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Integration Tools and Strategies
Integration is the seamless merging of technology and instruction in a way that leads to higher student enagagement and therefore, higher achievement
CTAP's Integration Table of Contents
Info Lit and Cybersafety Links
The CTAP Infolit/Cybersafety WIKi 
FREE Lesson Plans
Grades K-1 | Grades 2-3 | Grades 4-5 | Grades 6-8 http://www.netsmartz.org/educators.htm http://techguide.pbwiki.com/Info+Lit+Resources
Podcasting and Digital Storytelling
CTAP7 believes that Digital Storytelling is a key activity in engaging our students as well as teaching the new information literacy skills our students will need to compete in the 21st Century Marketplace. CTAP7 Offers Podcast training and Digital Story telling (podcasting training)
Digital Storytelling vs. Making Movies Podcasting terms and tools @ Wikipedia
Not sure if Digital Storytelling is for you? Discovery Education's Storytelling Blog Tech-Ease's Mac Podcasting Tools Site
More Digital Storytelling Than You Can Shake A Stick At:
Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Grammar Podcasts
Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. Covering the grammar rules and word choice guidelines that can confound even the best writers, Grammar Girl makes complex grammar questions simple with memory tricks to help you recall and apply those troublesome grammar rules. Whether English is your first language or second language, Grammar Girl’s punctuation, style, and business tips will make you a better and more successful writer. Mignon Fogarty is the creator and host of Grammar Girl.
2007 Winner Best Education Podcast – Podcast Awards • 2007 Winner Favorite Audio Program – Podcast Peer Awards • 2006 Winner Best Education Podcast – Podcast Peer Awards
*Grammar Girl's photos of REAL signs with typos
Visual Literacy, Learning: Teaching through audio, imagery, video, simulation and text - visit these sites to see how!
Want to use Google Earth to teach? This is a great start:
A Different Way to Read Great Literature! This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way.
Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place...and so much more!
Check out Joe Wood's blog for many more Google ideas ~ simply awesome!
NEW! Google Earth Lessons
GELessons.com - A Free Public Resource - Providing Teachers with the tools needed to enhance their instruction using Google Earth®,
the free program that brings the world to the classroom! A Website By and For Teachers.
Also: Check out the Google Search Cheat Sheet to focus your searches....
Use You Tube 
to Accelerate Learning!!
HOW? Here's one example: Most of the Schoolhouse Rock 
videos are available @ YouTube. BUT YouTube is blocked at school, you say.
No worries! Use Videora (free for PC) or Tooble.TV (free for Mac) to search and download at home,
straight to your iTunes (free, Mac or PC) account. Burn a CD, drag to a flash drive or sync to your
iPod and you are in charge of your media life!
Did you know there are over 200,000 commercials available for download?
What a great way to teach irony, foreshadowing or cliche.
It's streaming from YouTube, so of course many of you can't see this at school.....but it'll be there when you get home.
8 p•ARTS - Learning Grammar with Pictures
Good for grades 3-10
Use pictures from sources like Ian Jukes and FunnyFreePics.com to teach the 8 Parts of speech.
It's fun and easy with our little form - teach the parts four days a week , test on Friday - do it until everyone gets a an A.
The form:
A complete monologue for 8 p•ARTS:
Sentence p•ARTS Teaching Sentences and Punctuation with Constructivism
After your kids have mastered 8 p•ARTS, get their sentence structure better by teaching them how to write dialogue,
titles, singular and plural possesives, not o mention compound, complex, semi colon and appositive sentences.
Again, use pictures from sources like Ian Jukes and FunnyFreePics.com to teach the 8 Parts of speech.
The form:
A complete monologue for Senence p•ARTS:
Sentence•pARTS Instructions.doc
2,200 FREE Learning Tools - Online and Offline
This Directory contains over 2,200 tools for learning. It is divided into 2 parts
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Production Tools - for creating, hosting, delivering and managing learning and performance support solutions
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Personal Tools - for managing your own learning
The tools in this Directory are both freeware/open source(what does free mean?)and commercial.
When they self teach, kids choose to learn by TEXT text last. WHY?
We think it’s important to understand how children assimilate new ideas off the internet so quickly and use those techniques to teach standards
Learn About Media Literacy- Elizabeth Thoman One of the BEST educational futurist writers Want to see what's REALLY going on out there?
Use COMMERCIALS TO TEACH - over 220,000 available @ YouTube, right now!
TV commercials are surgically precise in their idea delivery due to the :30 timeframe. When well done, commercials tell a complete story in half a minute. The best commercials entertain, and if you watch carefully, you'll see any number of literary devices being used ~ especially irony.
TV commercials will make your classroom more efficient!
Teaching foreshadowing? Instead of digging through book after book and page after page, you COULD show and diagram 10 commercials in one period. And we all know reps are the key to mastery. Don't wait until the end of a book to ask one question on flashback - front load the book with a period of commercials and send the kids on a scavenger hunt - while they read.
TOOLS for teachers:
Over 40 Lit devices defined with FREE MP3 audio clips > Check out the main page for THOUSANDS of historical speeches
DOWNLOAD YouTube videos directly to your itunes account FREE: Videora.com (pc only, Macs use Toobl.TV)
Store all your commercials in your iTunes account (iTunes handles videos, too).
Download a Characterization Lesson Plan from the CTAP7 squad (standards aligned) :Characterization Lesson Plan.doc
Other ways to use commercials:
Teach narrative structure in :30 (use the 
Story Structure.pdf as the template) • Freeze commercials they've never seen to practice prediction •
Cover the four types of conflict.pdf using commercials • This leads to kids MAKING commercials (creative and expository at the same time)
STOP MAKING POWERPOINTS! use Google Advanced Search
Who needs 24,000 Powerpoints on VERBS?
Periodic tables? California Missions?
YOU DO - Use Google Advanced Search
It’s great having an LCD TV or projector – but how do you feed the beast?
Use the advanced search tool @ Google. Who can make more than one Powerpoint a week?
Not many people do! Would you like access to 50,000 Powerpoints on “verb” or “slope intercept”
or “California Missions”? They are out there - here’s how you find them!
Go to Google.com > Click on “Advanced Search” and type in your search term, say “verbs” and
then find the “File Format” button -select Microsoft Powerpoint -you should have about 20,000+
returns all in Powerpoint format.
Other great searches:
Slope in Flash format - over 3000 available
Lit Trip in Google Earth.kmz format - dozens available
Powerpoint Games in PPT format - over 5000 available
The key in education now is to have the kids do the work...
use our Google Advanced Search form to have kids gather
information, take notes and Venn Diagram their internet conquests.
Use the CTAP 7 Google Advanced Search Worksheet!
Info lit, notetaking, keywords, Venn diagrams all in one activity -
Google Advanced Search.pdf
While you are at it...avoid death by Powerpoint..
All right, all you STEM teachers
Free Microsoft PowerPoint presentations Biology, Chemistry Math, English, History, Physics, Geography, and Spanish powerpoints.
Use and alter these presentations freely or any power point template used in this presentations site for other teachers.
If you have any powerpoints then please consider submitting them for other teachers to download too. It's all about sharing and helping others.
Powerpoints and whiteboards are likely to increase in popularity year by year as more and more schools adopt them. It doesn't replace good
teaching, but it does help visualise and concentrate the mind of the children watching the powerpoint.
You can share yours here, too:
(fixed this one!)
FREE Math Podcasts at iTunes
YourTeacher.com Pre-Algebra - This will open in iTunes
Olde Schoole web Link: http://www.yourteacher.com/browse-lessons.php?courseSubject=prealgebrahelp
Picasa Video Tutorial
Find, organize and share your photos.
Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps you:
- Locate and organize all the photos on your computer.
- Edit and add effects to your photos with a few simple clicks.
- Share your photos with others through email, prints, and on the web: it’s fast, easy and free.
Check out Google's AWESOME Picasa photo management and editing software:
Use Slideshare.net to Embed and Share your Powerpoints
Don't Pay For Typing Tutor Software
Free and Web based for easy deployment • 12 stages and 4 levels • Worksheets available • Great for K-8 Typing
AND
Powertyping featuring Typing games
If you want to install software:
Teachers will find the new Tuxtyping to be a more moldable tool they can use in there classrooms.
It is easier now (and will become even easier) to group the types of exercises, words and characters into a lesson!
Everything you need to know about EDUCATIONAL WIKIS
Tutorials and Guides
- EduWikiTorial - A tutorial about educational wikis written by Susan Cline, Instructional Technology, MA.
- A Wiki Walk-Through, from TeachersFirst. A great tutorial about what a wiki is, why to use wikis in education, and how to use wikis in education.
- Welcome to the World of Wikis - Help pages put together to use with primary schools in the UK - Sally. Thanks to wikispaces for the help they have given me! Good Luck!
- Using Wiki in Education - A blog and book by Stewart Mader.
- Using Wiki in Education - An article at the Science of Spectroscopy
- Classroom Use of Wikis at Teaching Hacks
- Articles and Resources in Spanish by Francisco Muñoz de la Peña
- Video: Wikis in Plain English - A short and concise introduction to wikis (3:52) produced by Lee Lefever for The Common Craft Show.
- Wiki While you Work - A video tutorial lecture by Mark Wagner
- Waarvoor gebruik je een wiki (how to use wikis in Dutch) - A short list of ideas to use wikis in education.
- Wikipatterns This site contains a directory of patterns and anti-patterns, and a guide to major stages of wiki adoption.
See all this and more: Educational WIKIS at WIKIspaces
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