This document provides information on various educational technology tools including hardware such as iPods, interactive whiteboards, and software such as Photoflexer for photo editing, Dipity for creating timelines, and Voicethread for collaborative presentations. It also includes examples of how these tools can be used in the classroom for activities like student presentations, book reports, and inviting outside experts to provide feedback through technology.

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2. Flip Video Laptops Mac Wacom Drawing Tablet Webcam Interactive Whiteboard Mimio Pad Mimio PDA Midi Keyboard Wii game console PSP

3. iTouch ($389) iPod Classic ($399) Nanos ($249) iPod Splitter ($20) iPhone Amplifier ($45) Composite AV Cable ($75) Microphone ($119.95) http://ipodsiphonesineducation.wikispaces.com/ iKaraoke ($109.95) Speaker Systems (from $99.00)

6. Wordprocessing Graphic Organisers, Drawing, Recording and Reporting Multimedia (Music, Movies Picture Editing) Browsers Mac only Win only

7. Artrage http://www.artrage.com/ Photofiltre (Win) http://photofiltre.en.softonic.com/download Firefox http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ Hot Potatoes http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ Skype http://www.skype.com/intl/en/ Photo Story 3 (Win) http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/PhotoStory/default.mspx Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net// iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download / Picasa http://picasa.google.com/

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15. Fotoflexer is a photo editing programme with a lot of features. You can upload a photo from your computer (resize it so it is less then 500kb) to the website, autofix the photo or make the adjustments yourself using the Red eye, crop, adust, flip or rotate. Then comes the fun part, click on the other tabs to make changes to your photo

16. Photoshow example

17. Slideboom – Animated PowerPoints Set up an account, upload animated PowerPoints with sounds, video, links, buttons and transitions to SlideBoom . Embed in blogs and wikis. Students will need to critique their PowerPoints before uploading, remind them that 'less is more' when adding effects to their slideshows.

18. Create comics with characters, panel prompts and talk balloons with MakebeliefsComix . Make 2, 3 or 4 page comics. You can't save or download the comics but you can Email or print (or take a screen capture and paste into Word or PowerPoint). If you are taking a screen capture for showing in a PowerPoint then make sure that you only do a 2 page comic at a time, that way you will get a better image when you make it bigger on the screen.

20. Mixbook example

21. Dipity Example Dipity is an online application that allows you to make and share interactive timelines. There is a search feature to look at other timelines under a wide range topics i.e. History, Literacy, Social Science etc. These timelines can be embedded into wikis, blogs and webpages. This is an example of a timeline about Sir Edmund Hillary.

22. Voicethread is a collaborative space of group conversations. The example below is created by a student called Zoe in America, she designed it around her interest in Global Warming. Zoe's Global Warming Voicethread A VoiceThread can be created using documents, videos and photos. Comments can be added by registered users by text or voice . They can be exported to your computer as a widescreen movie and to wikis, blogs and webpages. You can use a variety of images: JPG , GIF , BMP , PNG ; docs: PPT , PPS , PDF , DOC , XLS ; and videos . If you've got a Flickr account, you can import from those as well. It has a 'doodle' feature which means you can draw over the images to make a point while you are recording your voice. Classroom Application: a way for children within the class to collaboratively present an investigation, book report any writing genre (recounts, reports, explanations, descriptions, procedural etc) technology Challenge or for children as in Zoe 's example to invite experts outside of the classroom environment to comment or answer questions