Vanessa Johnston's Weblog

ePALS

Vanessa — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:30:03 +0000

www.epals.com

This website is for students and teachers to collaborate with other students and teachers across the town they are in, state, or even world. There is emails and blogs in the site for online use. The teachers can post thier assignments and students and interact with thier classmates and/or students outside of their classes.

Technology and Education

Vanessa — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:17:02 +0000

Video Converter

Vanessa — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:22:35 +0000

This technology converts one video format to another. This could be useful in education because if a teacher makes a movie on her personal computer in one format she can convert it into a different format that the school uses when she shows her class.

What is video converter?

http://www.answers.com/video%20converter

Where can you buy video converter?

http://www.winavi.com/

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University of Findlay Mission Statement

Vanessa — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:28:29 +0000

Graduation Year

Vanessa — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:56:41 +0000

I used a program called Quick Screen Capture. This program can be found at Quick Screen Capture

New Technology

Vanessa — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:30:37 +0000

3M Digital Board

This board is similar to a dry erase board, but it is hooked up to over head projector system. The teacher can put information up on it for the class and also print notes from it. This technology would help when I am teaching because it will make it easier to distribute papers and information more efficiently.

RSS Feeds and Education

Vanessa — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:01:26 +0000

RSS feeds are useful in Education because you have many links in one place that you can access for teaching or could be linked to your students blogs to have homework done on them. I subscribed to Kirk’s blog, Elizabeth Richards’ blog, Aubrey Kreisher’s blog, Scott Harrold’s blog, and Elizabeth Scarff’s blog. I am using the bloglines RSS reader.

Prominent People in Educational Technology

Vanessa — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:35:05 +0000

First person that is important to educational technology is Matt Mullenweg he is the developer of WordPress blogging site and software. He is important because a lot of people love to blog and without him I would not be writing this blog on this site. His invention is important to education because people can go on this site and post blogs about thier education and give the address to others to view.

Second person that is important to educational technology is Meg Whitman CEO of EBAY. She is important because a lot of people like to buy/sell things online and EBAY is a good place to start. On Ebay or Half.com, which is owned by Ebay someone can find text books needed for classes or on Ebay someone could find equipment needed to teach in thier classrooms.

Third person that is important to educational technology is Jeff Bezos is the CEO of Amazon. He is important because Amazon is a place where you can buy things that are hard to find. Amazon is also a place where people can find textbooks for school. This site helps students get access to tools they need for thier education for cheaper prices.

The website I found all of these people at was: http://www.pcworld.com/article/129301/the_50_most_important_people_on_the_web.html

Prof Trusty’s important people:

http://alvintrusty.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/who-is-important-here/

Links to delicious/flickr

Vanessa — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:35:45 +0000

http://delicious.com/johnstonv

http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnstonv/