Tech+Ed+Sites

  ===    <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">Promethean Board                === <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 140%; COLOR: rgb(49,6,239); FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; COLOR: #100f0f; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">A **Promethean Board** is an ACTIVboard that presents the user with an infinite number of possibilities to enhance the learning experience. The Promethean Board offers teachers new ways to engage students in the learning process. The board invites both interactivity and creativity in lesson design. Views and functions can be changed with the click of a pen (mouse) facilitating many transitions throughout the school day. ===<span style="FONT-SIZE: 140%; COLOR: rgb(49,6,239); FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">Educational Videos  === <span style="FONT-SIZE: 140%; COLOR: rgb(49,6,239); FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; COLOR: #100f0f; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">The use of **video** in teaching and learning is a common practice in education today. As learning online becomes more of a common practice in education, streaming video and audio will play a bigger role in delivering course materials to online learners. This form of technology brings courses alive by allowing online learners to use their visual and auditory senses to learn complex concepts and difficult procedures. Streaming media technology - video streaming - enables the real time, or on-demand distribution of audio, video, and multimedia on the internet. Streaming media is the simultaneous transfer of digital media (video, voice and data) so that it is received as a continuous real-time stream. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 140%; COLOR: rgb(49,6,239); FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 140%; COLOR: rgb(49,6,239); FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 140%; COLOR: rgb(49,6,239); FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"> =<span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: #1d02de; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">Podcasting = <span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"> A podcast is a pre-recorded audio program that's posted to a website and is made available for download so people can listen to them on personal computers or mobile devices. It is a series of audio or video digital-media files which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated download, through Web feeds, to portable media players and personal computers. Though the same content may also be made available by direct download or streaming, a podcast is distinguished from other digital-media formats by its ability to be syndicated, subscribed to, and downloaded automatically when new content is added. In most classrooms the teacher will find podcast episodes for students to listen to or watch. Sets of laptops, iPods, Palm handhelds, Pocket PCs, or other devices can be loaded with podcast episodes so students can use them at their desks, on field trips, in the library, or at home. Creating podcasts has many educational benefits. Students are able to create a product to share with a potentially world-wide audience. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">