Technology+Effectiveness-+Opening+Student's+Eyes

=**Technologies Included in this Project:**= = =
 * 1) **Wikispace--used an tool to present information and take students on an interactive trip through the movement toward equality in our country. This tool allows visual spatial, verbal linguistic, and kinestetic learners the ability to view, read, hear, and interactive with technology.**
 * 2) **Videos--used both music, text, and visuals to stimulate learners.**
 * 3) **Audio--the audio slave diary allows listeners as well as interpersonal and intrapersonal learners to find relationship with one single individual in this time of civil upheaval.**
 * 4) **On-line survey and interactives--these allow both interpersonal, intrapersonal, visual-spatial, verbal-liguistic, mathematical, and kinestetic learners the ability to state opinions and learn in a non-threatening, interactive way. The final projects allow student choice in all areas of the multiple intelligences.**

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 * Technology Issues: As with all technology, there are threats. The main threat is the difficulty one might have in linking to all the interactives or in students inability to manage the site on their own. These threats sometime keep us as teachers from venturing out into the virtual world; when we do, however, we are limiting our students need for inquiry based learning. ****In our ever-changing world, our children are bombarded daily with new information. Gone are the days when literacy was defined simply as “the ability to read and write.” Today, to be literate, one must have the “ability to locate, evaluate, use, and communicate using a wide range of resources including text, visual, audio, and video sources” (Information Literacy) ****. Using these new technologies will encourage and develop media literate individuals. **