Simple Tips for Implementing Technology into the Classroom:

I guess my major advice is to start small and then build. Start emailing with your
students. Assign them essays to write or questions to answer that they can send you by
email.

Then collect all the messages in a folder and sit and grade all at once and send personal
messages back in a day or two. Students like this. If your class is too large do this by
groups.

Use the spread sheet program you know [Excel, etc] and have students do a project with that.

In a general science course so-and-so is using the web to have students
examine science claims that are not valid. The students are doing well with this project.
You know they are developing a laptop course as well where students will be using the computer, special simulations, and the web in class.

Also, how about using the CD that comes with your text for that course in Inorganic Chemistry you are teaching. Just start by using it in the classroom to back up your lectures.

Do small things first; that's the key.

If you teach some statistics in your courses learn how to use spreadsheets and how teach
statistics using spreadsheets.

Just putting lecture notes on the web, or using Powerpoint slides projected from a computer
rather than overheads or writing on the board are not improvements in themselves.

Technology only can serve to enhance the learning and teaching goals and it does not
replace them.

From: Learning Through Technology