Technology Toolbox for Educators Wesley R. McCammon, MSNS Pisgah High School 2008

Student Information Sheet http://www.pisgahscience.com/tippah/sis/

http://www.pisgahscience.com/tippah/sis/

About me Originally from Bruce, MS Moved to Cleveland Attended Delta State University Master’s Degree in Natural Sciences 2006-2007 3 rd Congressional District Teacher of the Year, Rankin County Teacher of the Year, Pisgah High School Teacher of the Year

Originally from Bruce, MS

Moved to Cleveland

Attended Delta State University

Master’s Degree in Natural Sciences

2006-2007 3 rd Congressional District Teacher of the Year, Rankin County Teacher of the Year, Pisgah High School Teacher of the Year

About me Pisgah High School (5 years) – Biology I, Science Skills and Reasoning, Human Anatomy and Physiology, AP Biology Holmes Community College (3 years) – Adjunct instructor in the Biology Department; 2008 – Hybrid pilot program instructor Mississippi Virtual Public School (2 years) – Earth Science Facilitator Velma Jackson High School (3 years) – Field Botany, Field Zoology, Environmental Science, Genetics, AP Biology, Marine and Aquatic Science Eastwood Junior High School (3 years) – 7 th and 8 th grade science

Pisgah High School (5 years) – Biology I, Science Skills and Reasoning, Human Anatomy and Physiology, AP Biology

Holmes Community College (3 years) – Adjunct instructor in the Biology Department; 2008 – Hybrid pilot program instructor

Mississippi Virtual Public School (2 years) – Earth Science Facilitator

Velma Jackson High School (3 years) – Field Botany, Field Zoology, Environmental Science, Genetics, AP Biology, Marine and Aquatic Science

Eastwood Junior High School (3 years) – 7 th and 8 th grade science

#1 Rule!!! LIE LIE LIE Make the students believe they will be successful no matter what you really think.

LIE

LIE

LIE

Make the students believe they will be successful no matter what you really think.

Imagine….

Why? When I Grow Up

When I Grow Up

Why is Technology Important? Technology is this generation’s “paper and pencil” Every generation is different. Essays = collaborative wikis and maintaining websites and databases

Technology is this generation’s “paper and pencil”

Every generation is different.

Essays = collaborative wikis and maintaining websites and databases

Who Uses the Internet? Did You Know?

Did You Know?

Who Uses the Internet? MySpace is the third most popular website in the United States and sixth most popular in the entire world In 2007, MySpace had over 200 million accounts According to the census in 1984 about 8% of the population had a computer. 62% in 2003

MySpace is the third most popular website in the United States and sixth most popular in the entire world

In 2007, MySpace had over 200 million accounts

According to the census in 1984 about 8% of the population had a computer.

62% in 2003

Who? In 1997 only 18% of households had access to the internet. The figure in 2003 is 54%. At this rate by 2009, there will 90% of households with access to the internet. I would estimate that 90% of my students have access to the internet!

In 1997 only 18% of households had access to the internet.

The figure in 2003 is 54%.

At this rate by 2009, there will 90% of households with access to the internet.

I would estimate that 90% of my students have access to the internet!

Who? Pisgah High School 333 students Sandhill, MS Title I school Very rural and poor farming community

Pisgah High School

333 students

Sandhill, MS

Title I school

Very rural and poor farming community

Our competition

Who? We have to be able to design meaningful activities where technology is the most attractive option to complete an assignment rather than the pencil and paper method.

We have to be able to design meaningful activities where technology is the most attractive option to complete an assignment rather than the pencil and paper method.

Who? My Science Fair Problem forms to fill out kids who don’t want to do a project students who can’t afford a display board parents who hate doing the student’s project for them

My Science Fair Problem

forms to fill out

kids who don’t want to do a project

students who can’t afford a display board

parents who hate doing the student’s project for them

Who? My Science Fair Solution Students can do a blog instead of a log book Students can create a website, a flash animation, or an interactive flipchart instead of a display board

My Science Fair Solution

Students can do a blog instead of a log book

Students can create a website, a flash animation, or an interactive flipchart instead of a display board

What? www.quia.com/shared Tons of free activities and games http:// www.ucopenaccess.org GREAT site for Biology and AP Biology (as well as others)

www.quia.com/shared

Tons of free activities and games

http:// www.ucopenaccess.org

GREAT site for Biology and AP Biology (as well as others)

What? http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm MIT open courses. Free MIT lectures and printables. http://www.landmark-project.com David Warlicks site on technology

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

MIT open courses. Free MIT lectures and printables.

http://www.landmark-project.com

David Warlicks site on technology

What? http:// www.ustream.tv Create your own broadcast for your students http://fotoflexer.com/ Online Photo Editor

http:// www.ustream.tv

Create your own broadcast for your students

http://fotoflexer.com/

Online Photo Editor

What? Exam Pro Testmaker program that lets you make internet tests Mindpoint Quiz show Test review software that kids can play and be interactive!

Exam Pro

Testmaker program that lets you make internet tests

Mindpoint Quiz show

Test review software that kids can play and be interactive!

What? http://voicethread.com Upload your powerpoints and record video or audio to go with them. Then embed them on your site! http://www.slideshare.net/ Upload your powerpoints and share them and embed them

http://voicethread.com

Upload your powerpoints and record video or audio to go with them. Then embed them on your site!

http://www.slideshare.net/

Upload your powerpoints and share them and embed them

What? http://www.usatestprep.com Testing website for SATP http://www.studyisland.com Testing website for MCT2 http://www.teachertube.com The teacher’s version of YouTube!

http://www.usatestprep.com

Testing website for SATP

http://www.studyisland.com

Testing website for MCT2

http://www.teachertube.com

The teacher’s version of YouTube!

What? http://www.toondoo.com/ Make your own comic strip!

http://www.toondoo.com/

Make your own comic strip!

What? http://www.hippocampus.org/ More free stuff for you online class! http://www.techsupportalert.com/ Best-ever Freeware Utilities List

http://www.hippocampus.org/

More free stuff for you online class!

http://www.techsupportalert.com/

Best-ever Freeware Utilities List

What? http://www.komando.com/ Technology Radio Show. Lots of links and downloads. http://www.docs.google.com Great tools from Google!

http://www.komando.com/

Technology Radio Show. Lots of links and downloads.

http://www.docs.google.com

Great tools from Google!

What? http://www.sothink.com/ Convert various types of media to flash http://www.google.com/options/ Lots of Google tools

http://www.sothink.com/

Convert various types of media to flash

http://www.google.com/options/

Lots of Google tools

What? http://www.engrade.com Online Gradebook Software http://www.gradekeeper.com Another good gradebook program

http://www.engrade.com

Online Gradebook Software

http://www.gradekeeper.com

Another good gradebook program

What? http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds ***I use this free recorder to record audio tutorials and more. It's really easy to use and free. http://www.pisgahscience.com/webpage/bookmark.htm TONS of subject specific links

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds

***I use this free recorder to record audio tutorials and more. It's really easy to use and free.

http://www.pisgahscience.com/webpage/bookmark.htm

TONS of subject specific links

What? http://www.heathersanimations.com Tons of free animated gifs http://www.rockyou.com/ Very cool website to make cool tools and stuff for your webpage. You can do stuff like this!

http://www.heathersanimations.com

Tons of free animated gifs

http://www.rockyou.com/

Very cool website to make cool tools and stuff for your webpage.

You can do stuff like this!

What? http://www.wishafriend.com/ You can add daily quotes and stuff to your site. Lots of cool stuff. http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/PPT-games/ Download lots of PowerPoint games!

http://www.wishafriend.com/

You can add daily quotes and stuff to your site. Lots of cool stuff.

http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/PPT-games/

Download lots of PowerPoint games!

What? Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 makes it easy to capture and synchronize audio, video, slides and images—creating engaging rich media presentations. Capture, synchronize, and publish audio, video, slides, and images to create rich media presentations viewable in a browser. Tutorials can also be found on this page.

Microsoft Producer

for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 makes it easy to capture and synchronize audio, video, slides and images—creating engaging rich media presentations. Capture, synchronize, and publish audio, video, slides, and images to create rich media presentations viewable in a browser. Tutorials can also be found on this page.

What? http://zamzar.com/ Powerful File Converter for lots of various file types and its free. http://www.free-web-page-counters.com/ Free Webpage Counter for your website

http://zamzar.com/

Powerful File Converter for lots of various file types and its free.

http://www.free-web-page-counters.com/

Free Webpage Counter for your website

What? Moodle Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles , to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University. ***Ever used Blackboard before? This is a free open source program that is very much like Blackboard. We just installed this this year! My classes are going hybrid. Students will have online assignments to complete as well as face-to-face assignments. See our Moodle Site.

Moodle

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles , to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University.

***Ever used Blackboard before? This is a free open source program that is very much like Blackboard. We just installed this this year! My classes are going hybrid. Students will have online assignments to complete as well as face-to-face assignments. See our Moodle Site.

What? http://go.hrw.com/gopages/index.html Holt, Rinehart, and Winston http://www.glencoe.com/ Glencoe http://catalogs.mhhe.com/mhhe/home.do McGraw-Hill http:// www.pearsonlearning.com Pearson

http://go.hrw.com/gopages/index.html

Holt, Rinehart, and Winston

http://www.glencoe.com/

Glencoe

http://catalogs.mhhe.com/mhhe/home.do

McGraw-Hill

http:// www.pearsonlearning.com

Pearson

What? http://www.in2books.com/teacher08/ In2Books is an exciting eMentoring program for grades 3-5 that fosters students' reading, writing and critical-thinking skills across the content areas. Free carefully-screened adult pen pals, books for students, and books for teachers to Title 1 schools! Learn more or sign up today! http://www.epals.com/ Welcome to the Internet's largest global community of connected classrooms! Safely connect, collaborate and learn using our leading protected email and blog solutions for schools and districts

http://www.in2books.com/teacher08/

In2Books is an exciting eMentoring program for grades 3-5 that fosters students' reading, writing and critical-thinking skills across the content areas. Free carefully-screened adult pen pals, books for students, and books for teachers to Title 1 schools! Learn more or sign up today!

http://www.epals.com/

Welcome to the Internet's largest global community of connected classrooms!

Safely connect, collaborate and learn using our leading protected email and blog solutions for schools and districts

What? http://edublogs.org/ Edublogs hosts hundreds of thousands of blogs for teachers, students, researchers, professors, librarians, administrators and anyone and everyone else involved in education. Edublogs are completely free, without any advertising, and come with 100MB of free upload space (easily extended to 3 Gig) and a heap of great features We also cater for schools and universities looking to create, manage and control blogs at their own domain, with all the features of Edublogs.

http://edublogs.org/

Edublogs hosts hundreds of thousands of blogs for teachers, students, researchers, professors, librarians, administrators and anyone and everyone else involved in education.

Edublogs are completely free, without any advertising, and come with 100MB of free upload space (easily extended to 3 Gig) and a heap of great features

We also cater for schools and universities looking to create, manage and control blogs at their own domain, with all the features of Edublogs.

What? My Personal Website Service

My Personal Website Service

Day #2 LETS CREATE A WEBSITE!!!

LETS CREATE A WEBSITE!!!

When? A Day in Biology I Students are divided into groups. Students complete each station in the time allowed and rotate to the next section until all stations are complete. Keeps students moving and out of their seats. Takes planning and supervision, but you are not lecturing. Very student centered.

A Day in Biology I

Students are divided into groups. Students complete each station in the time allowed and rotate to the next section until all stations are complete.

Keeps students moving and out of their seats.

Takes planning and supervision, but you are not lecturing. Very student centered.

When? Science Station #1 – Students would complete their Moodle Assignments (These are online assignments) Science Station #2 – Student could put together model atoms or draw food chains Science Station #3 – Students could test various foods for starch Science Station #4 – Students would look up vocabulary words, not with a dictionary, but with Latin root words. Science Station #5 – Students would read articles on the topic. Science Station #6 – Students would play Mind Point Quiz Show

Science Station #1 – Students would complete their Moodle Assignments (These are online assignments)

Science Station #2 – Student could put together model atoms or draw food chains

Science Station #3 – Students could test various foods for starch

Science Station #4 – Students would look up vocabulary words, not with a dictionary, but with Latin root words.

Science Station #5 – Students would read articles on the topic.

Science Station #6 – Students would play Mind Point Quiz Show

When I devote one entire class period to working online per unit I teach. This frees my liability for students who do not have access to the internet at home. I also make it a point to stay after school at least one day per week with the laptop carts for those students also.

I devote one entire class period to working online per unit I teach.

This frees my liability for students who do not have access to the internet at home.

I also make it a point to stay after school at least one day per week with the laptop carts for those students also.

Short Cut Keys that are very handy Control+K= hyperlink Control+C = copy Control+V=paste F5=reload F6=highlight address bar F7=spell check Control+prt Sc (print Screen)=copies screen image to clip board so you can paste it elsewhere.

Control+K= hyperlink

Control+C = copy

Control+V=paste

F5=reload

F6=highlight address bar

F7=spell check

Control+prt Sc (print Screen)=copies screen image to clip board so you can paste it elsewhere.

How? Creating a Website Using Powerpoint Creating a Website Using Word Create a Website Using Frontpage (or any other WYSIWYG)

Creating a Website Using Powerpoint

Creating a Website Using Word

Create a Website Using Frontpage (or any other WYSIWYG)

How? Using Internet Explorer passive FTP

Using Internet Explorer passive FTP

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