Camp2009

Our opening chat about how you grow professionally:  [|Opening survey]  [|**Tech Camp Contact Directory:**] **Complete this survey to stay connected to the group after Camp**  **[|Directory Results] **
 * [|Chatzy] **
 *  Opening Survey **



Educational Rap Songs: []
 * = [|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] ||=  ||
 * I found the name of the song and searched for it in itunes. I downloaded it for 99 cents

Final Survey
 * Final Project survey []..**
 * [] The future of textbooks.**
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 You are invited to [|School Town.net] 25109825  Videos  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpEnFwiqdx8 Did You Know Video

 Skype in the Classroom
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|Directory of educators that use Skype] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|A Skype Phonebook of Educators] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> http://www.teachingdegree.org/2009/06/30/50-awesome-ways-to-use-skype-in-the-classroom/ **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Wordle <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Create a [|Wordle] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|Historic speeches in Wordle] **
 * 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

 * [|Squirlz Morph]**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Social Networking for Personal Professional Growth Historical Tweets**: []**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> You need to know about it **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Things our <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|grandkids will never know] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> and <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|more] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 115%;">[|Learning Ecology Graphic] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Role of Educators] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Graphic **

=<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Fun with Digital Images =

= = = = <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;"> http://plasq.com/comiclife-win Comic Life <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|Add Letters] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|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,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [] <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! [|Comiqs]**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Create your own comics, like comic life ** <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #3f3f3f; display: block; 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;">http://www.makebeliefscomix.com Create your own comics. [] Yearbook yourself!
 * <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**
 * [] My Web Face make yourself a cartoon.**
 * snapfish.com**
 * gfyackle.com**

<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 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Web pages that aren't static - they are constantly changing **

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

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[|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] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|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] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|Edmodo] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|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] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 115%;"> [|Ning]

Filesharing Tools

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<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] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|DebateGraph] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|ClassTools.net] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|ilighter] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|Savethewords] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|BenFranklin300] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Soundboard] **
 * <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; font-size: 110%;">[|Compare Google and Bing] **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Classroom Response Systems
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|H-ITT] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|Classroom Performance Systems] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|Qwizdom] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|SMART] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|iRespond] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|Promethean Activexpressions] **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Twitter
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|Twitter] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|We Follow] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|Twittersheep] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|Caveman Twittering] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|5 Ways to Have Fun with Twitter] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|Twitter for Teachers] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|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 Black",Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 9.6pt; line-height: 115%;"> [|Twitter Background Creation] **


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

<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] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 10.8pt; line-height: 115%;"> [|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 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;">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; font-size: 9.6pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Engage Me] **

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


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

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<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

<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 Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Tools for Communicating with Parents and Students

<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; 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; 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%;">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 Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Educational Alternatives to YouTube

<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; 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; 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

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

<span style="display: block; font-family: "Arial Black",Gadget,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Sound, Music, Video or Narration

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">[|Soundboard]

 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Royality free music. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Songs for teaching. **
 * <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="display: block; font-family: "Arial Black",Gadget,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Media Converters

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Zamzar] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Copy the address, the file will be sent to your email to download **<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;">[|vixy.net] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A music converter - strip the audio ======

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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. ======

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|all2convert]
[|tconvert]

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Listentoyoutube] ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">– **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">online, free youtube to mp3 converter **======

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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%;"> <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 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! = =

<span class="wiki_link_ext">[|Keep Vid] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A very simple web based solution for converting media
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Free Computer Clean Up Tools <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Spybot Search & Destroy] **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">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="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Malware Bytes] **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">install with defaults - update this program also and a simple scan will do you well unless you are having lots of issues. ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|AVG Free antivirus] **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">free antivirus that works well and doesn’t take a lot of your processor to run **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> This was created by using a free software program I downloaded from <span class="description" style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|http://www.tucows.com/previ...] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> The program is called Sqirlz Morph. This was great fun **
 * <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%;">A guide for creating and using a wiki. **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">New Report About Leadership and Web 2.0


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Metiri Group report, Leadership for Web 2.0 in Education: Promise and **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Reality, reveals a scenario of technology and related cultures developing **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> more rapidly than schools can innovate and adapt. This report defines Web 2.0 as "an online application that uses the World Wide Web (www) as a platform and allows for participatory involvement, collaboration, and **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> interactions among users." They add, "Web 2.0 is also characterized by the creation and sharing of intellectual and social resources by end users." **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Key findings include: **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 1. The nation's school district administrators are overwhelmingly positive about the impact of Web 2.0 on students' lives and on their **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> education. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 2. Keeping students interested and engaged in school is the top priority for Web 2.0 use in American schools. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 3. The majority of district administrators believe that student use of Web 2.0 should be limited to participation on approved educational websites. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 4. The majority of school districts ban social networking (70%) and chat rooms (72%) while allowing prescribed educational use for most of the other Web 2.0 tools (e.g., blogging, using wikis, sharing music or sound files, sharing visual media, posting messages, participating in virtual worlds, playing interactive games, creating polls or surveys, etc.). **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 5. While reporting low levels of general use, curriculum directors did describe significant opportunities for use of Web 2.0 tools in curricula and teaching materials. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 6. Curriculum directors reported that Web 2.0 will be used most effectively at all grade levels in the content areas of social studies, writing, science, and reading. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 7. While there was broad agreement that Web 2.0 applications hold educational value, the use of these tools in American classrooms remains the province of individual pioneering classrooms. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 8. Web 2.0 is outpacing K-12 education's current capacity to innovate. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 9. District administrators, the persons responsible for decision making on Web 2.0 in schools, are more passive than active users in the Web 2.0 space. **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Source: CoSN, < []> **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Leadership for Web 2.0 in Education: Promise and Reality. **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Research about Interactive White Boards **


 * [|http://www.soundzabound.com]**


 * save 46645 as Google so they can look up business addresses on their phones.**
 * Type in the place and then the city and you will be text back with the contact information**


 * unitedstreaming.com**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Example Embed Code:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|www.visuwords.com] visual graphic dictionary

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [] write stories here and read other's stories

Interactive WhiteBoard Resources

http://www.ncusd203.org/central/html/what/math/smartboard/
lcmcmillan@wsfcs.k12.nc.us [] Thanks Rich Hubbarb [] [] Converting flipcharts and notebook files.

Twitter people for SMART

[|@Atwaterd] (Debbie Atwater) <span class="wiki_link_ext">@Toledonative Middle school SmartBoard science teacher [|@Fsinfo] (Lori Abrahams) [|@yurkwi](Rachel Yurk) [|@msansonetti] (MaryAnn Sansonetti)

Twitter people for Promethean

[|@atruger](Anne Truger) [|@planet_tweets] (Promethean Planet) [|@gardenglen] (Glen Westbroek) [|@wsiegle] (Wendy Siegle) [|@dthaggard] (Donnan Thaggard) [|@cobannon] (Carol O'Bannon) [|@msreneescience] (Renee)

[|NIMAS] - National Instructiona Materials Accessibility Standards

What Illinois has to say with the Illinois Textbook Loan Program - NIMAS outlines a set of consistent and valid XML-based source files created by K-12 curriculum publishers or other content producers. These source files can be used to create accessible specialized formats (i.e. Braille, audio, digital, large-print, etc.) of print instructional materials. The full set of files includes XML content files, a package file, images, and a PDF file of the title page (or whatever contains ISBN and copyright information).

Google Earth Resources



http://discoveryedspeakersbureau.com/node/119
Inserting a picture into a place mark in Google Earth. Create a place mark and in the box where you can type type this html code: <img src="**paste the jpg you get after you right click on the image selecting copy image source**">
 * example: <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/202/502722304_33d40da1aa.jpg">**

Creating a road trip in Google Earth
 * It is helpful to create a word doc of your destinations and a little blurb about each place.**
 * How to create: Open Google Earth>type in a location on the top left>click to go to that location>create a PushPin and drag the pin to the location>in the new window, type in title, in the description type the following:**
 * < img src= “source code of the image”> (there is a space between the img and src and another space between = and “)**
 * The image source code is gotten by right click (mac control click) on the image and select Copy Image Location**
 * The code is then pasted in the quotes in the description window and clicked to make active the text describing the location is then pasted in the description window.**
 * Click ok and File>Save in My Places**
 * Continue to add new push pins and locations. Save when done.**


 * Google Lit Trips - a different way to teach great literature - http://www.googlelittrips.org/**

<span style="display: block; font-family: "Arial Black",Gadget,sans-serif; text-align: center;">iPhone and iTouch Education Applications

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