50 +  Ways to Use Your eClassroom Equipment

 

General

 

With computer and PowerPoint or Web Browser

 

  1. Use it to show the “big ideas” in your lessons using PowerPoint
  1. Let students do PowerPoint presentations for any subject that has multiple facets- i. e. each kid does a state, a bird, type of rock, geometric figure, etc.
  1. Make a “Rules of the Classroom” PowerPoint and run it first 10 days of school.
  2. Play instructional games using templates from: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_powerpoint.htm
     
  3. Show videos from www.ketencyclomedia.com
  4. Show your students places in the world using webcams 
  5. Show educational web sites like www.gamequarium.com  or from http://www.thinkfinity.org/teacher/interactive_content_index.aspx
  6. Find and show EDUCATIONAL videos by using :
    Advancing Excellent Teaching in American Schools - www.learner.org
    Free     sign up is required for first-time users.
    PBS -  The best way to find things is the "Advanced Search" http://www.pbs.org/teachers/search/

    NOVA
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/

    FRONTLINE
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/

    NEXTVISTA
    An online library of free videos for learners everywhere - find resources to help you learn just about anything, meet people who make a difference in their communities, and even discover new parts of the world.

    LEARN ENGLISH
    http://www.abc.net.au/vod/education/

    MIT WORLD
    http://mitworld.mit.edu/

 

With Solid Object/Document Camera

 

  1. Show examples of work that conforms to rubric
  2. Show examples of good student work
  1. Demonstrate “how to” projects i.e. making a cornstalk doll
  1. Show detail of objects too small to hold up in front of a classroom- i.e.

Math manipulatives, Coins, bills, Leaves,  Bugs,  Rocks, geometric figures, historical artifacts, art work on loan from museum that kids can’t handle 

  1. Demonstrate art methods i.e. brush stroke, spattering…
  1. Show famous art work and point out design elements, symmetry, …
  1. Make any book a “big book”
  1. Daily Oral Language
  1. Daily Oral Math
  1. Daily Oral Standardized Test Question
  2. Use your document camera to capture images to your computer (will work like a scanner)
 

 

With  Projector and cable TV or VCR

 

  1.  Show instructional videos shows to whole class
  2. Show educational movies
  3. Have “Family Movie Night” – show a current movie and charge only for concessions
  4.  Use for showing Cable 54 clips at beginning of site-based council meetings
  5. Use for putting words to songs up on screen during student performances
  6. Video the kids during the performance and project images during the performance (make ‘em rock stars!)

 

With a computer and programs on your hard drive or network

 

  1. Demonstrate programs before the students go to the lab
  2. Show web sites on the big screen
  3. Do Rosetta Stone with your whole class
  4. Show KET Encyclomedia videos
     

With your Sound System

  1. Import Music into iTunes and play it over your sound system  (random access)
    examples: Sing-Spell-Read and Write Music
                    Music for Dances in P.E.
                    Music for a certain beat per second in P.E.
                    Music for songs in a foreign language
                    "Schoolhouse Rock" music that teaches a concept
  2. Have students use WAVEPAD to record a Podcast about any topic and post these to the classroom web page

 

 

Content Specific Suggestions

 

Language Arts

  1. Run a PowerPoint of the spelling words all week long
  2. Take kids to author’s web sites
  3. Do language games from www.funbrain.com with the whole class
  4. Do language games from www.funschool.com with the whole class
  5. Import audio books into iTunes and play them back over the sound system
    http://manybooks.net/
    http://www.wowio.com/index.asp
  6. Visit author websites and participate in a live chat about their book
  7. Collaboratively edit a document on the big screen
  8. Have students write a daily Blog about a topic you choose and show the Blog on the big screen
     

Math

  1. Run a PowerPoint of the math facts all week long
  2. Do math games from www.funbrain.com with the whole class
  3. Play math games from www.learningplanet.com against a room in another part of the country
  4. Use Graphcalc to show how functions are graphed
  5. Put your Calculator under the camera to demonstrate its use
  6. Show conic objects to the class

 

Science

  1. Run simulations from www.brainpop.com
  2. Run simulations from http://tryscience.org
     
  3. Run simulations from www.fossweb.com
  4. Run simulations from www.edu4kids.com
  5. Demonstrate weather from www.ucar.edu/educ_outreach/webweather/
  6. Let students “see” the real biomes in the world by showing webcam’s  pictures
  7. Let students “see” the real thing in the world by showing webcam’s pictures from http://linksmanager.com/firstscience/links32_2.html
  8. Run simulations in Curriculum Pathways (high school)
  9. Demonstrate lab techniques with the document/solid object camera
  10. Zoom in on prepared slides with the camera

 

Social Studies

  1. Explore every state’s website www.statename.gov  i.e. www.ky.gov
  2. Take a virtual tour of the Whitehouse www.whitehouse.gov
  3. Learn about government http://bensguide.gpo.gov/
  4. Run a Powerpoint of all states and capitals all week long (or anything the students need to memorize)
  5. Let students “see” the real place in the world by showing webcam’s pictures http://www.streamdays.com/
  6. Let students take virtual tours of government buildings http://clerk.house.gov/histHigh/Virtual_Tours/index.php
  7. See 360 degree panoramas at  www.virtualguidebooks.com
  8. Demonstrate American Memories http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
  9. Run projects from Curriculum Pathways (high school)
  10. Use the sound system and Skype to have a conversation with a class in another country or an elected official
  11. Stream radio stations from another country

 

Health and P. E.

1. Set the beat for exercising using iTunes
2. Draw plays using One-Note
3. Video athletes to analyze technique and show them in slow motion on the big screen
4. Use content from http://www.internet4classrooms.com/health.htm

 

Foreign Language

  1.  Play foreign language conversations over the sound system (import into iTunes for random access)
  2.  Have students with laptops record their foreign language conversations in WAVEPAD and check them by putting the microphone next to their computer and playing them for the class
  3.  Choose the optional languages on any commercial DVD
  4. Find and show EDUCATIONAL videos in your language by using Google Video's Advanced Search  
Stream radio stations from another country

 

MUSIC

  1. Demonstrate how orchestra instruments look and sound http://www.sfskids.org/templates/home.asp?pageid=1
  2. Download and demonstrate music compositions from http://www.vocalist.org.uk/downloads.html

 

ART

  1. Let your students become an "art detective" http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/
  2. Build a house. Take your ideas from floor plan to final 3D model. Share your house design with the world http://architectstudio3d.org/AS3d/index.html
  3. Explore a timeline of Renaissance art and innovation, commission an artwork as a patron of the arts, design your own innovation, and much more, all enhanced with quirky visuals, irreverent humor, and engaging interactivity http://www.renaissanceconnection.org/


    High School teachers:

Check out http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html for entire year's worth of resources in your subject area.