This document discusses how various technologies can be used in the classroom to enhance learning. It describes how laptops can increase student engagement and focus by providing a personal learning space. Smart boards allow teachers to create interactive lessons using touch technology. Edmodo and My Big Campus are online platforms that extend classroom learning and discussions. Elmo projectors are used to display documents and 3D objects for students to see. Overall, the technologies discussed have the potential to improve communication, thinking skills, instruction, and develop life skills critical for students.

1. Vicky Jones

2.  Technology in the classroom can play a
major role in the learning process of a
student.
 Technology offers students an opportunity
to succeed as citizens in a global society in
which information is constantly growing.
 It can improve communication, enhance
thinking skills, make instruction more
efficient and effective, and develops life
skills critical to success.

3.  Technology is a great resource for
teachers to use with there students
in the classroom.
 It keeps the students engaged while
learning the necessary objective and
content standards.

4. Laptops
Smart Boards
Edmodo
Big Campus
Elmo Projectors

5.  Laptops can be a means of
providing students with
personal space. Students
are placed in similar
rooms, use similar desks,
and so on.
 Laptops can also increase
student engagement.
 Many classrooms that use
laptops experience
increased attendance rates
and fewer disciplinary
problems.

6.  Laptops can create an
excitement about
learning in general.
 They can generate
greater interest in
research writing and
other student projects.
 Laptops can lead to a
sense of discovery every
day, keeping, students
more focused on a
given task.

7.  The SMART Board is a large
whiteboard that uses touch
technology for user input
using a mouse of keyboard.
 A projector is used to
display the computer’s video
output onto the whiteboard,
which then acts as a huge
touch screen.
 The interactive whiteboard
accepts touch input from a
finger, pen, or other solid
objects.

8.  The whiteboard can
entrance instruction
and learning.
 The software used
with the SMART
Board makes it
possible for teachers
to create content rich,
dynamic lessons
which address specific
student skills.

9.  Edmodo is designed to get students excited
about learning in a familiar environment.
 On Edmodo, teachers can continues classroom
discussions online, give polls to check for
student understanding, and award badges to
individual students based on performance or
behavior.

10.  My Big Campus is a collaborative learning
platform that provides access to resources and
people that make learning engaging, fun, and
real.
 My Big Campus extends the classroom to a
safe, engaging online environment that
balances educational use of Web technologies
with network.
 My Big Campus enables you to easily monitor
and control your school's content and your
users' activity, messages, and file uploads.

11.  The Elmo projector is to
display documents and
other objects that are
not translucent.
 The Elmo requires a
video camera.
 Projectors are able to
display more than just
documents, however,
and in many cases, they
can be used to display
three-dimensional
objects as well.