LEC2009

="It's Not Just One More Thing"=


 * Abstract:** Integrating technology does not add more to your already busy day, but replaces something you're currently doing with something better. Discover technology infused lessons an activities that not only help students meet learning goals, but also enable them to express their creativity, innovation, and critical thinking.

Session Presentation (Created with [|Prezi])
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**[|iamlodge.com]** -

 * Songs, lyrics, and lessons plans. Use the music and have your class make their own video in just one class period. Click on [|Music Education].
 * [|The Cells Lesson]
 * [|The Constitution Lesson] (With my group's video)

Discovery Education

 * [|Discovery Streaming]
 * [|Discovery Educator Network] - an online community of educators using media with their students.
 * [|STEM Connect] -  ** (NEW) **  Includes STEM career videos, new learning activities, interactives, Mythbusters content and more. Free to all DE Streaming schools.

PBS Teachers

 * [|PBS Teachers web site] - search for videos, interactive web sites, and lesson plans from PBS shows.
 * [|PBS Teachers Diigo Group] ** (NEW) ** - a community of teachers sharing web sites that support classroom instruction.
 * [|PBS Teachers Media Infusion] - a blog that shows strategies and resources to help you create rich, engaging learning experiences with multimedia.
 * [|PBS Teachers STEM Education Resource Center] ** (NEW) **

Glogster

 * [|Glogster for Education]
 * [|How to set-up and use Glogster with your class.]
 * [|Glogster Tutorial Video] (YouTube)
 * Emily's St. John's Glog - for the Lutheran Schools Are Everywhere Project

Lessons with Maps

 * **Google Maps** - [|Big Anthony's Journey] from //Strega Nona// (by [|Andy Losik])
 * **Google Earth** - Visit [|Google Lit Trips] to download kmz files with info, pictures, and though questions for various books. Add your own words and pictures to placemarks for an "alternative" book report assignment, or tell a story from your own travels.
 * **[|Collaborative Map Project]**- using Google forms and Mapalist.com

Social Bookmarking

 * [|Social Bookmarking in Plain English] - a video by Lee Lefever (YouTube)
 * [|Diigo]

Shameless Plugs

 * [|Orange County CUE Technology Festival] - Saturday, January 23, 2010. St. John's Lutheran School, Orange, CA
 * [|CUE Conference] - March 4-6, 2010. Palm Springs Convention Center
 * [|California Student Media Festival] - Submit student or teacher made videos and multimedia to the nation's oldest student media festival.