Education Technology 2: Computers as Useful Tools
- 1. COMPUTERS AS USEFUL TOOLS Group II BORNEA, MAICA ELOISE ANN MADUAY, JEAN JEAN MARCES, LESLIBETH VISTAL, ESTHER JOY
- 2. The following tools can connect, organize, and increase the ease of building multimedia lessons and learning tools:
- 3. This tool captures great ideas, photos, recording, or just about anything else on an Evernote account. This is a must-have tool for lesson planning.
- 5. There are so many ways Twitter can be used in education. Teachers can connect with other educators, take part in chats, share their ideas, or even use it in the classroom to reach out to students.
- 7. Google offers a number of great education technology resources for teachers including e- mail, collaborative applications, videos, lesson plan database, professional development, and educational grants.
- 9. This tool easily stores, shares, and access any kind of data from anywhere with the easy-to- use and free drop box service.
- 11. This tool lets one treat the web like paper- based reading material, making materials simple to highlight, bookmark, take notes, or even add sticky notes.
- 13. This tool is one of the most widely used, though expensive, technology tools being used in today’s classroom is the apple ipad, with a host of educational apps.
- 15. This tool is a suite of tools that make it easy to edit images, effects, music, and audio, or to create and modify screen captures.
- 17. This tool is a program that allows teachers to take screenshots as images, and record up to five minutes of videos, then edit and share results.
- 19. This tool can be used to brainstorm ideas, create mind maps, share, and collaborate.
- 21. This tool is an amazing and fast way to teach students various geography projects and geological processes.
- 23. This is a nonprofit organization that allows individuals to donate directly to public school classroom projects.
- 25. This is a tool that can upload presentations, documents, and videos and share them with students and colleagues. Even better, one can take advantage of materials that others have uploaded as well.
- 27. This tool is like a real-life three ring binder, this technology tool allows one to collect and organize resources. Much better than a binder, however, the site comes with tools to connect and collaborate.
- 29. Through this tool, one can record and share audio with students or other users.