New+Technologies

New Technologies

This is the page where all the Technology definitions are placed and it will be noted how they are used in our school...  __Smart objects__ by mikayla

Smart objects are objects that link or connect to the physical world i.e our world and the information world i.e the internet. In other words smart objects are like having the world information in the palm of your hand. For example a smart objects can find and look at information e.g. your coffeepot can tell you about the weather while you pour yourself a cup of coffee. Smart objects have the ability to manage information and track information. Smart objects can track information through a number of ways e.g. radio-Frequency identification (RFID) tags (e.g. the little chip you put in dogs, so when you scan their necks all their information shows up, name, address etc), quick response (QR) codes, and smart cards are more common. They have the ability to add/store descriptions, opinions, instructions, warranties, tutorials, photographs and to be able to connect with other technological information.

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=__For example__ =

=I decided that the best way to really show how a QR code works would be to give an example. This is a QR code that has a code in it that contains a website I built to explain how a QR code works. In real life you just need to print out the QR code and it stick it somewhere in the school and then the students could take a photo of it and using the QR code scanning software on your smart object e.g. laptop or cellphone, that would send you to my website or just to visit my website now click on the link below. =

=http://howqrcodework.wikispaces.com/ = How this technology relates to our school...

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 * **We interviewed Mrs Davidson on how smart objects would benefit a social studies class and we decided that in social studies smart objects can be used when researching people, inventions, history etc as the teachers could give out a list of QR (Quick Response) code and then the students could get their smart objects e.g. cell phones to take photos of the QR codes and this could then send them to websites containing information on the topic or it could send you to documents online on it or work that they need to do. This would be faster than the teacher giving out long instructions on what they need to do and where they need to go. **<span style="font-family: 'Impact', 'sans-serif'; color: #7030a0; font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> <span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Impact', 'sans-serif'; color: #1f10b1; font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">Smart object could also be useful for when doing projects in all subjects as the student instead of handing a huge project on a board that is heavy that the student to carry they could just hand in a Q.R (Quick Response) code or bar codes on a slip of paper that the teacher could scan with their smart object and this could then take them to a website with their project on it or a word document online etc. This could then save time in printing out all the paper to glue on, save money on supplies like paper, glue, card etc and lastly this would save tree by not using as much paper and cardboard. <span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #7030a0; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">Smart objects could be used for adding more quick information in projects e.g. on a project students could put a QR (Quick Response) code that could send them to a website with more information on the topic they have chosen or they could use QR (Quick Response) codes for the bibliography by putting them on the project and then the people who look at it could use their smart objects to scan them and that could send them to a website that they got the information on it. **<span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">


 * <span style="font-family: 'Impact', 'sans-serif'; color: #1f10b1; font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">Smart objects could also be used for decorating class rooms with work as the teachers could just put up QR (Quick Response) codes or Bar codes that send you to pictures, websites, documents etc instead of big projects that take lots of space on the classroom's walls. This would save on space in the classrooms. <span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">

<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #7030a0; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-NZ; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt;"> <span style="line-height: 27px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(112,48,160); font-size: 19px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; color: #1e6c1e; font-size: 14pt; msoansilanguage: EN-US;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 103%; msoansilanguage: EN-US;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; font-size: 110%;"> Mobiles <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Impact', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">by Maddi
 * <span style="font-family: 'Impact', 'sans-serif'; color: #1f10b1; font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">Smart objects could be used for scavenger hunts by putting up QR (Quick Response) codes or Bar codes and the students could run around scanning them with their smart objects looking for them. <span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #7030a0; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">We interviewed Mrs guthire and decided that in English smart objects would be useful when making static images when looking at books in class. Static images are used for when trying to show visually how the characters feel, act, relate to one another etc using a picture/drawing of something on a quote or a verse in a book. Smart objects e.g. one of the latest cellphones, would be helpful for static images because the static image could be the Q.R (quick response) code or bar code that contain a summary of the book or the quote of the book that was used etc and when the teacher or anyone wanted to see the information put on the Q.R (quick response) code they could scan it and see it with their smart object or the student making the static image could just make the image normally by drawing it then putting a Q.R (quick response) code on it for a link to the authors website or the book’s website for more information on the book. **<span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">

<span style="font-family: Berlin Sans FB Demi; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastlanguage: EN-NZ; msobidilanguage: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; msobidifontfamily: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Mobiles are a portable technologic gadget that upgrades each new release, becoming more capable and flexible. Mobiles have changed into multimedia devices, being able to record videos and audio as the storage memory has increased. Mobiles are now like pocket sized laptops as you can now browse the web and check your email on your phone. <span style="font-family: Impact; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastlanguage: EN-NZ; msobidilanguage: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; msobidifontfamily: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">

<span style="font-family: 'Impact', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">How this technology relates to our school... <span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #008e40; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-NZ; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; msobidifontsize: 14.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #651ab7; font-size: 10pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-NZ; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore; msobidifontsize: 14.0pt;">· <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #651ab7; font-size: 14pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastlanguage: EN-NZ; msobidifontfamily: Arial;">We interviewed Mrs Hayward on how Mobiles could be used in Science and we decided that they would be useful to take photos of experiments to place on websites for the class or other classes to see, or for putting them in our books for better notes.

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> · > > <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; font-size: 208%;"> <span style="text-align: center; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; font-size: 409.6%;"> <span style="text-align: center; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; font-size: 24pt; msoansilanguage: EN-US;">__Cloud computing__
 * <span style="font-family: 'Impact', 'sans-serif'; color: #1120b6; font-size: 14pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastlanguage: EN-NZ; msobidifontfamily: Arial;">In all subjects Mobiles could be uses with for (quick response) QR codes. <span style="font-family: 'Impact', 'sans-serif'; color: #002060; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastlanguage: EN-NZ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; msobidifontfamily: Arial;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #7c1abc; font-size: 14pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastlanguage: EN-NZ; msobidifontfamily: Arial;">We interviewed Mrs White on how Mobile technology could be used in a Music class and we decided that Mobile technology would be a great use in Music when learning to play instruments. The touch technology like iphone could have piano software on them so that the students could play the piano and record it and mix up the sound etc also it could have recording programs on it so the students could play their instruments, then hear the songs and find their mistakes and also look at the different beats and notes that the technology identified. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #008e40; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">

<span style="text-align: left; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">by Ruby

Cloud computing would be good for schools in case of a big shutdown and all the documents of students and staff lost all their work. Cloud computing is where your work is stored like in a ‘cloud’ in the sky, It is not on your computer memory and you can access it from anywhere with a user name and password of your choice.

How this Technology relates to our school...

<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 80%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">·  Cloud computing would be good for all subjects and would come in great use if something happened and all the computers crashed. Websites like google, youtube, bebo, twitter etc, Are sources of cloud computing because you have created an account and all your information is stored on that website. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; font-size: 211.2%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; font-size: 160%;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; font-size: 160%;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; font-size: 160%;"> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 115%; display: block; font-family: Arial Rounded MT Bold; font-size: 14pt; msoansilanguage: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">__Online Communication Tools__

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; font-size: 14pt;">By Francesca

This is an instant messaging application which allows only person to send a message to some else and they will receive it straight away right in front of their screen. This includes: msn, Skype, yahoo messenger and other chat rooms/booths etc. With these tools you can add contacts if they have the same client as you. They will appear in your list for you to chat to instantly. This is only if they are online of course. <span style="text-align: center; line-height: 115%; display: block; font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; msoansilanguage: EN-US;">

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">How technology relates to our school…

<span style="font-family: 'Impact', 'sans-serif'; color: #0800b0; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">· <span style="font-family: 'Impact', 'sans-serif'; color: #0800b0; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <span style="font-family: 'Impact', 'sans-serif'; color: #0800b0; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">It would be easier if we used an instant message communicating program in subjects to interact with teachers if you’re un sure what to do or even if you are sick at home. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #7700ff; font-size: 14pt; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msobidilanguage: AR-SA; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msofareastthemefont: minor-latin;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #008e40; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">· <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #008e40; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #008e40; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Instead of being explained information about a certain topic they can be shown by the teacher so they can explain it easier and communicate with them, it will make the school system easier and faster. ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msobidilanguage: AR-SA; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msofareastthemefont: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <span style="font-family: 'Impact', 'sans-serif'; color: #0800b0; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">· <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: 'Impact', 'sans-serif'; color: #0800b0; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <span style="font-family: 'Impact', 'sans-serif'; color: #0800b0; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Religious studies would benefit from online communication tools. We interviewed Mrs. Moss and asked her how Online communication Tools could be used in a typical Religious Studies class. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <span style="font-family: 'Impact', 'sans-serif'; color: #0800b0; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">· <span style="font-family: 'Impact', 'sans-serif'; color: #0800b0; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <span style="font-family: 'Impact', 'sans-serif'; color: #0800b0; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">We also thought that Mrs. Moss would benefit from using Skype to talk to people outside of school. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <span style="font-family: 'Impact', 'sans-serif'; color: #0800b0; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">· <span style="font-family: 'Impact', 'sans-serif'; color: #0800b0; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <span style="font-family: 'Impact', 'sans-serif'; color: #0800b0; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The younger year level teachers and students could also use Skype to talk to teachers from other schools about festivals and cultures, (food and clothes). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #008e40; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">· <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #008e40; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #008e40; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">We discussed how many Religious Studies classes have to play DVD’s or YouTube clips during class. So we thought that using Skype, the teacher could Skype the certain DVD or clip to the students. This would mean that the students get to watch the DVD or clip on their own laptop and work at their own pace. **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #008e40; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">· <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #008e40; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #008e40; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The older year level teachers and students could Skype people from other countries and interview them. People with different beliefs and cultures .This would give the students more information and ideas. **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #008e40; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">· <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #008e40; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #008e40; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">This would make Religious studies more interesting and fun. Students can become friends with people all over the world and learn interesting facts about their countries. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">

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<span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 26pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Personal web

<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">by Kelly

Personal webs are web pages created by individuals who fill the page with personal interests and hobbies to share with friends and others. Others who share same interests can look on their page and chat and share ideas and many other things. <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Academic professionals (especially at the college and university level) are often given space for creating and storing personal [|web documents], including personal web pages, on the sites of their employers. Some of the popular webs are bebo, facebook, my space and twitter. Personal web sites are very popular among teengaers. Personal webs can be created by a group or an organization.

How this technology relates to our school…

<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msoansilanguage: EN; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore; mso-ansi-language: EN;">· <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">If every student in the school had access to a personal web site, they could share their work with their teachers and friends publically or privately. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msoansilanguage: EN; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore; mso-ansi-language: EN;">· <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In art personal web would be useful if we were to do some art at school or at home they can upload it on the site and write some description about the painting so they can share it with their friends. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msoansilanguage: EN; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore; mso-ansi-language: EN;">· <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In art personal web could also be useful as the teacher could also give the marks on the web site. They could also send it to the teacher and friends. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msoansilanguage: EN; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore; mso-ansi-language: EN;">· <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">We interviewed Ms Thompson, our art teacher about how personal webs can help art at school and she said that on our webs, the teacher could visit and view the art works and give feedbacks and also give us links to internet galleries to help inspire us and to look at other famous artist’s works. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msoansilanguage: EN; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore; mso-ansi-language: EN;">· <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">We can also could create our own galleries with a friend or class. The teacher could also give us the links to virtual galleries to make it more realistic and to help the students.

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====<span style="text-align: left; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 115%; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 90%; msoansilanguage: EN-US;"> ==== <span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Myriad-Roman; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Myriad-Roman; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> by sarah <span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Myriad-Roman; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">Collaborative environments are effective virtual spaces for sharing information and supporting teams working together. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The number of products and services in the field of online collaboration is amazing. They range <span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Myriad-Roman; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">from shared document editors like Google Doc <span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Myriad-Roman; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">s ( http://docs.google.com ), to openly editable websites like Wikipedia, to social networking sites that include profiles and communication tools like Facebook. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Myriad-Roman; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Myriad-Roman; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> Some teachers use online collaborative environments to manage their classrooms and to share resources with other teachers. A common feature of all of these applications is a workspace that may be shared by students and their teachers from anywhere and has less time limitations than an actual classroom. Some examples include: <span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Myriad-Roman; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-NZ; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Myriad-Roman; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">Google Docs: <span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">With Google Docs you can upload <span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> from and save to your desktop, edit anytime, from anywhere, pick who can access your documents, share changes in real time and files are stored securely online. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-NZ; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Myriad-Roman; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">MindMeister: users may edit graphic documents such as mind maps online as a group while working from a number of Web portals: http://www.mindmeister.com/  <span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-NZ; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Myriad-Roman; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> Classblogmeister is a searchable network of classroom blogs and bloggers, both students and teachers: http://classblogmeister.com/index.php <span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Myriad-Roman; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Myriad-Roman; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Myriad-Roman; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> Collaborative environments can be used by Diocesan Year 9 students to manage and complete a team Science project. For example if your group was required to prepare a basic Science Fair experiment, Google docs could be used to: <span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Myriad-Roman; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> You can easily create team documents from scratch including team responsibilities, work deadlines, research parameters, and report formats Google Docs accepts most popular file formats, including DOC, XLS, PPT etc, so research spreadsheets, graphs, tables and presentations could be uploaded to the shared project environment. Only the team would have access to the research data and outcomes if that’s the desire. Team members (or invited guests) can edit or view documents, spreadsheet or presentations as they sign in. Multiple people can view and make changes at the same time. There's an on-screen chat window for spreadsheets, and document revisions show you exactly who changed what, and when. Team members can access documents, spreadsheets and presentations from any computer with an Internet connection and a standard browser. Online storage and auto-save means there are no hard drive failures or power outages. The final marketing plan and accompanying research can be online with one click, as normal-looking web pages, without having to learn anything new. You can publish to the entire world, just a few people or no one (you can also un-publish at any time.)
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 * //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Create basic documents from scratch //**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Upload and post existing research files. //**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Choose who can access your documents. //**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Share instantly. //**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
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 * //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Safely stores work. //**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Publish your work as a web page. //**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">

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