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Promoting Technology Use in Schools

Although there has been a strong push to get educational technology into the hands of teachers and students, many obstacles to implementation still exist. Equipment may not be placed in easily accessible locations. Hardware and software often pose problems for teachers in the classroom, and just-in-time technical support may be unavailable. Teachers may lack the time and the motivation to learn technology skills. Professional development activities may not provide ongoing, hands-on training for teachers or practical strategies for implementing technology into lesson plans. Initial technology funding may not be sustained and thus not capable of providing upgrades, maintenance, and ongoing professional development. Fortunately, these obstacles can be addressed and overcome. This Critical Issue provides practical information for promoting technology use in schools.

Blogging

What blog means?
Blog comes from the word weblog. It usually personal page about oneself or same with online journal. Blog can be online diary for us to ekspress feelings or anything that we ant to say. There are no rules or regulation of what you can and cannot write, but remember.. you always being watched.



In classroom, blogging can be a best activity to engaged students in writing especially narrative essays where they can express their feeling and thought about the lesson or the teacher. Many of the teacher afraid that, this kind of activity can encourage their students to critics them openly. Think positive of the impact in blogging among pupils. There are lot more to manipulate in internet.

The internet

Using the Internet

Reasons why people use the Internet

To find general information about a subject
The Web is like a huge encyclopedia of information - in some ways it's even better. The volume of information you'll find on the Web is amazing. For every topic that you've ever wondered about, there's bound to be someone who's written a Web page about it.

To access information not easily available elsewhere
One of the great things about the Web is that it puts information into your hands that you might otherwise have to pay for or find out by less convenient means.

To correspond with faraway friends
Email offers a cheap and easy alternative to traditional methods of correspondence. It's faster and easier than writing snail mail and cheaper than using the telephone. Of course, there are disadvantages too. It's not as personal as a handwritten letter - and not as reliable either. If you spell the name of the street wrong in a conventional address, it's not too difficult for the post office to work out what you mean.

Taken from http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/resources/tutorial/conceptual/uses.html

The article discussed the important of internet in modern days. Internet nowadays becoming one of the basic needs by human. With internet, works become faster and productive so human lifestyle can be improve in many ways. In educational field, internet had been widely used, this is in series with the development of human civilization. The invention of various technology to help teaching and learning in school. The effects of the technology usage is successful.

Video production assignment

In this assignment, i am required to produce a dynamic and interactive educational video for the use in classroom. As mentioned in the previous post, the title of my video is Mat,Matter and Materials, but, due to technical errors, i've changed the title and concept to Properties of Materials, which sound conventional as it same with the topic in text book, but, the concept is great and rational than the title.
The video is about a first-person experimenting a concept. Although the vids look like Blair Witch Project or the movies about monster attacking new york that i dont know the tiltle, my vids is like positioning students as the experimenter in the vids. The experiece the students will face can attract them to focus in the vids.

Smart Board

The use of effective and efficient technology in the classroom is inevitably crucial, for it is every teacher’s wish that their pupils will be able to experience a successful learning experience in the school. Therefore the use of SMART board is a smart choice for teachers regardless of races and nation all over the world.

Taken from fikkriblog.blogspot.com

Smart Board is the new invention technology in education. it is the complete technology that can be used in classroom. Smart board easy to use as it is the interactive version of conventional white board. Although it is easy to use, but sufficient training should be given to teachers. There are many things teacher can utilize and manipulate its function to make lesson very interactive. The smart board offers wide range of function from writing to video viewing and interactive touch screen activity.

The use of educational website and its importance to the education field particularly the teaching profession

There are various educational website for teachers. All teacher need to do is to google it on the net.
Examples of interesting educational website teachers.

http://www.sirmart.net/download/index.html

This page use sharing is caring as there are lots of teaching stuff to be downloaded. I found this site while browsing through the net. The stuff range from curriculum specification, lesson plan to software for teachers.

http://teachertube.com/

Teacher tube, the tube version of teacher. Contain video for educational purpose.

Video production

Video as teaching aid.

Before now the technical ins and outs of Streaming Video have played such a significant role in using video as a delivery medium that they have tended to dominate all discussion of its use. It is only more recently, now that we are seeing Streaming Video become a realistically straightforward proposition, that pages like this are more commonly addressing useful questions such as the pedagogic value of the moving image, rather than which server to use and how to get your media player to work without crashing your computer!

That's not to say that pedagogy hasn't been discussed before. TV and video have been spoken about since the 50's as a revolutionary medium for education, with film preceding them by at least half a century. A great deal of research has been carried out into the value of replacing the teacher with the moving image. These days it's Streaming Video on the internet that's being toted as the revolutionary medium.

Taken from http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~clt011/video/

The article is about the usage of video in teaching and learning activity. The development of information technology brings positive effect in education field. Teacher nowadays can integrate the use of technology in their teaching. The conventional and traditional method of teaching can be enhance with the usage of modern technology such as LCD projection and smart board.

The border less world also gives advantage to the teaching field, teacher can share and search for various teaching materials. There are countless number of teaching activities on the net. Its up to the teacher to use which is suitable for their children.