Welcome to the Rawlinson Technology Blog

Welcome to the Rawlinson Community School Technology Blog. This blog is your source for information about what is happening in the Rawlinson Technology Department, as well as a resource to use for research. Keep checking the blog on a regular basis! You will be able to see student work, pictures, play games, view links, complete surveys, complete quizes and much more!

Touch Screens are here!

You may have seen a touch screen, but you have probably never seen this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtKQNwqNLLk&feature=related

And here is a demonstration of how to use it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4hkSSlFYII&feature=related

Music and Computers

Here is what some very clever people in Asia are doing with music and computers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFcDbtSwWG0

We have come a long way

Today computers can create images that look very realistic. Here is one of the very first videos created on a computer in the 1960s. That was almost 50 years ago!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLU2hIV7n_I&feature=PlayList&p=C90F7C6991C31315&index=8

What is a computer?

Computers have been around, in one form or another, for hundreds of years! Some computers could be programmed to do tasks for humans, while others could be used to help tell time.

Only a few years ago a computer was so large that it took up an entire room! Today, computers can be small enough to wear on your wrist - or even smaller than that!