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= =Have Your Technology Impact Your Instruction=

Background
===You can find many sites that make statements like "using state of art technology" and "meeting the needs of today's students" as the only magic bullets to promote education. I do not agree with this. We, as teachers, know our students better than some third party and the majority of schools cannot afford state of the art technology unless we pay for it personally. This phrase "Technology in the Classroom" leads teachers to feel inadequate in understanding and impotent in funds to acquire.===

=Multimedia-Digital Age=

===The fact is that we are in a multimedia-digital age with the students. Teachers and students find research on the Internet. Pod-casting has become a mainstream hobby. YouTube provides self expression to everyone from companies outlining a product's use to families showing how to make a birthday cake. Technology has become mainstreamed in availability and simplified in use. Technology is all around you in the forms of televisions, calculators, overhead projectors, camcorders, IPODs, cell phones, digital cameras, computers, LCD projectors, electronic whiteboards, classroom clickers, etc.===

=For You=

===The trick is to recognize the available technology you have and how to maximize it at little cost to benefit you and your students. Unfortunately, there are some technology costs that cannot be minimized up front but averaged through years of use. I am still using a digital camera (8 years), Dell Laptop (10 years), camcorder (5 years), LCD projector (3 years) for school among my school technology. Spending money on quality extends lifespan of your equipment.===

=Where I Am Now=