Instruction

=Ways to Use Technology to Enhance your Classroom Instruction:= To use these ideas with an entire class, you will need a data projector in your classroom. For many of them, you will need an Internet connection.

1) PowerPoint Presentations
Many teachers make PowerPoint presentations to share information with their classes.

2) Interative Websites
You can project this websites with a digital projector OR have students go to these sites individually in a lab, learning center, or at home.

a) Teaching Students to be Critical Consumers of Media:

 * [|www.dhmo.org]
 * [|www.martinlutherking.org]
 * http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/teachers/wa_teachers/fact_or_folly_teachers/index.cfm

b) Almost 400 Language Arts videos for grade K-12

 * [|www.unitedstreaming.com]

c) Teaching Edgar Allan Poe
This site is AWESOME. Check out all the activities under "Poe, the Writer."
 * [|http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/default_flash.asp]

d) Teaching Shakespeare

 * Realistic Tour of the Globe Theatre http://www.ualberta.ca/~sreimer/shakespr/glob-qt.htm
 * Animated Tour of the Globe Theatre. This site also has some fun activities and information! http://aspirations.english.cam.ac.uk/converse/movies/sound_globe.swf