4. • Devices
• PC
• Mac
• Mobile
• Tablet – iPad
• Tablet – Droid
• Smartphone
What do you have?
5. Our Exploration Dashboard
Top Teaching
• Teaching Helps
• Making Meaning
• Classroom Management
• Finding Cool Classroom Tools
• Building your PLN
• Staying positive
Social Media
• Sharing classroom and school happenings
21st century Competencies
• eFolios
• Collaborative Writing
• Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
• Multimedia
• eBooks
• 3D Virtual Worlds
Research
• Citation and Annotation
• Authentic Research
• Sharing your findings
Productivity
• Bridging Time Zones
• Paperless Classroom
• File Management
IT Management
16. Visuwords – www.visuwords.com
Top Teaching
• Teaching Helps
• Making Meaning
• Classroom Management
• Finding Cool Classroom Tools
• Building your PLN
• Staying positive
17. Google Forms – A school survey
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
18. Goes into Spreadsheet
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
19. Cool Trick Copy out of spreadsheet into Wordle!
Step 1: Convert Everything to lowercase by pasting into MS Word.
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
21. What Westwood Students own
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
22. Wikisource: Copy Text from Famous Speech
http://en.wikisource.org
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
28. Give assignments and receive responses
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
35. “The next best thing to being wise oneself
is to live in a circle of those who are.” C.S.
Lewis
Build your circle of the wise
RSS
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
36. Free interactive whiteboard resources
http://www.iboard.co.uk
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
39. • Youtube for education
• http://www.youtube.com/teachers
• New “channel” subscription feature
Youtube Channels
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
40. • Find apps on iPad / iPod to find new
tools
• App Advice
• Apps gone free
• For Droid –
• See Richard Byrne!
• @rmbyrne
App Advice
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
41. www.igoogle.com
Building your PLN and tracking projects
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
42. Netvibes.com or Pageflakes.com
For building Classroom Monitoring Portals (CMP)
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
43. • http://reader.google.com
• Mr. Reader (on ipad)
A well constructed PLN is the cornerstone
of staying well informed and helpful.
My “personal” newspaper
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
44. You become like those you are around.
• What are you reading?
• Kindle
• iCatcher – iPhone/ iPad
• Subscribe to videos and listen
• Have a personal “radio station” for the
drive to school
Staying Positive
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
46. “95% of what you accomplish is due to
your habits” Brian Tracey
Have routines to help
keep you focused
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
47.
48.
49.
50. “We are better at
coping than
exerting
influence.”
Kerry Patterson et al,
Influencer: The Power to Change
Anything, p 8 Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
54. • When do you exercise?
• What do you eat?
• When do you laugh?
• When do you learn?
• When do you love?
(your family, friends, mankind)
• I have a calendar “routine of excellence” on
my google calendar to schedule my
routine.
Feel great…stay positive
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
55.
56. Change your life
Focus on your routines
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
57. Sharing the message
• Automate
Automate
Automate!
Social Media
• Sharing
classroom and
school
happenings
58. Setting up to have an easy social media distribution plan
Create a blog on blogger.com
Use feedburner to create a feed
Feedburner email (lets people sign
up with a form)
Take the feed into Twitterfeed
Twitterfeed posts to Twitter
Social Media
• Sharing
classroom and
school
happenings
59. Now one post can!
Blog Post
Email to subscribers
Tweet from the post
Facebook fan page update
Social Media
• Sharing
classroom and
school
happenings
60. • Go into blogger settings Mobile and Email
• Make an email – now your secretary or
principal can update using email.
Make it easier
Social Media
• Sharing
classroom and
school
happenings
65. Microsoft One Note
21st century
competencies
•eFolios
•Collaborative Writing
•Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
•Multimedia
•eBooks
•3D Virtual Worlds
66. • Shared folders
• Color codes
Google Docs
21st century
competencies
•eFolios
•Collaborative Writing
•Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
•Multimedia
•eBooks
•3D Virtual Worlds
67. Class rules http://docs.google.com
21st century
competencies
•eFolios
•Collaborative Writing
•Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
•Multimedia
•eBooks
•3D Virtual Worlds
68. Voicethread
www.voicethread.com
• See these in action on
the Eracism Project
• http://eracism.flatclassr
oomproject.org/Semi+F
inals+VoiceThreads
21st century
competencies
•eFolios
•Collaborative Writing
•Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
•Multimedia
•eBooks
•3D Virtual Worlds
69. Google apps for domains (free)
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/edu/
21st century
competencies
•eFolios
•Collaborative Writing
•Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
•Multimedia
•eBooks
•3D Virtual Worlds
70. Groups with distribution lists
of parents. (i.e. I send to
Computer Fundamentals and
it sends to all the parents)
Automatic distribution lists
• Classes
• teachers
Cell phone friendly email (gmail)
21st century
competencies
•eFolios
•Collaborative Writing
•Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
•Multimedia
•eBooks
•3D Virtual Worlds
71. Glitch: Only 3 from one IP address can sign up here in a day.
Unless you get the free email service from
https://skydrive.live.com
21st century
competencies
•eFolios
•Collaborative Writing
•Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
•Multimedia
•eBooks
•3D Virtual Worlds
72. • Live@edu: Microsoft’s free email, site alternative.
http://www.microsoft.com/education/en-
us/solutions/Pages/liveedu.aspx
21st century
competencies
•eFolios
•Collaborative Writing
•Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
•Multimedia
•eBooks
•3D Virtual Worlds
73. • How we edit Kindle Kids corner
Collaborative editing in Docs
21st century
competencies
•eFolios
•Collaborative Writing
•Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
•Multimedia
•eBooks
•3D Virtual Worlds
74. Monetize the photos your annual staff is taking.
I hereby authorize the School to use
photographs, videos, writings, artwork, and
audio recordings of my child in school
media and advertisements. I understand
that I must notify the Ravenscroft
Communications Office, in writing, to
change this authorization.
Ravenscroft School
www.smugmug.com
21st century
competencies
•eFolios
•Collaborative Writing
•Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
•Multimedia
•eBooks
•3D Virtual Worlds
82. Check out ebooks
Kindle
Audiobooks
With your library card
Online!
Overdrive and ebook check out systems for libraries
21st century
competencies
•eFolios
•Collaborative Writing
•Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
•Multimedia
•eBooks
•3D Virtual Worlds
85. Empty Island
Download
& Unzip
“Mars”
environment
Students interact with
Mars and build
Scripts,
Environment
installed
1
2
3
4
Save a copy of the island
.oar (file extension)
5
Clear the Island6
Empty Island
1
Download
& Unzip
“Mayan temple”
environment
2
Scripts,
Environment
installed
3
Students interact with
temple and build
4
21st century competencies
•eFolios
•Collaborative Writing
•Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
•Multimedia
•eBooks
•3D Virtual Worlds
86. • Son of Citation Machine
• Noodlebib
• EasyBib
• Citation generator in Microsoft Word
Citations
And that is what I suggest for you to do today. Your assignment for this webinar today is to come up with your “Big Three” at the end of the webinar. Pick three things – start there!
Flattening your classroom is connecting yourself. And the first step is to connect yourselves to others. Your teachers should also connect themselves. Have an RSS reader, join the diigo educators group, listen to the current conversations at edtechtalk – join Twitter and follow at least 50 educators before you make your call on it – watch videos at the free k12 online conference and encourage networking in organizations like the Google teacher Academy, Discovery Educators, Flat Classrooms Ning.
Who is the one person I can control in my district? ME!
Who is the one person I can control in my district? ME!
Who is the one person I can control in my district? ME!
We are better with coping with problems than exerting influence to change them. Last January, I was the heaviest I’ve ever been in my life and decided to change. In July, I took up running, now I’m almost 20 pounds lighter. It was a struggle, but what I was doing before was just buying larger clothes, moving my seat back in the car – I was coping – but when I started exerting influence and self control that was when positive change happened.
We’re too busy having a pity party to exert the influence to have a victory party.
Social MediaSharing classroom and school happenings
We’re here to talk about Library 2.0, and yet to understand library 2.0, we must ask ourselves.
So, when I came back to Camilla, I started using wikis with my students immediately and sat down in my classroom to begin blogging. I turned to a student and said, “I have to create a blog and I have to name the thing – what should I name it?” The students sitting there said, “Well, Mrs. Vicki, you’re cool and we’re the wildcats, so, why don’t you call it the cool Cat teacher blog