Technology Professional Development (6 Oct 09)

Technology JEPD
Adding tools to your tool box
Increasing your skill set

Do not be overwhelmed
We all adapt to change different

By the time we finish this period
you should:
- Be more conversant in using Ning as a
Classroom and collaborative tool
- Have become a member of St Joseph School
District Digital Express ; CHS Ning
- Shown examples of Ning in use
- Have been introduced to additional
technology tools (PowerPoint Narration, Jing (Video Cature), slideshare, Youtube),
CPS, Survey Monkey)

AGENDA

St Joseph School District Digital Express
Ning at CHS
Ideas for using Ning in the Classroom
Embed video / Embedded PowerPoint
Example Class
Other Technology/Instructional Tools
CPS

Technology is not a substitute for good teachers , good teaching or rigor in regular classroom work . It is a tool to deliver and enhance the curriculum teachers are already teaching.

“THE READ AND
WRITE WEB”

Slide from Sean Nash / Benton High School

www.ning.com
www.youtube.com
www.slideshare.net

www.jingproject.com

PowerPoint (Narration)

Archimedes’ Principle
Physics 131 - Physics for Health, Life and Environmental Sciences
When a body is fully or partially submerged in a fluid, a buoyant force Fb from the surrounding fluid acts on the body. The force is directed upwards and has a magnitude equal to the weight of the fluid that has been displaced by the body.
Abdul Mirza
CENTRE FOR QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY, SCHOOL OF PHYSICS, UKZN
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Classroom Performance System

Survey Monkey

BACKUP SLIDES

Slide from Sean Nash / Benton High School

Techy Tip - Videos made easy
Go to http://animoto.com/
Click on 'Education' at the bottom to sign up for an 'All-Access Pass'
Upload pictures, choose music, create a powerful music video in seconds.
Create a brilliant stimulus or starter

Techy Tip - Work Together
Go to http://docs.google.com/
Put your Schemes of Work and other departmental documents online and invite the rest of your department.
You can now edit the files collaboratively and access them no matter where you are!

Techy Tip - Use Plain English
The CommonCraft Show is a series of videos that explains a host of complex topics, all "...in plain English"
How to:

invest money
use social media
survive a zombie attack
and many more...

You could always have students make their own!
Go to http://www.commoncraft.com/ to have a look

Techy Tip - Sharing Presentations
www.slideshare.net You can upload your presentations so that others can see them!

Search other presentations for ideas

See winning presentations for styles and content

Great for paperless training

Great for revision and research

You can see notes pages too

Louise Jones - Goodonskis

Techy Tip - Find a Podcast
Download iTunes, go to the Podcast Directory and click 'Power Search' on the right.
Enter your subject name in 'Description'
Pick something that sounds interesting and listen!

Techy Tip - Start a blog
Mr Clarkson's blog at egglescliffeblogs.org.uk/mrclarkson
I Should Be Marking blog at happyhippy.edublogs.org
Blogs can be useful for a number of things. You can set homework, share resources and links or use them to reflect on your own practice.
Sign up for free at www.blogger.com , edublogs.org or wordpress.org

Techy Tip - Befriend a techy!
When your computer stops, IWB stops, printer stops, software stops, network stops, internet stops, blogs stops............... Magic Fingers gets them going again!

Techy Tip - Physics made easy
Who said that physics has to be boring?
Over 100 flash animations
of Physics concepts available
from the University of
Toronto
Go to http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Harrison/Flash
petarnikoloski@gmail.com