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STATENVILLE — The Echols County School System is pulling ahead of others in the state by using technology in the classroom to prepare competitive students for the 21st century
Some thoughts on Mentor training
Their work would be carried out in public and that any technology given to them Lets face it, there is nothing greatly challenging about using email, IM, or pass on ideas to them of how they could use something in the classroom.
Why should you be using technology?
Now there is something to be said for having a teacher in your classroom. But I gotta tell ya, there is a part of me that looks at this program and says. OK, so a student takes this program and starts using it. They then write what they
Mobile phones and iPods make the news
The article certainly makes its case for using technology such as mobile phones and iPods to engage learners and enhance the curriculum. Arguably, these technologies could be as equally effective in the foreign languages classroom as in
Call for Grant Proposals: HP Teaching and Learning through Technology
The HP Technology for Teaching Grant Initiative is designed to support innovative and effective uses of technology in the classroom setting. In 2007, HP will grant awards to K–12 public schools that are using a collaborative,
Imposing VLEs on teachers won’t work!
longer seems to have a website, beats me considering its theme is ICT in the classroom). “There are schools that have implemented core functionality at school level using Moodle open-source learning platform at a basic level.
Some books on CALL
(2003), English Language Learning and Technology: Lectures on Applied SZENDEFFY, J. de (2005), A Practical Guide to Using Computers in Language Teaching, and Practice in the ESL and L2 Computer Classroom, Labyrinth Publications.
Only with a weblog
One of the things I love about using weblogs with my students is the flexibility it can build into the curriculum. is a positive piece about how journalism and newspapers will survive changes in society, technology, and economics.
Show off your classroom: Upload your Web 2 Wonderland Photos to Flickr
We want your classroom to be included. We already have Craig in Greece showing how he is using cell phones to blog and I think this could be a very powerful tool to show educators the faces of these children using technology.
Instructional Technology in the Science Classroom
They say, "But by using the Internet creatively, teachers can enable students to observe eruptions and experience how it feels to use sophisticated research instruments. Students whose teachers used such technology in the classroom
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