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Use Technology to Teach Social Studies
NECC 2001

Welcome/Introductions/Expectations

Overview:  Present and discuss agenda

First Steps:

Guided Practice:

Primary Sources and DBQs Presentation

Showcase:  A sampling of excellent Social Studies and history-related web sites containing a wealth of primary source documents, images, sounds, political cartoons, etc.

Power Searching the Internet

Introduction to Social Studies software

Saving images and sounds and text from the Internet

Lunch

Creating research-based multimedia presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint

Hands-on computer work:

Discussion:  What have we come up with?  How will we use our new-found skills to improve our teaching of Social Studies?  In what ways will the use of technology help our students construct their own knowledge and therefore retain more of what they learn on Social Studies topics?  Are we now better able to prepare them for Social Studies assessments?

Copying your new bookmarks onto a disk and using them on another computer.

Participants share their practice DBQs and multimedia presentations.

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Copyright Feb. 2001
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This page was last updated on Wednesday, June 20, 2001