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dftrtThis is my wiki for Tech Camp 2010 Visit often as resources will be added throughout the summer. To find out more information about Tech Camp visit my [|website] [|https://spreadsheets0.google.com/ccc?key=t-4kMuXdRwOii1ENhNHz0SQ&hl=en#gid=0] Apps for education If you need more information, contact me Meg@techteachers.com PowerPoint Resources and Interactive White Board Resources [] PowerPoint- Free PowerPoint presentations on every topic! [|Jeopardy templates] Template and pre-made games [|Resource collection] Interactive White board Resources [] Google Earth and Literature [|Prezi] Create a presentation http://cybraryman.com/smartboard.html Interactiyoutube2mp3downloader.weebly.comve whiteboard resources.

Locating Images online [] Flickr Storm will help you search for images on Flickr

**Flickr** [|Flickr] Remember to use the advanced search to find images licensed using Creative Commons [|Spell with Flickr] This is a website that generates words using letters from Flickr [|qflick] Is a different way to search Flickr

[] Safe to be used for personal and educational use. [] 8,000 images and the ability to make e-cards. [] Clipart for language learners. [] Images for language learners. [] Pics for Learning [] Free clipart for teachers and students. [] Educational pictures and photos [] Free stock photos. [] Search for images licensed under Creative Commons [] Free and Cheap stock photos. [] Free photos on the Internet. [] Free digital pictures. [] public Domain photos and clipart. [] Free historical images. [] Free stock photos. [] 80,000 images. [] Photos available for use. [] Images that are available for use. [] Images for personal and non-commercial use.
 * Other Image sites**

Editing images [] [] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] [|Tuesday morning opening!]

[|Math in the Movies] A site organized by Harvard [|Social Media Display] Shows a ticker of various media

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|**Tech survey**] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2010/05/100-inspiring-ways-to-use-social-media-in-the-classroom New http://dakinane.com/blog/resources/ Free online tools organized alphabetically.


 * = [|Skype] ||= [|Facebook] ||
 * = [|Ustream] || [|Ning Classroom 2.0] ||  ||
 * = [|Wikinomics] ||= [|delicious] ||
 * = [|Podcasting] ||= [|LinkedIn] ||
 * = [|Bubble Tweet] ||= [|Second Life] ||  ||   ||
 * = [|Twitter] ||= [|Google Alerts] ||  ||
 * = [|Blogs] ||= [|Google Calendar] ||  ||
 * = Tags ||= [|Google Docs] ||  ||
 * = [|Wikipedia] ||= [|Google Sketchup] ||  ||
 * = [|Image Chef] ||= [|Cameroid] ||  ||
 * = [|Wordle] ||= [|Google Earth] ||  ||
 * = [|Teacher Tube] ||= [|Google Maps] ||  ||   ||
 * = [|You Tube] ||= [|Google Page Creator] ||  ||   ||
 * = [|Qik] ||= [|Jing] ||
 * = [|Etherpad] ||= [|School Town] ||  ||
 * = [|Chatzy] ||= [|Plurk] ||  ||
 * = [|iLighter] ||=  ||

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teacher site full of technology ideas and video tutorials for podcasts, videos, iPod notes, etc.: [|www.mrcoley.com] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Final Project survey [].. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] The future of textbooks. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Final Survey <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Videos <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Skype in the Classroom <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Directory of educators that use Skype] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|A Skype Phonebook of Educators] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Web Cams in the Classroon <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Bubblejoy] Create cards or messages <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Cameroid] Manipulate pictures or images. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wordle <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Create a [|Wordle] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Historic speeches in Wordle] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|Wordle in the Classroom Ideas Week 1 Tech Camp.doc] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is a nice blog entry on 5 Reasons to Use Wordle by Terri Freedman:[| http://www.techlearning.com/article/Blogs/20322] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wordle of the Day: [] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Tagxedo] For Word Clouds Fun with Digital Images

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] - add captions to pics, photos, posters, etc or preview others contributions <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fun with Digital Images This is a link to a wiki with several other digital image sites. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] Comic Life <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Add Letters] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Image Chef] make your own icon - lose the brown square <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Space Your Face] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|My Movie Moment] Add an image to a movie or clip. []

Most of these sites are not appropriate to use with students, but are a great way to generate images for vocabulary work and graphics for websites. [] One PhotoFunia Put your face on Mt. Rushmore and more [] Be Funky has a whole new look. [] Pimp the Face, change the face. [] Photo 505 A new effect is added everyday, explore. [] Big Huge Labs has some new features [] Frame your pictures, for free! [] This site is similar to PhotoFunia [] Fun magazine covers [] Put your face on various templates [] Generate your name on various signs [] Generate an image from available templates. [] Put your face on a dancing astronaut. [] Add an image to a movie clip. [] Create a Jib Jab [] Create photo mosaics []Select a new body to place your face I am a fan of Photoshop Elements, but these free online sites may win me over! [] Wow, this is like Photoshop Elements, for free. [] Online photo editing [|**Photoshop.com**]Photoshop to edit images. [] Edit images using a variety of backgrounds and frames. [|Picnik] to edit images [|Bubblejoy] Create cards or messages [|Cameroid] Manipulate pictures or images. [] Comic Life [] **Create your own comics**
 * Image Generators**
 * []** **Put your face into various animated scenes**
 * Online Photo Editing**
 * Web Cam Sites**
 * Online Comic Creators**
 * []** **Create your own comic strips**
 * [|http://www.makebeliefscomix.com]** **Create your own comics.**


 * To print posters**
 * http://www.blockposters.com/ Takes a graphic and prints on multiple sheets**
 * http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/**
 * Takes a graphic and prints on multiple sheets**

Collaborative Tools - A whole group of collaborative tools: the good, the bad and the ugly Web pages that aren't static - they are constantly changing

== VoiceThread

[|Voice Thread Website]

[|Voice Thread Literacy Example]

[|Voice Thread Simplifying Expressions]

[|Voice Thread Solving One Step Equations]

[|Voice Thread Solving Two Step Equations]

Web 2.0 Tools Listing - <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">from Meg's Wiki [|Go2Web20]

[|Tribes We Need You to Lead Us] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by: Seth Godin [|Web Exhibits]

[|Edmodo]

[|Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">from an Art Teacher [|Classroom20]

[|Ning]

Filesharing Tools

 * 1) []
 * 2) []

Interactive Tools

[|Live Audience Polling] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">ask a question - they answer using sms text messages or the web [|Online Stopwatch] [|DebateGraph] [|ClassTools.net] [|ilighter] [|Savethewords] [|BenFranklin300] [|Soundboard] [|Library Thing] [|Compare Google and Bing]

Classroom Response Systems

[|H-ITT] [|Classroom Performance Systems] [|Qwizdom] [|SMART] [|iRespond] [|Promethean Activexpressions]

Twitter

[|Twitter] [|We Follow] [|Twittersheep] [|Caveman Twittering] [|5 Ways to Have Fun with Twitter] [|Twitter for Teachers] [|Twittas ? First Twitter Follow] [|TweetCloud] – <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What’s Being Said? [|FriendorFollow] – <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Find out who you are following, who’s following you and more [|Twitter Background Creation]


 * [|30 New Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom]**
 * [|Historical Twitters]**
 * Google Earth**
 * Code to insert a picture in a placemark in Google Earth.**

== Tools for Creating Projects and Presentations

[|Flickr]

[|Flowgram] – <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Welcome to the talking web. Create interactive guided presentations by combining web pages, photos, powerpoint and more with your voice, notes and highlights. Viewers can control the pages, scroll, click on links, view videos and more. [|Glogster] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Poster Yourself

Voicethread: **[|http://www.voicethread.com]**
> >
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Image that shows where to [|register]
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Voicethread Community: []

Engagement

[|Engage Me]

Blooms Taxonomy – 1956

[|Matrix]

[|Bloom’s][|Bloom’s Taxonomy Blooms Digitally][|Blooms Digitally]

[|Bloom’s and the Digital World]Visualblooms

12 Essentials for Technology Integration from [|Richard Byrne]

== Creating Documents and Presentations

[|Google Docs] – <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">gives you the power to create documents, spreadsheets, and slide shows using any Internet-connected computer [|ZOHO Show] – <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">part of a suite of free web based tools – sign in with google or yahoo account. Offers more editing options and templates than those found on Google Presentation

Tools for Communicating with Parents and Students

[|edublogs] – <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">free blogging site designed just for classroom use [|drop.io] – <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Quick and easy setup – no registration and completely free for up to 100mb of storage space [|Weebly] – <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">create a free classroom website – they have excellent user support

Tools for Creating Collaborative Student Projects

Wikispaces – <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Not the only site for collaborative sites – pbworks and ning are others. Wikispaces has provided more than 100,000 free advertising-free wikis to educators. Use it as a resource page for your students – they can share notes and references throughout the year. They can use it as a study guide for assessments. Direct Link to Educator Sign Up: []

[|ediscio] – <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">flashcard creation tool – can be used by an entire class to create a “card box” that all of the students can study. (images can be included on the cards also)

Educational Alternatives to YouTube

[|snagfilms] – <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">good for those on a limited budget and can be embedded in a blog or wiki for students [|schooltube] – <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">similar to teachertube in that both are designed for classroom use. Schooltube generally has less advertising and faster uploads [|dotsub] – <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">great resource for foreign language teachers, ESL/EFL teachers, and teachers of students with hearing impairments

[|grammar checker]
 * English Grammar:**

[|Sir Ken Robinson] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">on TED talks

Sound, Music, Video or Narration

[] Songs for teaching.
====[|Musipedia] - The Open Music Encyclopedia - searchable, editable, and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes. Kind of neat – you can search by playing a flash piano, whistle it to the computer or tap the rhythm on the desk.====

Educational Rap Songs: [] I found the name of the song and searched for it in itunes. I downloaded it for 99 cents
[] History Songs [] More songs for history teachers [] Environmental songs

== Media Converters

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To Convert Just the Audio from a You Tube Video

[|Listento youtube] This conversion site works
<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Mp3 Converter] Convert a You Tube video to mp3 <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Dirpy] to convert You Tube videos to mp3 <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Youtube Converter] mp3 Convert to mp3 <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Convert Audio and Video from You Tube <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Zamzar] Copy the address, the file will be sent to your email to download. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Media Converter] This site has a limit of 5 conversions a day


 * Software to Download and Convert**

[|Video Lan] Software to download [|Format Factory] software to convert videos Scott Meech's favorite [|You Tube Downloader] This software has been highly rated by Cnet.

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<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Digital Storytelling Resources <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] Excellent examples of Photostory as well as fabulous tips on how to put one together! Free Computer Clean Up Tools
 * Extras**=

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Spybot Search & Destroy] scroll down page to download section and select the first option – install with default options. You must check for updates each time you run the program to be sure you have the newest data files. Run weekly for high internet use. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Malware Bytes] install with defaults - update this program also and a simple scan will do you well unless you are having lots of issues. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|AVG Free antivirus] free antivirus that works well and doesn’t take a lot of your processor to run
 * Creating the Morph**

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This was created by using a free software program I downloaded from [|http://www.tucows.com/previ...] The program is called Sqirlz Morph. This was great fun <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Creating a Wiki** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] - A guide for creating and using a wiki. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Guide sites:** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [] [] []

This is a collection of resources for your work with the Smart Tech Activities
 * SmartBoard Resources**
 * SmartBoard Resources**

[] Smart home. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Resource collection] Interactive White board Resources organized by Meg. [] [] [] Templates for teachers. [] Interactive Websites. [] Wichita schools resources. [] templates and other resources to download. [] A social network focused on the SmartBoard use in the classroom. [] Bookmarks to many different resources. [] Amazing collection of resources. [] 37 interesting ways to use your SmartBoard. [] A group that posts weekly videos. [] More links and resources across the content areas. [] Use Google advanced search to find specifically what you are looking for. [] New addition of interactive games organized by content areas. [] [] Thanks to my Twitter network!