EducationalTechnology

"Strategies and techniques are provided for integrating podcasts lessons to promote the benefits of greater student engagement and alternative assessment." - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet

Web-based learning centers engage students by using interactive internet resources aligned with inquiry-based hands-on classroom activities to learn science concepts. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet

Reasons are provided why student blogs improve learning through differentiated instruction, improved reading and writing skills, and self-directed learning. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet

The use of PowerPoint presentations in schools takes advantage of education technology integration strategies and techniques. However, student learning is not improved when these presentations are merely a substitute for note taking bullets from older overhead projectors. To take advantage of the power of this technology, the elimination of boring slide shows must be replaced with interactive story telling that keeps students engaged. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet

Students have no risk of embarrassment with respect to their individual answers and are very motivated to actively participate when using the personal response system (PRS). This interactive wireless system produces active learning by providing each student with a simple and handheld response remote. This remote is non-threatening and is in use from pre-K through college graduate education. PRS is often referred to as Clickers, Classroom Response Systems, and Learner Response Systems. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet

Projects in science are provided which take full advantage of Internet resources to help students develop a better understanding of the world in which they live. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet

Google Docs is an easy-to-use online word processor that enables you to create, store, share, and collaborate on documents with your science and math students. You can even import any existing document from Word and Simple Text. You can work from anywhere and with any computer platform to access your documents. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet

thank you! - Lee Worden

LiveBinders is a free web 2.0 tool which offers educators the ability to save and organize materials for any class. One advantage of this online service the capability to update a binder anywhere an educator has internet access. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet

The Flip camera is great for all types of projects in science and math – at any grade level. Flip cameras are small handheld video cameras that can record 30 or 60 minutes worth of video. They connect to a computer with a USB plug that “flips” out from the side of the camera. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet

Students learn how to conduct science investigations in the same manner as scientists, as they learn to analyze sets of online real time data to solve problems. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet

LiveBinders is a free web 2.0 tool which offers educators the ability to save and organize materials for any class. One advantage of this online service the capability to update a binder anywhere an educator has internet access. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet

Strategies and techniques are provided regarding the benefits of using digital tools to support teaching and learning in any content area or grade level. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet

"In a village in Tamil Nadu called Kalikuppam, Dr. Mitra asked a class of poor Tamil-speaking kids to use the Internet, which they had not yet encountered, to learn biotechnology, which they had never heard of, in English, which they did not speak. Two months later he was astounded at what they had taught themselves." - Michael R. Bernstein from Bookmarklet

There are many websites for teaching science to children, however the FOSS Web website is an interactive inquiry-based science teaching website with many web resources. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet

In contrast to the digital footprint you use for your personal learning network, this focus is on the online digital footprint students’ use in your science or math classroom. The power of a well designed digital footprint brings the capacity to transform a classroom into an online learning community. Within this community your students use digital tools to create and develop a personal learning network. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet

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An inquiry-based analysis is the basis for an investigation into the mysterious death of an electric car, as students role play and research to find the guilty party. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet

Google Docs is an easy-to-use online word processor that enables you to create, store, share, and collaborate on documents with your science and math students. You can even import any existing document from Word and Simple Text. You can work from anywhere and with any computer platform to access your documents. Considering the versatility of Google Docs, there are many ingenious ways teachers use this free online program with students. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet

Benefits for creating a classroom environment for student blogging begin with establishing a foundation for their success. Why is this important? Integrating blogs transforms a classroom into a learning community where students become self-directed learners and thinkers. This in turn, causes students to use higher order thinking skills as they create and post entries in their blogs, along with commenting on other student’s blogs. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet

The use of web based technology is growing by leaps and bounds every day. These online tools are the new set of keys for opening your students’ minds. The vast resources on the Internet are making the use traditional methods of teaching and learning obsolete in countless ways. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet

Like everything else on the Internet, trying to find images is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Without the right tools for finding science and math images on the web it is often an impossible, or at least mind-numbing, task. What is needed are search engines which make the job easier. This is where the tips and tricks provided below help this seemingly impossible task by using the top search Web 2.0 search engines and tools available today. These are valuable resources for both you and your students when trying to find just the right image for lesson or project involving digital media. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet

I would add http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki... - Pierre Lindenbaum

Two more (PubMed-focused): http://biosearch.berkeley.edu/ and http://krauthammerlab.med.yale.edu/imagefi... . Neither allows to search by license, though. Flickr does, roughly: http://www.flickr.com/search... . - Daniel Mietchen

he following were the 10 most popular posts for my Teach Science and Math blog for the month of August 2010. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet

The six top free online tools were selected from available web 2.0 tools for teaching and learning using presentations, blogging, and bookmarking online resources. There are many excellent online tools available in these three categories, making the selection difficult at best. However, the selection was made based on reviewing available online resources along with other contributions and feedback from teachers. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet