Group 9
By:
Brooke Norene Jackson- Black Board
distance learning
Jessica Ann De La Vara- Smart Boards
Jewl Rae Carrizosa- Blogs
Patricia Feild Garth- Web Portals
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Blackboard: Old Dominion
University defines as a course
management product utilized
in a majority of distance
learning courses
Blackboard has 9 functions that
can be performed:
 Display course
announcements
 Display syllabi’s and course
materials
 Displays grades
 Displays Calendar
 Online drop box for
assignments
 Displays Organizational
tasks
 Online quizzes
 Hold class discussions
 Displays classroom statistics
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1853- Chalkboards become widely used in classrooms,
beginning at West Point Military Academy
White boards are created and began to replace
Chalkboards
1990- SMART board technology is invented and
patented.
SMART board allies with Intel Corporation to bring the
future of the Whiteboard into the classroom
2001- SMART boards becomes a part of its first
classrooms in select American Universities and High
Schools.
2009- Many school Districts including Kyrene School
District in Chandler, AZ, All receive 500+ SMART boards
to service the entire district.
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The SMART board, developed by the SMART Technologies
ULC, is a product of 20+ years of classroom innovation.
What was once considered “The Future of technology in the
classroom” is now a reality. We see teachers using SMART
boards all over the country, even in our own classrooms
here at the U of A, to interact with the students and
introduce them to technology they will be continuing to see
grow for years to come.
The SMART board has taken the teaching benefits that the
chalkboard and white board provided, and mixed them
with the technological advances that are inevitably our
world’s future. The use of technology in the classroom in
unavoidable and meant to be embraced and The SMART
board provides a strong starting block to support this
embrace.
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Blogging: A personal website
that an individual sustains. It
consists of personal entries that
others are able to comment
about.
Between 1949 and 2002 blogging
began as on-line diaries
Different types of Blogs:
 Personal Blogs, Genre Blogs
(political, fashion, travel,
project, education, ect. ),
Corporate Blogs, Media
Blogs (Photoblog, linkblog)
Any individual is able to create
a Blog for free with various
websites. A Good website to
began your own personal blog
is Probloggers:
 http://www.problogger.net
/archives/2006/02/14/blog
ging-for-beginners-2/
Uses in the Classroom:
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Networking and students are
able to post questions they
might have and work
together outside of the
classroom
Teachers are able to
communicate with their
students and colleges in a
more laid back environment
Various teachers argue that
using blogs in the classroom
helps them relate to their
students more
Students are able to
physically view other
classmates responses to
questions
Gives students the advantage
of publishing their own work
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Web portals/ Website content management helps
schools create a web based learning and collaborating
space among faculty, students, and parents.
Web portals create a web based community where
teachers can interact and share lesson ideas with fellow
faculty members.
Web portals making it easier for teachers to organize
administrative tasks such as organize lesson plans, list
assignments, take attendance and post grades through
class portals.
Parents and students can regularly check assignments
and student grades through class portals.
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The key benefits of web
portals are:
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Teachers are able to facilitate
and update learning at any
time.
Parents and students are
more engaged in students
academic progress.
Teachers are able to manage
and organize administrative
tasks.
Teachers and administrators
can collaborate with one
another through their web
based portals.
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http://dl.odu.edu/tools/blackboard.shtml
http://www.azcentral.com/community/chandler/articles/2009/
09/08/20090908ar-smartboard0908-ON.html
http://www.isrl.illinois.edu/~chip/projects/timeline/1801wojen
ski.htm
http://smarttech.com/
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/02/14/blogging-forbeginners-2/
https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/avee/blogstoteach/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
http://www.microsoft.com/education/solutions/k12portals.aspx
http://www.atlantainternetmarketing.net/2009/09/07/back-toschool-10-terrific-web-apps-for-teachers/
http://schoolcomputing.wikia.com/wiki/Portal_CMS_Systems