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50 Ways to Integrate Technology in the Classroom **__ Using the Internet __**
 * 1) Start the day or week with “Current Events” from a major news source. []

2. Explore places that the students are learning about using Google Earth

3. The student has a birthday? Have them research the day they were born. [|www.factmonster.com]

4. Compare the day’s weather in your city to another city in a different country using [|www.worldatlas.com] 5. Go on a Virtual Field trip

6. Introduce a new unit in reading with a vocabulary word cloud. Have students guess what the unit/story will be about. Set a purpose for learning. [|www.wordle.net] 7. Use educational games for centers in your classroom. Sites like [|www.dovewhisper.com] an [|www.abcya.com] are free, and contain games in different subjects. 8. Go on an Internet Scavenger Hunt 9. Have students use Spelling City to learn their spelling words. [|www.spellingcity.com] 10. Use Brain POP to show short, animated videos as a lesson opener. [|www.brainpop.com] 11.Use the Khan Academy’ to show students a video tutorial on a difficult math concept. [|www.khanacademy.org] **__ Using Digital Cameras/Videos __** 12.Assess what the students know/are learning by filming them during a group project using a FlipCam. Put the final product on the website! 13.Create a “newscast” of some event, with students presenting the information. 14.Create videos that bring your lessons to life. [|www.animoto.com] 15.Have your students create a virtual timeline. [|www.readwritethink.org/materials/timeline] 16. Take pictures of student work, upload them to PhotoStory, and have students edit the project and add their voice to it. 17.Capture the moment! Record class presentations, field trips, or activities! 18.Create photo vocabulary cards for your ESL and SPED students. 19.Send students in small groups around the school on a scavenger hunt. For example, fourth graders can take pictures of objects that make acute, obtuse, and right angles. **__ Using Web 2.0 Tools for Projects & More __** 20. Have students create podcasts about a book they recently read, science vocabulary, test strategies, etc. [|www.audacity.sourceforge.net] 21.Start a class blog. Better yet, let each kid have their own blog! [|www.kidblog.com] 22.Tired of the same old poster board projects? Use Glogster EDU and have students create interactive posters, where they can upload images, sound, and videos. [] 23. Use ePals to connect to another classroom in the state, country, or even world! Students can do various projects with their e-distance peers, or simply communicate to each other like pen pals. [|www.epals.com] 24.Let students collaborate with each other online. Diigo lets students bookmark sites, create tags, make notes, and save discussions. [|www.diigo.com] 25.Have a biography unit coming up? Introduce it using Museum Boxes, which allows students to create a description of an event, person, or place using text files, movies, or pictures. [] 26.Get the discussion of a topic going using VoiceThread, where students can comment via text or voice recording on any subject imaginable! [] 27.Allow your students to create avatars and add their own voice to review a book, solve certain types of math problems, or even historical events. [|www.voki.com] 28.[] Scribble Maps lets students write, add pictures, find distances and more on Google Maps, When they’re done, they can save and embed their image into blogs or presentations. After reading a book about a character’s travels, they can map the character’s journey. 29.Create digital popup books with [|www.zooburst.com] 30. Set up student accounts and let them go! Storybird allows students to use illustrations on their site to create picture books. [] 31.Use “Fakebook” to create imaginary profile pages for study purposes! [] **__ Word Processing __** 32.Compose a story/news article/book review and illustrate it with clip art or graphics. 33.Expand vocabulary within any written work using the thesaurus in your word processing application. 34.Create a resume for any famous person in history. 35.Create a newsletter about a time in history. 36.Compare and contrast any tow things using a Venn diagram. 37.Have students create a “travel brochure” on a place they have never visited. 38.Use a table to generate time lines. 39.Have students write a letter to their congressman/senator/president. 40.During the first week of school, let students create “All About Me” posters using Microsoft Word. Allow them to upload favorite pictures, places, etc. **__ Special Subject Areas and More! __** 41.Have students play music games on [|www.musicteacher.com], where they can also learn musical terms, rhythms, and the names of famous musicians. 42.Help kids make healthy eating choices by showing them this interactive Food Pyramid: [] 43. Teach kids about famous artists, and let them have fun, too! [|www.livebinders.com] 44.Use study jams to open a lesson or to review before a test. [] 45.Let students use vivid words to their writing with a visual thesaurus. [] 46.Allow students to wander famous art museums and see artistic pieces with [] 47.Picturebooks come alive with [|www.meegenius.com] 48. Apply GPS technology or mapping software in Geography (Google Earth or Geocaching) [] 49. Create digital flashcards on any subject. [] 50.Check out the Reading is Fundamental website and use it as a center in your classroom. []