Session 1:
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Session 2: Linking Vocabulary, Formative Assessment, and Technology
STEAM Resources—http://www.stemresources.com/ … Math Users Guide Appendix F
vocabulary instruction tips and resources
based on Marzano's process of vocabulary instruction
applicable to all subject areas
good for ESL, SPED
http://www.visuwords.com/ – online graphical dictionary, concept mapping
http://www.wordle.net/ – toy for creating “word clouds.” Enter text into wordle, and it creates a collage that emphasizes words based on their importance/frequency in the text
Ideas for implementation
--students type a description of a character from a novel or story, putting the most important words in multiple times.
--copy and paste a paragraph from a text to show important words... to introduce or close a topic
--teach prepositions... create a wordle and have students tell where one word is compared to another
--teach spatial organization the same as prepositions above
Session 3: Self Publishing in the Classroom
My session
Session 4: Book Talks 101: Intro to Video Book Reports
My session
Session 5:
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Session 6: Tech Tools
Attached handout; http://www.teachingwithtech.net/, jeremywendt.com
- The computers for learning program is designed for schools and educational nonprofit organizations.The program provides refurbished computers from federal agencies with excess equipment.
- Delicious is a social bookmarking tool that allows you to find websites quickly and easily. The key to Delicious is that you can view websites viewed by other people. Delicious users tag websites with keywords.
- Slideshare allows users to upload PowerPoint, Keynote, Pages, and Word documents to a webpage. The documents can be viewed on the webpage or embedded into your website.
- A great future technology for the classroom. Augmented reality allows users to see 3D images through their webcam.
- Audacity is a free sound editor. Teachers can use Audacity to record their lessons, digital stories, or create podcasts for their students.
- Moodle is a open-source course management system that allows users to replicate the functionality of Blackboard and Desire 2 Learn.
- VoiceThread allows teachers to upload photos and documents to a webpage. Students can leave comments about the photo, or a teacher can upload a photo and students can give a brief description of the photo.
- Diigo allows teachers to bookmark, highlight, annotate, and share webpages with their students.
- Articulate is an award winning E-learning software suite that allows teachers to create, share, and publish E-learning content.
- Snagit is a screen capture program that allows teachers to record their actions. Snagit records the computer screen, so teachers can show step-by-step how to complete an educational task.
- Evernote allows teachers to keep all of their important information in one place. Teachers can connect to their Evernote account through a webpage, smartphone, or teacher's computer.
- Prezi is a non-linear visual presentation program. A great alternative to PowerPoint or Keynote. It's a new way for teachers to present information.
- Wikispaces is an easy wiki creation website. A wiki allows multiple users to modify the website. Wikipedia is a great example of a wiki.
- Wordle is a word cloud creation program. Wordle is a website that combines a series of words and creates a visual picture of frequently used words.
- Animoto allows teachers to take a group of photos and match it to a song. The program then compiles the photos and makes a musical video. It's an easy video creation program for teachers.
- PBworks is another easy to use wiki creation program. It's easy and free for teachers.
- DimDim is a program that allows users to control, present, and collaborate. Teachers can use DimDim to help students with homework from computer to computer.
- Elgg is an open-source social network program. Similar to Facebook, it allows students and teachers to collaborate online as well as communicate with other educators.
- Very simple site to shorten multiple URLs into one easy interface. Also integrates a counter to let you know how many visits you’ve had to the site. Copy and paste the addresses and click go!
- Bit.ly gives you the ability to shorten, track, & share links. Also has analytics to track usage.
- Tiny.url is a URL shortener that has been around for a while and can be added to your web browser toolbar.
- Concept mapping/brainstorming program that has some of the functionality of Inspiration/Kidspiration. Allows you to email, save, and print your creations, as well as embed them in your website.
- Interactive “poster” creation program can be used for interactive learning and dynamic student creativity.
- Interactive brainstorming program that integrates into Microsoft Office products.
- Netvibes gives you the ability to personalize your home search page, adding widgets for e-mail, facebook, weather, and more.
- Posterous allows you to send anything to the site (videos, photos, music, etc) and the site will instantly create a live posteerous address with your content on it to share.
- Screen and audio recording abilities to share, post, or archive for student review.
- From Google- Shares, organizes, edits photos online. Also houses many public photos that are grouped and easy to search and review.
- Free e-learning content creation tool. Gives many capabilities for online course creation, authoring, course preview and extraction to a server.
- File sync program that lets you access any files in the Dropbox folder from any computer or the Dropbox website. Free initial storage of 2 GB, syncs files across all your comuters and online.
- Realtime collaborative word processor with import/export options.
- Open source alternative to MS Office with functional word processor, spreadsheet program and powerpoint creator.
- Open source Mac friendly alternative to MS Office with functional word processor, spreadsheet program and powerpoint creator
- Online, collaborative office suite that allows live document sharing and editing. Import/export features for Microsoft Excel and Word docs.google.com
- Photo editor that gives you cropping, fonts, resizing, and much more.
- Screencasting tool that doesn’t require special software. Ability to post the videos online in Flash. screentoaster
- Document hosting. Post, share, and search through thousands of documents. Books, music, historical documents, manuals, and much more.
- Text-to-movie digital creation application, can be shared and posted xtranormal
- Photo editor for Windows with layer support.
- Create and share surveys for free. Initial use is free, limited to 10 questions for multiple respondents.
- List of alternative apps for any program: Mac, Windows, Linux.
General Session: Rushton Hurley from MERIT Program, NextVista.org
- xrl.us/rhinnashville
- videos, projects, heaps o resources.... seriously.... tons of links to content specific tools, media, etc.
- ikea lamo
- fun theory
- shorewood lip dub
- xrl.us/nvnews
- Links: Sonnet 23 - from Jim Sill's kids Ball Girl Crazy Catch - critically think about this one
The Fun Theory - fun with piano stairs, that is Ikea Lamp - feeling past your prime? Shorewood Lip Dub - what kids can do when motivated
Scouting video - tapping into the talents that are out there
Lab Rules - rules for the lab by Mark Dohn's students
Lost Generation - all this will be true, unless we reverse it
The Village Well - this is the audio piece I did about the service project in an African village
'Unbelievable Sportsmanship' - Central Washington University softball team shows the best side of sports and sports(wo)manship (story at NBC sports page)
Search, Research, and Words Google Search - language tools, advanced search, and more options
File Search - not reinventing the wheel -and- developing a critical eye
Wonder Wheel and Timeline, News and Fast Flip
Google Squared - cool association of data
Search Curriculum - helping kids search (much) more efficiently
Shortcut Guide - all sorts of quick ways to use the front page
Books and Scholar - thinking about what's worth reading
Librivox - free audio books
Merriam-Webster - traditional definitions, Word of the Day
Urban Dictionary - interpreting the language of the locals (this one isn't particularly family-friendly)
Wordle - popular system for making word clouds
WordSift - great tool for academic language by folks at Stanford
Activity possibilities: using Wonder Wheel, find the commonly associated tags for a particular concept you teach
using Google Squared, find what categories within your subject yield good squares
using Google Books, find a good reading for your class
using Wordle, analyze a speech or short text for its main ideas
Collaboration Kicked Up a Notch - why paper can hold us back Gmail - better than ordinary e-mail, perhaps!
Google Docs - word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations
Docs - sharing, revision history, and saving the file Presentations - use for prompts, planning, and (of course) presenting Spreadsheets - do surveys and online tests using Forms (Know your lyrics?)
cool tricks with fill and lookup (a little like Squared) tutorials on YouTube for Docs, Spreadsheets, Forms, Presentations
Poll Everywhere - gathering data using cell phones or internet-connected computers
Sites - building web pages, the Google way
Wikispaces - an especially education-friendly wiki company
Activity possibilities: using Sites, create a project portfolio
using Forms or Poll Everywhere, gather data on student confidence on topics you teach
using Docs, have students gather notes on lessons collaboratively
using Presentations, combine visuals with main topics as discussion prompts
What You See and Hear - approaches to using audio, images, and video
Creative Commons - copyright, public domain, and 'copyright-friendly'; royalty-free vs. free
proper citation is always a component - use filenames to keep the info
Citing Sources, the easy way
Flickr and Morguefile - images in quantity and quality
PodSafeAudio and Jamendo - music you can use
PartnersInRhyme - both royalty-free and free sound effects (note the difference)
Activity possibilities: gather copyright-friendly images for presentations
start an audio resource folderMultimedia Tools-a-Plenty - fantastic freeware Metamark - making the nasty URLs more reasonable
Tiny URL, Snip URL, Long URL, Huge URL YouTube - tutorials on anything
search on the word 'tutorial' and the name of the software
as with iTunesU, YouTube has an education channel
CoolIris - photo walls from search results (plug-in for browsers)
TagGalaxy - a world of photos from search results
Audacity - powerful audio editor
Jill Baedke's tutorials on using Audacity an example of a simple (but powerful) story done in Audacity: The Village Well
The Battle - the (copyright-friendly) James Underberg piece from PodSafeAudio
Audio Expert - online audio editing Photo Story 3 - a free program from Microsoft - really.
a quick tutorial I put together on Photo Story Mixbook - create online photo books, buy the real ones if you wish
SumoPaint - it's like Photoshop, but free and in your browser
Picnik - online photo editing
Irfan View - free graphics editor and converter Zamzar - great site for converting files or grabbing YouTube videos
Prezi - "Power Point on steroids"
Daniel Moix's overview of Google Tools in Prezi Jing - freeware for screencasting
here's a Jing on using Movie Maker
Voice Thread - audio blogs with images
Animoto - 30-second videos are free
Glogster - multimedia posters
BigHugeLabs - a variety of multimedia this-and-that
Activity possibilities: using Tag Galaxy or Cool Iris, create a visual introduction on a topic
using Audacity, have students prepare and record summaries of key concepts
using Photo Story 3, let students tell the story of a club or activity
using Prezi, prepare a study guide for students, or have them do the same for each other
Geographical Tools Across the Curriculum Google Maps
various views - maps, satellite, traffic, terrain, Earth; photos and writing assignments
finding resources - Advanced Search and kml files
literature - Google Lit Trips
history - California Missions Map
creating your own maps
support, Maps handout for educators
tutorials on YouTube for Google Maps
Activity possibilities: find and link/upload a kml file on a topic of interest to you
create a map with colleagues about special places in your community
use the photos layer in Maps to examine life in another community
have students create a Lit Trip for a story they read together
Other Software and Sites You Might Want - more fantastic freeware File Hippo - great site for downloading freeware
Contxts - send your contact info by text message
try texting the message Rushton to number 50500 as an example
Fresh Brain - a place for teens to be wildly creative (organization died, but site lives on)
Classroom 2.0 and Learn Central - perhaps the best sites for collaborating with colleagues Activity possibilities: create a slideshow video using Photo Story
make a podcast using Audacity
find a group in Classroom 2.0 to get to know
explore visual possibilities with Cool Iris
Projects preparing students for any multimedia project
have students figure out strengths, weaknesses, and alternatives to a variety of videos
record impressions using a Google form like this one (ask me for a copy)
share this resource on common mistakes (it won't replace their exploring, though) Community Intros (Stavanger, Norway)
here's instructions for this project from a couple of years ago (ignore the dates)
Sonnets and Multimedia (Sonnet 23)
just for you, a step-by-step on the sonnets project
Jim Sill interview about this project (Elluminate session)
Career Exploration (Oceanographic Scientist)
info on how to do career exploration videos with your students
Saving the World From Ignorance - my favorite place for fascinating projects
NextVista.org - videos to learn, to travel, and to inspire
Session 8: Media Magic
Session 9: SL Possibilities
Session 10: Digital Storytelling--A Star is Born
intro: http://stacyw.edu.glogster.com/a-star-is-born-with-digital-storytelling
overview: http://techcoach.wcs.edu/stacyw/Digital%20Storytelling/Forms/AllItems.aspx
huge instructional powerpoint: http://techcoach.wcs.edu/stacyw/Digital%20Storytelling/Digital%20Storytelling%20Take%206%20and%20Photo%20Story%203.pdf
Digital Storytelling Tools:
Session 11: Work Sharing Session
Session 12: Toys or Tools?
--ipod flashcards
-- create jpg file for each flashcard, save in the same folder (make sure numbers are in the correct alpha-numeric sequence), compress folder, post on web; students go online, download and unzip folder, synch to ipod photos in itunes. This will work with anything that views jpg files (generic mp4 players, etc.)
--http://www.mrcoley.com/flashcards/index.htm
--headphone splitter: Belkin Rock Star Headphone Splitter
Session 13: Batelle for Kids Learning Management System
portal.batelleforkids.org/tennessee
--principals have access codes
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Misc.:
http://www.doodletoo.com/
