K-8 Tech Ideas for Language Arts
Kathleen Willson
Atlantic County Technology Fellow
ACETTC
Email me at: kathleen.willson@stockton.edu

Atlantic County ETTC: http://ettc.stockton.edu

1. Internet Ideas and Resources

• Evaluating Web Sites
  • ABC's of Internet Site Evaluation PowerPoint
  • Evaluation tool

 

• Web Resources
  • Knowledge Network - Pacific Bell - http://www.bluewebn.com
• Blue Web'n Index - http://www.bluewebn.com/wired/bluewebn/index.html
• Dr. Catherine Grimaldi's - Middlesex County's Tech Fellow Site -
  http://www.njaet.org/ettc/cccs.htm
  
  

 

• K-8 Resources

• ETTC's Resources http://ettc.stockton.edu/resources/
• Sites for teachers -
  http://www.sitesforteachers.com/index.html
• Educational Resources on web http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/EducationalResources.html
• Carol Hurst's Literature Site
  http://www.carolhurst.com/

 

• CyberGuides - are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature.
  • http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
    
    
• Literature Circles - literature Circles are small, temporary discussion groups comprised of students who have chosen to read the same story, poem, article, or book.
  • Testimony and Advise from a teacher using Literature Circles
    http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/emc300/wwwboard/messages/1429.html
  • Introduction to Literature Circles
    http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/mla/circle/intro.html
  • How Literature Circles Work
    http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/mla/circle/work.html
  • Role Templates
    http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/mla/circle/roletempl.html

 

• WebQuests
  • WebQuest Design PowerPoint
  • The WebQuest Page - http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/index.html
  • Bernie Dodge's Matrix of Web Quests - http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/matrix.html
  • Links of Excellent WebQuests Libraries http://ettc.stockton.edu/infustech/webquestlinks.htm

2. Inspiration

• Activity 1: Scary Things (K-3)- Thematic Unit using (KWHL: What you Know, What you Want to know, How are you going to find out, and What did you Learn.)
• Activity 2: Visualizing Poetry - (4-8)
  Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
  WebLink - http://www.ketzle.com/frost/

3. Microsoft Products

• PowerPoint
  • PowerPoint Poem - "Dust of Snow"
  • Photographs - Library of Congress - http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/
    Activity 1: PowerPoint Jeopardy located at: http://acettc.stockton.edu/resources/workshops.htm
• Word
  • Microsoft's lessons - http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=Arts
  • Activity 2: Plan a New Years Celebration http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=y2k
• Publisher or Word
  • Activity 3: Universal Card http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=universalcard

4. eboard.com