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Technology Integration and Classroom Management

Comic Life

GarageBand

iMovie

Web 2.0 Users

They crave the use of technology in the

classroom.

Wikispaces

BlogsSkype

Glogster

GoogleEarth

Google Sketch Up

Webcams

Smartboards

Cellphones

eBooks

There are some 1 billion computers in use.

Amazon sells more e-books than printed books.

Facebook has 500 million registered users

About 1.8 billion people connect to the Internet.

Google handles about 1 billion search queries per day.

24 hours of video viewing is uploaded every minute on YouTube.

Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.

The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.

E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.

One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.

By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.

There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.

The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.

While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.

Technology is spreading faster then ever…

And students want to use it all.

It’s our job as teachers to keep of with it and help students navigate it all!

This is what it means to integrate Web 2.0

technology into the classroom.

Credits http://modmyi.com/forums/iphone-news/713863-more-details-surface-imovie-iphone.html

http://www.mio.co.za/article/garageband-tutorial-2010-09-10

http://otf21stcenturyclassroom.wikispaces.com/Comic+Life

http://didyouknow.org/fastfacts/technology/

http://www.funfactz.com/computer-facts/