Ed. Tech EDFI 560

not a completely new technology but it is one more thing that i have never heard of….and it is a technology where newer and better modles are always being put out.  This technology can be used by anyone and is for anyone, but it is specifically targeted at students with learning disabilities and or speech […]

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podcasts are a very simple form of audio recording that is available through the internet…..the term podcast comes from a cross between iPod and broadcast…in order to listen to or create an podcast you first have to download a software program from somewhere such as Apple, and its free!  then after you have the software […]

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the system consists of 2 parts….an infrared transmitter or response cards, this is the part that could be given to students and a classroom reciever ( you would also need some type of presentation software)  the teacher would present a question to the students via the presentation software and the students would then resond using […]

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Interactive websites are a great addition to class room activities….students like to work with computers, they are fun…many of the sites that are interactive are game like so it does not seem as much like the typical class. These website could be visited on certain days or even used as rewards.  Its a great way […]

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Dasl seems to be a great and easy way to keep track of students attendance records. You can keep track of when they were and wernt there, why they were not there…this is all done electronically; mcuh easier and more efficient than keeping paper records.  http://www.marionlocal.k12.oh.us/tech/DASL/Attendance_Methods.  this site actually shows what the pages of dasl […]

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i have a good friend who is a teacher and after talking to her about what technologies she used on a regular basis she told me about this one.   it is called an interactive white board….used in similar ways and even in place of chalk boards.  the screen connects to your computer and lets you […]

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These disks serve a purpose similar to older video tapes or DVD’s, the quality and the amount of space on these discs is much better.  the disks can contain anything from video/visual to audio to actual interactive software programs….allowing the students to “drive the bus” themselves. These disks are a great way to get students […]

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Matlab is another great technology that i was exposed to while i was in school…it is primarily science/physics/math oriented. It allows you to computer ridiculously hard equations without thinking…all you have to do is learn the language of the program. It could be very helpful in the classroom, it would have to be advance classrooms […]

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this is a really great technology that i was using in grad school to convert text files that i authored at home into files that were compatible with the more “advance” (nicer) software programs that were available at school.  You can convert pretty much any type of file into any different type of file.  you can […]

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thoughts on one on one laptop situations in schools….http://www.trustyetc.com/trustyblog/2007/05/10/one-to-one/
there are a ton of possible pros to this situation, but with every pro there is usually  con…laptops for every student would put tons of information at every students finger tips, not to mention the ease at which students could do things such as take notes and […]

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