Tag: Useful

OLPC on USB

Post author By Michel
Post date June 29, 2009
Categories In Classroom Tools, Online Tools, Teaching, Technology
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One Laptop Per Child or OLPC initiative aims to provide low-cost laptops to the educational market.Â These computers feature a special, education-focused operating system designed to work with a School Server that can provide content distribution, homework collection, backup services, Moodle integration, and filtered access to the Internet.Â The main advantage of this operating system […]

ETEC 533 Final Reflection and Analysis

Post author By Michel
Post date April 15, 2009
Categories In Classroom Tools, ETEC 533, Online Tools, Teaching, Technology, Uncategorized
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Below you will find my final reflection post for ETEC 533.Â To see the article full screen please click here. Introduction When I started this ETEC 533 class I had a strong feeling that the activities and readings would help me to discover new interactions between learning and technology and further develop my understanding of […]

Dell School-Oritented Touchscreen Notebooks

Post author By Michel
Post date March 28, 2009
Categories In Classroom Tools, ETEC 533, MET, Teaching, Technology
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It appears Dell will be releasing some school-oriented possibly touchscreen notebooks.Â With names like School Bus Orange, Blue Ribbon, Red Apple and Chalkboard Black and a small desk-friendly footprint (roughly 10″x8″) and size (under 3 lbs) I think it is pretty obvious these will be marketed towards the education sector.Â Hopefully this means they will […]

“Information Visualization”

Post author By Michel
Post date March 16, 2009
Categories In Classroom Tools, ETEC 533, MET, Online Tools, Teaching, Technology
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I am grateful to be teaching in the technology-infused, connected world we live in today. As an educator the internet offers a vast array of resources that can be easily implemented in your average secondary classroom to meet information, communication and technology (ICT) outcomes and course outcomes or simply making a difficult concept easier for […]

Print What You like

Post author By Michel
Post date February 11, 2009
Categories In Classroom Tools, Online Tools, Teaching, Technology, Useful Tools
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This website allows you to select exactly what you want to print by simply pasting the URL and electing the areas.Â Here is a video of it in action: This is an especially handy digital tool for those having students do research and seeing that they are printing way too much.Â Ideally any notes could […]

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 […]