Have one (or just a few) computers in your classroom?  How can you make the best use of your technology resources while keeping everyone busy?  Use the links below to get you thinking about various ways to use your computers in your classroom and across the curriculum.

General/Background Information

• Great Teaching in the One Computer Classroom -  http://www.tomsnyder.com/products/productdetail.asp?PS=WORDOC...book by Tom Snyder Productions
  
  
• Ideas for the One Computer Classroom - http://danenet.wicip.org/mmsd-it/tlc/1comprm.html.. Discusses Room Arrangement, Management/Scheduling and Classroom Modeling.
  
  
  
• Surviving in the One Computer Classroom - http://www.techtrain.org/resource/1computr.htm  ...Includes Classroom Management Tips, Ideas for Using One Computer with 25 Students, Troubleshooting Tips, and Internet Resources for the One Computer Classroom.
  
  
• But I Don't Have a Computer Lab:  Using One Computer in the Classroom - http://www.serve.org/seir-tec/present/onecomptr.html...Covers 7 categories of computer use.
  
  
• That's Not a Drinking Fountain or How to Survive in a One Computer http://www.ncrtec.org/tl/digi/onecomp/index.html...Strategies for making the best of one computer resources.
  
  
• How to Cope in the One Computer Classroom...http://www.teachnet.com/how-to/organization/onecompclass040799.html...Some ideas generated in response to an e-mail question about how to cope in the one-computer classroom.
  
  
• The One Computer Classroom:  General Applications Across Subject Areas - http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/departments/isa/staff/sweeney/training/onecomputer.html
  

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Large Group

Software

• Inspiration is a software package aimed at students or adults from grade 4 to adult that specializes in representing thoughts and concepts visually. Kidspiration is a similar program geared for the K - 3 grades.
  
  
• Timeliner - http://www.tomsnyder.com/products/productdetail.asp?PS=TIMV50... 

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Small Collaborative Groups

• The Jigsaw Classroom: A Cooperative Learning Technique - http://www.jigsaw.org/
  
  
  

Software

• Decisions, Decisions Online - http://ddonline.tomsnyder.com/...provides a forum for students to discuss timely events with other students in small collaborative groups. (server down?? 5/29/06)
  
  
• Inspirer Geography Series...http://www.teachtsp.com/products/productdetail.asp?PS=INSINS...Grades 4-12

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Lecture/Presentation Tool

• One Computer Classroom Presentation Tool -  http://www.scs.k12.tn.us/SCS/trpages/OCCwebpage/occ.htm#present 
  
  

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Learning Center

• Ask an Expert - http://www.askanexpert.com/
  
  
• 77 Ways Teachers Are Using Technology in the Classroom with Students (in District 77)- http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/techuse.html
  
  
  
• Room 12 WWW Assignments - http://www.halcyon.com/arborhts/rm12/assign.html

Software

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Teacher Productivity

• One Computer Classroom:  Tool for the Teacher - http://www.scs.k12.tn.us/SCS/trpages/OCCwebpage/occ.htm#teacher 
  
  
• Listservs - http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/edu/list.htm...Join an educational listserv to connect with other teachers across the world.

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