Education Technology 2: Computers as Useful Tools The following tools that will be shown can connect, organize, and increase the ease of building multimedia lessons and learning tools. Prepared by : Bornea, Maduay, Marces and Vistal

1. COMPUTERS AS
USEFUL TOOLS
Group II
BORNEA, MAICA ELOISE ANN
MADUAY, JEAN JEAN
MARCES, LESLIBETH
VISTAL, ESTHER JOY

2. The following tools can connect,
organize, and increase the ease of
building multimedia lessons and
learning tools:

3. This tool captures great ideas, photos,
recording, or just about anything else on an
Evernote account. This is a must-have tool
for lesson planning.

5. There are so many ways Twitter can be used in
education. Teachers can connect with other
educators, take part in chats, share their ideas,
or even use it in the classroom to reach out to
students.

7. Google offers a number of great education
technology resources for teachers including e-
mail, collaborative applications, videos, lesson
plan database, professional development, and
educational grants.

9. This tool easily stores, shares, and access any
kind of data from anywhere with the easy-to-
use and free drop box service.

11. This tool lets one treat the web like paper-
based reading material, making materials
simple to highlight, bookmark, take notes, or
even add sticky notes.

13. This tool is one of the most widely used,
though expensive, technology tools being
used in today’s classroom is the apple ipad,
with a host of educational apps.

15. This tool is a suite of tools that make it easy to
edit images, effects, music, and audio, or to
create and modify screen captures.

17. This tool is a program that allows teachers to
take screenshots as images, and record up to
five minutes of videos, then edit and share
results.

19. This tool can be used to brainstorm ideas,
create mind maps, share, and collaborate.

21. This tool is an amazing and fast way to teach
students various geography projects and
geological processes.

23. This is a nonprofit organization that allows
individuals to donate directly to public school
classroom projects.

25. This is a tool that can upload presentations,
documents, and videos and share them with
students and colleagues. Even better, one can
take advantage of materials that others have
uploaded as well.

27. This tool is like a real-life three ring binder, this
technology tool allows one to collect and
organize resources. Much better than a binder,
however, the site comes with tools to connect
and collaborate.

29. Through this tool, one can record and share
audio with students or other users.