Welcome to the Helena Public Schools 2010 NCCE Blog!

A boat-load (well, bus load) of Helena Public Schools teachers are traveling to the NCCE educational technology conference in Seattle, Washington March 3-5, 2010 to see the latest and greatest in educational technology. See our reflections, thoughts and reactions here!

Friday, March 5, 2010

Gizmos, Gadgets, and High Tech Toys

So there I was...sitting in Digital Storytelling. But then I caved...I knew the Gizmos class was going on at the same time. I dashed out and into this class--and nerded out to the dozens of useless tech toys out there. By the way, did you know the word "nerd" was coined from none other than Dr. Seuss? True...this book in fact:


















Well, after his
acknowledgement of how he is often confused with Philippe Cousteau (check below for those similarities)...he had us turn on our cell phones to text us for about 40 prizes.













Can you tell which is which?





In fact, I just won some sort of drain contraption.


















Ok so, pretty much every tool he showed us I would never purchase for the classroom...and not for myself...but it
did entertain me. Here are some of those useless gizmos:
So you know of Twitter...now have Twitter for your dog. Every time your dog barks-get an update.











Need an iPod Dock? Probably don't get this one:















Want to try to look cool while carring your iPod Touch? Then carrying it around like a weapon holster probably won't work:


















Finally, do you lose your flash drive often? I guarantee you won't if you get it in the bowling ball style:

















Over and out.
-Chelsie



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