on the website in which students obviously watch and learn. This website is gainful for students and teachers because the teachers can integrate the internet in the classroom and the students can learn through the website.
http://www.inventionatplay.org/index.html-This is a more motivational website for students to encourage them to create ideas on their own while learning. The website offers a variety of tools for students to express themselves. For example, there is a doodling pad located on the website. This allows students to sketch ideas about certain ideas or concepts. There are also puzzle blocks that allow students to think deeply. This a great website for students and for teachers because it allows teachers to not only integrate the web in the classroom, but to also witness their students grow maturely and find themselves. This site is helpful to students because it allows them to express themselves and also think critically.
November 10, 2009 at 3:14 am |
I went to kidsknowit.com and found it to be extremely helpful. I think that many students would love going onto the website and playing those simple games that can help a students mind get wrapped around such simple little concepts. I really think as a teacher i would use this website very often!
October 30, 2009 at 5:14 am |
us.educationcity.com is the fun way to learn for ages 3 to 12. Packed full of online games for kids, Education City is the number one choice of websites for kids. Award-winning, used in over 12,000 schools and in many thousands of homes, Education City is an essential part of the education of over 1 million children. Importantly, children have fun learning Math, Language Arts and Science. Parents register their children on Education City and subscribe for a period of time, which grants access to all the subjects in one academic level. To ensure children are learning the appropriate material this site matches each subject’s academic level to the child’s ability, but as they progress the levels increase with their ability. Education City.com is driving the innovation in kids’ education, creating a safe, inspirational world to enable learning on the internet.
http://www.playkidsgames.com is a site designed by parents of young kids. It is their intention is to provide a web site that parents and kids can use to learn basic skills while having fun. It is their goal to provide a safe place to learn computer skils, math skills, reading skills and problem solving skills in a context that is fun to use.
October 30, 2009 at 5:25 am |
brainpop.com is a website that could be highly integrated in the classroom. It covers a wide variety of subjects that are taught in the classroom. I think that teachers would benefit from using this site, and it would be helpful to the way the students learn.
spellingcity.com is aonther useful website. For teachers teaching spelling words this website can be very beneficial. Students can enter words into the site and have it test them, play games, and have the site teach them the spelling word. This site would be beneficial for this specific subject.
October 30, 2009 at 6:52 am |
The website brainpop.com looks like it’d be an interesting website, although the students would need to be subscribed to this website. It still looks as though it would be a great tool for the website. I would definitely consider using this website also for my classroom.
November 10, 2009 at 5:43 pm |
I just love these sites! You are a beautiful woman and your information is splending! I especially liked the spelling website! Excellent!
November 11, 2009 at 12:55 am |
I wanted to see what all the hoopla about brainpop.com was about so I went on there and checked it out. I see that (like Jose said) that you have to subscribe so I did. That gets you into the main section and then there is an educator’s section which you have to subsribe to separately. I also subscribed (both are 5 day trial memberships) to the educator site one and it was worth it! The educator’s version of brainpop has a ton of resources, for example, handouts for every subject, videos, and more. The handouts provide you the option of having the answers displayed or you can use the “hide key” and print out answerless handouts. I even got signed up for a “webinar” which appears to be something like a chat room on a particular topic (mine was on how to maximize your trial membership). I think that this website would definitely be useful for teachers and students and I think that is something that schools should consider paying for. I would like to at least have it in the class and use it as a tool to challenge students who have completed an assignment and have down time and also of course to have the ability to use it for resources in class.
October 30, 2009 at 5:31 am |
I would use first, http://www.musictechteacher.com. This is a neat website that contains games, quizes, and music information. It would be great fun for both junior high and high schoolers to work with. It also contained a ton of other great information for the teacher!
Second, is called http://www.creatingmusic.com.I found this to be fun and i am a college student. It allows you to compose, run a music store, hear music, learn about it, learn information. Such a neat site!! So much wonderful information. I would be more likely to use with elementary.
However, I found this even more amazing site! It is called http://www.gamequarium.com/musicquiz.html. This is to me high school level. I would use it in my classroom today if I had one. It has so many great quizes and games!! Love it!
October 30, 2009 at 5:47 am |
http://www.internet4classrooms.com is a website that could be very helpful to integrating the internet into the classroom. This website provides many tools and games that the students could participate in, and these would help them learn their subjects while using the internet. I chose to look at the math section and their were many ways to use this website and teach math at the same time.
http://www.newton.k12.ks.us is a website that provides many different options for all grade levels and subjects to use the internet in the classroom. This website itself is not the main source of all the information, but it gives you plenty of links and other tools that you can use in order to integrate the internet into your classroom. I tried one of the tools and it was like a jeopardy game, which was really fun.
October 30, 2009 at 6:04 am |
Two sites that I would use would be bestedsites.com and kidsknowit.com both are great because they provide links to other websites that I can use for teaching 1st-6th grade history.
Kidsknowit.com is a great site for everything from Geography to Astronomy, to name just two of the options. It gives you a variety of links and activites to use. I like the fact that it is a great resource for me AND my students. Some great games on the site were view the night sky, build your own dinosaur, and try our interactive solar system.
Bestedsites.com was amazing because the wealth of information and additional links it provided along with a long list of search engines I could use to find more. The social studies links were extensive covering a wide range of topics; such as, ancient Egypt and the Middle Ages. Those are just two of the links provided there had to be at least ten more on the page.
November 9, 2009 at 11:37 pm |
I thought that both of these websites were really good resources for teachers to give to students to help them learn about all kinds of things.
The main reason that i liked both of these website is that they both had activities for younger children which can be hard to find sometimes. I could potentially use both of these someday in my classroom.
October 30, 2009 at 6:43 am |
I really like 4teachers.org and loc.gov/teachers. 4teachers has a bunch of links to items like RubiStar, which is a free rubric building site. I tried it out, and it took less than 2 minutes to create a grading rubric for a high school English assignment. 4teachers also has a classroom design function, as well as QuizStar. Like RubiStar, it is a free tool that teachers can utilize to create quizzes. 4teachers is sponsored by the US Dept of Education.
The Library of Congress website, loc.gov/teachers, has a wealth of primary documents for research and general exposure. One of the most important lessons that I learned in my college history class was that whenever one is conducting research, one must revisit the primary, or original document that contains the necessary information; too many times students quote someone writing about another person’s life. Teaching them to utilize the original copies that are made available through the library of congress is an important step in the research process.
November 11, 2009 at 1:24 am |
I really liked the 4teachers.org site. it’s got lots of cool resources for teachers. I especially thought the teacher tacklebox was neat. it had lots of neat lesson and project ideas. I would use this website a lot I think because it also had ideas for webquests and something new, think quests. this site is good for any grade level it seems and the teacher can always adapt whatever idea they have to the age level of thier students.
October 30, 2009 at 6:50 am |
The first website i looked at was, http://www.hickorytech.net/~cshirk/k-12music/. This website has many tools for music educators. I am able to use to train my students in aural exercises to help enhance their ability to stay in tune and match pitches, as well as identify pitches on the staff. This website is not only for general music classrooms, but also band, orchestra and choral teachers.
The second website is playmusic.org. This website has some cool ways for students to learn music. The site gives the students a way to interact with different instruments from the orchestra setting. The website is cool for students to learn to do what is being modeled or played. These websites are for general music classrooms, it doesn’t give a specific grade level.
November 10, 2009 at 4:55 am |
Well I greatly enjoyed these websites! These are great resources for music students whether instrumental or choral. In the first website I really loved the databases available for students to find music and a synopsis of the piece.
The second website was just completely fun! Such neat links within the website and great presentation. Students can experience the musical world starting with composing all the way to being a instrumentalists in the concert hall.
I loved all of the sites and put them on my list of references!
Cara (10:00 pm monday)
October 30, 2009 at 7:14 am |
The grade that I am interested in is kindergarten the first website that i found that i really like is http://www.internet4classrooms.com/month2month.htm which has activity for different curriculum areas and then it has activities and fun things to to help children learn in these things. This is a really good website because there are so many different things to use.
The second website that I found is http://www.starfall.com/ which is a website that is meant to promote literacy. There are different little activities that are great for kindergardeners with out being supper intimidating. This is one of the hardest things to find as far as websites for kindergartners.