- Thursday morning went to Patrick Crispen's presentation on Google sites... it was informative and can be located at http://netsquirrel.com. When you get to his page you can find all his presentations in the powerpoint links on the left. This one is titled Creating Simple and Secure Group Projects Websites for Free with Google Sites.
- In this session he described how you could use this tool as a classroom and establish a classroom website that is collaborative with all your students. The cool thing is that it is like a wiki for the whole site, you can add files, drop box, google gadgets and more.
- We are investigating getting our own Wenatchee Google site to use and I will keep the TRT's informed of what could be a very powerful tool.
- Attended the keynote:
- Focus on learning goals with technology and the power of not just doing activities and focus on the learning goal
- The technology will increase student engagement... but keep it with a purpose.
- Watch this SNL skit that demonstrates the technology for technology sake (remember the chicken-chicken-chicken video). http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/update-freds-mapfix-it/784121/
- She spent some time on response systems and the value they have to provide interaction and feedback from students real time to inform your instruction and your student's learning.
- An electronic whiteboard enables you record your lessons for repeat or review.
- In a truly differentiated classroom with learning goals and standards in place, the time is not bound and students are able to master in their timeline and can redo and move toward mastery. Technology really helps make this a reality.
- You learn what you need to learn in your own time frame, the internet and other technology helps this.
- Requires rigorous and clear learning goals.
- Demonstrated http://brainpop.com.
- Book "Multimedia Learning" by Richard E. Mayer. Students learn better with words and pictures.
- Learning is hindered when irrelevant words and pictures are added...
- Learning is hindered when irrelevant sounds and music are added...
- When using technology focus on Engagement, Learning Goals, Feedback, Interacting through Nonlinguistic.
- Attended Patrick Crispen's - What is happening at Google.
- Google search wiki... vote up or reject any hits that you like or don't like. This will move that search to the top, you can x out the garbage and google will remember.
- http://images.google.com - Secondary searches... filters by content, face recognition, clip art searches. Do your search and then choose the filtering that you want on the top.
- Search LIFE photo archive now in Google.
- pirates imagesize:800x600 imagetype:jpg this is the term to search for exact size... and/or type.
- Google Maps - live traffic, you can check the traffic at any time also, photos, videos, wikipedia, terrain maps, street views.
- http://transit.google.com - transit schedules
- Google Earth - Mars, Oceans, simplified touring,
- finance.google.com - Real time data, automatic symbol lookups,
- sky.google.com - historic images of space and constellations
- http://code.google.com/doctype - programming language reference library online.
- http://google.com/support - Help system together in one place, 218 other support sites.
- You can theme your gmail, google mail goggles ask you math questions before it sends it (settings, labs, mail goggles enabled), gmail google docs viewer - attachments are now shown with the google docs not with the original program (pdfs, doc, ppt, xls)
- 1-800-466-411, 1-800-GOOG-411, sends voice, text message, or connects you, directory assistance search, absolutely free, say "text message" sends you the info about them, "map it" sends you the maps, not residential yet,
- Investing in the theory that voice will be the way to search. Google's iPhone app does voice searching.
- mobile.google.com -
- http://dictionary.google.com - or you can do define:theword you want or use their dictionary site for more detailed information, and the dictionary site does translation and does the audio pronunciation.
- http://translate.google.com - 1681 language pairings
- http://books.google.com - magazine and book searcher, they are in the process of scanning every book they can, not give you the book for free, but lets you search inside the books, then tells you where to find the book. You can download public domain books as pdf.
- http://scholar.google.com - searches contents of academic research papers.
- http://knol.google.com - Googles wikipedia, free online encyclopedia, listen to articles as MP3 files,
- http://news.google.com - current and historical archive of news
- http://google.com/educators - tools teachers can use in the classroom, even some videos
- http://istockphoto.com - royalty free photos
- http://creativecommons.com - you can search in google in advanced and you can search creative commons, "Pay it Forward" with your technology.
- Google is now suggesting search terms as you type then you can click on what you want to save you time.
- Google Q & A - Just ask encyclopedia type questions in question format... " What is the population of Iraq" and the first hit will be the answer.
- Click the Skip-Intro button and it will skip the flash intro page to website.
- gaggle.net - you can create a free class set of email addresses to get google accounts or other online web 2.0 accounts
- http://sites.google.com - create your own websites and have interactivity
- http://buzzword.adobe.com or docs.google.com - footnotes can now be added,
- http://docs.google.com/templates - New from Template and choose
- Online PPTs with Google Docs
- Google personized search
- Educator use of iPod Touch - Apple
- Tons of ed software to use.....
- Spent some time at the vendors looking at:
- Grade Quick - camera grading of assessments. Put the bubble sheet in front of the document camera and it grades the assessment and puts the scores in the gradebook.
- Keyboarding software for K-5 that is web based. I will be bringing back a demo to try with a couple classrooms.
- Okidata laser printers. Very fast, and print continuous rolls of paper..... $299 for a color one currently.
- Interwrite tablets and their potential as a "whiteboard" for about $350
- Web 2.0
- http://Twitter.com - constant updates of people
- http://Yammer.com - Like Twitter but only in your domain setup, could be a great solution for PLC.
- Moodle -
- Forums -
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- http://CommonCraft.com -
- http://osalt.com - search engine to find open source software to replace commercial software
- http://www.qipit.com - sends a pdf of any picture from a cell phone
- From cell phone picture sends you to website - http://gettag.mobi, http://microsofttags.com this will let you make images that can go to websites.
- To create student accounts for them to register for 2.0 type tools you can set up one gmail accont then as many as you want connected to it. go to http://edtechation.edublogs.org/2008/10/31/test/ to find out how.
- Open Source -
- Various Websites: