Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Synopsis of Current Uses
In the Classroom...
- LCD projectors for teachers showing stuff from computers, VCR, DVD, Elmo
- Microscopes, spectroscopes, other scientific tools
- Calculators in math & science
- Noodlebib, online database
- Internet
- CD players
- File servers
- Heart rate monitors
- Television
- Cameras and videocams
- Software: Geometer's Sketchpad, word processing, slide shows, social studies games, spreadsheet, iMovie, desktop publishing, browsers, webboard, web creation tools
- EFFECTIVENESS: Powerpoint helps make material interesting, keeps students involved (but there's a line concerning overuse of transitions, sounds, kitschy stuff). Noodlebib is great... some concern about HRM
In the Curriculum
- Asynchronous learning packages (Mallard, Compass)
- Use of file servers
- Many of the same tools used in the classroom, especially internet
- Library resources
- Communications tools: telephones, cell phones, instant messaging (for homework collaboration)
- Course web sites (not widely used)
Administration
- Attendance, grades, scheduling software
- Sue Kovacs' cell phone
- Shared servers
- Bells :( --quite some room for improvement with this one!
- phone messaging
- Principal's weblog
Extra-curricular
- Online and print Gargoyle, yearbook, www.uni.uiuc.edu
- Scoreboards
- Sports statistics
- Online chess practices
- Reading suggestions on library web site
- Book chat
- Lightboards, soundboards
- Agora stuff
Socially
- Weblogs (lots of students...)
- Facebook (online interactive yearbook)
- Chat spaces
- peer-to-peer file sharing
- Instant messaging
- Cell phones and landlines
- portable music
# posted by Mr. Russell @ 11:14 AM 
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It's interesting to me that the technology listed on the "Socially" list are not replicated anywhere on the other lists.
I think I saw telephone and instant messaging under both "curricular" and social uses... for sharing homework tips!
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