Phil Goerner – Outrunning the Marians… ‘er Jonses June 26, 2008
Posted by Matthew Woolums in Conference Sessions, Tools.trackback
Started with montage of ALA book covers created with Animoto, one of a collection of tools used with teachers. Upload photos, they add copyright friendly sound, and there is a secret code for making full length movies. Up to 30 seconds movie length for free. Session notes are listed on the TIE web site under sessions. http://tiecolorado.org/2008/conference/
Links are also collected on del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/tielib08
Standards for 21st Century Learners, set as a semantic map with Wordle. Use these words with checklists for collaboration with teachers.
LibraryThing – online site to add your own book collection. Includes connections to others with their own library collections, reviews, tags, and recommendations. Free.
http://www.librarything.com
Shelfari – similar to LibraryThing. Looks like Delicious Library but online. http://www.delicious-monster.com/.
http://www.shelfari.com
Open Culture – great source for audiobooks.
http://www.oculture.com/
Denver Public Library also has audiobooks.
http://denverlibrary.org/
Nancy Keane Booktalks – sorted by author or topic.
http://nancykeane.com/booktalks
Productivity tools included Google Docs and Calendar, and ZOHO. Use senduit.com for file transfers. Up to 100MB files saved online for up to a week. Zamzar is a nice file conversion utility and YouTube conversion tool. Bubbl.us is a mind-mapping/webbing/concept mapping tool. Citation Machine to assist with creating citations.
Fantasy Congress – like fantasy sports for congress. You join leagues and draft team members, and it helps with tracking the day-to-day activities of politicians. It also includes history of each politician.
http://www.fantasycongress.com
Open Congress also mashes up government information with news and blogs attached to each bill.
http://www.opencongress.org
Showed a video of a student throwing a plate in potter class created with a flip video camera. To get a foot in the door, give a teacher a cool new tool and then promote the heck out of it. http://www.theflip.com/
Voicethread for book talks, art critique, allows for multiple perspectives.
http://www.voicethread.com
USTREAM for sock puppet poetry slam.
http://raptoreads.blogspot.com/2008/03/sock-puppet-poetry-slam.html
slide.com for loading photos and slide show creation. Used to create slide shows of students with easy transitions and special effects.
Pageflakes or netvibes for an easy way to collect feeds and set up a simple web page.
For setting up tutorials, to capture screen shots or video, Jing project is a free application for download.
http://www.jingproject.com
Great resources for teachers at 4teachers.org.
Notecard assignment – demonstration of personal learning networks. Notecards with micro book reviews traded with others in the room.
Twitter, Ning, blogs, podcasts as tools for PLNs.
http://teacherlibrarian.ning.com
Google Reader as a news aggregator to help keep up with blog postings. Blogsearch.goolge.com to search for blogs.
Podcasts, great way to get started or to keep up, like EdTechTalk.
http://edtechtalk.com/
Grammar Girl – http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/
Videos online:
National Geographic – http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/ or http://podcast.nationalgeographic.com/ng-video-shorts/
Online conferences and professional development:
K12 Online Conference 2008 – http://k12onlineconference.org/
Second Life – http://secondlife.com/
And One Thing More – Library of Congress Flickr photo collection – http://flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
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