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Using Survey Monkey students create a poll and collect data. Excel enables them disaggregate the data for analysis and use in a research project.

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Search engines/Internet - global information.

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Microsoft Word - student learn and

use the full features of the program.

Insert graphics, spreadsheets, and etc.

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Microsoft Word -substitute for

worksheet.

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Student groups create an infomercial about the "perfect vacation"

Tool: Google Docs; Video camera, iPad, smart phone; Video editing software.

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Student groups collaborate as travel agents creating the perfect vacation. Presentation will include trip highlights and costs.

Tools: Google Docs, Presentation software, Spreadsheet software.

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Student researches vacation spot. Creates a PowerPoint presentation to present to class.

Tool: PowerPoint or Prezi.

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Student researches a favorite vacation spot and writes an essay.

Tool: Word Processor; Internet.

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Students complete math problems online where they receive instant feedback on whether the problem was answered correctly.

Tool: ALEKs

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Students are given a math worksheet to complete. They complete it online and then submit it through My Big Campus. Teacher grades and returns to students.

Tool: My Big Campus

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A math worksheet is given to students to complete on their iPads. Students complete the worksheet, print it and then turn it in.

Tool: Google Docs

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Tool: movie creator app like iMovie

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Tool: Book Creator app

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Tool: web creator - blog creator

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Tool: textbook website or provided cd videos

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Instead of learning/practicing the scientific method in a classroom/lab environment, students can take their iPads/tablets outside to conduct their own investigation or experiment, using technology to capture images, record measurements, and produce a presentation/report.

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Students may create a video (iMovie), song (GarageBand), web site, app or other multimedia project to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the Declaration of Independence (or most any other topic) rather than write a traditional essay.

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Students write an essay using Word processing software (e.g., Microsoft Word), but leverage the additional tools (e.g., spellcheck, grammar check, text formatting, footnotes) available to speed up the writing process and improve the overall quality of their work.

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Students create a Venn Diagram for literary character analysis using a basic drawing tool such as Draw Free or Paper (instead of using actual pencil and paper).

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Tool: Visualize App

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Tool: digital camera

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Tool : Gale Databases

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The goal would be for the students to retell a story. Students could then research or choose from a list of ways to retell the story (i.e. they could video tape them acting out the story and e-mail it to you, they could retell the story using book creator, or they might create a power point)

Tool: Book Creator app

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Using a classroom blog have students

list as many words that fit the word skill

for the week.

Tool: Blogger

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Students access a word document through Google Docs

with pictures in a mixed up order from a

recently read guided reading story.

Students then have to copy and paste

the pictures in order of how the story happened.

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Instead of writing an answer to a written response

students type their response to a written prompt using

Microsoft Word.

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Students use Edmodo/twitter to update

statuses in Spanish and converse with one

another in the target language.

TOOL:  Edmodo/twitter

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Having the class use epals to connect to a classroom in a Spanish speaking country and staying in contact with them through this site.

TOOL: epals

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Students record themselves speaking

in Spanish using Audacity so that I can

listen and grade them.  Students could also

listen to one another through this tool.

TOOL:  Audacity

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Students listen to a CD of a

conversation in Spanish and answer

questions instead of me reading a

passage to them.

TOOL: CD

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Students are told that they will be in charge of selecting six pieces of artwork for an online art exhibition that will showcase the "Best of Indiana". First students will have to come up with some criteria for the show. After the criteria is discussed and determined, students will create possible works for the show. After the works are created, the students will come together as a class to select the six pieces based on the criteria they established at the beginning of the assignment. They might use online collaborative software like Voicethread to facilitate their discussion. Their final pieces will be featured on a web site.

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Students use digital photographs for an

assignment rather than photographs that

they took with a regular camera.

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Students use online databases for research

rather than going to the library

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Students create an infographic rather than write a

report to share the knowledge they gained.

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Students work in groups to create an emovie trailer or

other media format to tellnext year's 4th graders the highlights

of the year.

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Students access a website from classroom

webpage at home and at school. They email the

teacher what they thought of the website and

recommend other sites that might be of interest

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Students put their research information

into a page of an ebook like Book Creator.

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Students watch the prerecorded video

introducing the math/science lesson.

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Students choose the topics for their next project and go about using the tools they are comfortable with to achieve learning targets and show mastery and understanding in their own preferred way.

TOOL(S): Using Google to research, Camtasia or Jing to screencast themselves, or iMovie to organize and share information they've learned.

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Students use Google Docs to collaborate and peer edit their writing with others, using the comment features to highlight and refine each others' work and give feedback right within the tool.

TOOL: Google Docs

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Students access Google Docs, with built-in definitions and Research tools to research and compose their paper.

TOOL: Google Docs

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Students type out their research paper using word processing software in the computer lab.

TOOL: Word

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For an IDU, students create their

own project in an area of interest using

the medium of their choice.  It could function as a group project and be used as either an evaluation at the end of the unit or the unit itself.

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As students read chapters in a book, they blog

their reactions to teacher-led questions.  They

need the capacity to share these thoughts

with other class members.

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Using a website, teachers provide an outline

of the day's lesson and include any relevent

handouts for the benefit of students

and parents.

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Instead of handing out the PD agenda,

teachers read it on the whiteboard.

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Using Google Translate to translate
a news article into a language for an

ESL student

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Have students use search engines (such as Google News) to find news articles that show real-world application of the material you are learning

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Have students read an article on NetTrekker
which gives them the ability to have the article
read to them as well as the ability to see
definitions of words in real time

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Having students read an article online (using a browser)
rather than printing the article out for them

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Students will take the powerpoint

made using text, videos and music,

and use movie maker to document

the same information.  (Masher)

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Students create a powerpoint using text and replacing pictures on the slides with videos and add music.  (Shwup)

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Students create a powerpoint using

text and adding pictures to the slides.

(Photoshow)

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Students use a computer to create a powerpoint

using only text on the slides.  (Presentation

templates at BrainyBetty.)

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Teachers create structures within which they facilitate student-directed inquiry that relates to the learning objectives of a course.  Students have a significant role in determining the tasks they will accomplish and the tools they will use.  Teachers require that evidence of student learning be shared with an authentic audience beyond the school walls.

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Teachers create online modules in, say, My

Big Campus, with

differentiated activities and assessments

for different student needs, specifiying the tasks

to be accomplished and the tools students

will use. (Note that the

activity is still very teacher-driven.)

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Teachers videotape their lectures or explanations

and post them online so that students can watch

them at their convenience and classtime can be

used for inquiry, collaborative work and discussion.

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Teachers videotape their lectures or

explanations for classes they teach more

than once a day so that they can do other

things during class time while students are

listening to the lecture (ugh).

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Students create an online poll for their research paper and get data that they disaggregate in a spread sheet.  They use this data as a key part of their research paper.

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Students connect to global resources available

online to do their initial research for a paper.

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Students use a computer and word processing

software to write a research paper.  They use the

features of the program like heading, tabs, foot-

notes, and etc.

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Students fill in a graphic organizer created

by the teacher on a computer and printed.

This is a pre-writing assignment.

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Students work in groups to create a wiki

for a book they read together as part of a

lit circle. Students must collaborate and

work together to create character descriptions,

a character glogster, a wordle, a video using

animoto, etc. This requires students to work

together and to demonstrate deeper levels of

understanding, as well as teach that information to

their peers.

Tool: Wikispaces; glogster; wordle, Google Earth, animoto; newspaper clipping generator

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Rather than a book report, students

create a movie trailer for a book read

that demonstrates their understanding

of the book's plot and other

predetermined literary devices.

Tools: Animoto; Windows Moviemaker

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Using Edmodo as a virtual

classroom community. Set up like

Facebook, so students are already

familiar with it. Using this as a way to

provide students with 24/7 access

to class handouts and resources, an

easy way to ask questions of their

peers and the teacher, and remind

students and parents of upcoming

tests, assignments, etc.

Tool: Edmodo; Second Life

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Asking students to write the school

required in-class writing via word

processing software rather than

hand-writing it.

Tool: Microsoft Word