![Trek to EdgyTech
Technology for Librarians On the Edge
Employing User-friendly Technology Tools to Promote 21st Century Learning
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![Why Learn Technology Tools?
Susan Newell
ODU Student of
Library Science
Personal Use and Student and Staff Assistance
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- 1. Trek to EdgyTech Technology for Librarians On the Edge Employing User-friendly Technology Tools to Promote 21st Century Learning https://animoto.com/ http://piktochart.com/ http://www.imagechef.com/ http://doppelme.com/ http://www.voki.com/ The edge at the summit of Half Dome. [Digital Image]. (2007, August 29). Retrieved August 2, 2015, from https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Half_Dome_edge.jpg http://tinyurl.com/p4xqphw http://tinyurl.com/pobfdqfhttp://tinyurl.com/qx2yke2 http://tinyurl.com/nwtnjhz http://tinyurl.com/ngch2am
- 2. Why Learn Technology Tools? Susan Newell ODU Student of Library Science Personal Use and Student and Staff Assistance Rayker, K. (2008, February 27). Living on the edge. [Digital Image].Retrieved August 2, 2015, from https://www.flickr.com/photos/krayker/2295193047
- 3. Avatar What is it? Why use one? Unsplash. (2015, May 24). Living on the edge. [Digital Image]. Retrieved August 2, 2015, from https://pixabay.com/en/living-on-the- edge-home-house-844873/ CC 0 Newell, S. (2015). Avatar.[Digital Image]. Retrieved June 10, 2015, Retrieved from http://www.doppelme.com/?rid=DM1345764899
- 4. Avatars Where can I create one? http://doppelme.com/ http://www.avatar-zone.com/ http://pickaface.net/ How can avatars be used in the classroom? Hietaparta. (2013). The edge of the clouds [Digital Image]. Retrieved August 2, 2015 from https://pixabay.com/en/sky-the-edge-of-the-cloud-212808/ CC0 http://tinyurl.com/qx2yke2 http://tinyurl.com/o2emkxf http://tinyurl.com/noadns8
- 5. Audio Tools How can I use them? Newell, S. (2015) Summer. [Video]. Retrieved June 2015, from http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=11544539&height=267&width=200 https://vhss-d.oddcast.com/vhss_editors/voki_player.swf?doc=http://vhss- d.oddcast.com/php/vhss_editors/getvoki/chsm=ea4153055cc0206d7de1cb97a386c7b6%26sc=1 1544539
- 6. Audio Tools Where can I create them? http://www.voki.com/ http://vocaroo.com/ http://blabberize.com/ https://clyp.it/ http://www.audiopal.com/ http://tinyurl.com/oxzhukk http://tinyurl.com/peqcyzy http://tinyurl.com/qduv8ot http://tinyurl.com/qfmdrus http://tinyurl.com/pobfdqf
- 7. Image Editing and Creating What’s available? http://www.imagechef.com/ Aranoa, J. (2014). Roots. [Digital Image]. Retrieved August 2, 2015, from https://pixabay.com/en/nature-roots-trees-366620/ CC 0 Newell, S. (2015). Roots. [Motivational Poster]. Retrieved July 30, 2015, from http://www.imagechef.com/r/oS8mEo Newell, S. (2015). Librarians on the edge! [Sticky Note]. Retrieved August 2, 2015, from http://www.imagechef.com/r/oS8mEo EME. (2014). Children on a pier. [Digital Image]. Retrieved June 10, 2015, from https://pixabay.com/en/children-nature-development-516342/ CC 0 Newell, S. (2015). Children on a pier.[Daily News]. Retrieved June 10, 2015 from http://www.imagechef.com/ic/myitem.jsp?myremix=29098167 http://tinyurl.com/nwtnjhz
- 8. Image Editing and Creating Tools Where can I get them? http://www.imagechef.com/ http://bighugelabs.com/ https://www.tuxpi.com/ http://foldplay.com/ http://www.picmonkey.com/ http://tinyurl.com/q7l3zrr http://tinyurl.com/px8wx6q http://tinyurl.com/pgxe6y3 http://tinyurl.com/nwtnjhz http://tinyurl.com/nscvcxn
- 9. Image Editing and Creating Tools How can I use them? Stenning, N. (2006). On the edge II. [Digital Image]. Retrieved August 2, 2015, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:On_the_edge_II.jpg CC0
- 12. Video Tools How can I use them? NASA. (1993). Great Images in NASA. [Digital Image]. Retrieved August 2, 2015, from https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Standing_on_the_Edge_of_the_Bay_-_GPN-2000-001099.jpg
- 13. Infographics Why use them? Peckham, D. (2010). Double Rainbows on the edge of Horseshoe Falls at Niagara Falls. [Digital Image]. Retrieved August 2, 2015, from https://www.flickr.com/photos/davaodude/5121119944 CC0
- 14. Infographics What are they? Newell, S. (2015). Laura Bush grants. [Digital Image] Retrieved July 31, 2015, from https://magic.piktochart.com/output/7197987-susan-newell CCBY-ND
- 15. Infographic Tools http://piktochart.com/ www.canva.com/create/posters http://www.easel.ly/ How can they be used in the classroom? http://tinyurl.com/q2nheb4 http://tinyurl.com/q74jaxv http://tinyurl.com/ngch2am
- 16. Trek to Edgytech Questions and Comments Edge of the sun. [Digital Image]. (n.d.). Retrieved August 2, 2015, from http://www.torange.us/photo/4/16/edge-of-the-sun-1259576577_28.jpg CC 4.0
Editor's Notes
- Welcome to Trek to EdgyTech. My name is Susan Newell and I am currently teaching in Henrico County Public Schools. My passion is helping students develop a love for learning and helping them acquire the skills necessary to be life-long learners and experience success in school. I’m so glad you chose to join us and I hope everyone has access to a laptop so you can see these tools up close and personal. We’re going to be talking about avatars, audio tools, image editing and creating, video tools, and infographics. We’ll be focusing most of our attention on one user-friendly tool from each of the 5 categories. If you have not yet had the opportunity to get your computer up and running, let’s take a moment to do that. 2-minutes
- My goal for today was to choose tools that you, as librarians, would find useful for yourselves as well as being beneficial for the students and staff that you service. Hopefully you will venture out and experiment with the tools that lend themselves to your curriculum and plans. 1 minute
- Librarians on the edge will surely need an avatar on their technology journey. An avatar is an icon used to represent a particular person. Avatars can be created with or without audio depending on the creation tool used. Rather than providing a personal photograph to make online interactions more personal, people often create an avatar for on-line use. Avatars, as compared to photographs, help to provide a level of privacy while allowing the creator to express some characteristic about them self. 1:30 minutes
- Three tools to create avatars are Dopple Me, Yahoo Avatars, and Pick a Face. Of the three, Dopple Me and Pick a Face appear more user-friendly. All three sites are free and provide links to use and share your creations. You will usually need to register in order to get codes for sharing. These sites allow you to create an Avatar quickly and use it for all sorts of on-line activities. Let’s take about 5 minutes to choose a tool and create an avatar. If you already have an avatar and prefer not to create another one, please feel free to lend a hand to anyone that would like assistance. You can download your Avatar’s file and use it to upload for any type of program that asks for a picture. 8 minutes I like the idea of using avatars as an ice breaker activity for students the first week of school. You can have students make their own avatars. Then print, collect, and randomly distribute them throughout the class to have students try to identify the person by their avatar. This allows students to have fun using technology, familiarize themselves with some of the functions of the computer, and set the stage for a discussion on internet safety (Health SOL 1.3f). Students can create avatars and write a story about them. (Writing SOL 1.14) Students can choose a copy of an avatar, and practice writing sentences using describing words. (Writing SOL 1.13) 2 minutes
- Let’s edge on over to our next topic, audio tools. Audio tools can be used in a multitude of ways in the elementary classroom or library setting. Students can practice their fluency by recording their reading and then listening to themselves.(Reading SOL 1.10) Another idea for using audio tools, is to have one student each day record “what we did today” to be added to the classroom blog. Audio/visual tools such as Voki and Blabberize can be used for students to create an alternative ending to a story using an applicable character (Oral Language SOL 1.1) or create a figure they have studied and have that historical figure tell something about “themselves”. (History SOL 1.2) 2 minutes
- Audiopal, Clyp, and Vocaroo are audio only tools. All three tools are free of charge, easy to use, and they do not require registration in order to create an audio file. All of these audio tools provide links for you to share your creations; however, you must have registered an email address in order to receive your links from Audiopal. Voki and Blabberize are audio/visual tools. Voki allows the user to create an avatar and add audio using voice, phone, text, or upload a file. In order to create a “blabber”, you must upload a photo, add a moveable mouth, and record audio. Plan to register to use either of these tools. Sometimes Voki will allow you to create an avatar without registering, but you will not be able to save your creations and retrieve them. Voki and Blabberize are both free to use and both provide a code and a URL to share. 2 minutes Let’s take about 7 minutes to go to one of the audio tool sites and experiment with creating an audio or audio/visual clip. Feel free to work in pairs or individually. 9 minutes
- Our journey continues with image editing and creating. Just to give you a little idea about the many different types of image editing and creation templates that are available, I wanted to show you three items that were made using Image Chef. You are looking at a newspaper template that allows you to insert a photograph and text, a “poster” that allows you to do the same, and a “sticky note” text template. 1 minute
- There are many image editing tools to choose from; however, Image Chef is probably one of the most versatile of the 5 tools shown. It has a variety of text templates as well as photo tools. It even has a word mosaic generator. Big Huge Labs, Tuxpi, and Image Chef contain templates to create posters, banners, signs, and pictures in frames. Big Huge Labs, Image Chef, Tuxpi, and Pic Monkey have tools to customize photographs. Foldplay allows the creator to use photos to create foldable books, origami, and 3D shapes. All of these tools provide easy to understand tutorials, can be used free of charge, and provide links so creations can be used and shared. 1:30 minutes
- Students can use the word mosaic tool in Image Chef to create a picture using only nouns. They could be working on identifying nouns or identification of singular vs. plural nouns. (Language SOL 1.2) They can work in groups to display their knowledge of edible plants/plant parts by choosing an appropriate picture to insert and adding text, for example: celery- stem. (Science SOL 1.4) Students can locate pictures of various shapes found in their environment, insert them into a frame, and label them, for example: door- rectangle. (Math SOL 1.13) 1:30 minutes
- (Quickly click on the video. It takes a while to load.) Let’ explore video tools that librarians and teachers can use to document the edgytech that takes place in the library and around the school. Animoto is one of my favorite video tools. It is extremely easy to use. Animoto allows you to choose a video style, add photos or video clips, choose music from its library, or download your own music, and add text. Animoto will allow you a 15-day trial period to create one minute videos. After the trial period, educators can apply for a free account or purchase plans such as The Animoto Pro plan which allows you to make a 20 minute video. 2 minute talk 1 minute video
- Animoto is just one of the many video tools that are available. Pixiclip is a video tool that functions as an interactive whiteboard. You can upload images or draw, then add audio and video messages. Powtoon is a tool that allows the user to create animated cartoon-like videos and presentations. Powtoon and Pixiclip both offer a “free” version with limited features and as mentioned earlier, Animoto will allow you to apply for a free educator account. 2 minutes
- Students could easily create video presentations using pictures they had taken using Animoto. For example, students could take pictures of various parts of a plant, add text to label the plant part, select music if so desired, and create a video to share what they have learned. (Science SOL 1.4) Students could illustrate their own poetry. (Reading SOL 1.8) They can create a video about themselves. (Oral Language SOL 1.1) 1:30 minutes
- Edgytech at its best—the infographic! An infographic is a visual, similar to a chart, that is used to present information or data. This infographic was made using one of the templates found in Picktochart. It provides an easy way to communicate an idea, event, etc… without having a heavy amount of text that would discourage or impede some people from taking the time to read. You can easily deliver your main idea, a photograph, and other graphics that can be understood without a great deal of time invested. If there is additional information you would like to add, you can always insert a QR Code. 2 minutes
- Infographics can be very compelling as ideas can be presented in a concise, visually-pleasing manner. People can quickly scan them as they walk by. They are easy to share electronically. 1 minute
- In first grade, I would use the creation of an infographic as a whole-class activity. Students could work in groups to create an infographic that displays students’ story comprehension. For example, students could decide the best way to display what the Hungry Caterpillar ate each of the seven days. We would determine the best way to create a visual to represent the story and allow each group to create a portion of the infographic. (Reading SOL 1.9) Another way we could use an infographic is to display rules students have identified for playground safety. (Health SOL 1.3c) After several group attempts, students could work in partners to create their own infographic using the simple tools that are provided, such as icons and text. (Writing SOL 1.14) Pictochart and Easel.ly are two user-friendly tools that are primarily used to create infographics. Canva is used to create banners, brochures, business cards, cards, flyers, picture collages, post cards, and infographics. All three tools have numerous templates, icons, and stickers and all can be used free of charge. 2 minutes
- I’m so glad you joined me today in our trek to edgytech. Does anyone have any questions or comments they would like contribute? 4 minutes (Total 45 minutes)