http://justinnovating.edublogs.org Exploring technology and how it relates to the educational setting Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:55:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Amy was the last to present and introduced us to 3 interesting and innovative websites she discovered while searching the fantastic Web 2.0 resource www.go2web20.net. The first website, Fotoll, was a website on which users could create and monitor polls on basically anything they desired. The second site, Kerpoof, was a ... http://justinnovating.edublogs.org/2008/11/11/the-final-frontier-fotoll-pikikids-and-kerpoof/ When Adam and Joel introduced us to Google Earth in their presentation I had used the program only a handful of times. I thought I knew a little, but as I was to discover, there were plenty of features I was not even aware of. At first glance, Google Earth looks ... http://justinnovating.edublogs.org/2008/11/11/google-earth-more-than-just-an-electronic-globe/ One of the biggest and most immediate issues we face with computers in the classroom is the issue of safe browsing and searching. Kym and Tracey aimed to present our class with a selection of the options currently available to help try and ensure that when students go to search ... http://justinnovating.edublogs.org/2008/11/11/beyond-google-search-engines-for-students/ Chris and Rob had the task of presenting to us on the subject of 'clickers'. Before, I didn't really even know what a clicker is. Now, I kind of want a set for my classroom. The brand of clickers which got representation by the boys was Turning Point, designed to be ... http://justinnovating.edublogs.org/2008/11/08/quiz-time-no-need-for-paper-or-pens/ These days most people own a digital camera in some way, shape or form. Whether it is a regular, compact "point and click" camera, a digital slr camera or even the camera that comes standard in most new mobile telephones, we're all taking photos and at the end of the ... http://justinnovating.edublogs.org/2008/11/07/online-photo-sharing-but-thats-not-all/ Ask a great number of people if they have an MP3 player and they might look at you funny, responding with, "Do you mean an iPod?". This is testament to the enormous success of Apple in marketing their range of portable media devices, all under this name. There are actually ... http://justinnovating.edublogs.org/2008/11/07/how-do-you-spell-mp3-player/ Podcasts are a fantastic innovation that are seemingly taking over the internet. For those unfamiliar, a podcast is a series of audio (and in some cases video) files which are distributed over the internet for playback on computers and portable media players. During their presentation on podcasts, Christie and Sarah ... http://justinnovating.edublogs.org/2008/11/06/podcasts-not-just-for-ipods/ SMARTboards have been covered relatively extensively this Semester for me between my Technology & Enterprise unit and this one. So by the time this presentation rolled around, I already had a basic idea of the technology that was being played with. Sarah and Kate helped to extend this knowledge quite ... http://justinnovating.edublogs.org/2008/11/04/whiteboards-just-got-smarter/ The next innovation topic covered involved something I have previously heard discussed, but never really explored for myself: Google Docs. The girls actually created their presentation using Google Docs which apparently led them to quite a few difficulties and frustrations, which was a shame. This unfortunately led to more negatives being ... http://justinnovating.edublogs.org/2008/11/03/to-google-doc-or-not/ Presentation number two was in regards to the two most popular social networking websites on the World Wide Web to date, and it started out with a rather fantastic video clip. I think what made it fantastic was my knowledge of facebook and the features which were being represented and ... http://justinnovating.edublogs.org/2008/11/03/the-my-face-revolution/