Important Beyond the BasicsNASHAE LUMPKIN

Worksheet Puzzle Generators• Help teachers produce exercises

for practice rather than test items.

• Automatically format and create crosswords, word search puzzles, and similar game like activities.

• Practice for lower level skills, such as math facts.

• Cloze exercises – comprehension exercises with certain words removed and students fill in the blanks.

• Exercises to review words and definitions.

Web Page Design Software• Tools that are authoring programs that allow people to

create Web pages in the same way they would use processing to create documents.

• Common uses:• Classroom news, activities, and resources

• Web-based lessons

• Student-produced work

• Adobe Dreamweaver

• Microsoft WebMatrix

Interactive Whiteboard Activity Software

• Create lessons for use with interactive whiteboards.

• Notebook – software for the interactive whiteboard activity software used with a SMART Board

• ActivStudio and ActivInspire – the programs used with the Promethean Activboard interactive whiteboard

Online Survey Tools

• Variety of item formats

• Instant tracking and visual summaries of results

• Data downloads

Features

• Student polling• Generating data for graphic illustrations

• Teaching survey design

• Teaching data analysis• Teaching math concepts

Integration Strategies • SurveyMonkey

• Zoomerang

Examples

Student Information Systems

Software tools that help educators keep track of student, class, ad school data to maintain records and support decision making.

Makes it easier to keep parents notified about students progress.

Capabilities:•Track and report on attendance•Maintain records on student demographic data•Develop class scheduling•Track and report on test scores and achievement by objective•Allow parents to have online access to student grades and attendance information•Notify parents about problems with grades or attendance

Examples:•PowerSchool•Pinnacle SIS•Tyler SIS•QuickSchools

Electronic Gradebooks• Teachers keep track of and calculate student grades.

• Software allows:• Teacher to enter students names

• Test/assignment names

• Data from tests

• Weighting information for specific test scores

• Teacher to enter notes about tests

• Software examples:• PinnacleGrade Gradebook

• Teacher Planet’s listing of gradebook packages

Test Generators

CAPABILITIES

• Test creation and revision procedures.

• Random generation of questions.

• Selection of questions based on criteria.

• Answer keys.

• Test item banks.

SOFTWARE EXAMPLES

• Exam View Learning Series

• Test Creator

• Wondershare QuizCreator

• Easy TestMaker

Rubric Generators• Teachers create or adopt rubrics for grading complex

products or performances.

• The teacher follows a set of prompts and the system creates a rubric.

• Examples:• RubiStar

• Rubric Maker

Word Cloud Generators• Tools that create a graphic arrangement of words from a text

passage that shows the most-frequent words as bigger than the others.

• Can be used in any subject.

• Examples:• Abcya

• Tagxedo

• Tagul

• Worditout

• Wordle

• Wordsift

Lesson Planning Software• Help teachers prepare

and document lesson plans.

• Examples:• PlanBookEdu

• ILessonPlan

• MyLessonPlanner

Research and Reference

• Help students research any topic

• Encyclopedia Britannica Online

• Wikipedia• Encyclopedia.com

Online Encyclopedias

• Help students learn about and use local, national, world, and extraterrestrial geography

• Worldatlas• Rand McNally• U.S. Atlas• Google Maps• The National MapDigital Atlases and Mapping Tools

• Give definitions and synonyms

• Word atlases• Merriam-Webster• Dictionary.com• Any words/thesaurus• Technology words

Digital Dictionaries

Calculators • Students collect and analyze data from problems or

experiments.

• Graphing calculators • Software-programmed devices that have small screens and can

illustrate equations in graphs.

• Calculator-based labs (CBLs)• When probes or sensors are connected to a graphing calculator.

• Examples:• Texas Instruments graphing

• Vernier LabQuest

Charting and Graphing Tools• Students create charts and graphs to illustrate and

study data summaries.

• Software automatically draw and print desired charts and graphs.

• Examples:• SmartDraw

• The Graph Club 2.0

Student Response Systems• Clickers

• A combination of handheld hardware and software that permits each student in a classroom to answer a question simultaneously while allowing the teacher to see and display a summary of results immediately.

• Student engagement

• Software examples:• Student Response Solutions

• Smart Response

• iRespond

• ActiVote, ActivExpression, ActivEngage

• Cell Phones

Desktop Publishing• Students create their own letterhead, brochures,

flyers/posters, newsletters, newspapers, and books.

• Opportunities for creative works

• Practice in grammar, spelling, and communication

• Methods of reporting research findings

• Example:• Microsoft Publisher

• Adobe InDesign and PageMaker

• Quark Express

Scheduling, Calendar, and Time Management Tools• Help teachers organize their time and plan activities.

• Formulate plans for daily, weekly, or monthly.

• Remind users of event and responsibilities.

• Software examples:• FileBuzz Teacher Calendar Software

• Reel Logix Calendar Software

• Easy Schedule Maker

References • Roblyer, M. D. (2013). Integrating Educational

Technology into Teaching (7th ed.). Boston: Pearson.