The document discusses several technology tools that can be used in language arts classrooms, including Microsoft OneNote, PowerPoint, and interactive whiteboards. It recommends using OneNote and PowerPoint to create digital lessons and materials for students. For teachers without Microsoft Office, OpenOffice is suggested as a free alternative. An inexpensive alternative to interactive whiteboards, called the Wiimote Whiteboard Project, is also presented. The document encourages teachers to experiment with available technologies now to engage and teach students.

1. Technology Now
Several internet and software programs and display
systems to use in your Language Arts classroom now.
By Kristle Bryan

2. Microsoft OneNote
OneNote is a great program that allows you to create digital
binders accessable from any computer if you create the
OneNote file and save it to SkyDrive, Microsoft’s cloud.

3. Use Microsoft OneNote Now
 Use it now to store data on students, lesson plans, even
graphics or graphic organizers if you project onto a
chalkboard or whiteboard in your classroom.
 Plan to use it with students. Teach them how to
research, store and sort data. Teach them how to create
digital portfolios.
 Then, watch your students teach you how far the
technology could go.

4. Microsoft OneNote
 Visit Microsoft by clicking the link below to learn
how more about OneNote and the impact it can
have on your life and the lives of your students.
Microsoft OneNote

5. Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
PowerPoint is a great program that allows you to create
presentations. Like OneNote, PowerPoint is also accessible
from any computer if you create presentation and save it to
SkyDrive, Microsoft’s cloud.

6. Microsoft PowerPoint
 Use it now to create engaging lessons which aid
students in creating their own writing or analysis of
literature, guest teacher lesson plans, even interactive
graphics or graphic organizers if you project onto a
chalkboard or whiteboard in your classroom.
 Plan to use it with students. Teach them how to
research, sort data, summarize, draw connections and
conclusions based on their reading and research. Teach
them how to create digital presentations.
 Then, watch your students teach you how far the
technology could go.

7. Microsoft PowerPoint
 Visit Microsoft by clicking the link below to learn how
more about PowerPoint and the impact it can have on
your life and the lives of your students.
Microsoft PowerPoint

8. Lack Microsoft Office Licensing?
Check out OpenOffice.org. They offer some great
alternatives to Microsoft PowerPoint.

9. Lack Microsoft Office Licensing?
Check out OpenOffice.org. They offer some great
alternatives to Microsoft OneNote. It is even available on
smartphones.

10. Interactive Whiteboards
Interactive whiteboards are awesome. They allow teachers
and students to interact directly with digital resources in a
visual environment.

11. Interactive Whiteboards
 Use it now to create engaging lessons which aid show
your thought process and how to actually work with an
manipulate technology, the curriculum and thinking
strategies.
 Plan to use it with students. Teach them how to
research, sort data, summarize, draw connections, and
draw conclusions based on their reading and research.
Teach them how to manipulate their environments and
own their learning.
 Then, watch your students teach you how far the
technology could go and just how attentive they can.

12. Interactive Whiteboards
 Visit a great website that really explains some of the
nuances of interactive whiteboards by clicking the link
below. Learn how they can impact your life and the lives
of your students.
Interactive Whiteboards in the Classroom

13. An alternative Interactive Whiteboard System
Interactive whiteboards are awesome. But the cost of an
interactive whiteboard is not. The cost for an interactive
whiteboard system ranges from hundred to thousands of
dollars.
There is an alternative that will cost less than $200 for
teachers with access to a digital projector: the Wiimote
Whiteboard Project.

14. The Wiimote Whiteboard Project
Visit Wiiteachers.com to learn about the system
components and software that utilizes a Wiimote to create
an intearactive whiteboard in your classroom for less than
$200. Follow the links at the bottom of the page to find out
more about the creation and development of the Wiimote
Whiteboard Project and it’s creators.
The Wiimote Whiteboard Project

15. Technology Now and You
These programs and systems are just a springboard.
It is my hope that individual teachers, like me, will
find ways to utilize technology now; in ways we can
afford, as to cost and time, to impact our kids now.