Chelsie Kloepfer

Middle Childhood Education Math/Social Studies

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Google Earth

October 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Google earth is a program that can be downloaded for free on your desktop. It is a program that is basically a huge map of the world. It can be used in education to strengthen ones geographical knowledge. Google earth allows you to type any location in the world into a search box and then [...]

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The Pathfinder

October 6th, 2007 · No Comments

The Pathfinder is an example of a speech generating device utilzed by those who have difficulty communicating verbally due to their disability. This device is used by both adults and students to assist in daily conversations. Pathfinders contain a variety of vocabulary programs allowing the user to have shortcuts to words and phrases, rather than [...]

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The DV4

September 29th, 2007 · No Comments

The DV4 is a dynamic display device which uses a synethesized computer voice to help people with certain disabilities.  It also has a scanning feature to help people with more needs than others.  It contains a 17 page set that is already programed into the device before it is shipped.  The sets are used to meet [...]

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Radio Frequency Clicker

September 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

The radio frequency clicker is used in the classroom to quickly get an electronic response from all of the students during a lecture. This helps teachers figure out what percentage of the students understand the lesson or if he/she needs to go back and reexplain the lesson. This is much more efficient and saves time rather than [...]

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The PDF Annotator

September 16th, 2007 · No Comments

The PDF Annotator can be used in the classroom to teach lessons coming from the internet much easier. Its used to make PDF documents with out having to use step by step software. Before the PDF Annotator, annotation or commenting on a document would have required multiple documents that would have to be [...]

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Three Prominent People in Educational Technology

September 6th, 2007 · No Comments

Blaise Pascal: He was credited for building the first digital computer.
Dorr E. Felt: He invented the first printing desk calculator.
Yoshiro Nakamats: He invented the floppy disk.
*These three men basically gave us a starting point for technology and gave us something to build off of. Now we have the technology we have because [...]

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Hello world!

September 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment

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