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Online Administrator Academy #751 Presented by Meg Ormiston Agenda • Wordle • Books you need to know about • New thinking about collaboration • Web 2.0 Tools • The future is video, is your system ready? • Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts • Social networking • Create an action plan Curriculum Links for Internet safety http://www.isbe.net/curriculum/html/internet_safety.htm Wordle Opening Activity http://www.wordle.net/ Wordle.net [] Comparision of speeches
 * //www.networkinginsight.com/files/Wikinomics_Soundview.pdf Summary of wikinomics

Books __The Long Tail__, Chris Anderson [] __Here Comes Everybody__, Clay Shirkym [] __Wikinomics__, Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams [] The Element, How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, Sir Ken Robinson[] [] Book discussion blog Twitter [] Twitter home [] Twitter sheep http://www.techhit.com/OutTwit/ Out twit [] Directory of people on Twitter Video [] Skype [] You tube [] Teacher Tube [] School Tube

Blogging Podcasts and Wikis [] One Principal blogging [|http://bicknell.edublogs.org/2008/09/01/the-perks-of-education-as-a-profession] Another blog example [] The Principal's Page [] A district website [] A wiki [] Wikipedia http://www.wikispaces.com/ Wikispaces

Google [] Gmail http://www.google.com/ Google https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=cl&passive=true&nui=1&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fcalendar%2Frender&followup=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fcalendar%2Frender&ltmpl=suggest Google calendar https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=writely&passive=true&nui=1&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2F&followup=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2F&ltmpl=homepage&rm=false Google Documents

Data Collection [] New way to poll [] Another polling example

Social Networking [] Talk about books [] A Ning network [] Another ning [|http://techcamp.ning.com/]My summer graduate class [] Flickr http://secondlife.com/ Second Life email me if I missed anything! meg@techteachers.com

[|list of sites.doc]

Additional Sites to Explore [] Writing in the 21st Century [] Twitterberry. [] Social networks ranked. [] Skypeon the Blackberry. [] Wiki

Books

The Cult of the Amateur, Andrew Keen []

Twitter [] Network [] Twitscoop [] Mr. Tweet [] Tweetdeck

Videos [|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUnA7HzGFbo&feature=fvsr]The New video Did You Know? [] Escalator video. [] Monk having trouble opening a book. [] Opening movie on You Tube. [] Obama and McCain. [] Downloading videos from the web.

[] a new site to explore. [] Polling with cell phones. [] text the mob.
 * Student Response Systems**

[|My Resource Collection for Educators] Meg's bio/references/publications/handouts [] Resources for Interactive Whiteboards. [] Image Chef. [|http://twittersheep.com]
 * Resources and Links**

[] Web page filled with the following links. [] Skype directory [] Meg�s web site.//

[] Free blogs for educators.
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Wordle ** Create a [|Wordle] [|Historic speeches in Wordle] [|Wordle in the Classroom Ideas Week 1 Tech Camp.doc] Here is a nice blog entry on 5 Reasons to Use Wordle by Terri Freedman:[| http://www.techlearning.com/article/Blogs/20322] Wordle of the Day: []**

Creative Addition with Morphing
 Social Networking for Personal Professional Growth ** You need to know about it Things our [|grandkids will never know]  and [|more]  [|Learning Ecology Graphic]  [|Role of Educators] Graphic  ** Historical Tweets**: []**
 * [|Squirlz Morph]**

= Fun with Digital Images =

= = =<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> = <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Fun with Digital Images <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is a link to a wiki with several other digital image sites. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|Bubblejoy] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Create cards or messages <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|Cameroid] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Manipulate pictures or images. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [] Comic Life [|Add Letters] [|Image Chef] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">make your own icon - lose the brown square <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 115%;">[|Space Your Face] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|My Movie Moment] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Add an image to a movie or clip. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|Jib Jab] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Create a Jib Jab <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Create photo mosaics [] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|25 Sites to Create Cartoon Characters of Yourself] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Play with images! <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|Comiqs]**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Create your own comics, like comic life <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Mushy Gushy] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Work with your images. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|Generate License Plates] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Generate many different license plates. [] Create your own comic strips <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 14px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> [] Create your own comics. [] Yearbook yourself! [] My Web Face make yourself a cartoon. snapfish.com gfyackle.com

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Collaborative Tools **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> - A whole group of collaborative tools: the good, the bad and the ugly Web pages that aren't static - they are constantly changing

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> ** =<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; text-align: center;">VoiceThread =

=<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> = [|Voice Thread Website]

[|Voice Thread Literacy Example]

[|Voice Thread Simplifying Expressions]

[|Voice Thread Solving One Step Equations]

[|Voice Thread Solving Two Step Equations]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Web 2.0 Tools Listing - <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">from Meg's Wiki <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|Go2Web20] [|Tribes We Need You to Lead Us] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by: Seth Godin <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|Web Exhibits] [|Edmodo] [|Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">from an Art Teacher <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 115%;">[|Classroom20] [|Ning] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 10.8pt; line-height: 115%;">

Filesharing Tools
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.8pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Interactive Tools **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 10.8pt; line-height: 115%;"> [|Live Audience Polling] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> ask a question - they answer using sms text messages or the web <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|Online Stopwatch] [|DebateGraph] [|ClassTools.net] [|ilighter] [|Savethewords] [|BenFranklin300] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Soundboard] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 115%;">[|Library Thing] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Compare Google and Bing] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> **
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Classroom Response Systems **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|H-ITT] [|Classroom Performance Systems] [|Qwizdom] [|SMART] [|iRespond] [|Promethean Activexpressions] ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Twitter **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|Twitter] [|We Follow] [|Twittersheep] [|Caveman Twittering] [|5 Ways to Have Fun with Twitter] [|Twitter for Teachers] [|Twittas ? First Twitter Follow] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 9.6pt; line-height: 115%;">[|TweetCloud] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">– <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What’s Being Said? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 9.6pt; line-height: 115%;">[|FriendorFollow] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Find out who you are following, who’s following you and more <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 9.6pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Twitter Background Creation] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">

Google Earth Code to insert a picture in a placemark in Google Earth.

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=<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Tools for Creating Projects and Presentations =

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 10.8pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Flickr] [|Flowgram] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> – <span style="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. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Glogster] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Poster Yourself <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Image that shows where to [|register]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Voicethread Community: []

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Engagement **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 9.6pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Engage Me] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.8pt; line-height: 115%;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Blooms Taxonomy – 1956 **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 8.64pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Matrix]

[|Bloom’s][|Bloom’s Taxonomy Blooms Digitally][|Blooms Digitally] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 9.6pt; line-height: 115%;">

[|Bloom’s and the Digital World][|Visualblooms] ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> 12 Essentials for Technology Integration from [|Richard Byrne] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">

= <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Creating Documents and Presentations <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> =

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Google Docs] – <span style="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

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|ZOHO Show] – <span style="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 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Tools for Communicating with Parents and Students

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|edublogs] – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">free blogging site designed just for classroom use <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|drop.io] – <span style="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 <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Weebly] – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">create a free classroom website – they have excellent user support

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Tools for Creating Collaborative Student Projects

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Wikispaces – <span style="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. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Direct Link to Educator Sign Up: []

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|ediscio] – <span style="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) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Educational Alternatives to YouTube

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|snagfilms] – <span style="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 <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|schooltube] – <span style="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 <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|dotsub] – <span style="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 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

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

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">[|Soundboard]
[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Songs for teaching. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">[|Musipedia] - <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">The Open Music Encyclopedia - <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">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. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Science songs <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Collection of math and science songs. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> **
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Mediaconverter] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Works well, but not consistently. ======

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|VLC Media Player] – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> free download, great for playing dvd’s on pc’s with copyright issues. It also has conversion capabilities. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> [|Directions] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">on using the convert feature [|Media Convert] free and online, convert and split audio, ringtones, sounds ======

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Movie Clapper Board Generator]
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> [|Moviemaker in the Classroom Ideas Week 1 Tech Camp.doc] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">[|WinFF] – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"> Convert your videos quickly and easily and all at once with this free downloadable program <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Format Factory Scott's pick for converting! <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|You Tube Download] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> You Tube downloader. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">[|http://gvtc.com/~mgriffin/digital/] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Excellent examples of Photostory as well as fabulous tips on how to put one together! = =