This document discusses various technologies that can be used in the classroom, including tools for collaboration, assessment, content creation, and sharing content. It provides examples of using tools like Twitter, LinoIt, Poll Everywhere, Infuse Learning, MindMeister, Voki, Flickr, Big Huge Labs, ToonDoo, QR codes, Flip teaching, Jing, ScreenChomp, Dropbox, Bit.ly, Quizlet, Google Docs, WorksheetWorks, Engrade, SlideShare, Weebly, and Skitch.

1. Teaching With
Technology 2.0
version
Learning for the 21st Century
Presented by Homer Colunga, M.S.
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2. DO NOW
• Fill in the KWL chart in your packet for what you
KNOW about technology in the classroom and
WHAT you would like to know about technology in
the classroom.
• You may also participate in the LIVE KWL chart
online at the following website:
http://bit.ly/REPsUn

3. 21st Century Learning
• Video
• Discussion

4. Twitter in the Classroom
• Make use of the twitter fast follow feature
• (A Mass Text Message Alert)
• Use it for Online Discussion/Collaboration
• Connect to parents

5. Please take out your cell phone!!!!
• Do you want to receive TEXT
MESSAGE
• alerts about class?
• Text: follow hcolungaSTCMV
• To the number: 40404

7. Classroom Collaboration
• LinoIt-Online Sticky Notes
– Digital Bulletin Board
– Digital Brainstorming
– Classroom Collaboration
– can be used to do KWL Charts

8. Classroom Collaboration
• POLL EVERYWHERE:
o Poll anywhere is a great way to bring in mobile devices into the
classroom
o Assess student knowledge during discussion

9. How To Vote via Texting
1. Standard texting rates only (worst case US $0.20)
TIPS 2. We have no access to your phone number
3. Capitalization doesn’t matter, but spaces and spelling do

11. Classroom Assessment
• Infuse Learning
• Assess student performance during class.
Find out immediately how a student is
responding and take a grade from their
responses.
• View a demo by going to
student.infuselearning.com in your
computer/mobile browser

12. Create Digital Content
• MindMeister
o Create Mind Maps that can display trees of information

13. Digital Multimedia
• VOKI:
o Voki is a great way to have students share their knowledge of a topic in 60
seconds or less.
o Makes students organize their thoughts to focus on key details.

14. Digital Content
• Flickr
– Go on virtual field trips
– Display photography and art
– Label Diagrams

15. Digital Content
• BIG HUGE LABS
o Create motivational posters
o Trading cards
o Magazine covers
o Movie posters

16. Big Huge Labs

17. Create Digital Content
• ToonDoo
o Create your own cartoons with your own dialogue and messages

18. Sample Cartoon

19. Create Your Own Digital Content
• QR CODE Generator: Add Codes to your
assignments
• Create a homework assignment that can be done
on a mobile device!
SCAN NOW!!!

20. Create Your Own
Multimedia
• Flip Your Classroom
o Create video lectures that are viewed at home
for homework
o Traditional Homework is completed in class along
with other hands-on activities
• Jing
o Can be used to record screen shots or make
screen casts which can be viewed online
• ScreenChomp
o (FREE App)
o Video Example

21. Create your Own
multimedia
• iPad
o ScreenChomp (FREE App)
o Video Example
• TabletPC, SmartBoard, Interwrite Pad, etc.
o Jing (FREE SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD)
• Video Example
• Posts to screencast.com
o Camtasia Studio (License Required)
• Can post to virtually anywhere, including YouTube!

22. YouTube in the Classroom
• ViewPure.com-
o Watch YouTube Videos without ads and related
videos
o download videos for offline viewing.
• TubeChop.com-
o Allows you to chop YouTube Videos, so that you
get straight to the point you were focusing on.
• Meograph-Allows for 4-dimensional
storytelling, embedding photos and videos.

23. Digital Dialogue
• Ifaketext.com—Have students create a
dialogue via “Text Message”

24. Teacher Tools
• DROPBOX:
o Share files across any computer
o Drag and drop convenience
o Eliminates the need for USB Flash Drives
o Available on Mobile Devices

25. Web Tools
• Bit.ly
o Have a long website address? Use Bit.ly
o Shortens long website addresses
o Track number of views to your link.

26. Online Assessment
• Quizlet.com
o Create Flash Cards for your class, or have students prepare these to study
key terms and ideas.
• GoogleDocs
o to create tests/quizzes/homework that are sent to you after completion

27. Teacher Tools
• WorksheetWorks
o Create worksheets, graphic organizers, etc. that
can be saved as PDFs
• Improve Google Searches
• Engrade.com-
o Free Gradebook
o Classroom activities
o Seating Chart
o Record attendance

28. Share Your Digital
Content
• SlideShare
o Allows you to upload Power Point Presentations and share with the world.
o You do not need to have Power Point installed on your computer
o Can be viewed on mobile devices

29. Website Builder
• WEEBLY
o Build your own website with Drag and Drop
convenience.
o No programming knowledge required.
o Add files and multimedia for your classes.
o Keep parents and students updated with Blog
features.

30. Annotate on your iPad
• SKITCH-
o an app that allows you to annotate text, images, maps,
websites on your iPad!
o Connects with Evernote to save your annotations
automatically to your Evernote account.