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A post about the best practice uses of technology (by teachers in the classroom)

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"Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. It has one box for everything: Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages. Will give you thumbnails of your top sites; Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab. Google Chrome is an open source web browser developed by Google. Its software architecture was engineered from scratch (using components from other open source software including WebKit and Mozilla Firefox) to cater for the changing needs of users and acknowledging that today most web sites aren't web pages but web applications. Design goals include stability, speed, security and a clean, simple and efficient user interface. * Sandboxing. Every tab in Chrome is sandboxed, so that a tab can display contents of a web page and accept user input, but it will not be able to read the user's desktop or personal files. Google say they have "taken the existing process boundary and made it into a jail".yabroudonline.com There is an exception to this rule; browser plugins such as Adobe Flash Player do not run within the boundaries of the tab jail, and so users will still be vulnerable to cross-browser exploits based on plugins, until plugins have been updated to work with the new Chrome security. Google has also developed a new phishing blacklist, which will be built into Chrome, as well as made available via a separate public API. * Privacy Google announces a so-called incognito mode claiming that it "lets you browse the web in complete privacy because it doesn't record any of your activity". No features of this, and no implications of the default mode with respect to Google's database are given. * Speed Speed improvements are a primary design goal. Stability * Multiprocessing The Gears team were considering a multithreaded browser (noting that a problem with existing web browser implementations was that they ar

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"Integration of technology is an integral part of project based learning, because technology is an integral part of life outside the classroom as revealed in this part of the definition - "types of learning and work people do in the everyday world outside the classroom.""

Both wikis and blogs provide teachers with a a dynamic process for integrating Web 2.0 technology in their science and math classes. These two types of online tools offer students a more engaging process for learning. Both are relatively easy tools which do not require teachers or students to learn any special program tools or computer skills. Their uses and applications are only limited by the vision and purpose for helping students learn.

The Flipped Classroom - students watch videos of lectures at home, so that the classroom  is used for interactive work, discussions, getting help, asking questions

"Digital Storytelling Highlights of Tools Used by Local Teachers Digital storytelling is a wonderful academic strategy to enhance student inspired stories and get student's that typically do not like to write another venue to participate in the lesson."

"The listing here is in alphabetical order. it may be easier to search by genre. ( 16 pages here of different genres.) If you do not see one that covers your interests, let me know and I may be able to put one together. I have also put together a listing of sites that offer free and legal audio books at Free Audio Books Online These listings may be searched in the following methods: Alphabetical Listing - A listing of the site names in alphabetical order Listing by Genre - Links to pages here for different book genres (16) Online Local Libraries -These sites have links to local libraries which have much content for members"

Now days life has become way to fast, people do not have too much time for interaction with others and for leisure activities. In fact in olden times more stress was laid for leisure activities and that was imbibed in children as well by adults. Read more: http://www.ausays.com/2011/08/cheap-hotel-reservation-a-helping-hand/#ixzz1WOVWFJqn

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 Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative. Here are just a few ways that you can use Kerpoof: Make artwork (even if you aren't good at drawing!)Make an animated movie (really! it's easy!)Earn Koins which you can trade for fun things in the Kerpoof StoreMake a printed card, t-shirt, or mugTell a storyMake a drawingVote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have madeCheck out our What's New and How-To pages to learn more about what you can do with Kerpoof. Kerpoof doesn't come with a manual or a directory or a map. If we've done our job right, then finding your way to the various nooks and crannies of Kerpoof will be half the fun. In addition to being a lot of fun, Kerpoof has many educational uses. Visit our educator page (with ideas and lesson plans for how to use Kerpoof) or read our flyer for educators if you are in a hurry but want to learn more. If you are a parent, you may also want to read our for parents page.

I like all of the definitions in this blog post. They sound connected to past research, yet new. I know I was feeling odd at the "Digital Is..." Conference, because I don't want to let the technology disappear into uses. It's better, I think to look for what we can get out of particular technologies. That's what we are doing now with Google's Wave. "Alongside these discussions Frances Bell suggested the term Co-Digital as a better term to describe the process of "…seizing the opportunities presented by the newness of technologies to spot changes and then shape the development of the technology."" As this paragraph suggests, we still need to look at "digital technologies" to see how we can exploit them for what we need.

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