Technology Integration

Educational Technology: Support for Inquiry-Based Learning

Description: This paper is aimed at those interested in the academic nitty-gritty of inquiry-based learning. It describes how technology can enhance inquiry-based learning and how specific types of technology (e.g., educational games versus virtual communities) can best be applied.

Youth Mapmakers

Description: From its beginning in 1995, the Green Map System has been fueled by a desire to help urban dwellers of all ages represent and share the ecological and cultural resources in their cities.

Green Map System Inc. promotes good greening efforts underway in communities across the globe. The project:

Get Animated

Participant will explore the concept of the persistence of vision and explore the relationship between frames and time by making a short animated project.

Recommended Time: 

Varies, can range between 20 - 60 mins

Bird & Butterfly Garden

CREATION: Bird and Butterfly Garden, Spring - Summer 2000

NAME OF CENTER: Eden Housing Resident Services Computer-Assisted Education Programs

LOCATION: San Francisco Bay Area

CONTACT: Scott Rains

Build Your Own Zoo: An Inspiration Project to Introduce Presentations

Inspiration is a software program that helps people organize their thoughts and make simple presentations. In this project, you'll introduce kids to the basic features of Inspiration and have them create a web map to present ideas for their own zoo.

Recommended Time: 

Two hours total, or can be staged in parts over several days

Goals: 
    • To teach kids about the importance of planning
    • To learn more about webbing and graphic organizers
    • To learn how to use Inspiration software
    • To build vocabulary and work on sentence writing skills.
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