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Too Few Computers
and Too
Many Kids. What Can I Do? Part 4
By Douglas Bedient, Jacqueline D. Scolari, and Tamela D.
Randolph
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Using technology to organize and enhance the curriculum is even more challenging
in the one-computer classroom. The final installment in this four-part series
includes 26 ways to incorporate technology into foreign language, art, music,
health, and physical education curricula. The authors also provide URLs that
give teachers the means to preserve helpful Internet sites.
Web
Resources
Note. The Web sites listed here were valid when
this supplement
was posted. However, The Web is volatile, and we have no control over
these
other sites. Please e-mail the L&L Webmaster (ll_webmaster@iste.org)
if you find a broken link, and we’ll do our best to fix
it.
(Editor’s note: Be careful about sending
students
to some of these sites because the advertising on the page may not be
appropriate
for minors.)
Foreign Language
Materials
for Teaching Languages
http://eleaston.com/languages.html
Grammar, language lessons, and materials for teaching a number of
foreign languages.
University
of Arizona’s Online Biology Project
www.biology.arizona.edu
Biology lessons in English and Spanish.
World
Lists of Radio Stations on the Internet
www.virtualtuner.com
and http://wmbr.mit.edu/stations
Stations broadcasting in various formats and languages. Live
bitcasting stations
are noted for real-time listening.
Vatican
Radio
www.wrn.org/vatican-radio
Radio broadcasts in more than 35 languages featuring world news.
International
Newspapers
http://mel.lib.mi.us/news/news-international.html
Links to newspapers published in many different languages.
Human
Languages Page
www.june29.com/HLP
Links to nearly 2,000 languages and their links to publications and
reference
tools. Translating dictionaries available.
Canadian
Languages Network Database of Language Resources
www3.sk.sympatico.ca/theb/database/indexlan.htm
Large database organized by language with hundreds of links to helpful
sites
for teachers and students.
McRel
Foreign Language Resources
www.mcrel.org/resources/links/foreign.asp
Links to online texts and other helpful resources for teaching foreign
language.
Art
Museum Sites
Activities,
answers to frequently asked questions, games, current and past exhibit
information,
virtual tours, and guides to each museum are included in these sites.
The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York
www.metmuseum.org
The
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
www.louvre.fr
J. Paul
Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
www.getty.edu/museum
The
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
www.hermitage.ru
Prado
Museum, Madrid, Spain
http://museoprado.mcu.es
The
Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan
www.kyohaku.go.jp
Museums
in the USA
www.museumca.org/usa
Links to Top 10 museum sites identified by readers; links to U.S.
museums organized
by state and by type.
Other Art Sites
ARTSEDGE:
Instructional Resources for Teaching Visual Arts
www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org/cs/visarts.html
Lessons in drawing, painting, and sculpture arranged by grade level.
Pacific
Bell Eyes on Art
www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/art/art.html
Lessons, classroom activities for individuals and groups, and
provision for
developing individual or classroom collections of famous art works.
California
State at Northridge
www.csun.edu/~vceed009/art.html
Links to lesson plans for art for K–12, museums, and Kids’
Online
Artwork.
Sanford’s
Lifetime of Color
www.sanford-artedventures.com
Links for creating, studying, and teaching art, plus art games for
beginning
to advanced students.
Virtual
Schoolhouse Art Room
http://metalab.unc.edu/cisco/schoolhouse/art
Links to a collection of modern art, computer graphics tips, and to
art exhibits
by Northwestern University students.
Mixing
Colors
http://artforkids.about.com/kidsteens/artforkids/library/movies/blcolors.htm
Basic color mixing shows young children how colors mix together to
form entirely
new colors.
The Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave, Vallon-Pont-d’Arc (Ardèche),
France
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/
Artwork from 30,000 years ago appears with analysis of the works as well as
bibliographical citations.
The
Case of Grandpa’s Painting: An Adventure in Art
www.eduWeb.com/pintura/index.html
A private eye tracks down missing art. Art concepts are used as clues
and require
students to discriminate between various artists.
Tessellation Sites
Directions
for making tessellations, samples of student designs, links to
information and
lessons plans for using tessellations and for combining art with
mathematics
and language arts are found here.
http://members.cox.net/tessellations/index.html
http://members.tripod.com/~kateDC/tess.htm
www.geom.umn.edu/software/tilings/
http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/RR/database/RR.09.96/archamb1.html
www.mcs.net/~highland/tess/tess.html
Music
Children’s
Music Web
www.childrensmusic.org
Songs focusing on a current theme, newsletter, and links to other
music sites
for children and adults
Mojo’s
Musical Museum
www.kididdles.com/mouseum
Collection of lyrics to many children’s songs; some are available
in audio.
AskEric
Lesson Plans: Music
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Arts/Music
Lesson plans for music classes arranged by topic and age group.
Instrument Encyclopedia
http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument/
Descriptions and pictures of both common and rare instruments, plus resources
for teachers.
Thomas
Hampson’s I Hear America Singing
www.wnet.org/archive/ihas.cgi
History of American music with profiles of composers and performers.
Songbook
link to words and performances of well-known songs.
The
Classical Music Website
www.hnh.com
Reviews and links to classical music in movies and information about
composers
and their works.
Classical
MIDI Archives
www.prs.net/midi.html
Information about major and minor composers with audio samples of
their work.
Health and Physical Education
AMA Health Insight
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/3457.html.
An interactive, searchable site with health information on specific conditions,
general health, and family focus; includes links to Healthy Gourmet recipes,
a Kids’ Health Club Tour, a human atlas, and an interactive personal trainer.
InteliHealth
www.intelihealth.com
Johns Hopkins Health Information site includes current health news,
featured
items, and an index to common health concerns.
Kids
Food Cyber Club
www.kidsfood.org
Information and activities concerning diet for elementary students and
teachers.
Also includes information and activities relating to problems of
tobacco use.
Shape
Up America!
www.shapeup.org
Links to weight management, physical fitness, body mass index (BMI),
and a cyberkitchen.
Franklin
Institute’s Hot List for Health and Fitness
sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/health.html
Links to general research sites, nutrition, fitness, and hundreds of
diseases.
PE Central
http://pe.central.vt.edu
Lesson plans, best practices, assessment ideas for elementary and
secondary
physical education.
Selected Public Health Sites
Center
for Disease Control and Prevention
www.cdc.gov
Surry
County Health & Nutrition Center
www.surry.com/rubella.html
Rubella
in the Child Care Setting
www.cdc.gov/ncidod/hip/abc/facts35.htm
Harvard
University’s School of Public Health
www.hsph.harvard.edu/headlice.html
Selected Sports Sites
ESPN
http://espn.go.com
Sporting
News Online
www.sportingnews.com
Headline stories and links to information about individual sports.
Total
Baseball
www.totalbaseball.com
National
Football League
www.nfl.com
Soccer
(American)
www.socceramerica.com
National
Basketball Association
Men’s: www.nba.com
Women’s: www.wnba.com
Site Preserving Tools
Grab-a-Site,
GrabNet, WebSeeker, and WebWhacker
www.bluesquirrel.com
The
WebFetch Project
www.webfetch.org
Browser
Buddy
www.softbots.com
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Douglas Bedient (ga3213@siu.edu)
is a professor of curriculum and instruction at Southern
Illinois University,
Carbondale. He directs a secondary teacher education center and
is a past
international president of Phi Delta Kappa. Contact him at
Curriculum
and Instruction, SIUC, Carbondale, IL 62901-4610.
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Jacqueline Scolari (jscolari@som.siu.edu)
is an assistant professor of information and communication
sciences in
the School of Medicine at Southern Illinois University. She also
directs
SIU’s Medical Resource Center. She investigates practical
technology
initiatives in public schools.
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Tamela Randolph (trandolph@semovm.semo.edu)
is an assistant professor at Southeast Missouri State
University. She
teaches mathematics content courses for preservice elementary
teachers.
Her research interests include integrating technology into the
classroom.
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Richard Dillon (rwdillon@seanet.com)
is editor of L&L’s One-Computer Classroom
column. He teaches
in the Shoreline (Washington) School District. He holds
master’s
degrees in music, educational administration, and curriculum and
instruction
as well as a computer science teaching minor.
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