Technology

= Technology~Literacy~CTE =

==Technology and literacy go hand in hand....here are tools that teachers can use to engage learners! This is a list of tools Region 9 teachers should have in their toolbox. Technology is an excellent way to engage the digital generation! This page addresses technology standards. The standards these resources address are ISTEs National Educational Technology Standards (NETS.S) and Performance Indicators for Students and ISTEs National Educational Technology Standards (NETS.T) and Performance Indicators for Teachers.==

◆ Blogger

Share your thoughts, photos, and more with your friends and the world.
**Audience: Students and Teachers Standards: NETS.S and NET.T**

◆ Google for Educators ====Google Docs is an easy-to-use online word processor, spreadsheet and presentation editor that enables you and your students to create, store and share instantly and securely, and collaborate online in real time. You can create new documents from scratch or upload existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. There's no software to download, and all your work is stored safely online and can be accessed from any computer. I especially like to use the survey tool in google docs. It is fun to watch the students as their responses populate a spreadsheet for the first time.==== **Audience: Students and Teachers Standards: NETS.S and NET.T**

◆ Smart boards

All the classrooms at Region 9 are equipped with Smart boards. This link will help teachers learn more about this technology. **Audience: Students and Teachers Standards: NETS.S and NET.T**
◆ TeacherTube and YouTube ====A new site for educators, //TeacherTube//, takes the sharing, production, and community-building aspects of YouTube and offers an educator's version//. YouTube// is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos.==== **Audience: Students and Teachers Standards: NETS.S and NET.T**

◆ Wikis

====A wiki is a living document or set of documents on the Internet that can be updated by a variety of users concurrently. It provides a unique opportunity for collaboration as all users can create and edit documents.==== **Audience: Students and Teachers Standards: NETS.S and NET.T**

◆ Wordle ====Wordle is a Web 2.0 tool that a person pastes a bunch of text into a box, and the software creates WordArt that the user can manipulate by selecting from various fonts, background colors and configurations.==== **Audience: Students and Teachers Standards: NETS.S and NET.T**

◆Rubistar

Rubistar is a a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics. This tool is very user friendly. **Audience: Teachers Standards: NETS.T**

◆Delicious

Delicious is a social bookmarking site. It is a social bookmarking site that allows you to access your account from any computer or share your favorite sites with others. It works with Internet Explorer and FireFox. **Audience: Students and Teachers Standards: NETS.S and NET.T**

◆Jing

Jing is a free software that allows you to capture anything you see on your computer screen and share it as an image or short movie. Great program to make clips to help people with computer problems. Available for Macs or PCs. **Audience: Students and Teachers Standards: NETS.S and NET.T**