How to Use Technology to teach world cultures

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Permalink Reply by Shannae on September 14, 2007 at 9:34am

Hey I found a cool website that gives ideas and lesson plans for all different subjects, and I found one specifically for teaching about different countries and cultures. here is the link. http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSLAOCICountriesandCulturesIdeas18.htm

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Permalink Reply by mcwathen on September 14, 2007 at 9:52am

Hey I found another site that could be very useful for integrating technology in every topic when teaching! Enjoy!

http://www.techlearning.com/teacher/index.php

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Permalink Reply by Michelle on September 14, 2007 at 10:02am

here is another address, it has a cool lesson plan for teaching about family diversuty in the class room
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/lessonplan.jsp?
and another abou taking a trip to Mexico
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this one is about schools in Japan
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=10811

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Permalink Reply by mcwathen on September 14, 2007 at 10:08am

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0STR/is_n9_v103/ai_15411555

This is a wonderful article about utilizing technology to inform students about multiculturalism!

Also, I found an article about using technology in the classroom and this guy had an idea about having students on a social network where they can talk to other students around the world! What better way to learn than first hand experience talking to another student in a different country!

http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_0...

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Permalink Reply by mcwathen on September 30, 2007 at 3:16pm

Here are A TON of sites perfect for finding just the right lesson plans and how to use technology within your curriculums!


Learn NC - I love this site! I'm so excited to know about it! It's a wonderful resource for K-12 teachers to help them improve their teaching, find innovative curriculum, find effective lesson plans and how to get your students to work well independently. It's a search engine among educational resources as well! http://www.learnnc.org/

THE Journal - This is another site dedicated to help educators and administrators alike to become more effective using technology for the advancement of education. It basis is a magazine, two websites and four newsletters to aid it's subscribers. www.thejournal.com and www.EduHound.com

Blue Wed'n - This is an awesome site that is like an online library but better! It has access to tools, lessons , tutorials, activites and projects which you can search by content area or subject!
http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/bluewebn/

Turner Learning - This site is in accordance with CNN to provide educators with curriculum guides, lesson plans, take home materialsa and activities to make learning more life related. All free! http://www.turnerlearning.com/index.html

Trackstar - This is another site full of online activities and lessons. You can search the site by grade, subject and theme to get exactly what you are looking for, fast! http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/;jsessionid=CB054C141B25E6...

Tom Snyder Productions - This site is part of the Scholastic Company and they publish educational software for K-12. http://www.tomsnyder.com/

Software Express - This is a resources for schools to purchase educational software at an affordable price. http://www.swexpress.com/home.nsf/pages/Software+Express+Home

CDE: Colorado Department of Education - This site is an excellent resource to link you to any sort of information you may need about federal and state grants, assessments, statisics and so much more. Basically all the rules and regualtions for teachers to follow according to the governement. http://www.cde.state.co.us/

FREE: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - This is another search engine by subject that provide free federal resouces in the realms of science, math, history and language arts. http://free.ed.gov/

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