The Cutting Edge
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ETEC Connections Videos :: Index
Here are video profiles featuring some of Hawaii's most innovative teachers who are integrating technology into their instruction under all types of conditions. Some have all the technology resources they can use; others have next to nothing. What they have in common though is enthusiasm and determination! We hope that by viewing these videos and lesson plans, you'll be inspired to take the next step and venture into technology integration!
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Bookends of War
Description: An exciting Pearl Harbor fieldtrip and guest speakers combined with a variety of technologies document the many faces of war.
Instructor: Gail VanDeVerg
Grade Level: 5th
Standards Met: Language Arts, Educational Technology, Social studies
Business As Usual?
Description: It's anything but Business As Usual at Kahuku Intermediate and Highschool. A highly successful online store and companion dot.com classes are breaking new ground in technology integration, partnerships, community involvement, business success and learning.
Principal and Lead Teacher: Lisa DeLong
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Standards Met: Career & Life Skills, Educational Technology, Language Arts, Social Studies
Cyberclass in Session
Description: Explores the distinct characteristics and challenges of online learning and teaching as a unique new "classroom" environment. Leeward Community College's EMC Coordinator Leanne Chun along with Language Arts teacher Donna Matsumoto and Art Teacher Wayne Muramoto provide the details.
Teachers:
- Language Arts: Donna Matsumoto
- Art: Wayne Muramoto
- EMC Coordinator/Ed Tech Developer: Leanne Chun
Grade Level: College Level Courses online prep for students and teachers
Standards Met: Course and program specific.
ETEC@UHManoa
Description: Teachers teaching teachers instructional design and technology integration to impact learning in Hawaii's classrooms.
Faculty: ETEC Dept's faculty and staff
Grade Level: Undergraduate Program, Master's Program, Doctoral Cognate
Standards Met: National Education Technology (NET)
For the Record
Description: A project that helps College of Education students produce a dynamic technology-based learning tool that, in the final analysis spells career.
Instructor: Dr. Andrea Bartlett
Technology Assistant: Leslie Arakaki
Grade Level: Junior & Senior general & special education elementary education dual preparation cohort
Standards Met: Student Assignment Dependent
Inside Kapunahala
Description:From storyboarding to television production, learning is enhanced through a continuum of media and student involvement.
Instructor: Irene Yamashita
Grade Level: K through 6th
Standards Met: Language Arts, Educational Technology, Social Studies
Medtech Online
Description: A chemistry class takes an interactive trip through cyberspace to a medical laboratory.
Instructor: John Southworth
Grade Level: 11th (adaptable to any level)
Standards Met: Career and Life Skills, Educational Technology, Science, and Language Arts (and others depending on Electronic Field Trip (EFT) topic selected).
No-Strings Attached
Description: No Strings Attached shows a Math-Science based project taking advantage of wireless technology in the field.
Classroom Instructors:
- Alan Nakagawa: Science
- Steve Hanks: Math
- Dean Swanson: Hawaii "Just Think Mobile" Project Coordinator
Grade Level: High School
Standards Met: Maths, Science, and Educational Technology
Outside - In
Description: Technology making it easy to bring real-time scientific know-how from the outside world into the classroom.
Classroom Instructor: Erline Tom
Television Instructor: Patty Miller
Grade Level: 4 through 6
Standards Met: Science and Educational Technology
Picture This
Description: Picture This looks at a group of College of Education Kaho'iwai cohort students that have produced videos profiling the schools in the Hawaiian community where they have taught.
Instructors:
- Kerri-Ann Hewett Ph.D
- Malia Nobrega
Grade Level: Post baccalaureate
Standards Met: Educational Technology
Project Pollution
Description: In partnership with mainland schools students compare pollution levels and document their findings on the web.
Instructor: Mari Nomura
Grade Level: 5th
Standards Met: Language Arts, Educational Technology, Science
Robotics 101
Description: Students invent basic robots designed to make a positive impact on society. Through the use of web and video production they advertise their invention to the rest of the world.
Instructor: David Arakaki
Grade Level: 6 - 8
Standards Met: Language Arts, Educational Technology
Side by Side
Description: Side By Side explores the benefits of technology mentoring to the savvy educator.
Instructors:
- Ari Eichelberger - Outreach Manager
- Rachel Rivers - Project Manager
- Dr. Catherine Fulford - Project Director
Grade Level: College Faculty
Standards Met: Educational Technology
Sounds Like a Plan
Description: The College of Education at the University of Hawaii's multi-faceted approach to college wide technology integration in the education of pre-service teachers features a strategy that began with a proactive technology committee stimulated by grant and class related activities pioneered in the Educational Technology Department. A comprehensive five-year plan resulted in the centralization and institutionalization of innovative approaches that serve faculty and student college-wide needs and in the final analysis Sounds Like A Plan…
Director of Outreach & Technology: Paul Mckimmy
Grade Level: College
Standards Met: Educational Technology & Related Disciplines
Tech Central
Description: "Tech Central" models a centralized, technology enriched resource facility designed to enhance teaching and learning while stimulating student imagination and ingenuity.
Technology Coordinator: Mark Hines
Instructor: Lance Iwamoto
Grade Level: 6-12
Standards Met: Language Arts, Career and Life Skills, Educational Technology, Science, Math, Social Studies
Tech Intensive
Description: Striving for the seamless infusion of technology to enhance teaching and learning both throughout a full educational continuum and across the state of Hawaii was the essence of this exciting project. LEI Aloha's Technology Intensive Initiative is a 27-minute encapsulation of the mission to realize this challenging goal.
Tell It Like It Was
Description: Project-based learning combines Social Studies, English and Media Communications in a technology intensive approach where 9th graders create extensive web/video artifacts for Hawaiian History Day.
Instructor: Lynne Sueoka
Grade Level: 9
Standards Met: Language Arts, Educational Technology, Social Studies
With That Special Touch
Description: "With That Special Touch" features special education at Kapolei Elementary School and shows how innovative use of technology can enhance pre-literacy skills, help with structure and organization strategies, address content standards and motivate creativity.
Instructor: Kathleen Paulo-Hirai
Grade Level: Elementary
Standards Met: Individually planned
You Can Take it With You!
Description: "You Can Take it With You!" demonstrates the portability of technology in a wide variety of educational environments giving new voice to cultures across the south Pacific.
Instructor: Dr. James Skouge
Grade Level: Teacher Education
Standards Met: Various
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