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Technology Feedback for the 2006-2007 Academic Year
How the 6th Grade Prefers Assisstance: What the 6th Grade Would Like to Accomplish:
 * 1) Individual or small group as opposed to large trainings when learning something new
 * 2) Training needs to be aligned to applicable software/tools
 * 3) Grade level trainings are appropriate when ability levels are similar
 * 1) Create a weblog for students to reflect on what they are reading
 * 2) Create a webquest
 * 3) Create a grade-level website

Links to Individual Teacher Resource Web Pages
Please read the following guidelines before beginning a personal resource web page.


 * Levesque: Science
 * Austin: 6th
 * Fisher: 6th
 * Story and Scanlan: Math
 * Bowker: LA and SS
 * Berry: 6th
 * Howard: LA and SS
 * Osborn: Learning Team
 * Spaeth: Spanish

General Tools for Building a Resource Web Page
Before adding links from these websites, I would encourage you to think about your website organization. I have created a sample classrom web resource page that might be a good model for you to use. >
 * 1) [|Marco Polo]: Provides website links and lesson plans; organized by grade level and subject area
 * 2) [|Nettrekker]: Provides website links, lessons, and a host of other resources; access to Netrekker from home requires a login/password (see me) but not from school
 * 3) [|Smithsonian]: Porvides website links, lessons, and resources centered around educational themes and offerings at the Smithsonian
 * 4) [|Internet4Classrooms]: Provides links to online activities; organized by grade level and subject areas
 * 5) [|Brain Pop]: Provides online lessons and activities for a variety of subject areas and grade levels; Access to Brain Pop from home requires a login/password (see me) but not from school; Brain pop only allows access during school hours
 * 1) [|Webquest Portal]: Provides a search engine for finding existing webquests that can be added to your classroom website; Click on "Find Webquests"
 * 2) **Search Engine Links for Students**: Place the following links on your class website as tools for student research; [|Kidsclick], [|ASK for Kids], [|Yahooligans!], [|OneKey (Google)]
 * 3) **Copyright-Free Picture Resources for Teachers and Students**: Place the following links on your class website as tools for you and your students' multimedia projects; [|Flickr! Creative Commons], [|Open Photo], [|PD Photo] (Places), [|The Library of Congress: Memory Miner], [|Terraserver] (Maps); Modeling and encouraging students to use photographs from search engines like Google Images is not a good practice because most of the images are copyright protected