Digital Cameras

We've been discussing heavily the importance of technology in classrooms. Ag teachers are well known for taking pictures of every FFA event and student. Some new cameras from Nikon use a WIFI connection to upload your picturers to a website for you to retrieve.
http://www.macworld.com/article/132930/2008/04/nikon.html

FireWire

"FireWire is one of the fastest peripheral standards ever developed, which makes it great for use with multimedia peripherals such as digital video cameras and other high-speed devices like the latest hard disk drives and printers." From Apple.com. FireWire is being integrated into new components that make the connection between the computer and the component. I use FireWire when I used external hard drives to make the connection faster. It will definitely help teaching when saving/transferring students' proficiencies, SAE books, videos, pictures, etc.


- Nathan

OSU Second Life

In an alumni magazine my fiance recieves there is article this month that relates to Ohio State and Second Life. Even university's are getting in on the action.

OSU Second Life

Amy

ipods used for national chapter award presentations!

Many of the block students were surprised as the Ridgemont FFA members entered the room to be judged on their National Chapter Award presentation equipped with only four ipods, rather than a laptop and projector like most of the presenters. These students created a video podcast prior to the presentation day highlighting their FFA chapter's activities in each division. Each judge was given an ipod and a set of headphones so that they could watch the podcast during the presentation.

This was a very innovative way to present the information and it definitely minimized the amount of supplies/equipment they needed.

Jamie Zimmer

IPOD's in the Classroom

I was acutally looking for a lesson on apples...and today being big on technology I ended up finding a website on apple ipods! I thought it was a great resource and made a good blog for our technology course! The following website, http://www.apple.com/au/education/ipod/lessons/ is a great resource for how ipods can be used within the classroom! It is very interesting to see, and hopefully ipods in the classroom will be the next big thing!!


Jenna Meeks

Free Parli Pro Materials

Well--I have no experience with parli-pro, so I am a bit worried about this when I will have to teach about it in the fall. I had recieved an email awhile back about free information for teachers teaching parli-pro. They sent me the following info:

The FREE Parliamentary Procedure Spell Check Teaching Package you recently requested is ready for you to download.

Click on www.northwest.net/parli-pro and then "Free Materials" on the Main Menu on left side of the first page.

So I hope this material is usefull to all of you sometime in your careers!

Jenna Meeks

Agricultural Research Magazine

The USDA and the Agricultural Research Service publish a monthly magazine called the Agricultural Research Magazine. This magazine is an awesome way to keep you, and your students up to date with the latest agricultural research in a variety of subjects. My EFE teacher would purchase a subscription for every student and they would pick one article every month, summarize the article, and give a short presentation to the class. The monthly issues can also be viewed online at:

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/

Jamie Zimmer