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Technology Conference: ITSC and NCCE conferences Feb 15 – 20 Portland // OTEC and ITSC Conferences // 

Strategies : Touch elbow to opposite knee strategy Walk 10 steps from someone, eye contact, think, pair share w/ them. PBL: [] For further study into 3 states of matter Voice thread –add multiple types of responses via voice, pictoral, visual, phone (only 3 minutes) = = = = = Acrobat.com = Downloaded Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.0 for 30 day trial 2/15 5 free to pdf Adobe Photoshop elements 7 organizes photos & edits them & creates \movies Apple classrooms of tomorrow today (check out on web) = = = = = Digital Storytelling = Garage band Digital riddle w/ landforms “Can you guess this whale” using photostory What is it? Freeplacemusic Freeclaimmusic Zamsar to convert audacity to mpg All google resources are on: [|http://handheldcomputers.blogspot.com] call in via gcast or gabcast Gcast: must know what time you recorded as a time stamp to find which one they are recording (only way to find theirs) = = = = = MOviemaking = Cool movie making camera: Kodak ZI6 camera For moving making associate jobs: director “roll audio”; “2 people repeat “ “roll audio both w/ recorder” says action & clapper claps; clapper claps (spike in audio) ; actor acts; and cut; always verify that you got it. Flickschool.com for movie making Common craft videos = = = = = Social Networking = Twitter Ning like facebook but w/ education classroom 2.0 Ning ITSC 2009 has resources Skype – VOIP (pull a group together talk over the phone w/ group) Flickr (photo sharing site) Classroom 2.0 (NING) community of ed-tech educators; if you post you’ll get lots of responses; can post videos; kfasingpower Shared multimedia: Flickr – has creative commons licence (98 million open photos); can set up sets and then inbed in your blog File conversion with Zamzar – can convert utube to offsite video Vixynet also does file conversion Delicious – social bookmarking tool that can share w/ students unless you mark them to make them private Online surveys – survey monkey; also google docs

=// NCCE Conference //= = Google Earth & GIs Resources with Annette Lamb = [] Educators can get Google earth Pro w/ form filled out Nationalatlas.gov (data sets that you can put on top of map – agriculture, livestock, farms, etc) layers on a map. Can do this b/f embarking on google earth. Why do we need these information systems and what do they show us? Glaciers nps.org project (check it out) How to lie w/ maps by Mark Monmonier National geographic mapmachine Map quest (compare maps) Google maps Yahoo local maps Google lit trips (kml files) gives you a map of the places on the book CGIS in action (PBS for kids) projects already done & can take kids there = = = = = Keynote speaker = Focus on learning goals; not technology (be clear on learning goals) Design technology curriculum where the learning goal is at the forefront Brain pop Visual 77%; 53% verbal; 57% dramatization = = = = = Google Tools: = Patrick Crispin [|http://netsquirrel.com] Log into your Google account; can do a search w/ wiki; (promote) can promote a hit up or down; can go to bottom and see all of wiki notes; Google will remember when you x out the garbage Google.image.search; can now filter by size and new content; by faces, or clip art (has face recognition); after search you can filter; Images.google; newly images of life magazine photos on homepage & back to into of photography (LIFE photos) LIFE magazine; Google image search; can add Source: LIFE and it will only add life mages Can also search for size and shape on home page; Maps.google.com; traffic (will show live traffic); can also see non-live traffic if you hit change and put in Friday; ; add more button; may do a terrain map w/ elevations; topo maps; also can drag your bookmark and see what’s going on around the street (yellow man to see street view); they drove up and down on most streets & took pictures; Transit.google.com; to see schedules including Portland, CA, etc. Google earth; ocean mapping; fly underwater; 3 d version of mars; audio and voice recording for touring; Finance.google.time real-time finance information; Code.google.com; Google earth web browser plugin w/o installing Google earth ; works on IE 6/7 Sky.google.com; can see pictures from big observatories (historic info); Code.google.com/doctype/ code manipulation for Google products Google.com/support; one website for all support; Gmail; can theme it; settings; themes google mail goggles; can set times that prevent you from sending the mail until you can answer math problems; Gmail Google docs viewer; when you send someone a file attachment, when you open a pdf file, it don’t open up the original doc, rather it opens in their viewer. Don’t have to have excel files, word docs 1-800-GOOG-411 1-800-466-4411 is Google business directory assistance;  can get business directory assistance;  & will send a text message and then connect;  will text it ; will map it; will; no residential listing yet; On i-phone, start Google mobile app; will search for location to do a search; Google.com/ig; home Google page & completely ; go to version 1.0 if you go back to language of UK; igoogle page can also go on your mobile device too.;  more information re: mobile mobile.google.com Research tools on Google: Dictionary.google.com When search, can hit define “thing” than will define If you go to dictionary site, it gives you much more information Can translate and will hear audio of what it sounds like; does translation; Dictionary.google.com translation Go to translate.google.com for translation service; Books.google.com (much info is trapped in books & many major libraries are scanning all books in shelf w/ ocr); Google’s goal is to help you find a book you’re looking for & then find our book & buy it.; also magazines; also gives me the page in the book that I appears on; if it is a public domain book, you can download the entire book for free Scholar.google.com searches articles, year, page #, etc.;  searches peer reviewed paper, abstracts, academic material; (great w/ ELL’s) News.google.com has historical archive like “scholar”’ has archive; like book search it charges if article is really old; but will tell page, date, etc. Knol.google.com is Google’s Wikipedia; free online encyclopedia; can download & listen to encyclopedia article as an mp3 Google.com/educators teacher guides; lesson examples; videos from discovery education Google search tools: Istock.photo.com Creative commons; copyright clause; click on advanced search & can search by content filter which are publicly available; put on creative commons; click on usage writes; free to use, share or modify gives you permission to download, modify;

Google Q& A like “ask jeeves” Gaggle.net; create a classroom set of e-mail addresses; Sites.google.com lets you create your own website Google custom search engine that will only search the pages that you want to search if you have your own personal account; = = = = = Webquest by Annette Lamb slamb@eduscapes.com= [] click on activate to see presentations for last 10 years All courses are online all courcse content is online for free; Inquiry based project approach; Book: Persepolis: Intro: go back in time Task: role-play an encounter at that time Process: research & document Product: graphic journal (comic life) Evaluation: rubric (was it authentic; did it use real information) Publish: group wiki; students can provide feedback to peers; collaboration One web quest called Meet the candidates; poll & surveys builders (create straw poll online); easily share video project via schooltube; teachertube; add interactive maps Search for book & webquest; many go away so adapt & repost on your websites, etc. Webquest.org; homesite Can use webspiration to communicate over the web w/ concept maps Pathfinder that takes you through all the volcanoes or earthquakes (your choice real estate company) can bookmark w/ delicious, but pathfinder gives more information. Takes kids systematically through the webquest. Bernie Dodge’s website another key resource Students are the center of the project. Do you know/live, etc. your job is… Plants often mistaken for cactus (all students have resources) Web 2.0 w/ webquests Collaboration tools: Webspiration; kidspiration; inspiration & comic life Right now all free for webspirationa; can invite editors to make changes to document; gliffy is another one Bubbl.us is another one; Real time sharing; time line builders – timeline; timerime; circavie; dipity; timetoast Webquests w/ blogs; find good blogs/history blogs as resources; also good classic websites, categorize links; Academy awards of blogs in classroom; Read book night & blogged b/tween 2 schools; gten do real life comparison; Blog based webquest; myplace; uses bookmarks on wiki; adds online spaces; ; Blogging tools: blogger (google tool); edublogs; class blogmeister; gaggle.net; epals school blog; wordpress (open source blog software on your own server) POdcasets: willowWeb;audacity; Radio days is old podcast where you make radio podcast; Webquests can become podcasts Video casting: Google video; you tube; school tube; teacher tube; Google owns you tube; Webquests & wikis; start w/ own town & check to find if things are accurate in our town; Googy global news; invent a story and write a real story and then students have to vote which one is real/ pretend. Social networks: facebook; myspace.com; model good behavior; footnote is a social network for people who want to share primary source documents online;allrecipes.com; can bring in cultural recipes; make a school cookbook; add recipes w/ parents; library things is another place where share love of books Create your own NING; Tools for wikis ; wikispaces; pbwiki Webquest & virtual worlds; needs a lot of bandwidth; paperdolls dress up & have virtual world; can go to civil war geneology & walk presentations; also san diego U. is changing virtual island where they convert webquests to virtual worlds; shakespere times; Japanese class; Webquest introduction: use video to get them into it; library of congress & can watch videos online; can go to google books & watch parts of books; Design squad online – watch videos of students watching online Activity TV.com; activities for kids; can do origami; floating boats, etc. Worldmapper – shock kids w/ statistics; Meaningful tasks: deep questions; problems to solve; Pathfinders: keywords; topic ideas; definitions; background info; click on how A pathfinder for 5th grade science on volcanoes; Social bookmarks: align w/ traditional pathfinder Note taking tools: put in url & save & can see things you highlighted Scratch – programming language for kids; flash like things for kids; shared on utube; Jeopardylabs – easy to use interactive jeopardy game 1. __How we know what we know about Changing Climates__ – book about changing climates w/ resources; Glogster – make a poster

 