Technology Now

Several internet and software programs and display systems to use in your Language Arts classroom now.

By Kristle Bryan

Microsoft OneNote

OneNote is a great program that allows you to create digital binders accessable from any computer if you create the OneNote file and save it to SkyDrive, Microsoft’s cloud.

Use Microsoft OneNote Now

Use it now to store data on students, lesson plans, even graphics or graphic organizers if you project onto a chalkboard or whiteboard in your classroom.

Plan to use it with students. Teach them how to research, store and sort data. Teach them how to create digital portfolios.

Then, watch your students teach you how far the technology could go.

Microsoft OneNote

Visit Microsoft by clicking the link below to learn how more about OneNote and the impact it can have on your life and the lives of your students.

Microsoft OneNote

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

PowerPoint is a great program that allows you to create presentations. Like OneNote, PowerPoint is also accessible from any computer if you create presentation and save it to SkyDrive, Microsoft’s cloud.

Microsoft PowerPoint

Use it now to create engaging lessons which aid students in creating their own writing or analysis of literature, guest teacher lesson plans, even interactive graphics or graphic organizers if you project onto a chalkboard or whiteboard in your classroom.

Plan to use it with students. Teach them how to research, sort data, summarize, draw connections and conclusions based on their reading and research. Teach them how to create digital presentations.

Then, watch your students teach you how far the technology could go.

Microsoft PowerPoint

Visit Microsoft by clicking the link below to learn how more about PowerPoint and the impact it can have on your life and the lives of your students.

Microsoft PowerPoint

Lack Microsoft Office Licensing?

Check out OpenOffice.org. They offer some great alternatives to Microsoft PowerPoint.

Lack Microsoft Office Licensing? Check out OpenOffice.org. They offer some great alternatives to Microsoft OneNote. It is even available on smartphones.

Interactive Whiteboards

Interactive whiteboards are awesome. They allow teachers and students to interact directly with digital resources in a visual environment.

Interactive Whiteboards

Use it now to create engaging lessons which aid show your thought process and how to actually work with an manipulate technology, the curriculum and thinking strategies.

Plan to use it with students. Teach them how to research, sort data, summarize, draw connections, and draw conclusions based on their reading and research. Teach them how to manipulate their environments and own their learning.

Then, watch your students teach you how far the technology could go and just how attentive they can.

Interactive Whiteboards

Visit a great website that really explains some of the nuances of interactive whiteboards by clicking the link below. Learn how they can impact your life and the lives of your students.

Interactive Whiteboards in the Classroom

An alternative Interactive Whiteboard System

Interactive whiteboards are awesome. But the cost of an interactive whiteboard is not. The cost for an interactive whiteboard system ranges from hundred to thousands of dollars.

There is an alternative that will cost less than $200 for teachers with access to a digital projector: the Wiimote Whiteboard Project.

The Wiimote Whiteboard Project

Visit Wiiteachers.com to learn about the system components and software that utilizes a Wiimote to create an intearactive whiteboard in your classroom for less than $200. Follow the links at the bottom of the page to find out more about the creation and development of the Wiimote Whiteboard Project and it’s creators.

The Wiimote Whiteboard Project

Technology Now and You

These programs and systems are just a springboard. It is my hope that individual teachers, like me, will find ways to utilize technology now; in ways we can afford, as to cost and time, to impact our kids now.