Hardware and Software Tools (EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY 2)

1. Hardware and Software Tools
By Patricia Loise L. Pajares
OTHER
TECHNOLOGY TOOLS
THAT SUPPORT
TEACHING AND
LEARNING IN THE
21ST CENTURY

2. Electronic Interactive
Whiteboards
• Encourages students to interact with
the material projected on the
whiteboard.

3. Electronic Interactive
Whiteboards
• With the use of the software supplied with
the whiteboard, teachers can keep notes
and annotations in a form of electronic file
which can be distributed to students when
requested. Some electronic whiteboards
have the capability of recording the
instruction as digital video files and may
be posted in the internet which can be
grabbed by the students anytime the wish.

4. Digital Still and Video
Cameras
• Digital still video cameras are helpful in creating
printed and video recorded documents that are being
required of the students. These tools are no longer too
expensive since cameras are already available on
mobile phones.

5. Digital Still and Video
Cameras
• Students can create video podcasts (known
as podcasts) with the help of fee software
like Garage Band or Photostory 3.

6. Web Camera
• (Webcam) is a small
video camera that can
capture the events at a
particular location. This
can be accessed using
the internet.

7. WebQuests
• These are teacher-designed lessons that make use of th
internet to solve problems presented b teaches for sten
inquiry.
• An inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all t
information that learners work with comes from the
internet.

8. Video Podcast
• (vodcast) is used for
the online delivery of
on-demand video
content.

9. Virtual Field Trip
• A structured online learning experience that
virtually brings the students from one place
to another through the internet.