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September 20, 2007

Online Tools for K-12 Classroom

During this class we explore resources that will enable teachers to better utilize resources through the Internet to better communicate to their students. Teachers can save time by utilizing online bookmarks, locating lesson plans, webquests, virtual tours, videos and other online tools.

See extended entry for links to some of these resources.

delicious-A popular online bookmarking tool.

Search Engines:

Yahoo

Google

Ask

Ask for Kids

Yahooligans

Metacrawler

MarcoPolo

MarcoPolo Content Partners

Search MarcoPolo

MarcoPolo Lesson Plans

WebQuest Bernie Dodge

Virtual Tours and Video

eField Trips

National Geographic

United Streaming

Miscellaneous Online Tools

ALTEC's 4Teachers

September 11, 2007

Advanced Internet utilizing Web 2.0 Tools

Where do I begin? Marcy Schmidt, Southwest Information Technology Specialist, and I had a blast creating this class because so much of the content is made up of tools we were really excited to learn about. Google Maps, Google Earth, Blogging, and Wikis. Also, Paul Zettler, our Intern from Grand Forks Public Schools, contributed content in this class.

Google Earth

Download


User Guide


Sightseer Newsletter


Flight Simulator Keyboard Controls

Atomic Learning
Atomic Learning contains tutorials on Google Earth
search for google earth


Google for Educators

Click on tools for your classroom
This page contains classroom activities for many google tools.

Google Maps