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Research Says Comments: Please type your name and your response beside it for the following questions. Please be careful not to delete the comments of others. This is a wiki which is edited by all members.

1. What kinds of technologies do you use in your classroom? How are they used?

Gail- Moodle, Elluminate, Powerpoint, Flipcameras, audiotapes, proscope, document camera They are primarly used to share information or do do inquiry.

Rhonda - SmartBoard, PowerPoint, Edmodo, Internet, every student has a laptop, graphing calculators, microscopes, OpenOffice, Word, Google Docs.

2. How do you see that these technologies you use affect student learning?

Gail- Powerpoint and Elluminate help my students sleep in class. (kidding). Powerpoint is useful for visual information. Elluminate allows for distance education synchronous instruction. Moodle allows for group discussion in written form and a place to store documents.

Rhonda - these technologies make the learning more engaging. Edmodo allows students to submit their work electronically and be more "green." Google docs is similar to this idea - where students can edit a document, also they can take surveys, etc.