Welcome to the Emerging Technologies Wiki
created by Karen Janowski, Assistive and Educational Technology Consultant
Our classrooms are the only places where our students still live in the 20th century. - Dave Warlick
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein
Fair doesn’t mean giving every child the same thing, it means giving every child what they need. - Rick Lavoie
The 80/20 Rule – 80% of users use 20% of the features of …..technology – Can we change those percentages?
Includes Word Talk, Click Speak, Cue Card, etc.
Microsoft Word
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Drawing Toolbar - Insert Clip Art, Speech/Thought Bubbles, Make lined Paper
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Power of Color - Format>Background
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Power of Voice - Add insert sound object icon to Toolbar; View>Toolbars>Customize>Commands>Insert>Voice Comment, drag icon to toolbar. Tip: When you start to record, you have 60 seconds. If you record for longer than 60 seconds, click the red record button again.
ONLINE RESOURCES
Videos
- Animal School video
- Did You Know? video link
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Is YouTube blocked at your school? Use Zamzar to download and convert videos at home which you can then show at school. Better yet, talk to your IT staff about unblocking sites that you use for instructional purposes.
SOCIAL SOFTWARE
The Three C’s – Connection, Collaboration, Coolness (Contagious!)
Social Bookmarking
Del.icio.us a social bookmarking tool that allows you to access and organize your favorites from any computer. Offers collaboration between teachers, students and parents.
Del.icio.us Guide for Educators created by John Pedersen.
del.icio.us/kjanowski
To set up a delicious account:
- Go to http://del.icio.us
- Click on "register".
- Fill in username, full name, and password. (Hint: Choose a username and password that is easily remembered by you, Use the same username and password for all your applications.)
- Click "register."
At a different computer, you will need to add a delicious button to your toolbar.
- Log in to delicious and your account.
- Click on "settings" on the top right.
- On the left sidebar, under "Settings" click the blue FAQs hyperlink.
- Under "the posting buttons", click on "How do I install the buttons again, now that I'm using a different browser or computer?"
- Follow the directions to load buttons onto your browser toolbar. Start at "Step Two of Installation" at the top of the page.
- Click "tag" when you are on a website that you want to keep. If you tag using more than one word, do not put spaces between the words. You can also bundle tags by categories. Be sure to network to other people who would be interested in the same site. Use "delicious" when you want to quickly link to your account.
Blogging -
A blog is a social website where entries are written in chronological order and readers can leave comments. No need to know HTML.
Beginning Blogging for Educators
Educational Blogging Wiki - links to many education blogs
Blogging Sites, Ready to Begin? Start here - EduBlogs, Class Blogmeister, WordPress, Blogger
Classroom Examples of Blogs in Action:
First Grade Blog
Fifth Grade Example
Pre-Cal Example
AP Calculus Example
Videos about Blogging:
Telling the New Story - 1st Grade Teacher shares her views about using new tools, her students and parents share their thoughts as well.
Student reactions to blogging in English Class
Student voices about blogs and wikis in the classroom
Wikis -
A social, collaborative tool to create web pages; an innovative way of creating content, easy to edit, can easily revert to prior version
Wikis in Plain English (video)
Wiki Collaboration Across the Curriculum by Vicki Davis - (27 minute long Video which demonstrates how to use wikispaces and discusses pedagogical uses of wikis)
Using Wikis in Education
Example of collaborative student wiki from schools throughout the country
Wiki sites to get you started - Wikispaces for Educators, PB Wiki for Educators, PMWiki, WetPaint Wiki
WetPaint Wikis in Plain English
Getting Tricky With Wikis - Learn a number of cool things you can do with your wikis.
Google Apps for Educators
Google Docs in Plain English (video)
Google for Educators - a teacher’s guide to Google Tools for Your Classroom, as well as a number of additional tools
Google Tools for Your Classroom - includes links to all google apps for educators as well as links to teacher created classroom activities
Teaching Collaborative Revision with Google Docs- A Guide for Educators
Digital Story Telling Tools
Voice Thread - easy to use read/write web tool
Voice Thread Tutorials
Examples - "Tammy's Assistive Technology Plan," Book Review by Elementary School Students, Spelling Test, Darfur Project
See additional Examples here
NOTE: When you register, remember to click on the Pro version to get your free account as an educator - it is well worth the investment of time as this is an excellent differentiated instruction tool.
Podcasting for Beginners
Audacity - free, open source software for audio editing;
Basic Audacity Tutorial
How-to-Guide for Podcasting with Audacity watch the tutorial videos
Seven things you should know about podcasting
Ten Benefits of Classroom Blogging
Copyright, Fair Use, Intellectual Property & Podcasting
Introduction to Podcasting
Educational Podcasting Wiki - excellent resource
Podcasting Resource Toolbox - 70+ Tools
Cell Phone Podcasting
1. Gcast
2. Gabcast
Screencasting
Screen capture is easy, free and allows you to quickly create on-screen tutorials. Has many uses - instruction, professional development, reinforcement of concepts taught in class, etc.
RSS (News Feed) -
Allows websites to deliver new content to your computer without having to visit each website; efficient, powerful subscription tool
Two RSS Agreggators - Google Reader and Bloglines
ADDITIONAL FREE TOOLS
Free Text-to-Speech
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WordTalk - a free text-to-speech program for the PC that works within WORD and Outlook and highlights each word that is read. Includes a talking spell checker and a talking thesaurus. Watch this teachertube.com video that I created to learn how to use it. It's best to watch it full screen.
- Natural Reader - another free text-to-speech software program which converts any written text to speech (Word, pdf, websites, emails)
- Click,Speak - a free Firefox extension that reads the Internet and highlights phrases and sentences as it reads
- PowerTalk - free text-to-speech for PowerPoint presentations
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Accessibar - a toolbar extension for Firefox which aims at providing various accessibility features including visual display manipulation and text-to-speech
Next-up - good quality voices available here for purchase
Digital Book resource
Free Online Resources
Survey Monkey - Free online survey resource
www.readwritethink.org – Interactive Student Materials
Voice Thread - capture audio for online digital storytelling Poetry Pizzazz Student Technology Survey (created by Jeff LeBow) Five Questions about Classroom Blogging Kansas Community
Kerpoof
TuxPaint
CAST UDL Book Builder
CAST UDL Lesson Builder - http://lessonbuilder.cast.org/
Math Playground - http://www.mathplayground.com/ excellent site for Math activities for K - 8, explore the Mathcasts
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives interactive math activities for K-12
RainForestmaths - K- 6 interactive math activities
SmartBoard Resources -
Teacher Resources - Lesson activities, online resources, etc.
United Streaming Webinars
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