Technology Tools In The Classroom: Using Computers To Engage Your Students

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Emerging technologies hold great promise for teaching and learning in the classroom, but how can teachers make sense of it all? This session will provide an overview of some of the free and available computer-based tools and services ready to be incorporated into the classroom.

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Using Computers toEngage Your Students

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“Rather than abandoning youth to face MySpace's perceived dangers on their own, trained educators could help students use social network sites safely.”

- Henry Jenkins

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Social Bookmarking in Plain Enlglish Video:http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=3e17aa176019eafac82a

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reat for posting triggers, articles, or assignments using text and multimedia

Facilitates comments and discussions around the post

Posts can be tagged and categorized

Focus is on progress and change over time

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erfect for collaboratively building a finished product using text and multimedia

Facilitates comments and discussions per page

Pages can be tagged and organized hierarchically (TOC)

Focus is on a complete collection of pages

RSS In Plain English Video:http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=086faafd8c122981cc82

Jeremy Price

Doctoral Student in Education, Boston College

jeremy.price.1@bc.edu

http://snipurl.com/bc-tne

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