ICE+Resources


 * ICE 2008**

The most important thing I can do in technology class is to teach students how to learn to use tools. Don't just teach them to word process in Microsoft Word.. do one Microsoft document and then have them use Zoho Notebook or GoogleDocs.

Back Channel: Chatzy Students can use this to take notes or answer a question posed at the beginning of class. If I don't have time to go and read this right after class I can go back and look at the history.

Blue Zones Longevity study and health lessons and activities for students


 * WikiSpaces**

Send WikiSpaces a list of users and passwords. One large Wiki with students as users. Each student would have their own page. Assign student user names HJHew and if several periods are doing this list the period number. (Have students choose a password and give it to me.) Steps: 1. Set up a WikiSpace around a topic. 2. Send student user names and passwords. 3. Have a page in the Wiki for each user. When they log in and edit it shows in the history who did the editing.

[|Wiki of Resources]
 * Free Resources from Mrs. Burke presented.**

[|Jing] Captures a series of mouse moves and keystrokes and screen as a Quicktime Video. Install needed. Great for staff development for leaving instructions for kids with a sub. Can add your own audio as you record the moves.

[|Screencast-o-Matic] Captures screen and moves to a Quicktime Movie Nothing to install.

[|Weebly] Kids can create web pages. Can update these websites anywhere.

[|Animoto] - Create 30 seconds long free video. 1. Upload images 2. Put them in order 3. Add music or from their selection 4. It makes a movie

[|Prezentit] Similar to Power Point. Presentations are saved on their server. Can be Public or Private You can send link to other people and have a group of students each add a slide or slides

[|Zamzar] Can send files here to convert if you don't have that program. If you want a YouTube video paste URL into Zamzar and tell it what format you want to video in.

[|SkreemR] MP3 search engine. To be copyright compliant link to the files instead of downloading them.

[|Vawkr] for Video Conferencing Go there and click get a room. Then tell someone else to go to the URL they give you. You will see each other. This would be a great way to video conference.

[|Comiqs.com] Don't have to register but it is almost the entire program online.

[|Gaggle.net] Free filtered email  Teacher can read all email or set it up so all email go to her first. Ads show up on teacher login only. There is a blocked folder for emails that are filtered because of inappropriate words. You can add words to block to the filter. Can set it up so kids can or cannot use attachments. Set it up so they just receive or send too. To set up a group they will send a set of user keys to the administrator. Kids each enter their key and set up account.

[|Voicethread] Upload a photo and students can take turns adding comments either orally or typing. Can make the final product publishable but not browsable so kids can share it but others probably won't see it.

[|Cable in the Classroom website]
 * Cable in the Classrooms**

Visual media raises student acheivement.

The effects of watching TV has changed the way students learn. THese brains learn more, faster, and retain information longer if information is presented correctly. Radio and TV commercials have gotten very short.

Short videos are a great way to begin lessons as attention grabbers. Can download video from:
 * 1) Cable in the classroom
 * 2) United streaming
 * 3) YouTube Teacher Tube
 * 4) PowerPoints sent out as a movie
 * 5) Use Quicktime Pro to edit video down to a few seconds.

[|Cable in the Classroom Video website]

[|Hall Davis Presentations] Revenge of the Digital Natives Click on his face and then on the next screen look for his name on the left. Drop that down to his presentations and go to Concurrent Sessions. There you will find Revenge of the Digital Natives.



[|Yugma] With Yugma, you really can collaborate better. Yugma enables any group to spontaneously collaborate on projects in real-time. Collaborate anytime with offsite team members, give virtual presentations, host webinars, streamline workflow, provide remote tech support, and much more.

[|Twitter] : DEN kjakes coolcatteacher These presenters at IL-TCE You can also look for them by name at Twitter or just type in twitter.com/djakes THat is twitter.com with a / and the twitter name. You can see who they are following. Then you can choose to follow their people.

[|Ning] Create your own social networking Ning is the only online service where you can create, customize, and share your own Social Network for free in seconds.

[|Hitchhikr] In changing times, we need to raise our heads out of the water every once in a while, take a drink of kool-aid, network, learn, and energize. Yet, we can't always make it to the conferences we need to attend to mix with the people we need to see -- face-to-face. This is why Hitchhikr was invented, to provide you with a virtual space where, thanks to blogs, podcasts, and RSS, we can connect, share, respond, and grow knowledge out beyond the place and time of the event. Here are some tutorials on how to tap into the emerging technologies that make Hitchhikr possible. (to be added soon) Setting up a blog Fast-tracking into the Blogosphere through Technorati Getting Connected (finding WiFi near your conference) Setting up a flickr account Adding to the global flickr photo album Sending conference pictures directly into the blogsophere from your phone Setting up a podcast

[|Scratch] Snap together blocks to create stories, games and animations and share your creations on the web