THE MOST EXCITING THING ABOUT USING TECHNOLOGY WITH STUDENTS IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN WITH YOUR STUDENTS. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AN EXPERT, JUST WILLING TO LEARN... ARE YOU WILLING TO TAKE THE RISK AND JUMP IN?
http://clifmims.com/blog/archives/1458
ARE YOU READY TO BE A CURATOR OF LEARNING?
When Educators Become Curators - keynote slides #moothr12
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WEB 2.0 TOOLS SLIDESHOW
Super book of web tools for educators
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A BACK TO SCHOOL GUIDE FOR WEB 2.0 TECH TOOLS
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TOP 10 TIPS FOR TEACHING WITH WEB 2.0 TOOLS...
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Check out the following Web 2.0 tools...
http://rcsdwebtools.wikispaces.com/
How to use tech tools in a meaningful way... It's more than having having the gadget, it's how you use it.
http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2012/01/25/tln_magiera1.html?tkn=PZCFhKKftaeoH96ykCtdVULSSPwlPde%2F7iEA&cmp=clp-sb-edtech
What is digital learning? Who is a digital learner?
http://www.slideshare.net/pwalser/the-real-digital-divide-presentation
Which Web 2.0 tools do I use regularly to engage and motivate students? See below. Do your best to understand my crazy directions! Honestly, you may wonder, how did I learn to use these things? I just "played" with it and checked out How-to videos. How did I hear about some of them? Other teachers... then I started googling Edtech teachers and started learning more and more! Later when I joined an EdTech Twitter group... it really took off!
Wordle - http://www.wordle.net/create Word clouds... super cool...
Take spelling words, poems, paragraphs etc.... enter into wordle and the site will create a "word cloud". Just fun with words! Use it to introduce key vocabulary for a unit of study or create one with all your students names... The kids love it!
One problem, you can't save a wordle. So you need to open your wordle once created into full screen. Take a screen shot - To do this, click on the Ctrl button and the PrtSc button (Prt Sc is print screen). Copy/paste the print screen into Word or Powerpoint or another file. Double click on the image and crop it by clicking on the crop button and move the sizing arrows. Save your wordle image as a jpeg in your "My pictures". Next... you can include your wordle in your blog by choosing the upload picture image... or even open it - and copy/paste into your blog.
EdTech Tips for Teachers - Wordle from SimpleK12 on Vimeo.
Glogster and Eduglogster - Image a poster that can include scroll bars for information, music and videos!
Glogster - http://www.glogster.com/ is the free version... anyone can set up an account. You just need an e-mail address. This version is just missing a few of the "bells and whistles" of Eduglogster. m
The following is a video that explains how you use Eduglogster and Glogster...
Eduglogster - http://www.edu.glogster.com/ you need a license. To get a license you need to pay for it. However it's worth it. As a school you need to get a license, then get a "tech-savvy" teacher to help control it.... As a teacher, it takes a little patience to get used to navigating through the site, setting up passwords and id's. Write down all the login id's for your students with your class list and the passwords. The user id's are hard to remember. Even though they will have a "nick name" on the account (just a first name with last initial), you will still need to login using the strange combination letters and numbers to log in.
When your students present using glogster, sometimes it takes a while for videos to download... if you see the pink "donuts" swirling for a long time, hit the refresh button (double green arrows) to the right of your URL window.
You can embed a glog into your blog... you just need to get the embed coding
How to set up eduglogster...
How to use Eduglogster and set up a Glog in 90 seconds...
How to create a glog using Glogster...
Prezi - http://www.prezi.com/ Better than Powerpoint......All on-line... super cool to use! My students love Prezi. It's fairly easy to use... students from a variety of techno-knowledge can use them... it's engaging and really captivates an audience! To use, students will need to create their own account, where they will need to have an e-mail. As a teacher, record all their information, just in case they forget! Prezi's can be linked to blogs... This way everyone in the class can view the Prezi presentation and give comments.
Prezi vs. Powerpoint video...
How to create a Prezi... Part 1
How to create a Prezi... Part 2
Prezi Examples...
This one is just cool... guy introduces, "We Will Rock You" in Japanese... Then the song Prezi Presentation starts... Way to neat!
Solar System Prezi
Voki - Create avatars with your students using http://www.voki.com/. You can use vokis for story-telling, recording the perspective of a character from a novel, french oral presentations, or even sharing a message such as "Happy Mother's Day" to your blog or in an e-mail. You will need headphone with a microphone or a computer with a mic. You can use a phone, but it will cost you the long distance call to New York!i.com
Create an account... you need an e-mail. Set up an avatar (cartoon character) with your student, choose the facial and hair characteristics, clothes... background, record your voice, make sure it recorded properly, save it. Now you can a voki. You can follow the directions and e-mail to a friend or family member or embed or link to a blog. If you embed several voki's in a row on a page, there may be a weird glitch... the same voki will repeat... no idea why... Anyways, create a link instead on your blog of your voki avatar.
Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/ I love it... For connecting with fellow teachers from around the world about books and other Edtech people. Mainly it's just to share good sites or interesting videos. I do not use it to share "dumb" stuff... ie: What I ate for lunch... (Who cares??) I also use it as a means of quick communication with students. Do they need a phone. No... it's on-line... twitter.com... they can send me a message and I can tweet them back right away. Do they use it? Some do. I used Twitter for volleyball messages regarding games etc... For those kids who didn't "tweet" , I had a couple students send other players messages on Facebook to let them know what's going on. So long "phone tree". This is social networking with the next generation!
How do you do it? Create an account on Twitter... then download it to your Blackberry, Anderoid or Smartphone. It's all free!
By the way... my Twitter id is - jstewiestewie if you want to find me!
Tweetdeck - www.tweetdeck.com
Something else to try... Organize tweets... Try tweet debates. I still need to work with this one more.
Infographs - So what's all the buzz with these??? Really cool visuals used by the media, advertisers, textbook manufacturers...
So what's an infograph? It is a diagram that uses pictures rather than words to convey information (although occasionally single words may be used to label elements of the sociogram) and symbols, such as arrows, to show the connections among the facts and details. How can we use them to teach? What reading/viewing strategies can be integrated using these? I've been using them in my classes with eduglogster, but I think your could use prezi or any publishing type software... Just a different way to communicate and opens up discussions on how symbols can be universal for communication.
A good infograph includes all important points, clearly shows relationship among the different points, and is easy to understand.
Examples of infographs...
http://www.mrboll.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/transparency.jpg
http://www.coolinfographics.com/
http://dailyinfographic.com/
Check out, "Little Red Riding Hood" Infographic Movie
http://vimeo.com/3514904
How to learn more about Infographs... I love this edtech guru, Kathy Schrock!
Other great sites on Infographics...
https://sites.google.com/a/kathyschrock.net/infographics/links
Googledocs - https://docs.google.com/
Set up an account it's free. Create surveys, tests, slideshows... Amazing space for teachers and students to collaborate ideas... No more endless hours getting together at each other's houses or trying to coordinate that... it's all on-line!
How to create your own digital textbook...
Not enough money for textbooks... Why do we need textbooks? With an on-line digital textbook you can track your own collection of resources for students to visit...
Delicious... http://www.delicious.com/dgende
Diigo... http://www.diigo.com/user/dgende
Live Binders... http://www.livebinders.com/ and for teachers special livebinders... collection of resources... http://livebinders4teachers.pbworks.com/w/page/574743/FrontPage
wikispaces... http://www.wikispaces.com/
edmodo... http://www.edmodo.com/ *** Like a free mini facebook, controlled by you in your classroom! Create true and false and multiple choice tests that the students submit and the software "scores" for you. Post glogs, prezis, word docs and powerpoints. I really want to give this one a try!
Digital Atlas?? Try Google Earth... This is the next form of on-line software that I want to integrate into teaching... http://www.google.com/earth/index.html
Check out Google Earth for Educators... Lesson ideas...
http://www.google.com/earth/educators/
Check out the site below for more ideas...
http://mindshift.kqed.org/2012/01/how-to-create-your-own-textbook-with-or-without-apple/
How could Diigo help you??
Diigo V5: Collect and Highlight, Then Remember! from diigobuzz on Vimeo.
http://player.vimeo.com/video/12687333?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0
Edtech Gurus...
Richard Byrne... Check out his awesome blog Free Technology for Teachers
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
Kathy Schrock
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/
Kathy Schrock's Ed Tech Page
http://kathyschrock.net/
EdTech Resource List - Created by "Cybrary Man"
Mashable On-line Magazine
http://mashable.com/
Boing Boing - Science, Tech... Geeky Stuff...
http://boingboing.net/
