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Are you a student or teacher? Are you thinking about getting Dragon Naturally Speaking 11? Did you know there’s a student/teacher version which is $100 cheaper than the regular premium edition? There are some conditions that apply. What is Dragon Naturally Speaking Software? What is Dragon Naturally Speaking? How Good is Dragon Naturally Speaking? What [...]

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Chances are, your students are tired of PowerPoint. It was catchy at first, but now your students are used to having lessons on the data projector. They’ve seen bulleted lists fade in and out and they’ve watched slides go by one by one. PowerPoint doesn’t hook your students anymore. Been there, done that, and they’ve even [...]

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Reason #7 why we love Google Docs in the classroom: It’s easy to use.

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We recently bought Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 Premium. It’s hard not to got sucked in by their marketing. Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 claims on their box that you can just say words and watch them appear ”three times faster than typing — with up to 99% recognition accuracy right out of the box.” This caught our attention because [...]

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We recently canceled our order for Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 Wireless Teacher and Student Edition. Not because we don’t love Dragon 11 – we’re still cautiously optimistic and excited by the voice-recognition software. In fact, this post was written using Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 Premium Wireless. (Jump to the bottom to see the accuracy rate.) No, we [...]

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We just got Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 Wireless Premium and we are cautiously optimistic. We’re trying to figure out whether speech recognition software can make us more efficient, as well as how good it would be in the classroom. Right now, this post is being written using Dragon and Internet Explorer. (I did have to use [...]

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Our school is fortunate enough to have access to interactive whiteboards (SMARTboards), SMART airliner tablets, and a class set of clickers. If we were going to invest our own personal money into our classroom technology, we would definetely get a class set of clickers over the airliner tablet or interactive whiteboard. No contest. Here’s why. [...]

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We’ve been teaching our speech unit to Grade 7 and 8 students for several years, but this is the first year we’ve really had an opportunity to integrate different types of technologies into our English lesson. Let’s be honest. Most students hate doing speeches. They don’t like spending the time to write the speech, revise [...]

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We run several classroom blogs and professional sites, including this blog on using educational technology in the classroom. Mostly we use WordPress, but lately we’ve been experimenting with bulleting boards (phpBB) for our online literature circles. You can only go so far with free accounts, whether they’re with Blogger, WordPress.com, Edublogs, or Wikispaces. Eventually, you [...]

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If you’ve spent any time on the internet, you’ve already been indoctrinated into the world of Making Money Online. Just do a search using one of the big 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft), and you’ll see ads beside your results. When we were growing up, we made money as teens by mowing the lawn, [...]

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