Instructional technology and design involves using technology like audio, visual, and interactive tools to present information to students. The chalkboard was once considered a technological tool but is now seen as outdated, showing how technology definitions have changed. E-mail allows schools to provide learning resources electronically, enabling access that was previously unavailable. For example, Oregon provided all students with Google email addresses to access online educational materials from the state department of education. Electronic reading devices also give new ways for authors to organize and market books, with some combining video and text in hybrid formats sold through iTunes.

1. Laura Wbozeman Class 6 Major Project 1
10-2-12 INST 6031

2.  Instructional Technology and Design:
 Is presenting information via technology to a
population that has been developed with
audio, visual and interactivity tools.
 And the concept of technology has changed over
the years.

3.  The chalkboard that most of us experienced
in school was considered an up to date
technological tool, yet today it is considered
archaic.

4.  Another way that technology is used in instruction is through
e-mail, a tool that presents information electronically.
 E-mail enables a school district’s students and faculty to
access learning resources which were previously inaccessible.

5.  … the Oregon Department of Education was
running a central portal of thousands of learning
resources that required all teachers and students
in the state to have an e-mail address as
authentication for security purposes. Because
many districts didn't offer student e-
mail, however, the learning materials were not
available to everyone. Nelson found what he was
looking for, and Oregon became the first state to
offer Google Apps Education Edition to all its
public school students. (Dessoff, 2010)

6.  For serious readers, products like
Amazon's Kindle 2, Barnes and Noble's
Nook, and Sony's Daily Edition are a
godsend.

7.  It's not just that these electronic
reading devices are handy portals to
hundreds of thousands of trade
books, textbooks, public-domain
works, and best-sellers, all of which
can be wirelessly downloaded at a
moment's notice, and to scores of
magazines and newspapers, which
show up on subscribers' devices
automatically.

8.  They're also giving adventurous
authors and publishers’ new ways to
organize and market their creations.

9.  A California startup called Vook, for
example, has begun to package
cookbooks, workout manuals, and
even novels with illustrative video
clips, and it's selling these hybrids of
video and text to iPhone, iPad, and
iPod Touch owners through Apple's
iTunes Store. (Roush, 2010)

10.  References
 Dessoff, Alan. (2010, September). Google and Microsoft go to school. The
education digest, 76(4), 4-7.
 Roush, Wade. (2010, May/June). Going out of print. Technology Review,
113(3), 84.