Technology has become an integral part of today’s classroom. Most classrooms have a digital projectors and Smart podiums that instructors use on a daily basis. However, there are some emerging Internet technologies that are increasing in presence in higher education. Ten Internet technologies that educators should be informed about include the following:
- Video and podcasting (i.e., YouTube, TeacherTube, EduTube)
- Presentation tools (i.e., Slideshare, Vuvox, OneTrueMedia)
- Collaboration & Brainstorming tools (i.e., Mindmap, FreeMind, Google Apps)
- Blogs & Blogging (i.e., Blogger, EduBlogs)
- Wikis (i.e., Wetpaint, PBWorks)
- Social Networking (i.e., Facebook, Myspace, Ning)
- Instant Messaging (i.e., Skype, Yahoo Messenger, Meebo)
- Virtual Worlds (i.e., SecondLife, ActiveWorlds)
- RSS Feeds
Also we can sign here such technologies as Common Gateway Interface (CGI), Graphic Interchange Format (GIF), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Joint Photographics Experts Group (JPEG), Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP), and "what you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG).
"CLN is designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into their classrooms. We have over 265 menu pages with more than 5,800 annotated links to free resources on educational WWW sites -- all organized within an intuitive structure."
British Columbia Ministry of Education
"...is an electronic journal for the scholarly discussion of issues pertaining to electronic literacy, widely construed. We seek to publish work addressing the use of electronic texts and technologies in reading, writing, teaching, and learning in fields including but not restricted to: literature (in English and in other languages), rhetoric and composition, languages (English, foreign, or ESL), communications, media studies, and education. We are especially interested in work that takes advantage of the hypertext possibilities afforded by our World Wide Web publication format, as well as in articles concerning the use of emergent electronic technologies."
"This site is intended to serve as a gateway to H-Net's extensive collection of teaching resources including teaching focused discussion networks, syllabi, links, conference papers on multimedia teaching, and web-based teaching projects."
Integrating New Technologies Into the Methods of Education
"...enables educators to watch online video vignettes of PreK-12 teachers from various grades and subjects integrate technology into their classrooms using numerous teaching strategies."
By Martin Ryder, School of Education, University of Colorado at Denver
"The site covers how to begin, how to operate, and how to make e-learning successful and enjoyable. Its contents are developed over years, and is intended for my current students, and sharing my personal experiences and exchange of ideas with other educators."
By Dr. Hossein Arsham, University of Baltimore
Published by Pacific University - Berglund Center for Internet Studies
"...improve IT education around the world by publishing high quality articles on best practices and other topics of use in improving IT education."
"...is designed to promote the use of the Internet as a tool to assist classroom teachers in their search for best practices in literacy instruction, including the new literacies of Internet technologies. We have made every attempt to link teachers with current research and theory that supports traditional and new literacy practices as well as to guide teachers towards particular classroom resources that can enhance literacy development for students at all grade levels."
- Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut
"...is a 30-minute, monthly, news magazine style, in-service, television program..."
Sections include: Programs ; Net Classrooms ; Net Wise ; Net Speak ; Net Safety ; Net-igration ; Build A Website ; Teacher Guides.
"...is a television and radio series that investigates the relationships between education and technology. The series explores issues, ideas and strategies surrounding today's education and tomorrow's teachers."
Watch the television series online or listen to the radio series.
Research in Presentation Production for Learning Electronically
"...project is investigating how to most effectively use WWW multimedia technology (HTML and audio/video browser plugins such as RealAudio together with customized WWW servers) to deliver stored course or training materials such as class notes/overheads and audio/video of classroom lectures to students. Our focus is on asynchronous learning environments with stored classroom materials, where students proceed at their own pace and are not assumed to be accessing the same material at the same time as others."
U.S. Department of Education see Education - U.S. Dept. of Education
"...a resource for faculty seeking direction in appropriate ways to use Web-based technologies to accomplish key learning strategies. The guiding principle of this project is to go beyond technical skill towards a full examination of the teaching/learning issues in technology-enabled instruction."
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