Comments on: Tools and Their Selection http://www.durandus.com/phaedrus/2007/09/tools-and-their-selection/ Technology is neither the problem nor the solution. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:12:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pam Callahan http://www.durandus.com/phaedrus/2007/09/tools-and-their-selection/#comment-451 Pam Callahan Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:58:24 +0000 http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2007/09/15/tools-and-their-selection/#comment-451 I would add some sort of audio tool to the basic toolbox. Kim Dearing has gotten me intrigued on podcasts, so I am going to research them today on my "catch up" day. Also, I completely agree with putting lecture-type software on the list of items to remove from the teacher toolbox. The whole point of integrating technology in the classroom is to move away from the traditional lecture model and make the classroom more student centered. While reading your list about excluding PowerPoint, I think that teachers who teach Computer Applications classes need to teach their students to proper etiquette for using PowerPoint when giving presentations. Students could be given a presentation assignment and taught techniques for proper business speaking. Your list of five proper uses for PowerPoint is very nicely done. I would add some sort of audio tool to the basic toolbox. Kim Dearing has gotten me intrigued on podcasts, so I am going to research them today on my “catch up” day. Also, I completely agree with putting lecture-type software on the list of items to remove from the teacher toolbox. The whole point of integrating technology in the classroom is to move away from the traditional lecture model and make the classroom more student centered.

While reading your list about excluding PowerPoint, I think that teachers who teach Computer Applications classes need to teach their students to proper etiquette for using PowerPoint when giving presentations. Students could be given a presentation assignment and taught techniques for proper business speaking. Your list of five proper uses for PowerPoint is very nicely done.

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