Thursday, February 28, 2008

New Technology For Learning: Investigate




What is the new technology? How is it used in everyday life for communication or creativity?



The Blackberry Curve 8320 can help us in our learning during school hours due to the fact that it is literally a laptop in a mobile. The camera is 5.0 Magapixel which can take good pictures and videos of almost anything in sight. The Blackberry comes with Microsoft Word and you can download all of the other Microsoft Offices onto it so that you have a laptop computer in your pocket during school hours.






Where do you get it? How much does it cost? What are the brands and models available?






To buy this phone, you will either have to go to America or buy from Ebay. You can also buy it from The Blackberry official website. The models available are the 8300, the 8310, and the 8320. The 8320 is used for comunicating in so many ways. It's internet can be used for emailing, and it being a phone can be used for calling and texting people.






How is it or could it be used for learning at school?






During lessons, this amazing phone can easily be a phone with a camera for pictures and videos of lessons. It can also be a computer so that we can open blogs about lessons when needed. If each student had their own, we could help each other in blogs because our writing could be wrong, so the students can correct us when we correct them.









Thursday, February 21, 2008

iGoogle and Learning

1. iGoogle can be used in school by saving websites suggested by teachers as well as saving your internet work.
2. iGoogle can be used to save school work, homework, and work that is saved on to your or other people's blogger.
3. iGoogle can be used to save a partner's blogger or delicious page so that the partners can work together well.
4. iGoogle can be used to save partners and teachers e-mails.
5. iGoogle can be used to save times, dates, and alarms for certain school events and times.