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"There is strong evidence that educational technology complements what a great teacher does naturallyextending their reach and broadening their student's experience beyond the classroom." //Marshall, 2002// ====== ==// Whatever your current teaching style, you can integrate a technology tool to reach more students and help them retain information, using the tools they are most comfortable with! So- if you use... //==

Worksheets
Place worksheets online. Use Adobe Acrobat or insert fields students can type into with MS Word. Benefits absentees and reduces copying.

Lectures
Place lecture notes or powerpoints online. Students can spend more class time listening than writing. Experiment with desktop streaming of video. Export powerpoint slides as .png files and add them to Windows MovieMaker with your narration! Students can replay to review. Using a Tablet PC, your lecture questions, answers and annotations can be saved and sent to your web page.

Paper Syllabus
Online syllabus on a web page or wiki. Can contain dates for assessments, links to additional resources. Easily edits for changes and is always available! Assures everyone has the same version.

Memorization
Locate a drill and practice resource online Provides immediate, neutral feedback. Use with the whole class with a Tablet PC or SmartBoard.

Rhetorical Questions/Socratic Questioning
Hold structured discussions by email, Chat, IM, wiki or blog User varied groupings that share ideas generated from each class. Gives voice to reluctant speakers, allows team building, collaboration skills and experinece with varied group roles.

Group Projects
Students can use e-mail, a web-based discussion area like a wiki, or a chat roon to meet virtually.

Peer Tutoring
Students can post work on a web page, wiki, or use e-mail for group input.

Discussions
Structured discussions that the teacher moderates can be held by using a blog. Real time chats can occur in a chat room or in a virtual world like Teen Second Life.

Creative Writing
Set up a distribution list, share e-mail addresses so that writing drafts can be shared and edited by class members assigned to work together, or the whole class. Another option is to locate a class in another school to share writing samples with on chosen topics.

Debates
Blogs, Chats, Wikis all support debates. Students can research topics to support their arguments on the web.

Socratic Questioning
Teachers or students can post questions via e-mail distribution lists, or start a blog by topic or class.

Independent Study
Self-paced online tutorials that are web-based created with screen capture software or slideshow presentations with voice narrations.

Teacher Reading Lists
Reading assignments can be a hyperlinked list on the teacher web page. Articles can be saved as .pdf files and placed on the web for students to read online or download.

Showing Student Work
Students can submit work to a gallery created in a wiki or give it to the teacher to place on a class web site. Presentations can be placed on the web, digital still images or video camera productions can be uploaded.

Drama or Role-Playing
Student video productions.

Oral Reports
Students can create audio files and save them for playback as a podcast.

Teacher Comments and Notes on paper
Email comments, use embedded comments and "sticky notes" in either Adobe Acrobat or MS Word to go "paperless."