ALABAMA SUPERCOMPUTER AUTHORITY

ASA welcomes Denise Oliver to our staff as the Education and Outreach Director. Denise comes to ASA from the Alabama Department of Education Technology Initiatives office. While there, she was the state contact for the library media programs and worked closely with the district technology coordinators to implement technology in the classroom. Denise prides herself in working closely with others to get them the information they need when they need it. Denise may be reached at 334-832-2405 or doliver@asc.edu or 400 S. Union, Suite #337, Montgomery, AL 36104.

READING ABOUT EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY

Teens and technology (Presented to Public Library Association 3/23/2006) This is a discussion of the eight realities of technology and social experience that are shaping the world of today's teens and twenty-somethings. It looks at the growing role of technology in teens' lives, the way they use their gadgets, their expectations about how to find and use information, and the social consequences of their use of technology. http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/63/presentation_display.asp


EDUCATION AND THE INTERNET

Money Math: Lessons for Life is a teacher's guide for helping middle school math students learn how to manage their money, stay out of debt, and save for retirement. Lesson plans, reproducible activity pages, and teaching tips are included in the 86-page guide, which draws on real-life examples from personal finance. (Department of the Treasury)

NEA Jazz in the Schools traces the history of jazz from its birth in New Orleans to the swing era, bebop, and new frontiers. Five lessons include essays, videos, photos, and nearly 100 music clips of Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Louie Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, and others. Lessons include social and political context and are designed for history classes as well as music. (National Endowment for the Arts)

NASA CONNECT™ is a FREE annual series that integrates science, technology, engineering, and mathematics into instructional distance learning programs for students in grades 6-8. Each program has three components: (1) a 30-minute television broadcast, which can be viewed live or taped for later use; (2) an educator guide describing a hands-on activity; and (3) an interactive web activity which provides educators an opportunity to use technology in the classroom setting.

@rt room - A place where kids are invited "to create, to discover, to imagine, to invent, to learn, and to make their thoughts become things. In short, the @rt room is a place for kids to explore their inner and outer worlds." Includes art teaching resources, an archived annotated bibliography of good art books for children, a gallery of children's art from around the world, interesting stories about artists, and an "outrageous thinking" collection of exercises to help kids learn to think like an artist.

Visit Poet's Corner throughout the month of April to access free resources from Thomson Gale to complement National Poetry Month classroom topics, including:

Building Big shows the science behind the structures we see every day. Explore basic engineering concepts in interactive labs. Read historical overviews about bridges, skyscrapers, dams, and tunnels. Learn about 50 engineering marvels—Golden Gate Bridge, Hoover Dam, Eiffel Tower, Channel Tunnel (Chunnel), and others. (PBS)

Calculus on the Web offers an interactive environment for learning, practicing, and experimenting with the ideas and techniques of calculus. It is organized in seven parts: Precalculus; Calculus I, II, and III; Linear Algebra; Number Theory; and Abstract Algebra. (Temple University, supported by National Science Foundation)

Revising Himself: Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass is a virtual tour of Whitman's life tracing the 40-year history of his famous masterpiece, from when it was first published (1855) to the ninth and final edition (1892). Depicted are selected manuscript drafts, notes for poems, information on his changing career paths, first-hand correspondence, and treasures from friends and family. The site helps show how Whitman's vision of America shifted the course of American literature. (Library of Congress)

MIKIDS is an award-winning, K-5 educational website. There are many educational activities for each grade level.

NEWS YOU CAN USE

NETS Online Technology Assessment (A Microsoft Corporation and International Society for Technology in Education Collaboration)

The NETS Online Technology Assessment helps teachers measure student skills in using software applications and helps measure student progress toward meeting the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS•S).

Each assessment consists of 5 to 10 activities measuring a number of separate skills as well as integrated sets of skills related to a project or problem. The assessments are designed to be completed within an average of 30 minutes or less, but they are not timed. Individual activities can be repeated, and the assessments can be retaken as many times as needed. Feedback on student performance is provided after each question, and a summary is given at the end.

The assessment detail page identifies which applications are used in each assessment, the ISTE NETS•S performance indicators they can help to measure, and specific activities performed during the assessment. (Additional information)

 
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