EDU221GeneralEmergingTechnologies

=__**Topic Choices**__=

Hardware

 * [|interactive whiteboards] (Smartboards and other brands and types) POLL
 * [|dataloggers] and probes POLL
 * image capturing: [|webcam,] [|digital microscopes] (be sure to check out "scope on a rope"), document cameras, and digital cameras (including software that uses images from these devices like Skype, PhotoBooth, etc.) POLL
 * [|Mobile Learning] (MP3 players/ smartphones and apps/[| iPad] but not dataloggers and probes) (high schools and colleges across the country are giving iPods or other MP3 players to their students--they're more than a music source--what are they doing with them?) POLL
 * [|GPS] devices (and GIS software and geocaching...) (Old fashioned poll)
 * [|robotics] (Old fashioned poll)

Software/Internet Services

 * [|Google Earth] (can include Google Mars, Ocean, and Sky but not Sketch-Up) POLL
 * [|Google Sketch Up] (3-D rendering software) (Old fashioned poll)
 * [|note taking] and student organization software/online services (the software package NoteShare is on all laptops in 7th and 8th grade classes in Maine, but there's also OneNote, EverNote, GoBinder and others) [|Online only POLL]
 * Second Life and other virtual worlds (Old fashioned poll)

Curricular Projects/ Products/ Concepts

 * [|e-books] (yes, you can download e-books, but students can also create and publish their own e-books) POLL


 * Assessment for generalized emerging technologies (not iPads) **

PLUS each team member is responsible for researching at least two good lesson plan ideas that use your technology in a Type II way (you do not have to create this lesson plan, just find a good example on the web or from another resource). These lesson ideas will then be incorporated into the presentation (many teams use these lessons to explain "What can be done with it in the classroom" or to demonstrate "What it is," but that is left up to you). As a team, try to get a variety of lesson plan ideas from multiple concentration areas.

AND your team will create some kind of digital presence of the main points of your presentation that you will link to the artifacts page of the class wiki.