Cedar+Street+Technology+Info

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Visit often as resources will be added throughout the summer. To find out more information about Tech Camp visit my [|website] =====

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If you need more information, contact me Meg@techteachers.com =====

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**PowerPoint Resources and Interactive White Board Resources **=====

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[] PowerPoint- Free PowerPoint presentations on every topic! =====

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[|Jeopardy templates] Template and pre-made games =====

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[|Resource collection] Interactive White board Resources =====

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[] Google Earth and Literature ===== [|Prezi] Create a presentation

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

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[|Tuesday morning opening!]

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[|**Tech survey**] =====

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New [] 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] ||=  ||

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Teacher site full of technology ideas and video tutorials for podcasts, videos, iPod notes, etc.: [|www.mrcoley.com] =====

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Final Project survey [].. =====

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[] The future of textbooks. =====

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Directory of educators that use Skype] =====

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|A Skype Phonebook of Educators] =====

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Bubblejoy] Create cards or messages =====

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Cameroid] Manipulate pictures or images. =====

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Historic speeches in Wordle] =====

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|Wordle in the Classroom Ideas Week 1 Tech Camp.doc] =====

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<span style="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] =====

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wordle of the Day: [] =====

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

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] - add captions to pics, photos, posters, etc or preview others contributions =====

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<span style="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="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] Comic Life

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Image Chef] make your own icon - lose the brown square =====

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<span style="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**
 * [] Takes a graphic and prints on multiple sheets**
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 * Takes a graphic and prints on multiple sheets**

<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 **

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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] [|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]

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

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<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 Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Glogster] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Poster Yourself

===Voicethread: **[|http://www.voicethread.com]**===


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

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[|Soundboard]
====[][|Movie Wavs][] Royality free music.====

[] 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.==== ====[] Science songs==== ====[] Collection of math and science songs.====

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

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**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Convert Audio and Video from You Tube **
====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Zamzar] Copy the address, the file will be sent to your email to download. ==== <span style="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="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Digital Storytelling Resources **=====

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] Excellent examples of Photostory as well as fabulous tips on how to put one together! =====

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Free Computer Clean Up Tools

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<span style="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. =====

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<span style="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. =====

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<span style="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**

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<span style="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="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Creating a Wiki**

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] - A guide for creating and using a wiki. =====

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

[] Smart home.

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<span style="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!