technology overview

TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEWBy Donna Donaldson

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities.

http://moodle.org/

http://moodle.ucboces.org/login/index.php

SMART TECHNOLOGIES

SMART TECHNOLOGIES

http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/SMART+Board+software/Features.htm

Here is a Smart Lesson that I developed ..\..\HS Course Material\Food Science\Digestive System

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WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER

Windows Movie Maker 2.1 makes home movies amazingly fun. With Movie Maker 2.1, you can create, edit, and share your home movies right on your computer. Build your movie with a few simple drag-and-drops. Delete bad shots and include only the best scenes.

MOVIE MAKER..\..\MS Course Material\Multimedia for H&C\Career\Movie 08\scottish.wmv

..\..\MS Course Material\Multimedia for H&C\Unique Me\Movies 08\Sam Kreda 2.wmv

OFFICE 2007

Office Home and Student 2007, which includes essentials like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, gives kids simple, intuitive tools that help them: Create great-looking documents quickly and easily.

Make presentations shine in no time. Take notes and keep track of information.

WORD 2007

•New style sheets (quick styles) and ability to switch easily among them. •Word count listed by default in the status bar. The word count dynamically updates as you type. •Translation tool tip option available for English (U.S.), French (France), and Spanish (International Sort).

POWER POINT 2007

Improvements to text rendering to support text based graphics.

Rendering of 3D graphics. Support for many more sound file formats such as .mp3

and .wma. Support for tables and enhanced support for table pasting

from Excel

EXCEL 2007

o Conditional Formatting introduces support for three new features — Color Scales, Icon Sets and Data Barso Importing data from external sources, such as a database, has been upgraded.

POWER MEDIA PLUS

http://www.powermediaplus.com/index.asp

GOOGLE

http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en

OTHER GOOGLE OPTIONS

http://maps.google.com/ http://news.google.com/ http://video.google.com/ http://earth.google.com/ http://translate.google.com/translate_t http://labs.google.com/

YOU TUBE AND TEACHER TUBE http://www.teachertube.com/ http://www.youtube.com/

OTHER ON-LINE TECHNOLOGY

http://www.thinkfinity.org/EducatorHome.aspx http://www.slideshare.net/login http://delicious.com/dembe01/google http://www.recyclezone.org.uk/ http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity/ http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity/gameintro.htm http://www.citycreator.com/ http://www.heavygames.com/3rdworldfarmer/

showgame.asp http://vivisimo.com/ http://www.teacherscount.org/teacher/

THANK YOU!!