T4 - Jordan School District

Part I: Getting Started

Questions to Consider:

• Why should we consider using technology when we teach?
• How can technology tools be used to provide learners of all abilities the opportunity to achieve.
• How can technology promote higher-order thinking skills?
• How can technology help increase the literacies students need?
  

Part II: Pioneer: Utah’s Online Library      

http://pioneer-library.org/   

• Accessing from home
  • Register as a UEN Educator
  • Utah Educator & Student Home Access
         http://pioneer.uen.org
              Username: pioneer
              Password: cake
    

• CultureGrams - Reports on 181 cultures of the world and all 50 states. Includes Kids, States and World Editions
  
  

       

   

• EBSCO - General reference and books, journals, magazines, newspapers, and encyclopedia resources
• EBSCO host
• Searchasaurus
• SIRS Discoverer Deluxe - General reference for elementary and middle schools
• SIRS Knowledge Source - General reference for high school and college researchers
• Visual Thesaurus - A 3-D interactive thesaurus and dictionary



• World Book Encyclopedia
  • Articles, pictures, maps, audio and video clips
  • Curent and Ongoing Events
  • Media Showcase
  • Atlas
  • Surf the Ages
• Deseret News Archives - Search articles from 1988. Also see today's Deseret News.
• Utah Collection
• SURWEB 

Part III: UEN Tools and Resources

http://www.uen.org/

• Lesson Plan Tool
• Curriculum Search
• Rubric Tool
• my.uen
• Cactus
• Themepark

Part IV: UTIPS

http://www.utips.org

• http://bjorklund.utips.org

Part V: T4 – Transforming Teaching with Technology

http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/

• Grade Level Resources
• Teacher Resources
• Professional Development
• Technical Support
  

Part VI: Interactive Sites

• Interactive Thinking Tools
  http://www.intel.com/education/tools/index.htm
• Visual Ranking

  

  • Seeing Reason

  

• Starfall
  http://www.starfall.com
• National Library for Virtual Manipulatives
  http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
• Read*Write*Think Student Materials
  http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp

Part VII: MarcoPolo

http://www.marcopolo-education.org/

• ARTSEDGE - Arts Integration
• EconEdLink - Economics
• EDSITEment - The Humanities
• Illuminations - Mathematics
• ReadWriteThink - Reading and Language Arts
• Science NetLinks - Science
• Xpeditions – Geography

Part VIII: WebQuests

http://www.webquest.org/