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Cool Tech Tools for Lower Tech Teachers

20 Tactics for Every Classroom

If you're just transitioning to tech, this is the resource for you. In understandable language, this book describes how you can enhance your lessons with webquests, wikis, and more.

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  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781452235530
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2012
  • Page Count: 248
  • Publication date: November 14, 2012
Price: $39.95
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Make the painless transition from low tech to tech friendly!

Are you struggling to embrace technology that advances at lightning speed? Or are you just plain perplexed? With new developments announced almost on a daily basis, many teachers don't know where to start. If you're one of those teachers making the transition to tech—willingly or not—Cool Tech Tools for Lower Tech Teachers is the resource for you. In understandable language, it describes how exactly you can use tools like webquests, wikis, social networking apps, and podcasts to enhance your lessons and keep kids engaged.

William Bender and Laura Waller put technology within your reach by:

  • Framing each tool in the context of what you need to know 
  • Defining the tool in easy-to-understand language; there's no tech-speak
  • Guiding you through implementation step by step
  • Providing sample lesson plans to get you started
  • Explaining how some tools can also be used for professional development

With Cool Tech Tools for Lower Tech Teachers, Bender and Waller prove that technology can be painless and productive. What's more, you'll even come to love it!

"This book provides a wealth of ideas for teachers who would like to use technology but do not know where to begin. Each chapter provides a lens into specific categories of use and associated websites."
—Bena Kallick, Educational Consultant

"This book is an excellent resource for both new and experienced educators looking to make the most of Web 2.0 resources for teaching and learning. It can be used individually, but I think it would be most beneficial (and fun!) to use in small groups of educators as they support and surprise one another with their explorations and discoveries."
—Chris Toy, Educational Consultant, Learning Capacity Unlimited
Graduate School Instructor, University of Southern Maine

Author(s)

Author(s)

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William N. Bender

William N. Bender, PhD, has had a long and distinguished career in education, teaching in public school for several years and in higher education for some 26 years at Blue?eld State College in West Virginia, Rutgers University in New Jersey, and the University of Georgia. He has written 36 books in special and general education. With his retirement, he has stepped back from his rigorous workshop schedule, which as recently as 2016 included some 40 workshop days per year. While the COVID-19 pandemic impacted his work, he has written four historical ?ction novels and several educational books in recent years. He has delivered several professional development projects, including most recently a keynote for a virtual conference on project-based learning in Brazil in conjunction with his Corwin book Project-Based Learning (2012).

Learn more about William Bender's PD offerings

Consulting Description: Differentiated Instruction
Consulting Description: Math
Consulting Description: Project-Based Learning
Consulting Description: RTI
Consulting Description: Technology

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Laura B. Waller

Laura Waller, MS/MA, is a former elementary school teacher, an author, a National Certified Counselor, and a Licensed Professional Counselor. She holds a master’s degree in elementary education from Johns Hopkins University and a second master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling from Capella University. Waller is also an ADHD-Certified Clinical Services Provider. She entered the counseling field after a number of years as a teacher in elementary classrooms in North Carolina and Washington, DC. This classroom background yields a unique developmental perspective when Waller is working therapeutically with children, teens, and their families. She currently provides individual and family therapy for clients in the Northern Virginia (NOVA) area ranging in age from 8 to 601. She also hosts monthly seminars and groups aimed at supporting parents with a particular focus on raising neurodivergent children. Waller has led numerous workshops for churches and schools in the NOVA area with a specific focus on communication between teens and parents as well as using emotional support animals in a therapeutic setting.

Waller is active in several professional associations, including the American Counseling Association (ACA) and Northern Virginia Licensed Professional Counselors (NVLPC). She has coauthored three books in education, most recently RTI and Differentiated Reading in the K–8 Classroom by Solution Tree Press (2011).

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Introduction

Part I. Four Tools to Start With

Tech Tool 1: Web Access, Laptops, Mobile Devices

Tech Tool 2: Webquests

Tech Tool 3: Blogs

Tech Tool 4: Wikis

Part II. Tools for Student Engagement and Empowerment

Tech Tool 5: Cloud Computing

Tech Tool 6: The Flipped Classroom and Khan Academy

Tech Tool 7: Wiffiti

Tech Tool 8: Jing

Tech Tool 9: Gaming, ARGs, and Virtual World Instruction

Tech Tool 10: Diigo

Part III. Tech Tools for Student Creation and Collaboration

Tech Tool 11: Glogs

Tech Tool 12: Podcasts

Tech Tool 13: Scribd

Tech Tool 14: Comic Life

Tech Tool 15: Google Apps

Tech Tool 16: Vokis, Avatars, and Animation!

Tech Tool 17: Vlogs

Tech Tool 18: Animoto

Part IV. Tools for Social Learning and Networking

Tech Tool 19: Facebook

Tech Tool 20: Twitter

Part V. The Teaching Revolution and a Brave New World for the 21st Century

Index

Reviews

Reviews

Quote by Chris Toy, Educational Consultant/Graduate School Instructor, Learning Capacity Unlimited/University of Southern Maine: "This book is an excellent resource for both new and experienced educators looking to make the most of Web 2.0 resources for teaching and learning. It can be used individually, but I think it would be most beneficial (and fun!) to use in small groups of educators as they support and surprise one another with their explorations and discoveries."
"This book is an excellent resource for both new and experienced educators looking to make the most of Web 2.0 resources for teaching and learning. It can be used individually, but I think it would be most beneficial (and fun!) to use in small groups of educators as they support and surprise one another with their explorations and discoveries."
Chris Toy, Educational Consultant/Graduate School Instructor
Learning Capacity Unlimited/University of Southern Maine
Quote by David Callaway, 7th Grade Social Studies Teacher, Rocky Heights Middle School, Highlands Ranch, CO: "This is one of the most important tools that today’s teachers could have in their toolbox. There are great descriptions of the tools, and excellent ideas about how to easily put them to work."
"This is one of the most important tools that today’s teachers could have in their toolbox. There are great descriptions of the tools, and excellent ideas about how to easily put them to work."
David Callaway, 7th Grade Social Studies Teacher
Rocky Heights Middle School, Highlands Ranch, CO
Quote by Bena Kallick, Educational Consultant: "This book provides a wealth of ideas for teachers who would like to use technology but do not know where to begin. Each chapter provides a lens into specific categories of use and websites associated with the use. An encyclopedia of practical tools for the low-tech classroom!"
"This book provides a wealth of ideas for teachers who would like to use technology but do not know where to begin. Each chapter provides a lens into specific categories of use and websites associated with the use. An encyclopedia of practical tools for the low-tech classroom!"
Bena Kallick, Educational Consultant
Quote by Cheryl Oakes, Resource Room Teacher, Wells High School, Wells, ME: "Cool Tech Tools for the Lower-Tech Teacher is a great manual for all educators. Each of us can benefit from adding new technology tools in our classrooms, which speak to the instructional variety that our digital learners come to our classrooms with each day.
Our digital revolution is now, this book should be one of your tools as you set about designing a creative, collaborative, social and self-directed classroom! "
"Cool Tech Tools for the Lower-Tech Teacher is a great manual for all educators. Each of us can benefit from adding new technology tools in our classrooms, which speak to the instructional variety that our digital learners come to our classrooms with each day.
Our digital revolution is now, this book should be one of your tools as you set about designing a creative, collaborative, social and self-directed classroom! "
Cheryl Oakes, Resource Room Teacher
Wells High School, Wells, ME
Quote by Jolene Dockstader, 7th Grade Language Arts Teacher, Jerome Joint School District, West, Jerome, ID: "Every educator interested in bringing their classroom into the 21st century should get this book. It not only tells what the new technology is and how to use it, but it creates an invaluable vision for the future of education in which students are not only consumers of information but creators. This resource could help revolutionize education as we know it, if every teacher implemented the tech tools in this book!"
"Every educator interested in bringing their classroom into the 21st century should get this book. It not only tells what the new technology is and how to use it, but it creates an invaluable vision for the future of education in which students are not only consumers of information but creators. This resource could help revolutionize education as we know it, if every teacher implemented the tech tools in this book!"
Jolene Dockstader, 7th Grade Language Arts Teacher
Jerome Joint School District, West, Jerome, ID
Quote by Rose Cherie Reissman, Literacy Specialist/ Technology Integration Specialist, New York City Department of Education, IS 62, Brooklyn, NY: "This is a much needed, delightful, inviting, tech plain speak compendium of cool tech, Common Core tools, any teacher can infuse using the steps and differentiating strategies suggested by the authors. This demystifies cool tech tools for the non techie teacher."
"This is a much needed, delightful, inviting, tech plain speak compendium of cool tech, Common Core tools, any teacher can infuse using the steps and differentiating strategies suggested by the authors. This demystifies cool tech tools for the non techie teacher."
Rose Cherie Reissman, Literacy Specialist/ Technology Integration Specialist
New York City Department of Education, IS 62, Brooklyn, NY

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