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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 their [...]

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Parents / students can download the SMART interactive viewer to open SMART notebook files at home. (Save is disabled.) http://bit.ly/3SUrXy #
Wow. Twitter had an over-capacity message: too many tweets. How many people social-networking can shut down Twitter? #
When you share a google document with students – you can set them up "to edit" or "to [...]

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Parents / students can download the SMART interactive viewer to open SMART notebook files at home. (Save is disabled.) http://bit.ly/3SUrXy #
Wow. Twitter had an over-capacity message: too many tweets. How many people social-networking can shut down Twitter? #
When you share a google document with students – you can set them up "to edit" or "to [...]

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At the end of June, our Grade 8 Language Arts (English) class experimented with using Twitter in the classroom.

What is Twitter?
Why use Twitter in the classroom?

Examining Twitter in the classroom to see how social media tools are changing the way the world communicates.
Using Twitter in the Classroom as a collaboration tool

Review of using Twitter in the [...]

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Tried the MDG Flip Tablet netbook today: Good ink/handwriting recognition. Comes with Evernote. Can you install MS Office to get their ink? #
MDG Flip Tablet netbook: How durable is the pivoting/flipping screen? MDG claims it’s student-rugged, but does it hold up with student use? #
MDG Flip Tablet netbook: bluetooth means you could use a bluetooth [...]

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Windows 7… touch-enabled? Will I be able to do digital ink in the classroom with it? #
New wiimote controller is coming out…Will we be able to still use Johnny Lee’s wiimote software to create an… less than 5 seconds ago #
Will students use bing or google in the classroom? (I wonder why they generally don’t [...]

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You can’t share folders in Google Docs which means if you have a large number of files to share, you have to do it individually. #
(You also have to upload a large number of files separately in Google Docs – you can’t ctrl or shift select multiple items to upload.) #
If you publish your Google [...]

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Trying out the Twitter Tools plugin for our Classroom Technology blog #
Testing the SMART AirLiner tablet – how good is the digital ink? #
When we teach media literacy, we create media as an assignment. If we explore making money online, is it wrong to try to make money online? #
The SMART AirLiner tablet might have [...]

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Classroom technology is great… but where do we get the money to fund the educational technology? I would like to have a class set of laptops for my Grade 7 and 8 students to use: 

4 Reasons why I would like to have a class set of laptops
How much will a class set of laptops cost? Where [...]

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