The document provides tips for teachers to make their classrooms more engaging and fun for students through the use of technology. It recommends that teachers have their students blog to encourage interaction and sharing of ideas. It also suggests using digital audio like podcasts and text-to-speech software to make content more accessible. Finally, it advises using digital imagery like slideshows and videos to bring lessons to life in a visual way. The overall message is that these creative technology tools can make learning more appealing and flexible for students.

1. Tools that are: Creative , Versatile, Effective

2. Make Technology Work For You Instead of seeing students like this, Wouldn’t you rather see…

3. This? Here’s how!

4. Tip #1: Blog! Why blog in the classroom? Blogging is BIG!!

5. Fast Fact! By 2009, 1 in 20 Americans had created blogs , and…

6. Fast Fact! … 1 in 6 Americans are blog readers !

7. Student Blogging is: Appealing to kids Interactive with others Flexible FUN!

8. Tip #2: Use Digital Audio!

9. Examples for Your Class! Audio Books Podcasts Text to Speech Software Digital Storytelling

10. Tip #3: Use Digital Imagery! Engage your students! Endless possibilities!

11. Make a slide show! … about Parabolas!

12. Make a Digital Story! Modeling With Math By Marcia Hooper

26. Other Cool Tools Make BEAUTIFUL word clouds at: Share screen captures and video online at: Make your own motivational posters at:

27. But, most IMPORTANTLY…

28. HAVE FUN!!

29. Presentation By: Marcia Hooper, Mathematics Teacher

30. Photography Credits: http://www.britannica.com/bps/image/130429/108250/Students-using-computers-in-a-classroom http://lawstudentcode.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/sleeping-in-class.jpeg http://www.cri-mms.com/images/classroom-management.jpg http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/images/uploads/blog-blogging.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xVyYYU3HG3Q/SP_ULPpmlRI/AAAAAAAAABM/r3quIvuCBXo/S730/IMG_0336.jpg

31. Photography Credits: http://www.educator.com/technology/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/student-ipod.jpg http://appleplan.com.tw/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/iTunesU_300x300.jpg http://www.johnthurlow.com/children/Software/blurb_audacity.jpg http://www.microglobe.co.uk/catalog/images/Fujifilm_finepix_A920_9_Megapixel_digital_camera.jpg http://ujcomputers.webs.com/computer-school.jpg http://www.sixthdecade.uwaterloo.ca/images/raising/students.jpg http://www.biotraining.org/Course-Demo/images/YT-08-095.jpg

32. Thanks for watching!