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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?

 

 

 

 

New Literacies Page

AHA MOMENTS

  Free Technology Toolkit for UDL

 

        Includes Word Talk, Click Speak, Cue Card, etc.

 

Microsoft Word

    • Shortcut Keys

      Drawing Toolbar - Insert Clip Art, Speech/Thought Bubbles, Make lined Paper

    • Power of Color - Format>Background

       

    • 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


 

 

K12 Online Conference 2007 - Playing with Boundaries

 

Videos    

 

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.

 

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del.icio.us/kjanowski

    To set up a delicious account:

  1. Go to http://del.icio.us

     

  2. Click on "register".
  3. 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.)
  4. Click "register."

At a different computer, you will need to add a delicious button to your toolbar.

 

  1. Log in to delicious and your account.
  2. Click on "settings" on the top right.
  3. On the left sidebar, under "Settings" click the blue FAQs hyperlink.
  4. Under "the posting buttons", click on "How do I install the buttons again, now that I'm using a different browser or computer?"
  5. Follow the directions to load buttons onto your browser toolbar. Start at "Step Two of Installation" at the top of the page.
  6. 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 StudentsSpelling 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

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        Two RSS Agreggators - Google Reader and Bloglines

 

 

 


ADDITIONAL  FREE  TOOLS

 


   

Free Text-to-Speech

 

  • 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
  • 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 -

 

        Training Resources - including two minute tutorials

        Teacher Resources - Lesson activities, online resources, etc.

 

United Streaming Webinars

 

 

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