Networking Teachers Coaxing Colleagues to Use Technology
The teachers and technology consultants at an institute here almost make it look easy to integrate streaming video, social-networking tools, and Internet resources into everyday classroom lessons.
Like the digital haiku poems students can create using a single image, a music clip, and some simple text. Or the interactive map of a Civil War battlefield with links to historical photos and accounts of events at the site. Then there are the cellphone applications for conducting instant classroom polls or communicating with students about assignments.
“We want to show teachers how they can use technology to deliver standards-based lessons, and it doesn’t have to take over their classroom,” said Jennifer Gingerich, a former teacher who demonstrated how moviemaking applications can be used to bolster language arts, social...
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