Helpful Technology Links
Here you will find a list of helpful technology websites that may be used with your classroom curriculum. A description of each site is provided to make your lesson planning easier.
Interactive Whiteboard Websites
So what is a Content Trailer? Very simply, a Content Trailer is a short, 2- to 3-minute, media-rich experience from which a point of inquiry can begin. The vehicle is unimportant in the relationship to the concept. Providing students with the images and sounds that can be attached to the textual information that they will be exploring can provide a profound shift in the way learning is engaged. Content Trailers can be one tool to help the process of inquiry begin.
(From: http://www.ezedia.com/company/news/newsletter/eW_01_2006.html#3)
Content trailers are a great tool to be used during the Readiness Mindful Teaching Phase. These videos are sure to grab your students' attention and get them into the lesson. You may also create a lesson where your students create their own content trailers, then you will be moving into the Transfer and Performance Stages of Mindful Teaching!
Webquest Websites
Webquests provide online higher order thinking projects that allow students to problem solve their way through discovering the content that the webquest is focusing on.
Webquest.org - This website allows teachers to search for different webquests by subject, grade level, or keyword. Click Find webquests and use the matrix search at the bottom of the page.
Other Technology Websites
VuSafe
What if you could unblock only the good content on YouTube? Now you can! This free website allows educators to add school appropriate video clips from YouTube to an online library in order to share them with their students. This website uses no inappropriate ads, comments, or outside links.
LPB Cyberchannel, previously named United Streaming provides a variety of educational videos for teachers to share with their students. Download the videos for free and use them year after year!
LRCE is dedicated to supporting innovation in education for students, teachers, administrators, higher education and families. LRCE houses a resource library of 45,000+ items which can be searched online. We are a shared resource center for educators in the public, private, parochial, charter, and home school sectors. Additionally, we provide workshops and training for Louisiana's educators, an alternative certification program, and more.