GIS allows us to view, understand, question, interpret, and visualize data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts.

A GIS helps you answer questions and solve problems by looking at your data in a way that is quickly understood and easily shared.

Resource:  http://www.gis.com/whatisgis/index.html

Resource :  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebQuest

First, use any paper (up to A4 size) and simply write, in your own handwriting, with the Z pen supplied. The pen has ink (which can be replaced with a standard refill) and the writing is stored in a clever USB dongle device. Once you have finished writing in all your glorious curvy nature, just plug the USB dongle into your pc and download the type to the ink to digital software supplied. Here you will be able to convert it to editable text and have as much fun possible, knowing that you needn’t be a touch typist to “type” at the speed of light!

The lightweight pen and receiver are easy enough to carry around with your laptop even and you can rest assured that the 1GB memory will store 1000s of text pages. Luckily this little device can also pick up images from 300DPI all the way to 900DPI so you needn’t buy a wacom unless you’re a designer and specifically need it!

This multi translation gadget supports 16 different languages namely Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Danish, Dutch, English UK, English US, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish and on top of all this you can use the Z Pen in Windows, Mac or Linux.

The following link will provide further informaton on the Z pen as well as information on how to purchase:

http://www.gadgetvenue.com/z-pen-digital-pen-09261453/

The designer globe has a base with drawer and contained within one will find a map of the US with detailed info of each of the 50 states. The base also contains a set of speakers which can be used if you need more volume, however, due to the SmartPen having built-in speakers, they can also be used for wireless use.

And yes, as with all funky new gadgets in the educational department, there’s more! When you purchase this globe it comes with a 25 page book which comes with more “random” information on countries, animals, dinosaurs, flags, foods, landmarks.

The following link provides more information on the product as well as information on how to purchase:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001HS4Z5U?smid=A3LJ5WMKNRFKQS&tag=nextag-toys-mp-delta-20&linkCode=asn

The following link can be used to purchase a Sony ebook reader:
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&categoryId=8198552921644523780

The five blogs that I subscribed to are:
jennysettlemire.wordpress.com
kellyshadley.wordpress.com
sethcarey.wordpress.com
shiffletk.wordpress.com
annmarieweasel.wordpress.com

The RSS reader that I will being using is google reader.

It discussed different facts in regards to monkeys and their habitats. There are 240 different types of monkey species and they are categorized as old world or new world. Monkeys are considered extremely intelligent mammals with an exceptional ability to learn and understand different stimulus. They mainly eat fruit but I found it interesting that they don’t eat the skin of any fruits only the inside. Other foods they eat range from leaves, seeds, nuts and flowers. They can range in size from 6 in to 48 in and weigh anywhere from less then a pound to 77 pounds. They can have from 1-3 babies at birth and some stay with their mothers for up to 3 years. There habitats consist of both trees and the savannah. The monkeys which found their homes in trees are losing their habitat do to deforestation, which the singing science teacher sings a song about.

1. Timothy J. Magner, Director, Office of Educational Technology -  I believe that Mr. Magner is important because of his role to implement educational technology with the No Child Left Behind Act.

2.Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education – I believe that Mr. Duncan is important for educational technology as we move forward with the new adminstration and implementing technology into our classrooms so that students are familiar with all the resources that are available to them.

3.B.F. Skinner – I believe that Mr. Skinner has important to educational technology because he is credited with speaking and expressing his ideas of implement technology into the classroom for students to learn in other forms other then textbooks.