1. Top 10 Technology Tools for Teaching and Learning
Kimberly Tohill
Penn State University
USA

2. Workshop Overview Introduce each tool Discuss main features and uses
Demonstrate how to use the tool
Resources for classroom implementation
Questions or comments?

3. Tool Categories Presentations Collaboration Online Publishing Blogs
Audio/Podcasting
Digital Video
File Storage
Social Bookmarking
Organization
Social Networking

4. Presentation Tools Main Components Featured Tool
Allows editing and formatting of inserted text
Allows manipulation of inserted images and/or graphics
Provides a slide-show system to display content

5. Vuvox Fast layout and customization of photos, video, text and music.
Add media hotspots, narrate interactivity.
Publish to any webpage
3 platforms to create: Express, Collage, & Studio
“Provide whatever cool content that you have. Take pictures, video, audio and text. Mix it up. Choose backgrounds, colors, textures that create your vibe and then you are ready to share your piece with the world.”

6. Collaboration Tools Main Components Featured Tool
Two or more people can work together to create and edit a document
Synchronous or asynchronous

7. Google Documents Collaborative writing and editing
Word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, forms and drawings
Edited and stored online
Accessible from anywhere with an internet connection
Download and save in various formats
You choose the amount of interaction users can have with your documents (view, comment, edit)

8. Online Publishing Main Components Featured Tool
Write articles about items of personal interest
Publish articles on the web
Receive comments and critiques of articles written
Write comments and critiques of other articles

9. Teen/Tween Tribune
Aggregates news stories that are of interest to tweens & teens
Users can submit their own stories
Users can comment on stories and on other comments – all mediated by teachers!
Promotes reading, writing, and critical thinking
Teachers can blog and share lesson plans in the faculty lounge

10. Blogs Main Features Featured Tool
Personal “journal” entries to publish on the web
Most blogs are interactive via comments
Contain text, images, links to other sites, video

11. Blogger Is connected through your Google account
Easily write and edit entries and comments
Easy to use interface that allows customization of layouts, fonts, and widgets
Users can subscribe to your blog easily through RSS feeds
Includes an HTML text editor

12. Audio/Podcasting Main Components Featured Tool Record audio files
Publish files to the web, download to your personal media player
Subscribe to new content through RSS

13. Podomatic Create audio files and publish them to the web
All you need is a microphone!
Create “minicasts”: audio + images = video slide show
Also includes a directory of podcasts
500 MB of storage
15 GB bandwidth per month

14. Digital Video Main Components Featured Tool
Upload and share digital video recorded with your computer, camera, cell phone, etc!
Locate supplemental videos to use to enhance classroom lessons

15. TeacherTube Online community to share instructional videos
Make constructive comments about others’ videos
Use rating system to show appreciation for videos of value
Flag inappropriate content
Also has an extensive directory of audio files, documents and photos for educational use
Subscribe to “channels” of your favorite video producers

16. File Storage Main Components Featured Tool
Store files locally and remotely
Synchronize files on all your devices
Files are available from anywhere there is Internet access

17. Dropbox All files located in one convenient place
Automatically updates all devices when you add/delete files (computer, phone)
Files saved on the web and on your local devices
Share your dropbox with others

18. Social Bookmarking Main Components Featured Tool
Organize, manage, store, and search for bookmarks online
Tag resources into a personal classification system
Sharing resources through bookmarks

19. Diigo
Add all your favorite websites to collections within your Diigo library
Organize bookmarks by lists or tags
Highlight and add sticky notes to websites
Share bookmarks with others
Follow users that share similar interests

20. Organization Main Components Featured Tool
Group, classify, and share information gathered from the web

21. LiveBinders Organized by website and tabs
Toolbar add-on to make adding content easy
Easy to embed in blogs
Upload any file up to 5MB
Total free storage is 100MB
Site offers free webinars on further use of LiveBinders

22. Social Networking Main Components Featured Tool
Online platform for creating social connections among users
Includes representations of users (i.e. avatars, pictures, user names)
Allows users to share interests, events, ideas, activities, and more

23. Edmodo Students can turn in assignments online
Another way to connect with students in a social network!
Interface is much like Facebook but in a secure environment
Post questions or reminders to students as your “status”
Upload images and video
Students can turn in assignments online
Set up a calendar with important dates and deadlines
Enter grades
Award badges to students
Weekly webinars to improve your usage of edmodo

24. Resources Vuvox in Education Google Docs in Education
Podcasting in the Classroom
TeacherTube in the Classroom
Tips for Using Dropbox in the Classroom
33 Ways to Use Blogs in the Classroom
Using Diigo in the Classroom
LiveBinders in Science & Math
Ideas for Using Edmodo
Web 2.0 Teacher Tools

25. Culminating Discussion
Questions?
Comments?

26. Thank you for attending this workshop!
Kimberly Tohill
Penn State University, USA