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=New Providence Technology Wiki=

Welcome to the New Providence School District Technology Wiki. Please explore the many videos, articles, and resources that are available online. Our goal is that you will use this as a reference for all your technology needs. If there is anything that we can help you with please don't hesitate to contact us: Sandy and James

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Top 10 "Nuggets" Every Teacher Should be Using!

 * **Wikis** – A wiki is a basic webpage (or series of webpages) designed to share an educational concept, piece general information, or common interests. The reason that Wikis are so popular is that they operate under the WYSIWYG design process. This means, “What you see is what you get;” essentially what ever you write on the page is exactly what is put on the webpage. Since no coding is necessary, students of all ages can utilize this tool. ([|www.passaicriver.wikispaces.com])


 * Web Blogs –** Operating under a similar design philosophy as a Wiki, a web blog allow the designer to post their general thoughts, feelings, and daily response for the world to see. Web blogs were originally designed to catalogue the website you’ve visited (in the early times of the internet). It soon evolved to include description and critiques of the site. Today blogs serve this purpose and some much more. ([|www.Jfinleyscience.blogspot.com])


 * Discussion Groups/Online Learning Systems** – As the education system of yesterday continues to evolve, we are provided more and more opportunities for learning growth and technical training. Discussion group and learning systems (like Blackboard) allow students and teachers to increase the communication of ideas through “threaded” discussions. This allows students to develop understandings that they may not have constructed initially. Additional students and teacher can post assignments, documents, and grades. This provided the learner with even more opportunities for success. ([|www.nicenet.org])


 * Online Surveys –** Online custom designed surveys, provided by companies like “surveymonkey,” are allowing teacher to collect even more data on student learning. Surveys can be designed to collect an endless amount of data from a reader and can be used for anything from coarse evaluations to pre/post assessments. The beautiful part about the program is that all data analysis is done for you. This makes it a quick and easy feedback solution for teachers and a useful sounding board for students. ([|www.surveymonkey.com])


 * Interactive White Boards** – This amazing new educational technology uses a series of electrical webbing to interpret pressure changes on a white board. These signals are then sent to the computer, which responds as through a “mouse button” had been pressed. This allows teachers to truly integrate computers and the Internet into daily teaching models. Anything from worksheets, to movies, to interactive simulations can now be shared throughout a whole class instructional method. ([|www.smarttech.com]) ||  || **RSS and Aggregators** – RSS, which stands for Real Simple Syndication, is the process of sending “feeds” or small chunks of information to the user. A collection system, called an aggregator, gathers all of these “feeds” and organizes them much in the same way as your email client. This allows a reader to have information sent to them; this is quite the break through if you consider that until recently we had to go to the site to get our information. Now info comes to us! ([])


 * Digital Videos and Photography** – Digital photography and video editing is also making incredible leaps into the classroom. Suddenly it is seamless to catch absent students up on a dissection projects or to communicate small group instructions or procedures. Videos can be made and edited on specific subject matter, which can then be edited and shared with students. Photography is also making waves by instantly providing a way to catalogue projects and share student work (not to mention the more tradition reasons) ([|www.youtube.com])


 * Social Bookmarking** - This is a method by which a group of people or the general public can share and look up bookmarks (saved website addresses). Their links are posted on a cloud site and the publisher can decide who sees them. This has enormous ramifications (much more than I’m letting on to) for education in that teachers can now share online resources with coworkers, students can share with peers, and teachers/students can work together to build content specific bookmarks that will help others to learn. ([|www.delicious.com/])


 * Video Conferencing/Skype** **–** This resource allows people from across the globe to not only communicate, but to actually meet face-to-face. The educational impact is that students can now meet with domain-specific professionals to enhance their learning and provide a authentic and relevant experience to help interconnect their learning. The best part is that in many cases it is hundred percent free. (http://www.skype.com/)


 * GPS/GIS** **–** Global Positioning Systems (or Global Imaging Software) connects the accessibility and user-friendly interface of the Internet to the shear power of orbiting satellite that are tracking, photographing, and constructing 3-dimenstional models of the Earth. Students can use software like Google Earth to investigation everything from science, to social studies; even math! (http://earth.google.com/) ||

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 * Additional Video Tutorials can be found below:**


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