Technology+Strand

TEED 522 - Assessment Strand Resources Fall, 2009

Click here for a of the Web sites and gadgets we examined in the first tech session (10-20-09)

__**Educational Technology Investigations:**__

Asia Unit Plan Supplemental Website by Devin Engledew At this website you will find a variety of resources that will be available for my 9th grade world history students throughout their examination of Asia that are designed to ground their academic work in real-life, tangible resources available to them in the Seattle area. It is my hope that making these resources available on a wikispace for my students will enhance their learning experience beyond the traditional book, paper and pencil variety of school work. I hope that you will find the website useful.

Ms. Donadio's Mother Blog On this blog you will find links and information for my Mythology Unit. My hope is that over time it will become an archive of resources for a wide variety of Units and lessons. Students will be able to consult the blog for assignments and background information. Students will also be able to attach blogs to mine and turn in some work electronically

Alice's Adventures in Exponential Wonderland! by Taylor Blue

Sara Shea's Lord of the Flies Website by Sara Shea

Technology and Fahrenheit 451 by Kate Gavrin This website is designed to support my unit on Ray Bradbury’s __Fahrenheit 451__ and one of the central themes students will study, the impact of technology on our society and our daily lives. Included in the site is a page with links to a variety of newspaper and other articles that focus on emerging technologies or commentary on how technology is affecting our society. Each link is followed by a short description of the article. Students will engage in an in class activity with hard copies of the articles. This provides students access to the articles after the activity. This may be particularly useful to them at the end of the unit when they will be researching, writing, and delivery a speech on whether technology harms or helps our society. There is also a page dedicated to research resources to help them in that process. Additionally, this website will provide students with an opportunity to write for a particular purpose. Students will research in small groups topics of interest during the era Bradbury wrote __Fahrenheit 451__. They will then write a short paragraph with information on the topic their group researched and submit it to me, “the editor”, to be published on the website under the page “Ray Bradbury’s time”.

Romeo and Juliet by Melissa Deutsch

Trips Around Greece! From Interlake to Olympus: A Google Earth Tour For this assignment, I created a Google Earth tour to complement and enhance two of my lessons. As a student in Greek mythology, I had no clue where in the world these cities, mountains, islands were located (or Greece itself for that matter). For my opening lesson, I am adding a two minute Google Earth tour, taking us from Interlake High School, Room 2611 in Bellevue, Washington to Mt. Olympus… first the one in Washington on the peninsula, and then the mountain in Greece where the Gods are located. I finally zoom out to show them Greece, its location in Europe, and then zoom back in to reemphasize the shape and location of Greece. This tour will be followed by a map activity where the students, who are assigned a city in each of their desk pairs, have to go around and locate all of the major cities and islands that have major roles in the myths we will be reading. The tour will help them conceptualize where the map they are filling out is located and give them a better understanding of Greece’s location in the world. The second tour goes through the story of Leto and Apollo, from Mt. Olympus, all around Greece when Leto was being chased by Python, to the floating island of Delos where Apollo and Artemis are born, to Pythos, where Apollo slays Python, and then shows how his oracles ended up at Delphi through the path sailed by the ship he captured. I am excited for this assignment because Delphi is a major city in Greek mythology and has a ton of artifacts from 2500 years ago. Giving kids a sense that Greeks were very serious about their Gods by showing images of the temples that they built combined with the tour of the trip Leto and Apollo made will give students who have visual learning styles a better understanding of where this myth took place. The major techniques I learned from this exercise were how to create a tour, how to overlay images onto the Google Earth map, how to create a path, placemarks and polygons, and how to activate/deactivate those tools during the tour. I am very excited to learn how to make the tour more stable and know there are ways to map out the path of the tour better. This is what I will hopefully learn before I start my unit so it looks a little more polished. I am still trying to figure out how to post this online. Anyone that has that kind of skills, your help would be much appreciated!