A Chest of Digital Treasures!

This week I presented a short session at the Northwest ISD Technopalooza. It was great fun! Thank you Dave Burgess for the inspiration.   If a teacher did not walk away from those 2 days with a full bag of tricks and tips to use to better engage the digital native it is the teacher's own fault.  The conference was loaded with great sessions for the teachers.  Dr. Karla Burkholder, Rory Peacock, and the Instructional Technology Team did a great job.  I want to thank all that attended my session.  It is always amazing to me when my sessions are full, when the teachers actually take time out to listen to my ideas. I have posted a slide show (on the right) of much of my session.  Also, below you will find some websites we discussed.  Best of luck to all in the new school year!

 Bridger and his iPad:  http://goo.gl/h8AGp9

Sign Generator:  http://www.redkid.net/generator/sign.php

Online Timers:  http://www.online-stopwatch.com/classroom-timers/

Many tools for the classroom:  http://www.classtools.net/

New tool for video:  https://edpuzzle.com/

Student response systems:  https://create.kahoot.it/#     

                                           http://www.infuselearning.com/

                                                       http://www.socrative.com/

Webinars

Angie and I did a webinar on Tuesday night using elluminate http://www.elluminate.com/
Several teachers joined us as we navigated around the software.  It is really a great way to instruct teachers on any number of items.  You can use a PowerPoint presentation, go to your desktop, send a document to the participants, and allow participants to work on the white board.  You can choose to allow the participants the chance to have the microphone to ask questions or they can type their question in the chat area. Our educational service center trains you and has made this available for free.  Check out the demo on their page.  Instructional technology at its best!!