OCW Consortium. MIT OpenCourseWare. Online Learning Tools for a Better Education Experience. Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative. The Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative is an international not-for-profit organisation providing demand-driven assistance to developing countries seeking to harness the potential of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to improve their education systems.
Background[edit] GeSCI was established in 2003, borne out of the work of the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force which identified education as an area in critical need of development, and one where ICT has the potential to make positive impacts. The UN ICT Task Force approved a proposal for a UN-affiliated organisation to provide demand-driven assistance to developing countries seeking to harness the potential of ICT to improve the quality of teaching and learning in primary and secondary education. ICT4E in the Knowledge Society[edit] Education is considered one of the cornerstones of social economic development. References[edit] ICT in Education. Main product page for Splashtop Whiteboard. Turn Any Tablet into an Interactive Whiteboard Teachers, students, sales professionals, trainers, financial planners – essentially any presenter – loves being able to easily highlight, draw, or write over presentations using their iPads and tablets.
With Whiteboard, you can increase interactivity while you present, train, or teach. No longer hampered by pushing your slides or content from a PC, you can roam around the room and hand the iPad to a colleague or student so they can collaborate on content or work through an assignment with you. You have complete control over everything on your PC as if you were sitting in front of it.Annotate over ANYTHING – Use gestures to draw, highlight, or write over any content.Take snapshots of the screen and save them to the gallery, then share them.Play Adobe Flash content, iTunes music, DVDs, CDs, etc with no latency You can leave your PC on and connect to it remotely from the comfort of your home.
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He likes clean typography, dirty language, strong coffee, apple pie and comfortable chairs, and he writes about his obsessions at 90WPM. As the post-PC era moves from interesting theory to cold, hard reality, one of the most pressing questions is: How can we use tablets, and especially the iPad, to help people learn? Most of the focus has been on ebooks replacing textbooks, a trend fueled by Apple’s recent updates to iBooks. Specifically, the company released iBooks Author, a tool for creating immersive ebooks on the desktop. Plus, the new iPad is now the first tablet with a retina screen, making reading and watching multimedia on the device even more enjoyable. But technology is only as good as the system it’s applied to. Not Just a Textbook The iPad (not to mention the iPhone and iPod touch) is a personal, mobile computer capable of performing tasks unthinkable 10 years ago on a high-end desktop.
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