Volume 2, Number 8
April, 2002


Content Guide:
Suitable for elementary school students Elementary School
Suitable for middle school students Middle School
Suitable for high school students High School
General tips for teachers General

Technology Applied
Into the Classroom
STLP News
Through a Student's Eyes
Assistive Technology
The Web
Red-Hot Links
Literacy On Line
Tech Help
Tips from the Pros
Training Schedule at the Ambrose Lab
Staff profiles
Miscellaneous
"The network is down . . . " (humor)
The TIPS Archives

Instructional Technology Home Page
Fayette County Public Schools home page

Editor: Jeffrey L. Jones,
District TRT jjones@fayette.k12.ky.us

This website is intended for the instructional use of students and staff of Fayette County Public Schools

 

On this page:

Suitable for middle school studentsSuitable for middle school students Microscope Images
Suitable for middle school studentsSuitable for middle school students Digital Storytelling
Suitable for high school students
  Puzzlemaker
Suitable for high school students Historical Maps
Suitable for middle school studentsInternet4Classrooms Kindergarten
Suitable for middle school studentsSuitable for middle school studentsSuitable for high school students The ESL Lounge.

Marly Cain's Micronautic Adventures

http://www.rmcain.com/mcama/

Real images from Intel® Play QX3® Computer Microscopes are on display on this site. You can even focus and zoom them! Lots of ideas, games - even full instructions on creating 3-D images! (Remember those tinted glasses?!) Fun with your microscope! 

Submitted by Jan Ross
Digital Storytelling

Storytelling is an old and venerable art. Put the results of your story into a computer-delivered format, include digital stills or videos from your own life, and you have digital storytelling. Here are some sites relative to this writing process:

Digital Storytelling: http://www.storycenter.org/ A quote from their "Who we are" page: ". . . Our mission is to assist people in using digital media to tell meaningful stories from their lives, with source material generated from their personal image archives." A seven-step process to developing digital stories is at  http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/cookbook.html
"We Didn't Start the Fire" - stills from the video of Billy Joel's song http://www.aufdenspring.com/joel.html
Ideas and examples at Apple: http://www.apple.com/education/k12/

 

Submitted byDonna Eustace, Ky. Dept. of Ed.
Puzzlemaker

http://www.puzzlemaker.com/

This is an old favorite that made the rounds a few weeks ago. Puzzlemaker automatically constructs puzzles on line in several formats for printing and use in your class. Included are traditional crosswords, word searches, plus cryptographs and mazes. Supplied by Discovery Schools (a service of Discovery.com) free of charge.

An alternate puzzle constructor is available at AwesomeClipArtForKids.

Submitted by Joy Buckingham
David Rumsey Historical Maps

http://landmark-project.com/citation_machine/cm_web.php3

David Rumsey maintains this site as a display of his private map collection. It contains more than 6,500 high-resolution digital images. Over the next five years, it is the intent of Mr. Rumsey to post over 50,000 maps plus  interactive 3-D visualization tools. 

Submitted by Barbara Barr
Internet4Classrooms - Kindergarten

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/kindergarten_links.htm

This is a collection of links for resources appropriate to early grades, especially Kindergarteners. Updated regularly, and sorted by subject.

Submitted by Cathy Brandt
The ESL Lounge

http://www.esl-lounge.com/

From the site: "esl-lounge gives free access to hundreds of ESL lesson plans and materials that can be used for communicative English lessons in the classroom. The emphasis on this site is on communication. The majority of resources are geared towards getting students talking." Included are lesson plans, worksheets, activities, links, even games.

More ESL resources:

ESL Resources On-Line: http://www.wuziegames.com/esl.html
From ManyThings.org: http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~itesls/ 

Submitted by Richard Forston