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ISTE 2012 - Sites to visit

2012-06-27T21:04:00.004-04:00

Tammy Worcester
http://www.tammyworcester.com/TWHandouts/TW_Handouts/Entries/2012/6/24_Cool_Collaborative_Activities_with_Google_Tools.html

100 Incredible Virtual Tours You Don't Want To Miss
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2010/01/100-incredible-educational-virtual-tours-you-dont-want-to-miss/

Flipped Classroom Scoop-It
http://www.scoop.it/t/the-flipped-classroom

Flipped Classroom Presentation
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oby0pn3YItkgTj_SZltX-6GCcBkUi7KO8UPSnzo3boE/present#slide=id.p14

PBL Meets STEM
http://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/

Teacher Technotopia
http://www.teachertechnotopia.com/

Diigo ISTE 2012 Sites
http://groups.diigo.com/group/diigo-iste12

ISTE 2012 - Tammy Worcester Cool Tools

2012-06-27T20:28:00.004-04:00

http://www.tammyworcester.com/TWHandouts/TW_Handouts/Entries/2012/6/24_Cool_Collaborative_Activities_with_Google_Tools.html

Tammy Worcester

Quiz bowl activity you can use it like clickers.
Use this!!!
Delete Rows instead of hitting backspace.

ISTE 2012 - Flipped Classroom the Full Picture

2012-06-27T16:57:00.003-04:00

Jackie Gerstein
http://jackiegerstein.weebly.com
http://goo.gl/KMhDY

Learning should change behavior and thinking.

http://www.groupboard.com/board/147289

http://youtu.be/26pxh_qMppE video explaining the Flipped Classroom - Common Core Video

General Thoughts on the Flipped Classroom Model:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17V_GD5pOl6I7sPVEif9TJPetA1NQywMncvgbS7v0TPE/mobilebasic?pli=1

An example of a flipped classroom lesson:
http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/flipped-classroom-full-picture-an-example-lesson/

"I am" .... http://www.slideshare.net/jgerst1111/i-am-poems

ISTE 2012- Blended Learning - Yes You Khan

2012-06-27T15:36:00.001-04:00

Los Altos School District
http://www.tinyurl.com/lasd-innovation
http://www.lasdschools.org

Jeffrey Baier
Courtney Cadwell
Alyssa Gallagher
Kelly Rafferty
Kami Thordarson

Worked with Khan Academy Team in the intial setup

Data Driven Instruction
http://www.khanacademy.org/coach/demo
Sign up for a coach account in Khan Academy so you can track your students and see their progress.
Can see a snapshot per student and per class of the progress.

Students can track their own progress.

Teacher toolkit:
http://www.khanacademy.org/toolkit

From Website~~~~

Instructional strategies

Strategies to help meet each student's individual needs in a dynamic classroom environment

In an ideal Khan Academy classroom, students are not all silently working on laptops. Instead, classrooms are dynamic, social, and joyful! A few students may attend a seminar with the teacher while others work on a project; other students tutor their peers while some work alone. Every day is different, but there are some common elements that make this work well:

Strong classroom management
Clear expectations for each student for the entire class period
Strategic use of classroom space
With these three elements in your classroom, use the instructional strategies below when appropriate for your students.

1-on-1 (Teacher to student)

Use when…

You see a student has been struggling based on his/her data
You want to provide additional guidance and motivation
You want to check in on a student’s individual progress
You want to set goals and acknowledge accomplishments
Examples of implementation:

Look at a student's answer history on an exercise on which he/she is struggling, diagnose the errors or misconceptions, and prompt the student to discover the answer
Use the student’s individual KA data reports to review goals, discuss how the student has spent his/her time on KA, or talk about other relevant topics
Peer to peer

Use when…

A student is struggling with a topic that another is proficient in, and you're busy helping someone else
You want to enable many levels of differentiation in the class
Students start to plateau when working on their own
You want to reinforce students' knowledge by having them explain concepts to others
Examples of implementation:

Use the progress summary to pair up students
A classroom board that has two columns ("I need help with…" and "I can help with…") enables students to reach out and help each other
Small groups

Use when…

You want to tailor a lesson to meet the needs of a specific group of students
Examples of Implementation:

Use the progress summary to figure out which students need a seminar to reinforce certain concepts
Create groups based on skill-level and allow each group to work together on the concept with which they are struggling
Create mixed-ability groups with “experts” in each and have the “experts” to guide their peers in learning specific concepts
Projects

Use when…

You want students to apply the concepts mastered in KA and deepen their understanding
You want to develop real-world skills in leadership, teamwork, and problem solving
Examples of Implementation:

Using class data, create groups based on skill level and have each group work on a different project
When students finish a set of KA exercises, have them start a related project. You can prepare several projects ahead of time and have students complete them when ready
Stations

Use when...

You want to focus on a small group of students at a time
You want students to apply the concepts mastered in KA and deepen their understanding
You want to re-invest students in using KA
Examples of Implementation:

Create different stations that students rotate through during the class period (e.g., Station 1: watching KA videos, Station 2: working on a group project or challenge, Station 3: completing exercises, Station 4: small group with teacher)
Energizers

Use when…

You want to give students an opportunity to show off their math skills
You want to re-invest students in math/KA
Examples of Implementation:

“Rocket Runs”
Class is divided into teams at teacher’s discretion (e.g., split the room in half). Teacher chooses an exercise based on dashboard data or students each choose an exercise. One team is given 3 minutes to earn as many energy points as possible while other teams watch. Teacher projects dashboard data showing average energy points earned in real time. Repeat for all teams. The team with most points wins. (Thanks to the LASD teachers for this!)
Class vs. Class
Charts that track the amount of energy points earned by class are kept and updated daily or weekly. The class with the highest amount of energy points by the end of the week wins. Energy points should be measured and reset every week so that classes stay invested.
Next: Different learners →

ISTE 2012 - Strategies for using iPods in Math Classroom

2012-06-27T14:30:00.005-04:00

Ten Strategies for Effective Use of iPods in Math Class
http://www.mathtappers.com/

Tim Pelton
Leslee Francis Pelton
University of Victoria

Outline:
getting set
exploring
collaborating
consolidating
creating
ex: MathTappers
Getting set:
class sets vs. BYOD (good if your activity is web based)
Choose your apps/resources what purposes do they serve?
Establishing routines
great expectatioons and respect
show and tell
ask 3 before you ask me
iPods down (face down), eyes up
Ex: MathTappeer: FindSums

Exploring:
Let them play
appropriate scaffolding
manageable challenges
what if?
share what you discovered
ex: MathTappers: Estimate Fractions

ISTE 2012 From Good to Awesome

2012-06-27T12:54:00.002-04:00

From Good to Amazing
Jason Ohler

21st century project
http://www.committedsardine.com

Presentation located at http://www.jasonohler.com

Tips:
Start with computers OFF - think first!
Green screen
http://www.jasonohler.com/storytelling/index.cfm
Illustrate different music with the same action to show kids the importantce of music choice

Building blocks:
We are mobile - let kids use their cell phones to take videos
We are connected - talk to others in other countries
No define place of where school is actually held
We are all immersed in stories everywhere

Literacy- students need to write well whatever they read.
Art is the next of the 3 R's since we are living in a high,y visible society.
We need to value writing more than ever.

Turn concerns into goals.

ISTE 2012 From Good to Awesome - CoverItLive version

2012-06-27T12:52:00.002-04:00

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ISTE 2012 We Need More PD and Other Myths of technology integration

2012-06-25T19:36:00.001-04:00

We need more PD and other myths about technology integration
Sylvia Martinez
President, Generation YES

http://www.genyes.org

free resources online

Most teachers aren't being stubborn about technology they are just waiting for it to work.

Seymour Papert is the Father of Educational Technology

Teachers are more apt to use technology if they are trained onsite.

You beome a better teacher by reflecting on your own practice.

Why not teach students how to provide technology support for teachers.

Have we ever told the students why we went 1:1?

Students can do tech support at the schools.

ISTE 2012 We Need More PD and Other Myths about Technology Integration in CoverItLive

2012-06-25T19:08:00.000-04:00

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ISTE 2012 A funny thing happened on the way to the future

2012-06-25T17:29:00.001-04:00

Adam Bellow
http://www.edutecher.net/index.php

bit.ly/ISTE12
http://bit.ly/ISTE12

technology evolves and so should education
used to be about how you presented education, now its all about how you access information

any teacher that can be replaced by a robot should be

we use SMART technology stupidly

https://app.gosoapbox.com/

you can't be a life long learner if you already have all the answers
teachers don't have all the answers anymore

a SMART board is NOT interactive unless we let the kids use it!

talk less and do more

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2012-06-25T16:52:00.002-04:00

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ISTE 2012 Google Slam

2012-06-25T16:50:00.001-04:00

Google Certified Teachers
https://sites.google.com/site/iste2012slam/

Creating a clickable table of contentsin google docs in Google presentation
Insert - table of contents
Insert a new slide - make the names of the pages clickable
Form emailer script
Email the contents of a google form to other recipients
Good for admins to email walk throughs
Exit tickets for kids - cc the parents

Google form - script gallery -look for form emailer
Hgabreu@gmail.com
10 step procedure
Http://goo.gl/cdAla
Try it http://goo.gl/XF1FL
Integrate a google form into a google site
Can create a scavenger hunt

YouTube annotations
Can only do it on your own videos
Editing then Click on annotations
Make a choose your own adventure
Www.YouTube.com/slam/create to make a video slam - 2 videos against each other

Google calendars
Click on lower right google button
Subscribe calendars you want to follow

Google form
Make a form
Insert apps into the form
Can incorporate your twitter and google circles onto the form

Google voice
Www.alicekeeler.com
Free phone number that will ring several phones at once
Email or text messages
Use it for student clickers
Students can text you their questions
Have students leave you a message on your voicemail and you can embed it as a podcast

First year being a google apps school
Start with a google doc and upload to google docs and share with students and teachers
Then collaborate docs
Download as a google doc or a word doc
It's a download plug-in
If you are the only one one computer set it to automatic
Https://tools.google.com/dlpage/cloudconnect

Spreadsheets gadgets
Makes data interactive
Make blank spreadsheet
Words and definitions
Insert gadget
find the flash card gadget
Can publish the gadget using the HTML and embed it on a website
Or can make it full page
Word study gadget
Use type in so students have to spell words correctly
The hint is the definition or could be a google image
Gauges gadgets and a google form is great for a mock election
You can post real time results throughout the day

Super searching
To find a website
Site:free-tech4teachers.com/wordle
This will show all the wordle in the website
Advanced search
Will narrow down search results
Can search by creative commons rights
Image search for people
~ will show related searches
Define:
Click on the sound next to the word and it will say it for you

Google voice
Does a transcription and voice recording
Google art project
Google took pictures of art from several famous art museums
Can zoom in
Can drop yourself into the at like you do with google maps
Use images to illustrate history
Chrome
Allows you to log into other accounts incognito
Google sites
G+n gets you to backside of google sites
Google Teacher Academy

ISTE 2012 Google Slam

2012-06-25T15:17:00.000-04:00

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ISTE 2012 Flipped Professional Development

2012-06-25T15:13:00.002-04:00

8:30 Flipped Professional Development

FlippedPD.org
Presentation will be online
#flippedpd

Kristin Daniels
Danielsk@stillwater,k12.mn.us

Wayne Feller
Fellerw@stillwater.k12.mn.us

Challenges for traditional pd
Time
Basics - everyone gets the same information
Personalization
Follow through
What should we do?
Face to face work time in small grous ith teachers
Connect teachers with each other
Utilize tools
Plan > coach > implement > share

Plan
Share ideas
Define the vision
Communication
Collaboration
3rd grade is the lowest grade to start Google Docs
Creative media
Presentation
Use Google Docs to create form to find out interest and goals of teachers
Coach
Tools/skills
Curriculum
Integration
Small groups meet once a month during the school day
Reformat groups based on skill levels
Made a Moodle course to upload the videos
Implement
Production
Documentation
Ongoing support
Put basics on video
Ongoing communication
Email, iChat, Skype, google apps, Dropbox
Classroom visits
Share
Showcase
Share short video of product
Recipe cards of how to use the tools and the product
Watch the videos before coming to the one on one coaching session
Products and ideas
ISTE Nets for technology coaches
"Technology, coaching, and community" white paper from ISTE

Coaching > Communities > Technology

Whole School Model - mandated
Voluntary Model - sign up if you want

Bit.ly/elabook

Creat google doc of what teachers need help in and the flipped pd document link.

3 types of videos
Proactive videos
How tos
Reactive video
Produced as a result of a problem or need
Spontaneous videos
Capturing best practices
Video teachers talking to each other and sharing ideas
Celebrating success by sharing ideas and activities
Total small group CEU hours - altogether for 136 teachers and specialists was 1494 hours

Difference between traditional and flipped pd
Traditional is spray and get, one pace for all, one time, passively engaged, non - coached without follow through
Flipped is small group and individualized pacing, ongoing and virtual, actively engaged, coached with follow through
"Flipped - the Stillwater experience" by Wayne Feller iPad book FREE in iPad bookstore
Bit.ly/itunesflippedbook

ISTE 2012 Flipped Professional Development easier to read in CoverItLive

2012-06-25T15:11:00.003-04:00

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ISTE 2012 opening easier to read in CoverItLive

2012-06-25T15:04:00.002-04:00

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ISTE 2012 Opening

2012-06-24T22:18:00.000-04:00

Welcome to ISTE 2012 in beautiful San Diego, California! The weather is beautiful and our room is awesome! We spent the early afternoon touring San Diego. We're now ready to get started learning all we can at the conference. Over 20,000 people here for the conference from 61 countries! We are now awaiting to hear the keynote speakers. Unfortunately, we are in an overflow room since the main keynote room is full :(. Hearing from several ISTE leaders and Arne Duncan (Department of Education) Dr. Ken Robinson: Published a book 10 years ago called http://www.amazon.com/Out-Our-Minds-Learning-Creative/dp/1907312471/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340587744&sr=1-1&keywords=Ken+Robinson Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative Think about how much technology has changed in the past 10 years since the book was written. "We cannot afford to not personalize education. It's a catastrophe." 1/3 of students don't make it from 9th to 12th grade - would we accept that failure rate from doctors? #sirkenrobinson 1/3 dropout, if those were planes dropping, or patience dying we'd do something about it I knew Americans got irony the minute they created No Child Left Behind Teaching is the heart and soul of education. Not the curriculum. Mark Prensky: Key question for learning- what do we keep in our heads? Brain science is not making us better. Connecting our brains to technology is making us better. Digital wisdom -what our brains do better and what a machine does better. Teachers provide empathy. Students provide passion. Four things teachers must do: 1. Listen 2. Respect - mutual disrespect. One hundred years ago we overlooked the woman's point of view. Now we are overlooking the kids under 25 3. Over expect from kids 4. Empower al teachers to challenge kids Feel the fear and do it anyway. That is the definition of courage. Things that were great yesterday are old today. Technology can truly inspire kids but used poorly can do damage. Everyone needs a different curriculum,not just the same curriculum presented differently. "Helping kids find and follow their passion is the KEY to 21st century education!" Mayim Bialik: Homeschool teacher pd neuroscience, chemistry, and biology. Mayim: Wow, this is like Comicon, but with less chewbacca bikinis. Put a female face on STEM and technology. Connection is important to incorporating technology into education. The kids teach each other.

NCTIES 2012 - Best of the Web

2012-03-09T10:51:00.001-05:00

Best of the web - NCTIES 2012

Flipping the Classroom Infographic

2012-02-27T15:17:00.001-05:00

Created by Knewton and Column Five Media

Pinterst

2011-09-19T12:42:00.000-04:00

Apture addition

2011-07-18T23:35:00.002-04:00

I'm trying something new for my blog readers. I've added an app called Apture that will allow you to highlight a word and see the text definition, image, and videos aligned to that word.

Try it and let me know what you think!

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2011-07-15T02:24:00.001-04:00

100 Ways to Integrate Technology into your Classroom

2011-07-05T23:10:00.007-04:00

GREAT site with wonderful ideas from Jessica Branch and Angelyn Cheatham.
Visit their site and follow them on Twitter
https://sites.google.com/site/anchortechnologytomorrow

50 Ways to Integrate Technology

Using Free Websites as Learning & Teaching Tools

1. Have students use Spelling City to learn their spelling words, vocabulary words, or site words through games, practice, and quizzes. Spelling City is a free resource for teachers.

www.spellingcity.com

2. Use Brain POP to show short, animated videos as a lesson opener. Brain POP is available in its original version (appropriate for grades 3-8), Brain POP Jr. (appropriate for grades K-3), Brain POP Español, and Brain POP ESL. There is a 30-day free trial available.

www.brainpop.com

3. Use Dove Whisper as a computer center in your classroom. This site contains Internet games for all subjects.

www.dovewhisper.com

4. Create flashcards for math facts, science vocabulary words, and more. Plus, you are able to find flashcards created by others.

www.flashcardexchange.com

5. Create a game show for your students to participate in as a review for an upcoming assessment. This site offers free templates.

people.uncw.edu/ertzbergerj/ppt_games.html

6. Students can track visitors to their blog, wiki, or website through Clustrmap. This tool can be used for an ongoing geography lesson.

www.clustrmap.com

7. Have students create a daily or weekly live broadcast on Ustream about school news, new concepts or original ideas.

www.ustream.tv

8. Enhance your predictions and inferencing lessons by having students create sequels/prequels to movies and books on Fanfiction. This may be more appropriate for secondary students.

www.fanfiction.net

9. Let students add free, copyright-free music to their presentations and movies through ccMixter.

www.ccmixter.org

10. Create custom game boards, customized dice, and many other printables to use in a variety of lessons.

www.toolsforeducators.com

11. Create videos that bring your lessons to life!

www.animoto.com/education

Share your ideas for integration on Animoto.

12. Have students create a comic strip using Make Beliefs Comix. Students can use this tool to show main idea, sequencing, predictions, and more!

www.makebeliefscomix.com

13. Introduce a new unit in reading with a vocabulary word cloud. Have the students guess what the unit/story will be about. Set a purpose for learning.

www.wordle.net

14. Find out what your students know before a unit or how much they've learned after a unit through an online survey. Surveys give students a way to give feedback quickly.

www.surveymonkey.com

15. Have students create a time line to have a visual representation.

www.readwritethink.org/materials/timeline

16. User KerPoof to allow your students to illustrate their writing, create a movie, and more!

www.kerpoof.com

17. Use Class Tools to randomly generate names, to show a countdown timer, to find graphic organizers, to create timelines, play puzzles and access other neat tools.

classtools.net

18. Have students create their "Wild Self". Use their creations for an intro into animal adaptations and habitats in science, or use them as a creative writing prompt.

www.buildyourwildself.com

19. Have an advanced student who is always done early? Let him or her get on Free Rice and practice challenging vocabulary!

www.freerice.com

20. Students can create animated videos at Flux Time Studio. They are able to save their videos and share them with others!

www.fluxtime.com

Using Free Websites for Management

21. Have students create a mii. Use their avatars in various ways, such as decorations, "all about me" assignments, and goal setting and tracking.

www.myavatareditor.com

22. You and your students can increase productivity while conserving valuable computer memory and/or money used on flash drives or other storage devices by using Dropbox. Files can be accessed from anywhere!

www.dropbox.com

23. Help student projects to remain paperless with Evernote! Students can capture pictures, snapshots, webpages, and more and save them in an organized list on this site.

www.evernote.com

24. Create seating charts, groups, and randomly pick names within seconds! To maximize your use of this tool, take a couple minutes to create a class list that will be saved online.

www.superteachertools.com

25. Bookmark a list of educational websites for your students to access at home, in the school computer lab, in the classroom, or anywhere else they have Internet access!

www.sharinglinks.com

26. Create motivational posters for print or to put up on the projector.

www.bighugelabs.com

27. Create a rubric quickly with this site. Also, you can browse and edit pre-made rubrics.

rubistar.4teachers.org

28. Use Fur.ly to enter in multiple URL addresses. It will then convert the addresses into 1 short, simple URL. This would be great for student projects and more!

fur.ly

29. Use Jing to capture videos with narration of your computer screen. You can create tech tutorials for your students, or have them create videos for their peers!

www.jingproject.com

30. Create multimedia quizzes in minutes! You can attach them to your blog or class website.

www.mystudiyo.com

Using Web 2.0 Tools for Projects & More

31. Start a class blog on Kidblog, or let your students each have their own teacher-moderated blog. Students can discuss concepts, pose questions, and interact with each other. Settings allow for a safe web experience.

www.kidblog.com

32. Use ePals to connect to another classroom in the state, country, or even world! Students can do various projects with their long-distance peers or simply communicate to each other like pen pals.

www.epals.com

33. Students can collaborate with each other or with other students from different schools through Diigo. The site allows students to bookmark sites, create tags, make notes, and save discussions.

www.diigo.com

34. Have students create podcasts about science vocabulary words, math formulas, upcoming events, test strategies and more.

audacity.sourceforge.net (a free audio editor)

35. Have students publish information through wikis. Wikis can be used for all subjects and provide a flexible media for students to post text, pictures, videos, audio files, music, and more.

www.pbworks.com

sites.google.com

Using a Digital Camera in the Classroom

36. Create photo vocabulary cards for your ESL and SPED students.

37. Zoom in on an object until you are unable to tell what it is. Have students guess the mystery object as a lesson introduction or a creative writing prompt.

38. Tape a student's photo next to their name on their desk, so that other students and substitutes learn names.

39. Take your photo to send to the students before school starts as a "Welcome to ___ grade!" postcard.

40. Use a digital camera to create digital copies of student work when a scanner is not available.

41. Send students in small groups around the school on a scavenger hunt. For example, kindergartners may take pictures of objects that begin with a "B", or fourth graders may take pictures of objects that make acute, right and obtuse angles.

42. Use a series of pictures to give steps and visual instructions. This is a great tool for primary and special needs students.

Using Digital Storytelling in the Classroom

Download Photo Story 3 for FREE at: www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/PhotoStory/default.mspx

43. Have students create a digital story to tell about different story elements in a reading, show you geometric shapes they have learned, or report on important historical events or figures.

44. Load pictures from a story out of order, and then save the file as a project (.wp3). Have students rearrange the pictures to assess them for their understanding of sequencing.

45. Load pictures of a concept being studied, such as characters in a story or types of clouds. Allow students to open the project file (.wp3) and label the pictures. Also, they can add narration and give more information, such as definitions.

46. Have students create digital books by scanning/photographing their illustrations and adding narration.

Using a Slideshows in the Classroom

47. Create a jump slide for students to use as a center during a unit of study.

To create a jump slide using Microsoft Power Point, insert a graphic on your slide. Then, right click the picture or clip art, click "Hyperlink" and type the URL address into the "Address" box at the bottom.

48. Create a template for students to fill in using "Master Slide". With this feature, the structure of the project cannot be changed.

Using a Google Tools in the Classroom

49. Have students use Google Docs to collaborate on projects.

docs.google.com

50. Allow students to travel all over the Earth, into the stars, and undersea with Google Earth!

earth.google.com

50 MORE Ways to Integrate Technology

Learn

1. Study Jams

Use study jams to open a lesson or to review before a test.

2. NeoK12
Neo K12 can help your students see math in a different way. Also, it could inspire your students to pick up the FLIP Camera and make their own instructional video!

3. Reading is Fundamental
Use Reading Planet (1st grade and up) or Leading to Reading (Early childhood through 1st grade) as a center in your classroom.

4. Lexipedia
Let students add vivid words to their writing with this visual thesaurus.

5. Mr. Nussbaum
Students will love participating in these games to learn different concepts. It makes for a great center, reward, or even extra work for home.

6. BrainFlips
Teachers and/or students can create digital flashcards. BrainFlips has 3 levels to help students learn the words, facts, etc.

7. Braineos
Like BrainFlips, Braineos allows you to create digital flashcards, but it also let's students challenge each other. Set up a competition with a homework pass as a reward, and you'll have students studying without being told!

8. Wolfram Alpha
Teach students different ways to search information. They can enter in their birthdays, learn about their special day, and create a "About the Day I was Born" presentation. This is an alternative to other get to know you activities.

9. MeeGenius!
This site is great for your primary grades, special education, or ESL students. Picture books come alive with great illustrations and real along text.

10. Qwiki
This digital encyclopedia allows students to research in a new way. Students have access to educational videos, fantastic pictures and facts all in one location.

11. Google Art Project
One of Google's newest educational tools allows students to wander famous art museums and see artistic pieces. This compliments many social studies and reading units, so use it as part of a culminating project or extension activity.

Resources
12. Wylio
This creative commons allows users to get pictures, resize and copy code to embed the pictures into websites. Use these pictures to enhance your class websites and/or blogs.

13. Weebly
Weebly for Education is a free resource that allows you to create professional looking websites and blogs. Also, it allows you to set up student accounts, so that they can do the same. Have students create a Weebly site as an end-of-unit project to show what they know.

14. Doodle
Doodle will help you organize an event, such as a training session to share The 50. Or your students can use it as a collaboration tool between students outside of their classroom to make decisions about projects.

15. Wondersay
Use Wondersay to add some pizazz to a presentation, website or blog by animating text. Input your text, and you have the embeddable code!

16. TxtBear
Upload your documents and create PDFs instantly! Plus, TxtBear allows you to share your documents, or you can just save them to your computer. Now, you can upload important documents to your website/blog.

17. Fill Any PDF
Turn any PDF document into a form with Fill Any PDF. Upload, fill in, alter, save. Easy.

18. Free Reading
High-quality reading intervention plan for teachers K-6. Teachers have access to lesson plans, word lists, word cards and MUCH more.

19. Bembo Zoo
Instill creativity in your students with Bembo Zoo. They (and you) will love exploring how letters come to life to create an animal that begins with that letter. After enjoying the site, have students use letters of the alphabet to make an alpha-picture book using their science words, math vocabulary, or more.

20. Learn Something New Everyday!
Use these slides as a daily journal prompt.

21. McGraw Hill Virtual Manipulatives
Great digital manipulatives for math that are fast and easy to use. You can give question sets to students and allow them to use the virtual manipulatives to solve their problems.

Create

22. Tagxedo
Use tagxedo to culminate a project. Students can come up with a list of words to describe a book, a unit of study, et cetera. Then, they have to decide which words are the most important and portray that through their word cloud.

23. Voki
Voki allows students to create avatars and add their voice to make the avatars talk. Kids who aren't allowed to be filmed love this site because they are still participating. Use Voki for Education to let students create a character that will tell their story.

24. Glogster
Glogster allows students to create digital, interactive posters with text, animation, and media. Have students create Glogs about science concepts, book reviews, themselves, how to solve certain types of math problems, or even about historical events. Once you Glog, you can't stop.

25. Scribble Maps
Scribble Maps let students write, add pictures, find distances and more on Google Maps. When they finish, they can save the image and embed it into websites, blogs, and/or presentations. After reading a book about a character's travels, they can map the character's journey.

26. Prezi
Let students create a Prezi for their next project. It's an easy, web-based presentation tool that helps bring slide shows to life.

27. Creaza
Create mind maps, audio files, cartoons, and movies with Creaza. Possibilities are endless with this site. Have students create a cartoon to show the summary of a story read.

28. Bubbl.us
EASY to use bubble maps. Use Bubbl.us to review information learned before to connect to new information. Students can create their own Bubbl.us to make connections between vocabulary and concepts.

29. Museum Box
Museum Box allows students to create a description of an event, person, or place using text files, movies, or pictures.

30. PicLits
Students can add vocabulary words to pictures to show their meanings. Younger students can practice labeling things. PicLits could also add some excitement to grammar and writing lessons!

31. Create A Graph
Easy graph maker allows students to create bar, line and pie graphs. Students can use this tool to create graphs for their science projects.

32. Dipity
Create an interactive timeline to show the progression of technology or the life of a historical figure.

33. Flixtime
Create a video in minutes! Like Animoto, Flixtime allows you to add pictures, videos and text to create a fun, professional looking video. Students can show what they know with this quick and easy tool.

34. Zooburst
Students can create digital pop up books with Zooburst.

35. Grabba Beast
Students can create their own beast. Then, their creation can be the subject of their next story. Use their beasts to develop descriptive writing, dialogue and more.

36. Fotobabble
Students can use fotobabble to add an audio caption to their photographs.

37. Flipbook Deluxe
Students can create quick and easy flip books to illustrate a procedure.

38. Google Sites
Create class sites and/or webquests using Goggle Sites.

39. Wix
Create easy drag and drop flash websites with Wix.

Collaborate
40. Stixy
Have your students collaborate and share ideas about a science concept.

41. Storybird
Set up student accounts and let them go! Storybird allows students (and adults) to use the illustrations on their site, that are updated often, to create pictures books. You choose the pictures, you write the text, and you share it with the world...or the classroom.

42. Wiggio
All the tools you need for successful collaboration! Polls, IM, email, conferencing, file sharing, and more! Allow your students to work with students from other schools in the district or state or nation!

43. Edmodo
Had a student try to "friend" you on Facebook? Well, here is your solution. Edmodo is social networking for classrooms and/or schools. Teachers can start accounts, set up message boards and more.

44. Answer Garden
A different kind of poll! Have students answer a question with Answer Garden.

45. Pollmo
SUPER simple embeddable poll with no account necessary.

Share
46. SymbalooEdu
Share important websites with your students in an easy format. SymbalooEDU allows you to create an "app style" collection of sites.

47. Shelfari
Show students books you think they would be interested in with a Shelfari on your website/blog.

48. Let's Crate
Transfer and share files without having to clog up email boxes.

Just Because...
49. Let Me Google That For You
Not reeeeallly education, but it is SUPER fun. Ever had someone ask you a question that they could have easily Googled themselves. Well, use LMGTFY.com to show them how easy it is to Google. ;o)

50. Our First 50
Our first 50 ideas are still great to use in the classroom. If you have or haven't seen them before, give them a look. Something may pop out at you.

https://sites.google.com/site/anchortechnologytomorrow/50-more-ways

ISTE 2011 Overview

2011-07-03T22:40:00.007-04:00

Now that I am home and am processing the information from ISTE 2011, I thought I would highlight some of the ideas that stood out for me.

These are some of the highlights from the ISTE conference:

* I live blogged all the sessions I attended at www.msrussell.com- some of the best ones are listed below

60 websites in 60 minutes - lots of good sites and some I hadn't seen before http://www.msrussell.com/2011/06/iste-60-websites-in-60-minutes.html

Technology and Math http://www.msrussell.com/2011/06/iste-technology-and-math.html

Webcasting History http://www.msrussell.com/2011/06/iste-webcasting-history.html

Engaging Student Created Media Projects http://www.msrussell.com/2011/06/iste-engaging-student-created-media.html

iPad Revolution: http://www.msrussell.com/2011/06/iste-http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifipad-revolution.html

Scoffolding and Learning: http://www.msrussell.com/2011/06/iste-scaffolding-and-kearning.html

Student Created Projects Using iPad: http://www.msrussell.com/2011/06/iste-student-created-projects-using.html

Sites I thought were interesting:

* Teachers Domain: www.teachersdomain.org

Teachers' Domain is a free digital media service for educational use from public broadcasting and its partners. You’ll find thousands of media resources, support materials, and tools for classroom lessons, individualized learning programs, and teacher professional learning communities.

* Library of Congress: www.loc.gov

The Library's digitized collection. Check out the new music section.

* Whiteboard resources:

learn about web resources for interactive activities on all topics or subjects
discover tips and tricks to making original activities
see how the interactive whiteboard can increase student engagement
leave the learning station with techniques, strategies and ideas they can quickly put into practice
learn how to create an inexpensive, interactive whiteboard with a few easily attainable components

http://besmarterthantherest.pbworks.com/w/page/256574/FrontPage

* Intel for Teachers:
http://www.intel.com/education/teachers/

Free Tools and Resources from Intel® Education
Intel offers free, easily integrated tools and teaching resources to support collaborative student-centered learning. Our online thinking tools provide active learning places where students can engage in robust discussions, analyze complex information, pursue investigations, and solve problems. You’ll also find teaching resources such as exemplary lesson plans, assessment strategies, and technology-enriched project ideas for all K–12 subjects. Developed by educators, these free tools and resources support 21st century learning, with project-based approaches in the classroom.

* Shout - Explore Connect Act
http://shoutlearning.org/

Sponsored by Smithsonian Institute. Let's kids participate in global issues
Free tree banding kit for students:

http://shoutlearning.org/treebanding.html

* Google Treks http://googletreks.org/
Enabled by Web 2.0 tools, GoogleTreks™ allows teachers and students to synthesize information in one easy-to-use map that places text, pictures, audio files, video files, and much more in one central location.

* "They Snooze You Lose" Lynell Burmark http://educatebetter.org/resources.html
Lynell had some awesome ideas for making engaging presentations. Her book my be worth the money to purchase. She suggested a book that has a free DVD presentation of quotes that I think I will purchase. Would be a great ice breaker at the beginning of the year.
http://store.simpletruths.com/great-quotes-from-great-leaders-with-free-dvd-p1421.aspx

* iPad Educational Apps
List of apps used in education and their prices. The list is broken down into grade levels.
http://the3is.wikispaces.com/Educational+Apps

* Science and STEM integration:
Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Learning4Mastery

The flipped classroom:
http://mast.unco.edu/programs/vodcasting/

This site is devoted to teaching educators how to use vodcasting to flip your classroom. This is the brainchild of Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams who are pioneers in the field of using vodcasts in the classroom. They have devised a new method of teaching called Pre-Vodcasting and the Flipped Classroom. In this model, students watch vodcasts at home and class time is spent in engaging hands-on activities and directed problem solving. Both Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams are High School Science teachers in Woodland Park Colorado, at the base of Pikes Peak. Thus far, students using the Pre-Vodcasting model have been very successful in mastering Chemistry. We believe that all teachers can benefit from Vodcasting their lessons live, and that the Pre-Vodcasting and Flipped Classroom can revolutionize instruction in Math, Science, and Foreign Language.

* Free QR Code Readers for Cell Phones:
iphone http://bit.ly/kzruEk
Blackberry: http://bit.ly/9A0Tfq
Android: http://bit.ly/g5S6iM

ISTE closing ceremony

2011-06-29T14:49:00.000-04:00

ISTE closing