Welcome to "Technology and the Classroom"

A site dedicated to collecting and disseminating information about uses of technology in the classroom.  Please feel free to contribute!

Description of experiences and best practices using technology in the classroom.

• Experiences with podcasting (Peter)
• Adopting Screencasting (Bernd)
• Classroom Video with Ustream.tv (James)
• Discussion Forum or blogs (Cathy)
• Audio Feedback (David)
• Working with ClassSpot (Kelly) 
• The Classroom File Server (Best Practices) (Kelly) 
• Improving Student Writing with Word Tools (Ruth) 
• Using Moodle, Open-Source Course Management System (Kathy)

Some Resources of interest

• Incubator Classroom, and tools used in the IC that can transform teaching
• YackPack, an online tool for giving audible feedback to students  (this loooks like a great resource but they seem to be having technical difficulties).
• Educational Networks: CUNY academic commons, SHANTI
• Sample course wiki (before you login e-mail to ask for access)
• Zotero in the classroom
• Twitter in the classroom
• spring forum video

Some  technologies of interest

• Podcasting
• Audio feedback  
• Screen Grabs / Screen Casts
• Twitter in the Classroom
• Captioning your Videos
• Some interesting tools for building digital projects
• Teaching with an iPad
• Teaching to students with iPads  
• Using student's smartphones in the classroom 
• Screencapture and screen sharing 

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