Make+the+best+of+what's+around+-+implementing+low-cost+solutions+to+deliver+a+first-class+student+experience

Presenter: ** John Connolly, ** Science Faculty / Science Technology Coordinator School: [|Saint Ann's School]


 * Description:** As educators and educational institutions, we are constantly bombarded with increasingly complex, unwieldy and costly technological products that can enhance our curricula while simultaneously increasing budgetary needs and requiring more, not fewer work hours to utilize. While some of the more expensive and proprietary software services and/or suites can elegantly and efficiently allow us to better support our students' learning, often these solutions create more problems than they solve, and are much more robust than the situation demands. This presentation will explore how to use widely supported, easy to use, low-cost and no-cost services and software to deliver a more accessible, connected and media-rich version of your curriculum. Technology is, after all, supposed to enhance how and what we teach - not force us to completely rework our methods to suit the technology.

A long list of opensource / free software etc. from the April NYCIST meeting.