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V-Trip Travel Guide - Classroom Strategies for Virtual Field Trips
by Bob Kawka & Betsy Burgess
150 pages, ISTE 2001 Price $50 GST incl.
Suitable for any platform, web browser or internet connection.
Audience: Grades R-8 teachers and students, teacher educators, preservice teachers.
Grab those backpacks and the students attached to them and take off on your classroom computer to destinations far and wide.V-Trips - don't involve real planes or buses or walking in the rain, but with careful planning they easily simulate unforgettable, real world learning experiences. This guide works like an experienced, efficient and caring travel agent with lots of imaginative, age appropriate ideas for virtual travel. You can implement the author's V-Trips down to the last detail, simplify them, or create your own trips from a list of suggested destinations. Includes planning tools and instructions for using equipment to enhance the presentation of a lesson and accommodate students with special needs. Great for teacher education too!

Concept Mapping Companion, Second Edition
by Leslie A Ditson, Rohn Kessler, Lynne Anderson-Inman, Dana Mafit
125 pages, ISTE 2001 Price $70 GST incl.
Mac / Win CD Rom
Audience: Grades 3-12 teachers and students, teacher educators, preservice teachers.
Uses Inspiration 6.0 for Mac and Win (software not incl) to demonstrate approaches that can also be implemented using any concept mapping and most graphical software. CD Rom materials are Mac / Win compatible, with the exception of the Mac only assessment application. Your students' intellectual journeys will be both longer and more scenic with electronic concept mapping, a graphic based tool for organising information and stimulating higher level and visual thinking skills. Discover the potential of concept mapping with step-by-step instructions for ten field tested approaches to integrating it into your curriculum. Includes a brief tutorial on concept mapping as well as guidelines for assessment. CD Rom contains sample maps, practice tools, an example map and the assessment application. Most examples are specific to science instruction, but each of the ten approaches adapts to any subject area and to interdisciplinary integration.

Project Based Learning Using Information Technology
by David Moursund
160 pages, ISTE 1999 Price $50 GST incl.
Audience: R-12 teachers, teacher educators, preservice teachers.
When every classroom fosters a community of scholars, education will surely have been transformed. This timely text offers a methodical approach to implementing long term, technology assisted learning projects that invite students to use their minds to maximum potential. Each chapter extends the idea that well conceived, project based assignments develop far more than knowledge of a particular topic or skill in using a particular technology. In fact, this approach to challenging, multidisciplinary learning takes education to exciting and stimulating levels of real world purpose and meaning. In this constructivist environment, students gain skills and expertise that will remake them into independent, self sufficient, lifelong learners, scholars, in the most basic sense of the word. Designed for inservice and preservice instruction but invaluable to teachers at all grade levels who expect their students to leave the classroom with the highest quality education - and life - possible. Each chapter includes suggested activities.

Make It With Inspiration
by Vicky F Sharp
209 pages, ISTE 2000 Price $55 GST incl.
Detailed coverage of Inspiration 6.0 for Mac OS 7 or higher
and Win 95 or higher (software not incl).
Audience: R-12 teachers, teacher educators, preservice teachers.
Electrify your classroom with the kind of Inspiration that helps students express their creativity, organise their thinking, understand relationships, and improve retention! This activity based introduction to concept mapping guarantees a learning experience that is as painless as it is fun. With its self paced tutorial, your are this close to building a family tree for clarity. Discover why concept mapping is the best software tool around for planning web pages, outlining papers, brainstorming, and developing multimedia projects. A generous selection of lessons and activities demonstrates how concept mapping can be used to teach science, language, arts, social studies, maths and music while you experiment with the advanced features of this visual learning tool.

Virtual Architecture - Designing and Directing Curriculum Based Telecomputing
by Judy Harris
146 pages, ISTE 1998 Price $50 GST incl.
Suitable for any platform, web browser or internet connection.
Audience: R-12 teachers, teacher educators.
Is it worth it, all this internet stuff? Worth the time and energy it takes? Worth it because your students will learn more? Worth it because you'll be a better teacher? The answers to these questions, yes and no, can be found in this readable, conversational, practical and revolutionary work. The author proposes that integrating computer mediated technology into your classroom is well worth it if accomplished in a way that helps new and worthwhile things happen there. And then she shows you how to do just that. You'll begin building with a flexible framework, clear, strong and simple activity structures, that becomes your foundation for designing and implementing powerful curriculum based telecomputing projects. Don't expect a project directory, general reference or manual. This is a book you'll read from start to finish. It's worth it.

Structured Writing Using Inspiration Software to Teach Paragraph Development
by Charles Hayes & Kathleen McMurdo
97 pages, ISTE 2001 Price $65 GST incl.
Mac / Win CD Rom
Audience: R-12 teachers, special needs teachers, teacher educators, preservice teachers.
Uses Inspiration 6.0 and Write:Outloud 3.0 for Mac or Win (software not incl) to demonstrate the writing process. Any concept mapping and word processing software may be used effectively with this method. Mac / Win compatible CD Rom contains colour coded templates that define, teach and reinforce paragraph structure. CD Rom files require Inspiration 6.0 and any word processing program. Alicia aces geometry but barely passes English. Ben's an idea powerhouse who has trouble figuring out where to start and when to stop writing. Chynna prefers singing and dancing to reading and writing. Erikka worries so much about her spelling and handwriting that she sometimes doesn't turn in her written work. Fernando's efforts to read and write are frustrated by a learning disability. Solutions for any student who struggles to write well are built into the Structured Writing method. The secrets to its highly successful results lie in the focused, incremental pace that simplifies planning and organisation; the incorporation of concept maps, word processing tools and colour coded templates; and the motivation that derives from success. By the final lesson, students are writing multi paragraph documents with skill and enthusiasm and flaunting what they once found daunting.

National Educational Technology Standards for Students - Connecting Curriculum and Technology
376 pages, ISTE 2000 Price $55 GST incl.
Learning activities utilise hardware and software that is commonly available and are not specific to any browser, software or platform.
Audience: All R-12 educators and students, teacher educators, preservice teachers.
The second publication in the NETS Project, National Educational Technology Standards for Students, takes a critical step toward empowering today's K-12 students for a complex and demanding future. Three dozen teacher created lesson plans, sequenced by grade level, illustrate the connection between teaching specific disciplines - English language arts, foreign language, maths, science and social studies - and NETS for Students performance indicators. Each lesson sequence addresses national standards for the discipline, suggests related resources, and provides a brief narrative by a teacher who has actually used the lesson in a classroom. The second part of this versatile and comprehensive resource embraces eight powerful themes through multidisciplinary learning activities. Direct links are made between content standards from two or more subject areas and the NETS for Students performance indicators. Units for each grade range provide developmentally appropriate themes, tools and resources from which teachers can choose when developing specific learning experiences for their classrooms. Also includes the full text of the National Educational Technology Standards for Students.

Ideas and Strategies for the One-Computer Classroom
by Jessica Kahn
138 pages, ISTE 1998 Price $50 GST incl.
Activities and ideas are useful for most software and any platform.
Audience: R-6 teachers, teacher educators, preservice teachers.
Like the song says, one can be the loneliest number. But the author of this versatile and practical guide says it isn't so with dozens of field tested ideas for the one computer classroom that are both manageable and flexible. Classroom management, recordkeeping, technical issues, and hardware and software selection are the focus of one chapter of the book. Another is dedicated to specific word processing, database and spreadsheet activities that can be done with only one classroom computer. Knowledge organisers - software that helps teachers and students make sense of isolated information - form the basis of a third chapter. The final chapter addresses software formats and packages for teaching in specific content areas. The perfect answer to one of education's biggest questions.