NCETC Wednesday Conference Notes
Make ‘em, Shake ‘em, & Wake ‘em Session:
- Patti Wilkins and Jim Gilreath
- Software used:
- Serious Magic: www.seriousmagic.com
- Videocue Pro: www.varasoftware.com
- Only used with Mac – contact company about PC version
- Can use digital cameras
- Use green curtain as a green screen
IDEAS FOR USE:
- Back to school night
- “Q.O.W.”
- Question of the week
- Mystery guests
- New staff members
- Book Fair
- Young Authors
- Student assignments
- Cafeteria menu
- Counselor
- Counselor Corner
- Teachers can make quicktime videos to share
- Take video camera in the hallways during class change
- Have the want to be anchors, audition by doing a broadcast
- Spanish word of the day
- music
- Do a pre-show to let teachers have a chance to get class settled and ready for show
- Set up room so that kids can see themselves as they record
- Can use the modulator for Channel 1
- Let kids use props
- Two cameras would be helpful as would a second monitor
- Tell teachers you need information at least a day before show
Beyond Copying and Pasting – Building Integrated Technology Projects
Tammy Worcester
Building Blocks:
1. Collect Blocks:
Internet Search - Tammy’s website – Google search & tools(calculator, Powerpoint finder, dictionary, sounds)
2. Organize Blocks:
Inspiration Program (let’s students organize their thoughts and information by making numerous thinking maps – program will also make an outline from your thinking maps)
Wiki software VoodoPad for Mac
WikidPad for Windows
Spreadsheet – make charts & graphs with information
3. Build New Structure
Acrostic – instead of writing a report, create about topic using facts for each letter, do this on blank Powerpoint slide instead of Microsoft Word (much easier) using WordArt vertical choice
Post Card – students “visit” place, search internet and find picture, copy and past onto lefthand side of card, address to someone and include facts in your paragraph home, find stamp from country you “visited”
Hats Off! Tammy will do in next session
Point of View – students choose a concept (love, greed, anger) and look it from different points of view, use Inspiration program, What is Freedom? for dog: walking without leash, for big brother: not having a little sister around, for mom: locking the door and taking a bubble bath, for teacher: when the bell rings at the end of the day on Friday afternoon. Can use the Inspiration Map to write a report.
Who am I? Students make a slide show of clues of a famous person, students learn more than just writing a report, reveal a bit of the picture at a time by using Powerpoint – paste picture onto blank slide, decide how many clues you want to reveal and then use rectangle tool to cover the picture, change rectangle color to white and the border to white, then insert menu then duplicate slide click one of the rectangles and delete it, do the same for clue 3, then clue 4 by deleting a rectangle each time.
Web2.0 Conversations
David Warlick
David’s Handout on this session
David’s Del.icio.us bookmarks – Delicious has an RSS feed so that you can get updates when someone tags a new bookmark
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
Bubbleshare – add thought bubbles to your pictures or add voice – to tell your story, free album creation – can plug into a blog
Sketchup Developed for the conceptual stages of design, SketchUp is powerful yet easy-to-learn 3D software. We think of it as the pencil of digital design. This award-winning software combines a simple, yet robust tool-set that streamlines and simplifies 3D design inside your computer. SketchUp is being used by anyone with the desire to… Dream, Design and Communicate in 3D
Google Docs and Spreadsheets: Ablility to work collaboratively at the same time on the same document changes will occur automatically
Google search for Powerpoints – example: civil war filetype:ppt will give you examples of Powerpoints
Gliffy – collaborative flow charts, similar to Inspiration, but is collaborative and free, template is on a grid for easier linking
FlashEarth – mashup of Google Earth maps, Mapquest, Yahoo map, Ask.com maps, NASA maps, Microsoft maps & other mapping programs – will also show physical maps and weather maps
Flock – web browser that allows you to integrate Flickr (you can click and drag your pictures) and blogg (you can highlight text and then click blog this and it will copy the text into your blog), can include the pictures into your blog by clicking and dragging, integrates del.icio.us
Wikispaces – Free for teachers
Buzztracker – Mashup of news across the world from Google news
1200 + web2.0 sites in 50 + categories – need I say more? If you need me, I’ll probably still be looking at the sites a month from now ….
Citationmachine – Citation Machine is an interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people’s intellectual properties. To use Citation Machine, simply…
- Click the citation format you need and then the type of resource you wish to cite,
- Complete the Web form that appears with information from your source, and
- Click Make Citations to generate standard bibliographic and in-text citations.
