Appendix A— Technology Resources
Useful Class Websites and Tools:
Note: These sites can be made entirely private, but check with your district and school policy on media privacy and obtain the appropriate permissions before implementation.
Edmodo (http://www.edmodo.com): Edmodo is a school social-networking site that allows me to easily share files and links with students, start discussion boards, and provides a media for submitting online quizzes and assignments. Kids like Edmodo too because it has a familiar Facebook-like interface and allows them to access a number of materials. Edmodo is free but requires a school-district email.
Google Docs (http://docs.google.com): Google Docs allows you to create shareable files (word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings) that can be accessed and modified on the internet. In addition, you can also create Google forms to give quizzes, homework, classwork or collect data from students. http://docs.google.com/support/ has videos and tutorials to help you get set up. Google Docs is free but you need a Google account (also free).
Prezi (http://www.prezi.com): Prezi is a Flash-based presentation-builder. You can add text, videos, animations, and images, and link them together in a unique and engaging set-up. Prezi has a free "public" option as well as licenses for students and teachers.
Glogster (http://www.glogster.com): Glogster allows you to create interactive online posters. Like Prezi, you can add text, video, images, animations, etc. and share the presentation with anyone. This will be the media used for students' project portfolios so that they can demonstrate different facts about the heart and lungs along with video clips they have created throughout the unit.
Dropbox (http://www.dropbox.com): Dropbox is a free file-sharing site. You can create an account for students to access resources for class and store shared files such as group videos. The site is accessible from any internet browser and can store a number of file types.
Heart and Lung Animations:
http://www.smm.org/heart/heart/top.html (Heart Animations and Interactives, Science Museum of Minnesota)
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/hhw/hhw_pumping.html (How the Heart Works, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/map-human-heart.html (Animated Human Heart Map, PBS)
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072507470/student_view0/chapter23/animation__gas_exchange_during_respiration.html (Animation of Gas Exchange During Respiration, McGraw-Hill)
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072507470/student_view0/chapter23/animation__movement_of_oxygen_and_carbon_dioxide.html (Animation of the Movement of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide, McGraw-Hill)
Fetal Pig Resources:
http://www.whitman.edu/content/virtualpig (Virtual Fetal Pig Dissection, Whitman College)
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