Marcia Judd Corban College Bringing the Classroom to Life with Digital Projection

Video streaming (All subjects) Kidspiration (Writing, Science, Social Studies, www.unitedstreaming.com Math)

Search and either stream or download thousands of full videos, or video segments. Searches can be made by subject and grade.

Power Points (All subjects)

Kidspiration gives many opportunities to teach students to use diagrams to organize outlines for writing and other visual organizers. With a projector, you can teach this to the whole class at one time.

Virtual Field Trips (Social Studies, Science, Health) I use a projector to show PowerPoints I www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/ have made to introduce themes and www.field-guides.com/trips.htm lessons. www.theteachersguide.com/virtualtours.html http://oops.bizland.com/vtours.htm Google Earth (Social Studies, Science) These are a few of the sites where I found Virtual Field Trips. With the cut in Field Trip funding for schools, classes are limited to where and what they can visit. With the integration of Virtual Field Trips During our Geography Unit I used a I can take my class to places all over the world projector to display Google Earth on the without any cost. overhead. The students loved this and it gave them the ability to see places all over the world with just a click of my mouse.