This video is from Alan November and it gives three keys to the success of the future student in the workforce.
The following video is from You Tube and explains the greatness and accessibility of operating on the Cloud.
This video is done by Leslie Fisher and it explains the advantages of using Twitter in the classroom and the interest that it can generate with students.
This video helps explain the impact of the social media revolution on individuals and business. Basically, it shows how the world has changed and gravitated towards social media.
The following video is done by Will Richardson and it talks about how school districts and teachers need to adopt technology into the class for student guided learning because it is going to happen one way or another.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Web 2.0
Google
Over the past ten years Google has evolved into the supermarket of Web 2.0 tools that are free to everyone that wants to use them. The following Web 2.0 tools can be found and used by signing up for a Gmail account. These tools allow the world of education to free themselves from the expenses of paying to renew licenses for programs and the adding space for storage.
Google Docs
Google Docs is a tool that is can be used by anyone that has a Gmail account and takes the place of such programs as Microsoft Office. Two main benefits of using Google Docs is that everything that is typed on in the program automatically saves, so if the machine crashes or a power outage happens the material is safe. The other benefit is that it saves to the cloud, so a student or educator can access the information anywhere there is an Internet connection.
Blogger
Blogger is a free site through Google (if you are reading this, then you already know)
that allows anyone to create a blog for any means necessary, including education.
Jing
The free version of Jing allows a person to capture any actions on screen an create a video for them to share on the Internet.
Sites of Educational Technological Goodness
Edutopia.org
This website provides a great deal of videos and reading material to help support the progression of new technologies in the classroom.
http://www.edutopia.org/
Digital Learning Environment
This is a blog website that is set up for administrators and teachers to post ideas, opinions, and results of using technology effectively in the classroom.
http://guide2digitallearning.com/blog
Emerging Ed Tech
This is another site that lends itself to videos, journals, and other materials to help integrate and support the use of technology in the classroom.
http://www.emergingedtech.com/
This website provides a great deal of videos and reading material to help support the progression of new technologies in the classroom.
http://www.edutopia.org/
Digital Learning Environment
This is a blog website that is set up for administrators and teachers to post ideas, opinions, and results of using technology effectively in the classroom.
Emerging Ed Tech
This is another site that lends itself to videos, journals, and other materials to help integrate and support the use of technology in the classroom.
http://www.emergingedtech.com/
Educational Instructional Technologies
Emerging Instructional Technologies
Classroom 2.0
This is a website that promotes the use of technological lesson planning for traditional projects. It also allows educators to post ideas and comments to help with the evolution of technology in the classroom.
http://www.classroom20.com/
Classroom 2.0
This is a website that promotes the use of technological lesson planning for traditional projects. It also allows educators to post ideas and comments to help with the evolution of technology in the classroom.
Screen Casting
One of the most useful emerging technologies for educational use is screen casting. Screen casting allows a user to demonstrate a task on a computer screen and record it to create a self made tutorial. By using tools, such as Jing (this tool will be covered under Web 2.0), an educator can capture, narrate, and navigate on their computer and then post it online or in a folder for students to use. Students then can look at the video if they are stuck and they are at home or the teacher cannot answer them right away.
One of the most useful emerging technologies for educational use is screen casting. Screen casting allows a user to demonstrate a task on a computer screen and record it to create a self made tutorial. By using tools, such as Jing (this tool will be covered under Web 2.0), an educator can capture, narrate, and navigate on their computer and then post it online or in a folder for students to use. Students then can look at the video if they are stuck and they are at home or the teacher cannot answer them right away.
You Tube
You Tube has evolved from a video upload community that sole purpose was entertainment, to one that has a great variety of uses. In the classroom many students can learn a concept from visually seeing it demonstrated. Many different posters of You Tube have uploaded videos that can help students learn information in and out of the classroom. I rely heavily on You Tube for my Economics class because there are specific channels for information that is covered in class.
Teacher Tube
Teacher Tube is an online community for educators that are set up and functions just like the You Tube. The videos uploaded and linked in this community are supposedly done by educators to help each other with information and ideas for lesson plans. I personally have found a great deal of videos to use in the classroom from this website that have both been informational and educational.
Podcasts
Podcasts are recordings of ideas, opinions, or information that are uploaded and formatted into audio file (just like music) for others to download and listen to. Just like many of the above video sites appeal to a visual learner, podcasts can fulfill the educational needs of auditory learners. By creating a podcast and posting it online an educator can give the students a place to hear the directions of an idea or project at their own pace. Many educators and major influential people in education post podcasts, so it allows another avenue for students to achieve the knowledge that they are looking for.
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