Diigo

Diigo is an on-line organizati0nal took that allows you to bookmark important websites that you like to revisit. You can also upload notes and, data, and documents to Diggo. You  can alos collaberate on a project through the networking discussions and bookmarks that this site allows you to do.

This is a great motivator for students to work on the internet and saves time. A teacher can bookmark sites or highlight important information and then the students can just go onto the site and view the material for themselves. they can also collaberate with other studnets and work on a project.

In ordeer to you this all you need to do it set u an account (for free) and have a computer witrhinternet access. The teacher would have to know how to use the computer and work with the studnets to knw when it is approprate to use this tool and when it is not.

This site links to the new style of teaching in thsi century because it helps to narrow down information to make research easier.

On-Line Books

My chose to report on the "100 apps," and I chose to to focus on on-line books. The "100 apps," site gives a link to on-line books. These books can be viewed if you sign up with an account.  Soem texts cannot be viewed ion full lenght and the amount of texts available on thsi site in limited.

This is useful for teachers and students because they studnets will not have to purchase the book themselves. The students can simply view them form their computers. Thius site also allows for a discussion on the bookos so the students/ teachers can pose questions and comments to each other and engae in a converstation ont he book when they are not in class.  

In order to use this site teacher will need to take in upon themselves to learn the site and sign up. They cannot just say , "I visited the site, I know how to use it." The teacher should also be m,indful of the fact that not all studnets have a computer.

This site definelty depicts wehre our society is going because book used to be in print and know more and more books are available on-line for free.

Podcasting

A podcast is an audio casting on-line through the podcasting network.  It is especially great for education because teachers can post a podcast for their students to watch at home for homework, or a lesson when the teacher might be absent. It also allows the students to communicate with each other very easily. The students can pose questions to each other about a reading or an assignment that they have been assigned. The only drawback of this program that I have found it that it seems to not give the user a visual. You can see the person you are chatting with or the person who has posted a podcast.

To be able to use this form of technology the teacher would need to have an computer in the classroom and one for every student preferably.  Not all students have computers at home so if they teacher wanted to students to view a podcast at home that might be difficult for some students.

There is little prep or proofing for podcasting and you can easily view them, however, it is hard to cast a podcast.