LiveBinder

Tutorials for LiveBinder.  LiveBinders is a way to gather all your knowledge, whether it is website links or files, all into one place for easy, elegant sharing.

Google Docs

Google Docs has been around for a while.  You and I may have used it for some time now, however, it is just now catching on with most teachers.  Here is a video about Google Docs.  Google does a great job on the "how to" with Google docs so here is another link with information on getting started.

Schoology

Check out this new product.  It is free.  I see it as a mix of moodle and facebook.
https://www.schoology.com/about.php

TCEA Day 3

We presented today at the conference.  It was a free ninety minute session using a Promethean Board.  The room was full and they seemed to enjoy the presentation.  It is always amazing to me how hungry teachers are for technology knowledge when I am here.  We had fun!!

Check out Google forms!

Forms - Creating forms

Forms - Creating forms

TCEA Day 2 Second Edition

A few Educational Apps for the iPad/iphone:
Voicecards
Dropbox....have used this for a while...great!!
Icardsort
Quickgraph
Earlyreader
Dragonsearch
Zoodles
Oneplanet
Historytools
Historymaps

A few Video/Screen Capture Utilities
Jing - For Mac and Windows, captures screen shots and screen videos
Skitch - A must-have for Mac users. Captures screen shots and pics from computer's camera.

TubeChop – “Cut” and use a section of a YouTube video.

I am working where are you?

Ok, another snow day and I am working!!  This happened to me last year when you guys got all of that snow. 

TCEA Day 2

Awesome day and it is only 1pm!!!....wikis and googledoc ideas all over the place.  I also went to an iPad workshop that was incredible.  We can ignore it but it will be taking over the instructional technology in the classroom.  I watched a presenter put an iPad under a document camera and show one educational app after another.  A classroom set of iPads and the world is open.

Oh, and the keynote speaker was Leigh Anne Tuohy (the movie Blind Side).  She reminded us that we need to search for what is really inside of the student......recognize the full potential....find value in those society has deemed valueless.

TCEA Day 1 Second Edition

Well, It is 11:52pm and I am finally winding down after a busy day.  Here are a few other thoughts......

Did you know there is an app on the iphone for a remote mouse?  I ran across it while I was preparing for my presentation.  It worked with my wireless at home. I was able to turn the pages of my flipchart. 

Has the whole world turned to ipads?  I am one of only a few who doesn't have one at TCEA.  Maybe I will win one.  Everyone seems to be having a contest with the prize being an ipad.

A couple more sites:
http://planetcreation.co.uk/createpic/   create Your Own Avatar Website--need an email address to retrieve
http://www.aviary.com/      a Web 2.0 tool whose interface is very similar to Photoshop

TCEA Day 1

TCEA breathes life into me.  It reminds me that I am an Instructional Technologist not a hardware technician.  Many times I find sites that I have seen before but have forgotten about due to information over-load.  Here are a few of them.

Let the students create a character and then blabberize it for the audio to go with the character. 
http://www.buildyourwildself.com/
http://blabberize.com/

Another comic creator to add to the list is http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/  http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/comic-creator-30021.html
http://www.toondoo.com/

Create a magazine cover using http://bighugelabs.com/magazine.php
Create trading cards using http://bighugelabs.com/deck.php

Free Wiki for Educators

Wikispaces continue to give educators free accounts.  Apply here.    http://www.wikispaces.com/content/for/teachers

Study Skills

This link from Teacher's first is a great list of Study Skill websites.
http://www.teachersfirst.com/spectopics/studyskills.cfm