Technology Toolbox For Educators 2.0

Technology Toolbox for Educators Wesley R. McCammon, MSNS Pisgah High School MECA 2009

Why?

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

Who Uses the Internet?

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

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!

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.

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

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

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)

What?

http://www.tumblr.com

Great blogging site and easy to use!

http://www.wetpaint.com

Great wiki site and easy to use, but blocked at school

http://www.gcast.com

Easy to use podcasting website. You can even make a podcast from your phone!

http://www.voki.com

Kind of a combination podcast/avatar maker. Very cool

What?

http://www.jingproject.com/

Jing is screencasting software that is free to download and use. It is easy to use and can do still pictures or video.

http://www.readprint.com/online-books

Free books online!!!

http://www.3dtextmaker.com/

3D Text Maker!!!

http://www.teachersdomain.org/

Lots of good stuff…

What?

http://www.free.ed.gov/index.cfm

Free stuff from the Fed. Govt.

http://www.ning.com/

Create your own social network (like facebook or myspace.

http://epnweb.org/index.php?request_id=635&openpod=16#anchor16

The Educational Podcasting Network – Lots of free podcasts.

http://dragon.ep.usm.edu/~yuen/howto/blogs-wikis.htm

Dr. Yuen’s how-to site.

What

http://www.flowgram.com/

Create online lessons with this interactive tool.

http://www.dabbleboard.com/

WOW! A cool online interactive whiteboard. Best of all it’s FREE!!!

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

What?

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!

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

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!

What?

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

What?

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

What?

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

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!

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!

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.

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

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.

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://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/mader/

More Sites

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

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