Category: Classroom Tools

Google Earth 5.0

Post author By Michel
Post date February 10, 2009
Categories In Classroom Tools, ETEC 533, MET, Teaching, Technology, Useful Tools
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Google Earth 5.0 was released last week and I have been meaning to post about it for some time now.Â A new feature added to Google’s already acclaimed software is the ability to step forward and backward through all available satellite imagery with a feature called “Historical Data”.Â This relates to research in my ETEC […]

Touch Recognition for SMART Boards

Post author By Michel
Post date February 2, 2009
Categories In Classroom Tools, ETEC 533, Teaching, Technology
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SMART has just released a new feature for its SMART Boards that I heard about last year. Â At a teacher’s convention I was talking to a SMART representative who put on his hush-hush voice and told me about a new feature that should be released in the next month. Â The feature he spoke of was […]

Geek.Menu for your USB

Post author By Michel
Post date January 12, 2009
Categories In Classroom Tools, Technology, Useful Tools
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For those out there that haven’t heard of Portableapps.com you should probably check it out. Â These small portable versions of popular applications for productivity (Openoffice.org, Gimp), internet (Firefox, Thunderbird) and many other uses are great to have on the go along with your files. Now there is even a built in menu to keep the […]