Tech+Tuesday+Wikipage


 * TEACHERS:** Each Tuesday there will be a link to a new Web 2.0 Tool and how it can be used in your classroom

10/25 We have been there before you see a cool website and save it to your flash drive or to your home computer and then when you get to school you don't have access to your home computer or you forgot your flash drive. Well I found a great tool that you can use with your students or for yourself to help you keep all the cool website that you find in one single place. The good thing is that you can access your account from any computer. So it is called Delicious.

To keep all your websites organized in one place use - [|Delicious] Click on JOIN to create your account and start saving and sharing all your websites for FREE.

11/1 You go to a meeting get a handout come back to your classroom and you have lost the paper. Then you have to ask someone to make you another copy. Let's save the trees. That the message that we keep hearing and this site allows you to do that. LiveBinders allows you to store all your pdfs,images,webpages, and videos in one spot. For each project you create you could create a new LiveBinder to keep all the information together and the great thing is that it can be accessed anywhere.

[|Live Binders] Click on Sign Up to create your account and start organizing all your valuable information in one spot.

11/8 Interactive way to describe events,persons, or historical period by putting items in a virtual box. You can display images, sounds, videos,text,websites, and files. A great way to introduce yourself to others. The museum box lends itself to social studies but it could also be used in all subjects to make sure that students understand a concept.

[|Museum Box] The Museum Box is a great interactive tool and it is free to use so start thinking of way you can use it in your classroom.

11/15

As we think about our digital natives it is so important that more assignments are done with technology instead of paper and pencil. I want you to consider animoto for you projects. Instead of students just writing a report on a famous person or a science concept that can Animoto to display their final product. I know that I have used them in the library to create digital book trailers to get students engaged in a book.

Link to [|Animoto] Use Animoto to start creating videos with your class.

11/22 As you think of all the things you are thankful for and enjoying your Thanksgiving Holiday. I want you to know I hear your conversations about how times are tough and budgets are being slashed left and right. Which means you have to do more with less. I know that since the budget has been cut there is no money to take field trips. So I wanted to make sure that you and your students were still being exposed to the world around us and I found some wonderful sites that allow you to take virtual field trips. The four sites that I am including are: Since this week is Thanksgiving the first one is on What is was llike during the first Thanksgiving and what they had to endure. The second field trip allows students to look closer into the life of an endangered animals. The third field trip gives students an in-depth look into why and how it is important to protect the source of your drinking water. The fourth field trip explores all the art between the museum and an art center that used to be a public school.

[|Thanksgiving Field Trip]

[|Endangered Species Field Trip] This field trip allows students to look closer into the life of an endangered animals.

[|Aquifer Field Trip] This field trip gives students an in-depth look into why and how it is important to protect the source of your drinking water.

[|Destination Modern Art Field Trip] This field trip explores all the art between the museum and an art center that used to be a public school. Great activities once each click on the individual pieces of art.

11/29

As we get ready to end the year we start seeing the Top List of the year. So that got me to thinking about timelines. So as we wrap up this year and remember what we have learned and what we will do differently. I found a great website that any teacher can use to create a timeline for anything. This a great opportunity for students to create a timeline of what has happened during this school year. The site is called Capzles and it is free and you can add photos, video, audio and text to your timeline.

Link to [|Capzles] to start creating interactive timeline with your class.

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