Technology in Education Old and New

1. What I What to Know

1.1. Integrating Technology Successfully Into the Classroom

1.2. Student Engagement with Technology

1.3. Using Technology Successfully for Assessments

2. What Did I Find Out

2.1. Badges and Certificates for eLearn (Desire to Learn) can be used to for faculty to recognize students that are working hard and showing specific characteristics that will help them make the most of the learning career. (no link is available external without a sign on),

2.2. SimpleMapper is an app that can be to organize ideas and brainstorm new ideas.

2.3. Star Chart is app available from the Apple iTunes Store or Andriod Marketplace. This app allows students to study the stars in the local area even in daylight. This app helps students with the concept of generating and testing hypotheses by studying what stars they expect to see and then use the app to confirm.

2.4. TypeRacer is a free online typing programs to help students practice their typing speed and accarcy.

2.5. MS Excel is useful for nonlinguistic through its charting feature, as well as helping find similarities and differences while collecting data.

2.6. Google Drive is useful for creating Webquests for online learning opportunities.

3. What I Know

3.1. Create documents with Office 2013

3.2. Communication Tools that allows for different types of media to be uploaded and others can comment, ask questions, or level feedback. VoiceThread

3.3. Social Media Tool for providing short and timing updates. Twitter

3.4. Collecting Information from many media sources that can be shared: Evernote

3.5. Creating presentation with Animoto

3.6. Creative interactive and sharable documents with Google Drive(Docs & Slides)

3.7. Great space for meeting with others online. TodaysMeet

3.8. Online learning platform for students and faculty. eLearn at Mohawk College (D2L)

3.9. Social Medial tool for connecting with friends and customers. Facebook

3.10. Social Media tool for sharing pictures. Instragram

3.11. Creating blogs for sharing information and allow others to contribute. Blogger

4. How am I Going to Find Out?

4.1. Textbook

4.2. Posted Articles

4.3. Research - Internet both course related and individual

4.4. Class Wiki