EdTechWalden

The Teacher's Hub is a page from SMART that provides users with notebook collaborative learning software tutorials. On this page, teachers as well as others can learn information that will help add creative touches to lesson materials or even organize your work and teach interactive lessons. This site is a technology-centered learning site.

This website is the training search site for SMART tools and software.This site includes tutorials on various elements involved in using the Notebook software that comes with the SMART board.

For the ELL, a website that combines a text-rich environment and varying levels of ability is essential for developing all areas of the L2.

The purpose of this website is to introduce music along with text for the ELL

Dave's video lessons combine practical examples for pronunciation and interventions for common errors made by ELL.

The following multimedia presentation represents students at a University that are expressing the "analog" learning available and their need for digital technology. I find this presentation to be an interesting representation of what students feel they need in order to learn in today's society versus what the university feels is an acceptable means of education. The focus of this article is technology-centered.

This link shows how a County has incorporated Power Points into the classroom through common distribution. Instructors and others can access the power points for utilization in the classroom. Power Points, in my mind, are primarily focused on a learner-centered approach. I plan to incorporate this material as evidence of how schools are incorporating technology into the classroom through the means stated earlier

The following presentation was presented by the PBS in the state of Iowa. Information included within the video describes how technology is being used in the classroom at a state university. Because this piece is presented from an editorial perspective, the focus is on the positive and negative aspects of technology in the classroom. For the multimedia workshop that I am building, the information enclosed focuses on both the learner center approach and technology centered approach. Data is shown visually and provides an education to those with whom the information is being presented.

This website provides a list for how teachers can incorporate Google Docs in the classroom. Teachers will be excited about participating in this training because it can eliminate the fear of losing data, having multiple files of the same document, or the limitations of using one computer. Using this website will help teachers see the positive advantages for learning about Google Docs.

This website promotes both technology-centered and learner-centered instruction. Teachers will instantly have access to computerized graphic organizers, spreadsheets, and presentation templates. Google Docs has the potential to equalize technology gaps between the haves and the have-nots. For example, any student, who can access the Internet, can obtain a Google Docs account.

A description of how digital storytelling can be applied to an electronic portfolio

A describition of digital storytelling along with suggestions

This website describes the process of digital storytelling

*This is a blog of lessons observed that utilize a Smartboard.

*A 5th grade teacher explains how she uses a Smartboard in the classroom.

This instructional site supports teachers and students with interactive tutorials and samples related problem-based learning video productions.