ERIC Number: ED376814
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1994
Pages: 154
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ISBN: ISBN-1-56308-083-4
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Projects for New Technologies in Education: Grades 6-9.
Heller, Norma
This book offers school librarians, media specialists, classroom teachers, computer coordinators, and others involved with educational technology step-by-step procedures for planning and implementing technologies into both library and curricula. The interdisciplinary projects use print sources, as well as CD-ROMs, online databases, telecommunications, and information networks to enhance learning and classroom integration. Project details are described: (1) "Booktalk to Database: A Student-Created Database of Recommended Books"; (2) "Savvy Stories: Using The Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century to Write a Docudrama"; (3) "One Hundred Years of Heroism: A Videotaped Report"; (4) "The New Immigrants: Melting Pot or Gorgeous Mosaic?"; (5) "Terrorism: A Fact of Life for the 1990s"; (6) "A Question of Survival: Human Behavior and the Environment"; (7) "Information in Modern Society: Reading, Viewing, and Searching"; (8) "What's in a Name? Investigating the Past"; (9) "Taking a Trip Via a Telecommunication Network." Included for each project are an introduction to the curriculum area and technology implementation, a teaching plan with a materials list, small group guidelines, a timetable, and reproducible student worksheets. (DGM)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Curriculum Enrichment, Databases, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Instructional Materials, Integrated Curriculum, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Optical Data Disks, Program Implementation, Telecommunications
Teacher Ideas Press, P.O. Box 6633, Englewood, CO 80155-6633 ($23.50 U.S. & Canada; $28 outside North America).
Publication Type: Books; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Audience: Teachers; Media Staff; Practitioners
Language: English
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