SMART board is similar to a white board and was released in 1991.  It has a touch control screen that can be used with either the digital pens provided or a person’s finger.  There are three types of SMART boards: Front projection (used with projector that is in class), rear projection (mobile and his projected [...]

The Nintendo Wii, which was released November 19, 2006, is a video game system in which players have the ability to move like the characters they are playing.  For example, I am playing a tennis game.  Instead of pushing a button, I know have the ability to swing my arms like a normal racquet.  Studies [...]

In the podcast, “It’s Elementary #15-Video in the Classroom,” Alice Mercer, Mathew Needleman, Jose Rodriguez, Lisa Durff, and Mathew Needleman (all teachers) discuss why it is important to make videos in an elementary classroom.  The podcast began with Alice Mercer asking Mathew Needleman questions about video projects in the classroom.  Video projects are projects where [...]

It is “It’s Elmentary #15- Video in the Classroom”
http://www.edtechtalk.com/

Creative Commons license is what a person can get that is between a “full copyright” and “the public domain.”  Full copyright is where all “rights are reserved” and that no one can use another person’s work, where as public domain is the complete opposite (“no rights reserved” and work can be used).  Creative Commons license [...]

The Wow-Pen was introduced to the world in the IT Channel USA conference in 2007.  The Wow-Pen serves as both a wireless digital pen and mouse.  It has many functions , such as the capability to capture and display on a person’s computer handwritten notes or signature.  Also, when it comes to e-mails or instant [...]

The iPod was introduced to the world on October 3, 2001.  There are verities of different things that the iPod does, such as the ability to listen to books, record voices, hold pictures, listen to music, transfer digital media, use basically as a computer, and translate different languages.  Also, people are discovering that iPods can [...]

Calculators have changed the lives of many people, including students and teachers.  They can do almost anything in the mathematical world, except prevent a student’s dog from eating his/her homework.  Calculators have been helping people in the mathematical world since as far back as the 1600s.  Although the devices back then were not battery operated [...]

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It can be quite a difficult choice when it comes to whether teachers should or should not be allowed to have their own MySpace or Facebook accounts. If allowed, teachers could become friends with their students and possibly become aware of a child [...]