Power Up! Stimulating Your Students
with
PowerPoint
by André Harrison
Getting students interested in academic subjects can be tricky. Math
may not
seem all that interesting to a fourth grader, for example. In this
month’s
feature, though, teacher André Harrison describes ways in
which he
has gotten his students excited about what they study. And he has
done it
all with Microsoft PowerPoint, one of the main applications in the
Office
suite, creating curricular materials to present to his classes.
Download
the full article (PDF, 645 KB, PDF Instructions).
Fat Crayon Multimedia Digital
Toolbox
by Marybeth Kampman
This month’s Multimedia section is devoted to Kid Pix.
Marybeth
Kampman describes how to use this and similar programs to
dress up their
presentations. Read more about Marybeth’s book Fat Crayon
Multimedia
Using Kid Pix.
Multithreaded Language
Learning:
Students at Different Levels Working in One
Classroom
by Robert A. Morrey
In this month’s Foreign Language offering, Robert
describes how
his students are using technology to design and assess their
own third-
and fourth-year German language curricula. Visit the Heinle
& Heinle
Web site to learn more about the program they used.
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Poetic Surfing: How I Used a
Focused
Internet
Search to Keep Students on the Crest of a Wave
by Tom Banaszewski
Getting students to concentrate on a specific topic is a
challenge teachers
face when they use the Internet. Children’s curiosity can
lead
them to sites that are interesting but not related to the task
at hand.
In the December/January 1998–2000 issue of
L&L, Tom
Banaszewski describes how he keeps his students on task by
giving them
a list of sites to visit and by assigning creative work. Visit
some
of his favorite Civil War Web sites.
Teaching Astronomy By Internet
Jigsawing
by Brian Beaudrie, Tim Slater, Stephanie
Stevenson,
and David Caditz
In this article, Brian and his coauthors describe how a joint
project
with NASA has led to the development of a method of doing
online projects
that really involves students in science. Visit these online
projects.
Online Geographic Information
Systems:
Using Real-World Data to Explore Layers of
Meaning
by Glen Bull, Gina Bull, and Cheryl Mason
What do you
get when you cross a map with a database? A geographic
information system
(GIS). As Glen Bull, Gina Bull, and Cheryl Mason explain in
this month¹s
Mining the Internet, such a system is used to display
quantitative information
in highly visual ways. This is an effective way to see
patterns in data
that might otherwise be obscure.
Mining the Internet
Online
Mining the Internet is an ongoing column in L&L.
Frequently
the Internet changes substantially in the six months between
the time
that a column is submitted and the time it appears in print.
The Mining
the Internet Web site will provide a location for updates to
each issue’s
column. It will also provide a way to offer active links to
Internet
locations mentioned in the column and a place for material
that would
not fit in the confines of a four-page column. The column will
therefore
become a hybrid mix of print materials that will appear in
each issue
of L&L and supplementary materials that will be
placed on
the Web each month.
