navigatingmaze

Navigating the Maze: School Administrators in the Digital Age [] [] Chat about the discussion
 * Thanks for a Great Day!**
 * Here are the Web 2.0 tools highlighted today.**
 * EtherPad**
 * Chatzy**

[] Now you can highlight in two colors. [] Live Binder [] [] [] [] Create virtual post it notes.
 * Online Research**

(feel free to explore and harvest! I know it needs organization, like many areas of my life!) Opening Activity **Working with Images** [|http://www.tucows.com/previ...] The program is called Sqirlz Morph. This was great fun [] Flickr image collection. [] Create puzzles with images. [] Create animated gifs about vocab words. [] Create tag clouds with Wordle. [|http://www.fodey.com] Create talking tomatoes, flowers and much more. [] Similar to Image Chef. [] Amazing Flickr Toys I forgot about! [] Check the Bubblr archives for my pumpkin carving “how to”. [] Create a memory game with Flickr images. [] Create “virtual books” with images from Flickr [] Online photo editing [] Online photo editing site. [] Image generators
 * My Workshop Links to Web 2.0 Tools I Currently Like **

Business Books Summaries [|http://polarunlimited.com/readitfor.me/about-steve/] [] I Pod Applications for educators.

Twitter
 * [|Twitter] **
 * [|We Follow] **
 * [|Twittersheep] **
 * [|Caveman Twittering] **
 * [|5 Ways to Have Fun with Twitter] **
 * [|Twitter for Teachers] **
 * [|Twittas ? First Twitter Follow] **
 * [|TweetCloud] – What’s Being Said? **
 * [|FriendorFollow]  – Find out who you are following, who’s following you and more **
 * [|Twitter Background Creation] **

**Web Cam Fun** [] Bubble Joy [|http://www.tokbox.com/#] Free video calling. [] put your face in an image

[] [] Authors that are willing to skype with your class!

**Bloom's Taxonomy** [] Wiki filled with many more details. http://www.techlearning.com/article/8670 Graphic.

[] has lots of ideas for ELL and ESL
 * ESL Ideas **

[] Redefining the dictionary. [] Spell with Flickr!
 * Working with Words **

[|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. [|Malware Bytes] install with defaults - update this program also and a simple scan will do you well unless you are having lots of issues. [|AVG Free antivirus] free antivirus that works well and doesn’t take a lot of your processor to run [|WinFF] – Convert your videos quickly and easily and all at once with this free downloadable program [] Format Factory Scott's pick for converting! [|You Tube Download] You Tube downloader. [] YouTube Downloader in MP4 or FLV [|Zamzar] Copy the address, the file will be sent to your email to download. [|vixy.net] A music converter - strip the audio [|Mediaconverter] Works well, but not consistently. [|Convertdirect] [|Movavi] [|all2convert] [|Listentoyoutube] – online, free youtube to mp3 converter [|VLC Media Player] – free download, great for playing dvd’s on pc’s with copyright issues. It also has conversion capabilities.[|Directions] on using the convert feature [|Media Convert] free and online, convert and split audio, ringtones, sounds [] Excellent examples of Photostory as well as fabulous tips on how to put one together! [|Keep Vid] A very simple web based solution for converting media
 * Free Computer Clean Up Tools **
 * Converting File Formats **

[] Create and share free online whiteboards. [|http://www.myheritage.com] My heritage. [] Etherpad link [] [|Chatzy] Skype [] uStream [] RSS [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format]) Podcasting [] Twitter [] Wikipedia [] Teacher Tube [] You Tube [] Facebook [] Ning Classroom 2.0 [] del.icio.us [] Linkedin [] Second Life [] Google Alerts [] Google Calendar [] Google Docs [] Google Sketchup [] Street View [] Google Earth [] Google Maps [] Google Page Creator [] Google Advanced Search [] Image Chef [] Add Letters [] Edmodo [] GCast [|http://www.gcast.com] Jing [] Schooltown [] Topsy - search engine powered by tweets @http://topsy.com/
 * Additional Web 2.0 Tools **