Interactive Learning Solutions
with Technology (MAST) TM
| SCIENCE | ||
| Humanitarian unit - a unit about micro-organisms & developing resources for other countries; includes a mind-mapped wealth of high-quality internet resource on disease, its spreading, and its control that can support a students exploration about disease | ||
| Rocks - basic information about geology and geology activities | ||
| MATHEMATICS | ||
| Professional-development math program (under funding from Questar III in 1999; permission granted to O'Connor for usage) created for conceptual geometry teaching; many useful classroom projects, assignments, and resources; overview of professional-development approach and ways to conduct in school districts (document under construction) | ||
| Professional development resources for mathematics teachers who want to create project-based, engaging units & themes | ||
| SER/VE (STEM (science, technology, engineering, & math) Exploratory Real/Virtual Environment) | ||
Virtual and socially-networked K12 and education environments, known as SER/VE (the STEM Exploratory Real/Virtual Environment) - contains information and tutorials about using this environment; invited participants can also gain awards and certificates for joining quests and for working within virtual/social STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) environments (see Mall of the Universe, above for a math example). New secure resources for K12 environments are under development - access to the island is restricted to by permission only. The islands will use the Imprudence viewer and will have a series of badges made available to participants so they can acquire skills on their own. Click here to learn more about the projects and badges available within SER/VE activities. |
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| Technology & 21st century teaching | ||
The courses directly below were created in 2001 & have useful organizational structures, information & animations on teaching with technology, and suggest ways for integrating technologies into K12 classrooms, however, the instructions are for pre-Office-2007 versions of Microsoft so you need to adapt to the newer Microsoft format - click here to learn ways to adapt these instructions to newer versions of Microsoft: |
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| More recent version of directions for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel & other emerging technologies (Google Sites; diigo (e-bookmarking) are available here - the documentation is on essentially on a procedural level; the courses above provide strategies for usage. | ||
| Example of PowerPoint usage in science education | ||
| Papers & publications by O'Connor / Teacher-Education Resources | ||
| Selected publications on work within education and learning, particularly with technology in education; resume of O'Connor; short papers on badging as a concept; on badging in open education; and on the role of narrative and motivation in science instruction. | ||
| Standards and testing resources - NYS; | ||
Contact Dr. O'Connor either at eileen.oconnor@esc.edu for her work as an associate professor at Empire State College of the State University of New York or at eileen.oconnor1@gmail.com for the professional development materials.
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