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I would use the PC to teach reading comprehension and vocabulary. We are currently studying setting. I would use the computer to read and type stories. I would use technology to create graphic organizers.

Potential & kinetic energy lesson. Either student presentations using multimedia, or lower-key using graphic organizers such as inspiration. Better yet, could use the graphic organizers when introducing or practicing; multimedia presentation could be final assignment.

I would use the analogy games in the classroom. They are fun to play and the children would learn from them. They would also be great as a option for students who finish their work early.

One lesson that I currently teach that would be enhanced by identifying similarities and differences is word recognition, vocabulary words (identification/classification), and decoding. These would be enhanced by students using games to recognize and classify analogies.

Using a Venn diagram to compare books we read to the movie we watched is a good visual for kids to see.

Inspiration template would work well for comparing careers.

We look at many differing composers and styles, using graphic organizers, perhaps Inspiration, could help to organize thoughts and help to visualize what we are talking about.

I would use the virtual manipulatives instead of the pysical ones in the classroom. I love the virtual tangrams!

For at-risk students, technology allows differentiation in teaching concepts. Students would be more interested and involved in learning.

I would use the virtual manipulatives instead of the physical manipulatives in the classroom. I love the virtual tangrams!

Technology would enhance the lesson becasue it's more engaging than the textbook and has resources that can match more intelligences for our students. I might start with a webquest to improve a project I did last year.

Anology JEOPARDY GAME

I could use it to find similarities & differences between themselves and a character in a novel we read. They would use technology to find out more about the foreign country that the main character lives in.

I would use similarities and differences to show musical time periods or syles of music, or between art and music or dance and music, or differences between world musics.

I currently teach a unit on animal classification that could be enhanced by identifying the similarities and differences of each of the different animal phyla. I would like to use interactive websites (such as the “Bug Catcher” site) that allow students to view images of the different animals and students will be required to “drag and drop” them into groups based on their physical structure. Then, students could be required to write a description of what they noticed the similarities are in each phyla after completing the website activities.

I loved analogy jepardy! (Under AWESOME ANALOGIES!)

As a music teacher, I am going to use a graphic organizer on Inspiration when talking about the families of instruments in the orchestra.

Using inspiration organizers will help with the research students will be doing in the library. Then they can present the information they found to the rest of the class.

I really like the Iknowthat.com site. It can be used for all the content areas as reinforcement.

I plan to use the Inspiration graphic organizer to help my students organize their autobiography,

As a music teacher, I am going to use a graphic organizer on Inspiration when talking about the families of instruments in the orchestra.

Our new math series requires the studetns to play a game called guess
my rule. The What's wrong with these patterns game would supplement the lesson.

Using inspiration organizers will help with the research students will be doing in the library. Then they can present the information they found to the rest of the class.

As a music teacher, I am going to use a graphic organizer on Inspiration when talking about the families of instruments in the orchestra.

As teacher I will need to learn abaot about this technology before I have the students to do this. Should I just let them try it before I learn all about this technology? 10.12.07

I had fun with the Picasso Head site. The kids would become familiar with abstraction.

I loved the idea of the types of triangle chart made in powerpoint. Another way I would use the graphic organizer tool in the classroom would be to compare and contrast characters from books. We could also use the tool to make graphics representing metaphors and analogies describing the characters chosen.

I will use Inspiration to have students compare The Keeping Quilt, a selection in our reading story having to do with traditions, with a tradition of their own.

In helping students learn communications and collaboration in the context of wired safety, I would ask them to use wikis, blogs, email and text messaging, and compare the strategies for safe use of each and identify when one tool is better than the others for specific purposes.

We will be able to use the outline format in Kidspiration to write our Missouri biographies this year. We can also use the visuals to show what regions of the state the famous 'Missourians' are from.

I would use the "quick fire" feature of Inspiration as part of a professional development session with teachers where they would identify a lesson they teach and then brainstorm how they would teach this lesson with and without technology.

In helping students learn communications and collaboration in the context of wired safety, I would ask them to use wikis, blogs, email and text messaging, and compare the strategies for safe use of each and identify when one tool is better than the others for specific purposes.

Sim/dif can be used in all content areas, provided teachers are actively engaging students in the creation of learning sim/dif. Intersting to note that you all agree that teaching students how to work with organizers effectively is a key conept for teachers to learn to do first, using relevant materials. Use of technology to use as forms of assessments are great ideas, provided students have access to technology.

I like the possibilities of Inspire Data. I will take a look at this more upon return to my district.

Compare addition and multiplication. Visual representations of addition and multiplication would help deepen their understanding.

As an instructional coordinator K-12, I can think of many ways the teachers could utilize technology to focus on similarities and differences as a strategy. With smartboard technology they can create powerpoint type lessons where the students can drag and drop pictures or icons to compare or classify at he elementary level.

I would use the "quick fire" feature of Inspiration as part of a professional development session with teachers where they would identify a lesson they teach and then brainstorm how they would teach this lesson with and without technology.

In helping teachers understanding the differences in a forum, a wiki, and a blog, I will use the resources suggested common craftshow and these created by MCREL. Teachers just like students need to practice and do in order to be able to truly understand the differences. Then teachers are more willing to try these tools with their students.

When comparing non-fiction and fiction, I will not longer use a venn diagram but the new comparative chart in inspiration.
The Triangle chart could be converted to compare characters and character traits.

Bugs: computer literacy through etomology. Etomology through computer literacy.

Comparing and categorizing could be used to consider elements of different genres of lit/writing. I use IntelEducation to have kids identify elements of mystery as a collaborative project. This helps the class come to consensus on what is needed for a "good" mystery.

I will use inspiration to classify quadrilaterals in my classroom

You could use the rapid fire on Inspiration to compare and contrast different religions of the ancient cultures.

you could use it to compare characteristics of shapes or of equations (linear vs quadratic) etc.

I would use compare and classifying when teachign types of quadrilaterals.

To help students compare elements in pieces of literature, I would use the graphic organizer in Inspriration.
I aslo liked the triangle attributes table we created in word, which could be used to compare attributes in pieces of literature.

I would use similarities and differences as a beginning activity for the areas of cylinders and cones.

Inspiraton is a great tool for similarities and differences and for classification in the science classroom. Combined with Smartboard this is powerful.

Teaching science, I could use similarities & differences for physical and chemical characteristics of matter using the Inspiration template.

When comparing ancient cultures, how and why did they develope in different parts of the world? I would use the Inspiration graphic organizer template.

I like using the blogs and wikis to provide new ways for students to be able to think and answer questions.

In American history, I am constantly trying to bring modern examples into the curriculum. We can look and compare the two using a venn diagram.

The Inspiration software will be great to incorporate into lessons that focus on similarities and differences. I really like the templates.

I could have students compare 2 portraits in terms of the elements and principles of art, as well as mood, techniques, etc. We could use Inspiration for a Venn diagram- We could also use the built in templates. This could also be done to compare several different works of art by the same artist.

I'll use it to teach Kids Voting Colorado next fall.

During the classification unit students put together an insect collection and identify (classify) the insects order. Minimum 7 orders. The bug catcher web site would be an excellent resource to introduce and reinforce similarities and differences between insect orders.

I teach a lesson on web reliability. I would use my SMARTboard lesson on how to evaluate a web site and then have the students find two web sites to compare/contrast, one reliable and one unreliable. Then they could use Inspiration to create a venn diagram or a comparison chart to see how the two are alike and how they are different and what the most important characteristics are for determining reliability (ie, the characteristics that apply to the reliable web site only).

Reading "Touching Spirit Bear."
I would use either the inspiration template compare template or the Venn diagram template and have the students compare and contrast the main character's positive and negative character traits to their own.

Inspiration could be used to look at the similarities and differences in 3D geometry.

I think this would be fun to use one lattitude line and then travel north of south and use the information based on enviroment, cultures, biomes and interaction for geography.

I will use a venn diagram to teach the differences between the German cases.

Compare/contrast on SmartBoard using different stories, characters, or texts for Language Arts.

I would use technology to compare the similarities and differences in the 3 branches of government. I would use comparision charts as well as websites to reinforce the ideas.

I enjoy identifying similarities and differences between theaters in the time of William Shakespeare and theaters in the 21st century. We can use the online sites that provide virtual tours of both.

a unit on music history would be improved using comparisons, contrasts, time line diagrams etc.

In my introduction to technology class I teach a lesson which impliments the timelines of inventions. Students can compare similarities and differences between the original version of the invention and the latest version of the invention.

We worked on a project earlier this year that asked students to identify peacemakers in society and find out certain things about their lives. The teacher who developed it had students googling and they mostly wasted their time on the internet because they had no direction. This would have been more efficient if that teacher utilized delicious. Then the students would have been searching less and learning more.

I would like to set up del.ici.ous sites with websites for my core teachers.

Similarities and Differences would be easily used with marine/fresh water in 8th grade science class. It could be tied in with economics from the social studies curriculum.

I would like for students to compare the differences between Instant Messaging and Blogging to learn about online discussions and the concept of real-time communication.

When teaching similarities and differences in plant and animal cells I would use Inspiration to have students create a diagram showing similarities and differences between the types of cells. After viewing slides of the cells and discussing a few of the differences I would take them to the lab to use the software (if our school had it of course!)

I teach kindergarten. I have created a sorting 'ebook' using SmartNote book. The first section is instructional giving examples of ways to sort objects according to characteristics. The second section is interactive. My children sort the objects and then state their rule for sorting. This is later place in the computer center and the SmartBoard center for independent practice. I see now that I could create similar activities using Kidspiration. I could share with other teachers who don't have SmartNotebook.

I used graphic organizers to compare the candidates in the election. Kidspiration would have been an excellent way to complete this process.

We've been brainstorming other ways to say "said." Students have made personal thesauruses. Now I could have them pull out those lists and have students categorize them .... perhaps by emotion attached to the manner in which something is said. We could do a tree map with the emotions as headings and listing verbs that apply underneath each heading.

I teach a unit on the informational book Spiders. We also talk about similarities and differences in arachnids and insects. We discuss the different types of spiders. I plan to use bug catcher as a way to sort and categorize insects and spiders.

"Ven"troductions promote collaborate between students and help them identify their similarities and differences.

I will use the Kidsparation activities more for compare and contrast with my kindergarten ELL students. They seem to have difficulty naming the reasons for their sorting activities. I believe the Kidspartaion will help them "see" why you may sort one way or another.

A group of my students have Gaggle Accounts and e-mail each other as well as their reading tutors. I currently have 30 students reading 7 different novels with 7 tutors. I monitor all the e-mails from my students to their tutors which helps me to know who is understanding the task.

I have used the inspiration software to brainstorm for writing. We begin with a day for each child and I model howto move through the planning as we interview a student. Then we print it off, add a picture and place in a class book. This leads to the students using Inspiration for other plannings.

Inspiration/Kidspiration are great to use for identifying similarities and differences - unfortunately, my school does not have these - I'm looking forward to trying Webspiration.

Students would like to create an Avatar of a character that they have read about and studied. They could discuss similarities and differences.

Teaching new vocabulary by having students first determine ways to sort the words into categories using spreadsheets. It would be more collaborative for students to work in pairs or small groups to determine categories and why the terms belong in those categories.
First step would be making sure students could use spreadsheets, then sorting words, then definining categories.

In kindergarten science we compare types of animals. I would use Kidspiration to create a Venn diagram to compare the animals that live in different habitats.

I would work on comparing and contrasting voice thread and powerpoints. I would use voice thread to create the lesson and show students different ways of acquiring, processing, and producing new information.

Students would like to create an Avatar of a character that they have read about and studied. They could discuss similarities and differences.

Using Inspiration, students can show the similarities and differences in variations of the fairy tale, Cinderella. Students can create a diagram or use a graphic organizer to show the distinctions between various topics, such as characters. Afterwards, students will write a short summary of this activity.

I will use del.icio.us to find ideas (especially Elizabeth's) to locate games for middle schoolers using science and social studies.

Teach the process independent of the content, is simple but brilliant

With my early childhood students I would like to use the webquest tool in small groups to give them an opportunity to use technololgy in a real and fun way. I would also like to be more proactive in finding good resources to bring to them such as video clips and games.

I would have my students make comparisons between revolutionary music of the 1700's and 1800's to protest music of the 60's, 70's and today.

I will use the Kidspiration software to allow students to do Venn diagrams on different topics. I teach a vast variety of students since I teach an enrichment class so this will be helpful in many ways.

Smart notebook software offers many diagrams for identifying similarities and differences in the gallery section. Ready-made for sorting, classifying and organizing concepts.

Integrate technology in teacher presentations.

My students identify similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition. I could use Inspiration during class to make an organizer to compare 1LA and 2LA.

My students identify similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition. I could use Inspiration during class to make an organizer to compare 1LA and 2LA.