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 [...]
How accurate is Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11? Using the Rainbow Passage to measure accuracy
November 8th, 2010 · 2 Comments · (96% - 97% Dragon Naturally Speaking Accuracy), Dragon Naturally Speaking, This Post was written using Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 Premium Wireless
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Using Clickers in the Classroom
May 27th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Classroom Technology, Clickers
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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Integrating Technology into your Language Arts Public Speaking Lesson
May 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Classroom Technology, How to use technology in the classroom, Laptops in the Classroom
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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Make Money Online in the Classroom
October 17th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Classroom Technology Ideas, Make Money Online
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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Classroom Technology Thoughts (Twitter Weekly Updates) for 2009-06-07
June 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Classroom Technology Thoughts (Tweets)
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 [...]
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Classroom Technology Thoughts (Twitter Weekly Updates) for 2009-05-17
May 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Classroom Technology Thoughts (Tweets)
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 [...]
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Classroom Technology – Where does the funding come from?
May 17th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Classroom Technology
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 [...]
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Education Technology for the Classroom: From Blackboards to Digital Projectors to SMART Boards
August 11th, 2008 · 26 Comments · Classroom Technology
Even though it’s summer vacation in Ontario, we’re still thinking about ways to integrate technology into the classroom. In fact, we’re considering investing in a SMART board, so we spent some time reflecting on the pros and cons of some of the educational technologies to help us teach in the classroom. From low-tech to high-tech, [...]
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