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1 Technology Tidbits for Teachers Cindy Sheets

2 ‘Our kids will spend the rest of their lives in the future. Are we getting them ready?’

3 Digital Footprints

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5 Join the Group!  giftededucation.ning.com (may be changing soon) giftededucation.ning.com  International online community supporting gifted education  ALMnetwork.ning.com ALMnetwork.ning.com  Online community supporting users of the Autonomous Learner Model  iConnectiLearn.ning.com iConnectiLearn.ning.com  For those who are interested in 21 st Century learning, web 2.0, and technology in the classroom

6 Plurk www.plurk.com www.plurk.com

7 Google Goodies  Alerts – topics or digital footprints Alerts  Earth Earth  Moon, Mars, Ocean too  Maps Maps  Sketch-up Sketch-up  Create models and include in Google Earth Create models and include in Google Earth  Docs Docs  Surveys Surveys  Books Books  Goog 411 Goog 411  More Google More Google  Sites

8 Social Bookmarking Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources. Unlike file sharing, the resources aren't shared; merely bookmarks that reference them. Delicious Diigo Delicious Diigo http://delicious.com/http://www.diigo.com/ and Diigo in Educationhttp://delicious.com/http://www.diigo.com/

9 Web Site Creation  Google Sites Google Sites  Weebly.com Weebly.com  Webs.com Webs.com

10 Mind Mapping Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing. Wordle http://www.wordle.nethttp://www.wordle.net / Bubbl.us http://bubbl.us/ Tagxedo www.tagxedo.com Tag Cloud with Style www.tagxedo.com

11 iTunes U

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13 Conversion Tools  Media-Convert Media-Convert  Zamzar Zamzar

14  iTunes iTunes  Ted Talks Ted Talks

15 Learn & Create with Podcasts  Science Now (NOVA) podcasts  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/no va/sciencenow/rss/#h01 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/no va/sciencenow/rss/#h01  iTunes  Podbean.com  Ted Talks  http://ted.com http://ted.com  Learning in Hand  learninginhand.com learninginhand.com  Gcast  http://gcast.com http://gcast.com  Garageband (Apple)  Audacity  Sourceforge.audacity.n et Sourceforge.audacity.n et

16  Creative Commons Creative Commons  Flickr Flickr  Big Huge Labs Big Huge Labs  National Park Trading Cards National Park Trading Cards  FlickrCC FlickrCC  Gimp Gimp  Photoshop Express Photoshop Express  Image Mosaic Generator Image Mosaic Generator  Picasa Picasa

17 Free Programs  Scratch Scratch  Alice  Pivot Stickfigure Animator  www.snapfiles.com/get/stickfigure.html www.snapfiles.com/get/stickfigure.html  Sam Animation

18 More Google Goodies  Trends  Scholar  Image Swirl  Similar Image  Audio Indexing  City Tours  In Quotes

19 Communication & Social Networks  Ning communities  Classroom 2.0 Classroom 2.0  iConnect iLearn iConnect iLearn  Wikis Wikis  http://www.wikispaces.com/user/my/hisheets http://www.wikispaces.com/user/my/hisheets  Shoutem Shoutem  Skype Skype  Plurk Plurk  Edmodo Edmodo  Voice Thread ($ options for private groups) Voice Thread  Google Calendars Google Calendars  Twitter Twitter

20 101 Teaching Tools for Web 2.0  http://oedb.org/library/features/101-web-20- teaching-tools http://oedb.org/library/features/101-web-20- teaching-tools  www.kevinhoneycutt.com www.kevinhoneycutt.com


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