Lindsay Technology

The following are also topics we will be covering. These are especially important if you have a computer at home or plan on ever having one of your own. Let me know if there is anything I missed that you would like to cover...

• Computer Components - Know your computer inside and out (drives, ports, external devices, memory, motherboard, hard drive, video card, sound card...)
  
• Computer Maintenance - Clean up your hard drive, running defrag, and keeping all of your programs up to date
  
• Computer Upgrades - How to increase memory and storage
• Computer Viruses - Avoiding, protecting, and ridding your system of them
• Windows Tools - Behind the scenes tools that can help you fix and customize Windows
  

The following topics are possibilities for our Lindsay technology class. Please review them and post a comment indicating which are most interesting to you.

• Google Docs, Sites (Communication, Collaboration)
• Blogging (Communication, Collaboration, Creativity)
• Podcasting (Communication, Collaboration, Creativity)
• Wikis (Communication, Collaboration)
• Publishing - Publisher, Word (Communication, Creativity)
• Photo uploading & sharing ((Visual) Communication, Collaboration, Creativity)
• Video uploading & sharing ((Visual) Communication, Collaboration)
• Audio Editing- Audacity, itunes (Communication, Creativity)
• Image Editing - Photoshop, Picasa, Fireworks (Communication, Creativity)
• Movie making/Digital Story Telling - Movie Maker, PhotoStory, iMovie (Communication, Creativity, Critical Thinking)
• Concept-Mapping - Inspiration, CMap, FreeMind (Critical Thinking)
• Presentation tools - Powerpoint, Google Presentations, Slide Share (Communication, Collaboration)
• Web Design, including HTML (Collaboration, Creativity)
• 3-D Modeling - Google SketchUp (along with Google Earth) (Creativity, Critical Thinking)
• Game Creation - Game Maker, Scratch, Squeak (Creativity, Critical Thinking)
• Animation - Flash and various on-line applications (Creativity)
• Spreadsheets - Google Spreadsheets, Excel (Critical Thinking)
• Databases & Information Organization - FileMaker, Access (Critical Thinking)