Apple Learning Interchange

Apple Learning Interchange is a database consisting lesson plans, units and activities that make use of apple technologies and software. It allows teachers to create and share lesson plans and other activities. It can be used in education to organize and share lesson plans and interactive activities in the classroom.

Progress Book

Progress Book is a classroom management software used by schools to allow parents access to their students grades, attendance, assignments and other special services. Progress Book is very helpful in the classroom to help teachers get organized. Also, Progress Book is useful to parents who wish to easily communicate with educators and keep track or their children’s grades.

Oovoo

I chose Oovoo as the new educational technology I will discuss this week. Oovoo is a program that allows people to have face to face chats from the computer no matter where they are in the world. Oovoo can be used in education to teach online classes. Also, Oovoo could be used to hear speeches or seminars in others locations. 

The following link can be used to learn more about Oovoo:

http://www.oovoo.com/

PowerPoint Presentation

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ToyQuest Touch Table Electronic Education System

The ToyQuest Touch Table Electronic Education System is an interactive 21′ TV screen that allows children to participate in pre-loaded games and educational software such as on-screen art programs, photo organization applications and a video encyclopedia. The ToyQuest Touch Table EES can be very useful in education as a fun, interaction way of learning.

http://nexus404.com/Blog/2008/02/20/toyquest-touch-table-electronic-education-system-video-the-touchscreen-table-aimed-at-children/

Educational Podcast

 Daily, Weekly, Monthly

In this podcast Mr. John Merrow discusses the effects of No Child Left Behind with Jay McClain (pictured above)  a principal at a Virginia elementary school. Mr. McClain voices his opinion on the No Child Left Behind Act stating that all the testing required does nothing to identify specific areas of need in each individual child’s education. Mr. McClain also states that NCLB reduces creativity in the classroom. He feels that NCLB can reduce the attempts of teachers to strive to do more, drastically narrow the curriculum and reduce critical thinking. Furthermore, Mr. McClain states the NCLB can discourage teachers and take away the joy of teaching. By listening to this podcast I was able to further my knowledge of NCLB and the effect it might possibly have on me as a future educator.

http://www.pbs.org/merrow/rss/podcast.xml

University of Findlay Mission Statement Video

Old Main Photos

To edit this photo I used Picasa 3.

The following link can be used to obtain more information on Picasa 3.

Educational Technology

I believe that a Smartboard, should I be lucky enough to have one in my classroom will be a very important piece of educational technology. They perform an endless amount of tasks which allow you to complete lesson plans, show educational video clips and access other technology. Also it can perform lesson plans simply by going through slides and includes an audio clip of the teacher explaining the problems. Technology such as this would make substitute teachers unneccesary. For these reasons I feel that Smartboards would be an influential piece of technology important to any classroom.

www.TOUCHBOARDS.com   The previous link can be used to access more information on Smartboards and purchase them.

RSS Reader

For this assignment I chose to use Bloglines.com as my reader. I have subscribed to the blogs of the following students: Laisha Wise, Calli Copus, Emily Samimi, Krista Wachtman and Antoine Wilhite.

I believe that RSS readers will benefit the classroom by allowing teachers to place all the information relevent to their class in one place. Teachers can subscribe to various websites to receive information and therefore do not have to spend long hours searching for different materials they may be interested in.