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1. Distribution of notes:
- teacher can create notes as a PowerPoint or word processing
document and distribute to students through a group shared folder.
Notes could include source documents, graphics, media files.
- Technology department can help you prepare a web site
to support your curriculum or a specific topic
2. PowerPoint presentations of student research - class
9 students will learn PowerPoint this year
3. Outlining of research papers - Word & PowerPoint have good outline
programs
4. Editing of papers - writing classes - Word has an exceptional peer editing
capability
5. Internet research - especially useful if the teacher prepares a web page
or Word document with “starter links” or a webquest
6. Internet class - using one of the excellent history sites, the class
can do a visual and note-taking lesson on, for example:
- statistics (census data from the US or Britain, for
example)
- historical maps
- political cartoons
- news - as it happens, including “real time”
radio
- historical timelines
- visual history through one of the cultural museum, recreation
or archaeological sites
- primary source documents (letters, photographs, travel
diaries, political documents, etc.)
7. Intranet class - primary documents can be scanned or
downloaded from the Internet, organized and stored on our server for use
in class.
8. “On-site” use - bring them to a museum - use them for notes
9. College Board AP reviews
10. Creation of charts and tables to display/collect information (including
graphics)
11. Communication - discussion boards, newsgroups and e-mail can connect
students to professionals, academicians, and research centers
1. Grammar - use one of the many copyright free e-texts
available online to study sentence structure, agreement, argument, organization,
etc.
2. Internet research to support the study of a novel or author - in many
cases, an excellent web site created by another teacher or a college professor
already exists - there are excellent academic sites on major authors, periods
and bodies of literature
3. Grammar - there are some highly intelligent interactive grammar exercise
websites
4. Writing - Editing of papers - writing classes - Word has an exceptional
peer editing capability
5. PowerPoint presentations of a student’s own research results
6. Hyper Poetry & hyperfiction - the creation of “hyperpoetry”
is possible with Word, HomePage, or PowerPoint. Software specifically designed
for this is also available.
7. Hyperlinked literary analysis - textual study can be presented in a “highlight
and show popup” method - this is excellent for vocabulary study, study
of figurative language, style notes, and annotating or close reading of
a text.
8. “Poetry aloud” - digital recordings of poetry readings, recordings
on the web
9. College Board AP reviews
10. Creative writing & publishing
11. “On-site” use - take the iBooks to a museum or other site
- let the creative or critical juices flow
12. Just-for-fun illustration activities
13. Communication - discussion boards, newsgroups and e-mail can connect
students to writers, academicians, and research centers - many authors have
created web pages (e.g.. Toni Morrison)
