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Educational Technology Popularity
Here are some technology things you could do with your students. Not everything possible, some of the things we already do, some of the things we do, think and, Some of the things are just wishful thinking, but great ideas have to start somewhere.
How you integrate technology in the curriculum? Do you have any idea to add to the list?
Class Set of Laptops
• Getting a company to donate a class set of laptops when they upgrade their equipment.
• A wi-fi hotspot in your classroom to students during independent reading.
• Buy digital copies of school books to have a paperless classroom.
• Use text-reading software to highlight and take notes in the textbook.
Non-traditional Reading and Writing
• The differences between formal, informal, and everyday language to learn.
• Evaluation of the evolving nature of language and Word attack skills.
• For example, Google is now a common noun and verb.
• Use text-reading software to students access to difficult texts.
Blogging
• Have students set personal blogs as a medium to publish their writing portfolios.
• Publish work in an ezine article directory to understand how to build incoming links.
• Post comments on other blogs to build incoming links, Explore copyright issues.
• Publish work in a blog or an e-zine article directory will inevitably end up with another blog.
• Find out how that feels and the ethics of the use of other people's content without permission.
Computer safety
Discuss cyber-bullying:
• To avoid accidentally cyber-bullying when blogging.
• Exploring computer security: password strength, viruses, Trojans, phishing, etc.
• Information about online dangers and ways to protect yourself.
Class Website
• Handouts and homework assignments accessible on the website of a classroom.
• Use a secure Web site as a communication tool for brands for both parents and students.
• Your students meet with HTML and web design.
Making Money Online
• Students get acquainted with the work of making money online.
• Explore online advertising-how it works.
• Fund raising by selling stuff on e-bay.
GPS and Mapping technology
• Geo-cache with your students.
• GPS technology or mapping software in the maths class to use to build larger geometric shapes.
• Application GPS-technology or mapping software in geography.
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Technology as a teaching tool
• Use a data projector in the classroom to do modeled and shared lectures.
• Use a data projector in the classroom to do shared write.
• Dynamic geometry software, use to explore mathematical concepts.
• The modern equivalent of flip chart paper.
Music and technology
• Sale numbers and DJ enable students their own school dances.
• Suitable mainstream music popular music at a school dance Create your own pod-casts.
• Students can free sound editing software to interfere in free sound effects with their digital recordings.
Class Projects
• Send an object around the world and inviting people to leave a message online in the classroom blog.
• Explore the video making process: scripts, record, editing, post-production
• Explore youtube as a medium for publishing in content.
The Internet as a Global Village/Community
• Find a class on pen-pal and correspond with using blogs, email, or IRC chat rooms.
• To evaluate and synthesize knowledge gained in a content-subject such as history or geography.
• They can track how their understanding of concepts grow.
• Demonstrate how our understanding of a topic-specific topic evolves over time.
• Students work in English and in their first language publishing online.