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Teach With Technology: Everything You Need
Tips, ideas, and activities for facilitating learning through the use of interactive whiteboards, computers, and other technologies in your classroom
Computer Lab Activities
Computer Lab Favorites Student Spinner
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5
Use these 50 fun activities to introduce a topic or enliven your computer lab time.
Blog Posts
Interactive Whiteboard 101: A Resource of Activities for Literacy Instruction
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
Web-based lessons, activities, and literacy games to use on your classroom's interactive whiteboard
Teach With Technology Resources
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
Check out these helpful books at The Teacher Store.
 Book Lists Technology Tools, Organizers & TemplatesGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Technology tools, organizers, and templates for teachers to use in the classroom. |
Book Resources, Books Science, Technology, and Everyday LifeGrades: 6–8 Developments in science and technology are explored in this eighth volume of "The Young Nation" series, including advances in electricity,... |
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Articles Teaching With Technology: Electronic Reading BuddiesGrades: Early Childhood, PreK–K, 1–2 In this "Teaching With Technology", Buckleitner introduces new software that promotes literacy. |
Teaching With Technology: State-of-the-Art SoftwareGrades: PreK–K The best new programs track and strengthen children's skills. Buckleitner discusses state-of-the-art software that keeps track of children's... |
Teaching With Technology: Thinking "Big" SoftwareGrades: PreK–K Buckleitner offers tech tips, and introduces new software that promotes higher-level thinking. |
Teaching With Technology: Bringing the Outdoors InGrades: PreK–K Buckleitner introduces computer games with on-screen outdoor adventures. |
Teaching With Technology: Sharing at the ComputerGrades: PreK–K Buckleitner reviews software for children that promotes socialization and cooperation, including Sesame Street's Music Maker from Mattel Media Inc... |
Teaching With Technology: Creative ComputingGrades: PreK–K Buckleitner offers tips on introducing "creativity" computer programs, and reviews children's software designed to foster creativity. |
Teaching With Technology: Techno Tools for AssessmentGrades: PreK–K Adapting technological gadgets like video cameras and cassette recorders and even digital cameras and web sites for classroom use can enrich... |
Teaching With Technology: Listen UpGrades: PreK–K Buckleitner describes new ways to use the audio cassette recorder, in this Teaching With Technology. |
Teaching With Technology: Say Cheese!Grades: PreK–K In this Teaching with Technology, Buckleitner previews new cameras for kids. |
Articles Teaching With Technology: Getting Smart About Smart ToysGrades: Early Childhood, Infant, PreK–K Children often bring toys into classrooms and share them with classmates. It makes sense for teachers to stay informed about what toys are out... |
Teaching With Technology: Lights Out!Grades: PreK–K An overhead projector can make small objects look gigantic, and, with a flashlight, unexplored features of the room can be highlighted. Several... |
Teaching With Technology: Scan It!Grades: PreK–K Buckleitner outlines some simple and effective ways for teachers to incorporate scanners in the classroom. For example, children can scan their... |
Teaching With Technology: Lights! Camera! Action!Grades: PreK–K Buckleitner presents ways that children can use video cameras in the classroom. His ideas include keeping a record of class activities, helping... |
Teaching With Technology: Great Gadgets for AssessmentGrades: PreK–K Buckleitner discusses new gadgets that can help document significant events in the life of a child. Gadgets mentioned include cassette tape... |
Teaching With Technology: Parents and Teachers - A Winning Team!Grades: PreK–K A parent who is tuned in to supporting a child's learning can be an extremely effective partner in helping teachers develop children's emerging... |
Teaching With Technology: Getting to Know YouGrades: PreK–K Buckleitner reviews four computer programs that encourage children at the preschool level to work with a partner or join a small group of peers... |
Teaching With Technology: Stir It UpGrades: PreK–K Buckleitner offers ideas for beefing up the language and literacy curriculum in an elementary classroom. |
Teaching With Technology: Capturing Traditions With Today's TechnologyGrades: PreK–K Teachers at the Center for Best Practices in Early Childhood at Western Illinois University are encouraged to use programs like HyperStudio or... |
