Several other sessions were offered as well.
Quia provided training through the Internet. If you wish to watch the video simply go back for review check out this video. (The video was created by capturing the screen with ScreenFlow). Video is 1 hr long (50 MB)
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In an attempt to organize the many blogs I’m discovering. I thought I use this blog site as a collection point. Each week I will try to post the links with a brief overview of the newest blog post. My goal is to make it easier for my staff to find blogs either by other educators or blogs related to educational issues. In just the first week I collected at least 30 different forms of blogs. But to not overload staff I will try to limit my post to just 5 a week.
Week #1 (Feb. 2nd – 8th)
Mrs. Smoke .. Tech teacher from Andover, Ks. http://mrssmoke.onsugar.com/ This week “Educational Blogs You Should Be Investigating”. She has created a blog of other blogs broken down by grade level, curriculum and subject matter. Wow .. great stuff.
Richard Byrne high school teacher from Maine. Free Tech stuff for teachers … http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ The newest blog deals with Geography tools. But you will find stuff for all curriculum areas on his blog site.
Steve Hargadon is the Director of the K12 Open Technologies Initiative http://www.stevehargadon.com/2009/01/some-things-ive-learned-about-building.html has a blog on “Some Things I’ve Learned About Building Effective Social Networks”
The Journal (this is a collection of writers) .. http://www.thejournal.com/the/21stcenturyskills/home/ The current blog entry is on 21st Century Skills.
Read Write Web by Ravit Lichtenberg .. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_ways_social_media_will_change_in_2009.php the current blog “10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2009″.
Categories: Feb. 9th Professional Training · General Discussion · Resources
On Feb. 9th I will he hosting a number of 30 minute break out sessions. The training sessions are designed as hands on. To speed up the process I’m placing the information teachers need right here in this blog. This will also serve as a place teachers can return to review if they so choose.
I was going to provide training on Lips a free software program that can be downloaded off the web. Simply enter text into the dialog box and he play. The computer reads the text back to you. For those with Macs we know that the OS X operating system does the same thing. Lips is just another option teachers can use.
Assist. Technology Director will handle the 30 minute hands on for this program as well as 30 minutes on using our whitelist (our district blocking program) and 60 minute session on Paperless Classroom
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Classroom 2.0
On Feb. 9th I will he hosting a number of 30 minute break out sessions. The training sessions are designed as hands on. To speed up the process I’m placing the information teachers need right here in this blog. This will also serve as a place teachers can return to review if they so choose
Classroom 2.0 is a social network of educators. The site uses Ning (similar to facebook, myspace, etc.) to organize individual teachers sites. Once your a member you can join other groups made of educators, post blogs of your own, ask for help from others and be part of educational discussions.
Step 1…Once you locate classroom2.0 you need to create an account. To do this click on “Sign Up”. Then complete the form and click the button “sign up”
Step 2 … You are now a member of the Classroom 2.0 family.
My Classroom 2.0 site is http://www.classroom20.com/profile/AlanBeam
If you like to take this on a much larger scale you can join http://globaleducation.ning.com/ … This is a community for teachers and students interested in global education. Contribute by adding media, conversation, and collaborative project ideas. Make sure you post an intro in the forum!
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On Feb. 9th I will he hosting a number of 30 minute break out sessions. The training sessions are designed as hands on. To speed up the process I’m placing the information teachers need right here in this blog. This will also serve as a place teachers can return to review if they so choose
General Sites
I asked Plurkers (other educators) if they were given 30 minutes to be with a high school staff what websites would they want to share. The following are what was provided ( I did eliminate some of the suggestions since it would take more then 30 minutes). Plus many I’ve added on my own.
Strategies & Ideas to reach the 21st Century Learners … http://21ideas.pbwiki.com/
Scottleysays …. cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/…This site has a ton of additional links. I mean a ton. (presentations, video, slideshows, widgets, quizzes, collaborative, research, creativity, image, writing, music, drawing, organizing, storage, audio, mapping and graphing.
Pollingeverywhere … http://www.pollingeverywhere.com requires you to have a FREE account. With this site you can create questions and ask students to answer them using their cell phones. Questions can be true/false, multi-choice and short answers. I created the questions before class. Then add the question to the slides of my PPT. When the slide pops up students use their phones to give me their answers. In turn I then show on the screen the site as the answers come in. This allows me to check for learning. Something new I tried was ask students to create questions for a study guide. Then they would post the questions and as they showed up on the screen the class answered. Pretty neat.
Heidisays … I agree with Scottley lots of great stuff on it. A cool high school blog site (you’ve all seen blog sites – besides that’s what your looking at now), perhaps a good hs wiki (not going to do this one either) or plurk (plurk is a 30 minute presentation on it’s own).
judyb64says …. www.4teachers.org … This is a site you been shown before. 4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. Discover valuable professional development resources addressing issues such as equity, ELL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students.
kawlibrariansays …. I would and do share:http://animoto.com/ this is a great site to create fast and easy videos. No more using iMov or other programs. It does require a FREE account.
- www.citationmachine.net … Citation Machine is an interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, anduniversity students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people’s intellectual properties. To use Citation Machine.
- www.mywebspiration.com Webspiration makes it easy to collaborate and share documents by simply sending an invite. Everyone works on the same document, contributing, posting comments, and viewing changes. Webspiration is ideal for team projects, study groups, reviewing and commenting on documents and co-authoring materials. You must create a FREE ACCOUNT to do this.
dmantz7says mind42.com … In Mind42, 42 is not only the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything! 42 means FOR TWO and indicates the collaborative character of mind42, because that is exactly what mind42 is: A collaborative browser-based online mind mapping tool. It allows you to manage all your ideas, whether alone, twosome or working together with the whole world. As mind42 runs inside the browser, installing mind mapping tools is no longer needed – for a hassle-free mindmapping experience. Just open the browser and launch the application when needed – it behaves like a classical desktop application! Mind42 is a web application – however, this doesn’t mean yout have to set your comfort aside. Mind42 is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) mind map editor supporting keyboard shortcuts, drag and drop, zooming and much more. No forms and lists which are generally used in web application. A real application – within your browser. You must create a FREE ACCOUNT.
Others
Looking for blogs to read or subscribe to. What about blogs created by other educators just like you. Check out Mrs. Smoke site http://mrssmoke.onsugar.com/2787268 If you’re interested in seeing more from her blog site visit here http://www.onsugar.com/user/MrsSmoke.
Wordle http://www.wordle.net/create … The Wordle creator and his colleagues at the IBM Research Visual Communication Labare trying to understand how and why people use Wordle.
Save a Word … http://www.savethewords.org/ … Adopt a word – take a peek.
Festisite Poem Generator … http://www.festisite.com/poems/generators/ creates a poem for you after you enter in couple of words.
Make your own book covers http://www.customsigngenerator.com/ This site lets you create funny book covers.
Diigo … http://www.diigo.com is a site where you Research and Collaborate 1)Don’t just bookmark! Highlight the web! Add sticky notes too! 2)Access and search your findings from any PC or iphone! 3)Create groups to pool resources for specific projects. To learn more watch this from YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RvAkTuL02A
Stumble is a site that will random choose websites of your interest. This works best with Fire Fox. You add a button on your menu bar. Click and it will randomly choose a site of your interest (which you setup) … https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/138
Quizzer maker for iPod http://www.iquizmaker.com/ Make quizzes that could be loaded on a iPod.
Kevin Honeycutt .. this is the site Kevin shared with staff in January. Check out his files. http://www.kevinhoneycutt.org
Shmoop http://www.shmoop.com … this site provides you with books, summaries of books, quizzes and other resources related to poetry, history or literautre.
Make a book http://www.tikatok.com … you can create a book online. If you want to printed and sent to you it will cost you 20.00. You have an option to register or not for this site.
Flip Camera …. 35 Ways to use the Flip Camera in your classroom (need a google account) http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dhn2vcv5_6tv55j7g9&pli=1
Categories: Feb. 9th Professional Training · Training
On Feb. 9th I will he hosting a number of 30 minute break out sessions. The training sessions are designed as hands on. To speed up the process I’m placing the information teachers need right here in this blog. This will also serve as a place teachers can return to review if they so choose
First step will be to type in the following URL in your browser. Gcast http://www.gcast.com
TECH TIP … Creating Tabs: Have you every used tabs in your browser? To create an additional tab … hit the apple key T. Notice you now have a black screen in your browser. You can type in the url you wish to seek. Also notice to the left a tab (or set of tabs) of previous sites you’ve visited.
With Gcast now open … click APPLE T and in the cut and paste this URL http://www.holton.k12.ks.us/prin/feb9/gcast.pdf (Directions: Click here for pdf) … click enter. You now have two tabs. The first tab with Gcast and the other with directions for setting up a gcast site.
Account Setup
Once you have an account let’s call and leave our first podcast. Dial 1-888-654-2278
Key in your phone number (the one you created in your account)
Key in your pin number (the one you entered in your account)
Follow the voice and record your message. Hit pound when done. Then follow the directions again.
After about 2 or 3 minutes depending on the length of your broadcast you can then go to gcast log in and change the title. If you don’t do this the title with be the date and time you left the message.
It’s easy to do. Click on the gcast tab (or log into Gcast). Locate the name of your site on the upper right hand corner and click.
At the top of the page you will see the most current podcast you published. Now scroll down until you locate the list of podcast. On the right side of the podcast locate the edit button. Click and fill out the information.
To have students or others subscribe to your podcast you will need share the url of your podcast site. The best way to do this is copy the current URL (with the list of podcast showing). Then paste this URL somewhere you can reference it. You might want to e-mail it to your students for their records. If you like to see what they will see LOG OUT of Gcast upper right corner. Now paste the URL and hit return. Notice it’s the same page you see without the edit options. The only way to see the edit options is logging in with your account.
You’re now ready to start broadcasting.
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Plurk … If you like to learn more about Plurk you can check out this video off youtube.
Ten Ways to improve your Karma
Adding a different background to your Plurk. There are several sites heres just one http://plurklayouts.com/
I asked other Plurkers how they organize the large number of resources that are shared on Plurk. Below are their responses.
I will tell you my way is to create folders in my Bookmarks. Then I add them as they pop up. Read them when I have time. Here are others:
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Categories: Feb. 9th Professional Training · Training
On Feb. 9th I will he hosting a number of 30 minute break out sessions. The training sessions are designed as hands on. To speed up the process I’m placing the information teachers need right here in this blog. This will also serve as a place teachers can return to review if they so choose.
Click here to download a pdf with basic directions on how to create and account and setup a playlists. Click on “Sign Up”
Step 1 … Create an account with Youtube
Step 2 … Create a playlist (how you wish to organize your videos)
Step 3 … Search for videos (Use the same short cuts as any search engines. “quotes”)
Possible Search topics … “How to use youtube in the classroom”
Organize the videos as you identify some that you might use in class.
Next step … Tooble … (See Video on Tooble)
If you want to download and create a Tooble on your desktop click here and then download.
Then just copy and paste the URL from YouTube into “entry URL” in Tooble. Tooble will do the rest. When it’s done the video will be stored in your iTunes.
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