OSSTF Conference Summary on Tools and Toys

1. Tools & Toys: Technology in
Education

2. Jesse Brown
• CBC Broadcaster: of the show Search Engine
• Founder of the user generated cartoon site:
Bitstrips
• Licensed by the Ontario Ministry of Education
• Create:
– Political Cartoons
– Myths
– Historical Events
– Short Stories

3. iPod for Success
iPod Touch/iPhone/iPad:
• Create your own ebook and read it with your iPod
using Acrobat.com
• iPortal – connects live for Trillium users (no info is
stored on the device).
• Use the recorder to improve your reading skills
• Speak Pad – free app (it reads what you have
written)
• Write Pad – write with your finger and it
converts what you have written into text and into
other languages.
• Dragon mobile – types what you say

4. Web 2.0 Toolkit- Top Websites
• See the Prezi at
http://delicious.com/komox37

5. • Camtasia or Captivate = $200
• Jing is created by Camtasia
• How do we get this installed
on our computers at school?

6. Marc Saltzman
• Top Trends in Technology
(Technology Expert at CNN)
http://sync.sympatico.ca/How-To/all_articles.htm

7. • Lee Lefever Common Craft show – “what is social
networking” video in plain English. “Our product
is explanation”
• Creative Commons.org –for free use of pictures
and music.
• A Ning classroom closed account will be
sponsored by Pearson.
Closed Class Social Networking

8. Podcasting in the Classroom
• A podcast is a radio show that is available on
the internet, something you can subscribe to
and upload to your iPod.
• Imagine having your own class radio show.
• Portableradio.ca
http://portableradio.edublogs.org/
• Microphones, or headset required and record
using Audacity (free download)
• Students could have an electronic portfolio