Educator Templates
Educator Templates
Educator-Specific Templates
Templates can help teachers focus on content instead of format, create an identifible look for all your items and help you get your projects completed faster. A great way to get started working with templates is to visit Web sites that provide opportunities to use predesigned templates.
One such site is SBC Knowledge Network Explorer’s Filamentality (http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil), a free fill-in-the-blank educational template tool (Start a New Topic) that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering Internet links and turning them into learning activities. The following is a generalized list of some widely used types of templates:
•Professional Template: These are used to create documents such as memos, brochures, letters, forms, class lists and grade keeping.
•Publication Templates: These are used to create items such as newsletters, books, awards, certificates, booklets, reports, and flyers.
•Curriculum Templates: These are used to create tests, quizzes, review sheets, lesson plans, assignments, puzzles, and word searches.
•Web Page Templates: These are used to create Web pages that you would upload to a server and display online. They are available in a multitude of designs and formats for all user levels.
•Software Templates: These are the templates contained within your existing applications such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, AppleWorks and Inspiration. Check your application’s help section for information and instructions related to available templates.
A search of the Internet will produce a lot of sites offering free templates to suit your needs. However, read each site’s downloading and user instructions carefully to help guarantee appropriate use and success. The following are a few of the best template resources on the Web:
•Microsoft Office Template Gallery <http://office.microsoft.com/templates/default.aspx>
This site offers more than 1,000 free templates for calendars, resumes, greeting cards, business plans and more.
•Apple Learning Interchange: AppleWorks <http://ali.apple.com/ali_appleworks/templates.shtml>
Educators and companies share their educator-specific templates for use in the classroom.
•Hewlett-Packard-Office Templates <http://www.hp.com/sbso/productivity/office/index.html>
This site from HP allows educators to create professional images with free and easy Microsoft Office templates.
•School Web Page Templates <http://www.massnetworks.org/resources/sun/schools/template/Template-OV.html>
These templates provide predesigned layouts that can be used to create Web pages.
•Free Education PowerPoint Backgrounds and Templates <http://www.websiteestates.com/education/templatesindex.html>
A collection of free PowerPoint templates geared toward students and educators.
•Discovery Channel School’s PuzzleMaker <http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com>
This puzzle-generation tool helps create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your own work lists.
•WebQuest Design Patterns <http://webquest.sdsu.edu/designpatterns/all.htm>
A list of patterns derived from existing WebQuests.
Information gathered from “T.H.E. Journal,” September 2003, Judith B. Rajala. p. 32
Created by Kayla Kehrli
East Buchanan Community School Tech Team
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