10 Best Uses of the Internet for Teaching &

Learning

Amanda L. Hill IDT 7064 M51 October 31, 2011

No more outdated encyclopedias!

Research & Information

www.wikipedia.orghttp://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Forget “Well, the dog ate my homework.”

E-Portfolios.

Dr. Helen Barrett on creating K-12 e-portfolios for with Google Apps @ https://sites.google.com/site/eportfolioapps/overview/model-k-12

http://www.chumpysclipart.com/illustration/1962/picture_of_a_running_dog_with_a_laptop_computer_in_his_mouth

News comes to you.

RSS

http://www.iconspedia.com/icon/rss.html

Netvibes is a personal dashboard that lets you aggregate your news feeds. Here’s a tutorial to help you get started.

http://www.iconspedia.com/icon/netvibes-2710.html

Multimedia.

A Vision of K-12 Students Today

More than just movies!

Go anywhere on a field trip, you don’t need gas or a permission slip!

Virtual Tours & Exhibits

Picturing the 1930s at Smithsonian American Art

Museum

http://www.louvre.fr/llv/musee/visite_virtuelle.jsp

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Collaboration

If two heads are better than one. . .

The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education in New Jersey has been exploring Internet use in K-12 science education since 1993. See some of the ongoing collaborative projects hosted by the CIESE here .

Jan Spurney http://www.kolabora.com/

You can see your house from space! Space!!!

Maps & Google Earth

Google Maps & Google Earth in the Classroom

http://www.iconspedia.com/icon/google-earth--753.html

Your classroom just got a lot bigger!

Communities & Networks

Better games than Solitaire!

Games

John Burk uses Angry Birds in his physics class.

Crunched for time? See what others have done.

Lesson Plans

http://www.readwritethink.org/

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/index.html

Barrett, H. C. (2009). Creating K-12 e-portfolios using Google Apps. Retrieved

October 30, 2011from https://sites.google.com/site/eportfolioapps/overview/model-k-12

Burk, J. (2011, Feburary 17). Why you should wait to teach projectile motion part 2: introducing projectile motion using Angry Birds [Blog post] https://

quantumprogress.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/why-you-should-wait-to-teach-projectile-motion-part-2-introducing-projectile-motion-using-angry-birds/

Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/commons

Google earth for educators. http://sitescontent.google.com/google-earth-for-educators/

Google maps for educators. http://www.google.com/educators/p_maps.html

Internet Archive. http://www.archive.org/index.php

Library of Congress. (2011). American memory. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

The Louvre museum official website. http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp?bmLocale=en

Tools & References

Nesbitt, B. J. (2007). A vision of k-12 students today [Video]. Retrieved October 31, 2011 from http://www.youtube.com/user/bjnesbitt#p/a/u/0/_A-ZVCjfWf8

Netvibes. http://www.netvibes.com/

Read Write Think. http://www.readwritethink.org/

Shrock, K. (2011). Kathy Shrock’s guide for educators.

Smithsonian American Art Museum. (2011). Picturing the 1930s. http://americanart.si.edu/education/picturing_the_1930s/

Teacher Librarian Ning: A community for teacher-librarians and other educators. http://teacherlibrarian.ning.com/

Teacher Tube. http://www.teachertube.com/

Wikipedia. http://www.wikipedia.org/

Tools & References