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For the main post about the hardware and software in the elementary school, please read this post http://nora.globalblogs.org/2011/01/10/hardwaresoftware-review-of-my-elementary-school/ An excellent tool available to teachers at my school is NetSupport. This is installed on all the computers in the computer labs and allows the teacher to control and observe what each student is doing on their [...]

Today was fascinating as it was our turn in the driver’s seat to walk each other through various online applications and  how they can be used to enhance our teaching, help our students and ,with any luck, make our job just a little bit easier. The best thing was that, because of our different positions [...]

This is an excellent online tool for creating tests that students can take anywhere in the world. I unfortunately didn’t have time to explore all the features available, but it’s very easy to navigate so go ahead and explore. A downside to this site is that it’s not embeddable into a blog.

“Dog ate my homework.” That’s one thing that you shouldn’t hear if you introduce your students to this site. This website allows students to have a separate page  for each of their classes and add their assignments. The interface is simple and as well as updating assignments via the website, they can be added by email or [...]

http://www.vocabahead.com This website allows you to create your own list of words that can be embedded in your blog. This is what you will see when you choose to register/sign in as a teacher. This explains how to create your own vocabulary list. It can also be used by students to create their own lists [...]

1. Approx. how many machines does your school have? There are about 105 computers in the Elementary school, this includes those for classroom use (student or teacher) and administrators. 2.where are they located? The bulk of these computers are in the 2 labs, which each have 21 student computers and one teacher computer. The labs [...]

Today was ,again, full of online goodies. There is so much cool stuff out there to use! Some for teaching and others just for recreation, or more likely, procrastination. The best part was joining up with Dr. Carroll’s class for a presentation on digital storytelling and seeing the faces of the other class’ students. Now [...]

No idea what ‘coquinate’ means? Neither did I! It means: behaving as a cook. While searching for Web 2.0 tools this evening I came upon this site http://savethewords.org/ a website that is attempting to save the rich diversity of the English language. You go on the site, click on a word if you like it [...]

Well it was certainly an eye-opener! I don’t think most of us had even heard of a lot of this technology, much less seen it in action, and I think it could be seen in our reactions. “Wow”  was heard quite a lot, as was  ”Can we do that? Will we be able to do [...]