TheJournal.com Webinar

I would like to share this information of the upcoming webinar of TheJournal Website: Building a Classroom for the Future: The Power of Integration and Collaboration.

The Journal: 

Technology is playing a significant role in the changing landscape of education and the classroom environment. Distance learning, collaboration, mobility, digitized curriculums and other trends are being driven by a marriage of new and existing technologies. This webinar will report on the major technology trends in K-12 education, and how savvy educators and IT professionals can harness emerging technology and its capabilities to build better classrooms – to include interactive displays, projectors, tablets, cameras and other video elements.

Join Florida State University Schools along with Panasonic to learn how they have leveraged the these technologies in their classrooms to enable teachers to:

• Capture lessons in their classrooms and also use them later for student study guides
• Track student performance and retention of particular subjects to focus on those who may need extra attention
• Improve collaboration and the overall visual aspect of learning in the classroom

Presented by:

• Robert Prater, IT Director, Florida State University Schools
• Michael Wilson, K12 Education Solution Specialist, Panasonic

Date: 12/11/13

Time: 12:00pm PT

Duration: 1 HR

TO SEE MORE INFORMATION PLEASE GO TO http://thejournal.com/webcasts/2013/12/panasonic-integration-collaboration-121113.aspx?pc=e735em04&utm_source=webmktg&utm_medium=E-Mail&utm_campaign=e735em04 YOU MUST REGISTER PRIOR THE EVENT.

Thanks!
Carlos Munoz

Duolingo, a great platform to learn or practice a language

I would like to present for you guys this platform than can allow you to learn or practice a language and contrary to popular programs, completely free. This web based tool has a college quality and provides easy access to others languages. The purpose of this website is translate all the Internet information to others languages with the very own mind of the users for free, they can't offer money, but they offer education. While you learn a language, you are actually helping to translate the web.

I'm a Spanish native speaker, but since I joined DeVry I'm constantly in practicing English. So you might find some grammar error, but my point here is that I'm actually better now in the grammar compared from when I took my first DeVry online course. I use Duolingo and Google Translate for when I have problems with specific words. Is an amazing web based tool, try it.

http://www.duolingo.com/

In the following video Lui von Ahn, explains this amazing tool. You have to watch it! Very short video explaining the meaning of Duolingo and how it is helping the human knowledge. Also he explain the purpose of the reCaptcha and how it is helping translating and decoding books, that can't be translated by a computer yet.

Introduction

Professor and classmates!

My first blog post! 

Welcome to my blog! It is intended to be a personal one. The objective is to discuss new trends in technology and sharing with the community in English or Spanish. My main goals are to share and analyze trends in technology for educational and for other communities.

Bienvenidos a mi blog! la intención es que sea uno personal. El objetivo del mismo es discutir nuevas tendencias de la tecnología y compartirla con la comunidad tanto en inglés como en español. Mis metas principales son el compartir y analizar las nuevas tendencias en la tecnología tanto para la educacion como para otras comunidades.