Session: Google Apps in the Classroom
To get familiar with ways to use Google Apps in the classroom or to just learn how to use them yourself, check out the site below for tons of resources, videos, and handouts, many of which came directly from Google Educator Workshops. There is quite a bit of information on what Google Apps are available and how to use them as collaboration tools. Since they are web-based, they can be accessed from any computer and eliminate the scavenger hunt we sometimes need to go on to figure out where a file was saved in the first place.
http://sites.google.com/a/training.nthls.com/google-apps-for-new-tech/
Session: Social Media
During this session, the presenters shared insight on how to utilize social media in education. Rather than fighting social media, why don't we embrace it? The site below provides resources on different social media tools and how they can be used in education for the benefit of the students. If the list seems overwhelming, talk to me about which ideas seemed the most intriguing.
http://ntf.wikispaces.com/Workshop
Session: Entry Docs that Rock: Creating Engaging Entry Events Using Multimedia Tools
Examples:
- Emails voicing a conversation and describing a need
- Classroom trashed leaving a ramson not to intro a forensic science/genetic project
- Movie clip/ Book reading
- Bring in a guest to "interrupt" class with a situation that needs to be figured out.
- Case files for a CSI project
- Singing Biology Teacher: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHDp7-IXr8g
Factors to Consider:
- Time: How much time do you have to create this?
- Technology: What are your tech skills? Do you have time to fiddle with something new?
- What kind of information are you trying to get across? Will words suffice, or would pictures help?
- What are you asking the students to create? Entry docs that match the final product are often effective.
Making Movies:
- iMovie, Movie Maker, Final Cut, Adobe Premiere
- Google's Picasa will create a slideshow for you from your pictures.
- Fake it with an automated PowerPoint.
Podcasting:
- Audacity (PC/Mac), Garage Band (Mac), iMovie (Mac), iTalk app (iPhone)
Websites:
- Google Sites: free hosting to anyone, easy templates
- Infinite resources: Wikispaces and many more!
Blogs:
- Infinite resouces: Blogger, WordPress, Livejournal, Typepad
- Once you set up a blog, it is essentially just word processing!
Sites for ripping video/audio from web:
- http://www.keepvid.com/ (fast, converts to flash or quicktime)
- http://www.convertdirect.com/ (slower, greater variety of files)
Software Company Tutorials:
YouTube
- EXCELLENT resource for technology tutorials!
- Good source for video clips (give credit!)
- http://tooble.tv/: create video files from YouTube videos (again, give credit!)
Other Ideas from Session Attendees:
- makebeliefscomix.com
- Fix something that's broken (have kids attempt an experiment that you know won't work)
Session: Digital Media/CTE Content Forum
Music/Sound/Picture Resources
- http://www.audacity.com/ (music files)
- http://www.sourceforge.net/ (music files)
- www.archive.org/details.php?identifier=prelinger (resource for free pictures, sounds, movies- all archived and copyright free!)
- http://www.icompositions.com/ (podcasts/etc)
- http://www.freesound.org/ (music files)
- http://www.freeplaymusic.com/ (variety of music- well sorted)
- http://www.garageband.com/ (music files)
- http://www.squared5.com/ (mpegstreamclip)
Sound File Editing / File Conversions Resources
- http://www.zamzar.com/ (File conversion/Convert those YouTube videos to mov or wmv files so you can use them in school!)
- http://www.convertdirect.com/ (flv converter)
Miscellaneous Video Resources
- www.playtube.com/ (video blog)
- http://celtx.com/ (formats scripts, storyboards, etc)
Misc Programming/Web Design Resources
- http://www.framethief.com/ (free stop motion animation software for Macs)
- http://www.alice.org/ (3D beginning programming)
- http://scratch.mit.edu/ (Snap together block to create stories, games and animations and share your creations on the web)
- http://vrml.cip.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/dune/ (white_dune: free 3d animation software)
- http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/dd252934.aspx (Get Microsoft Expressions FREE for your school! It is comparable to Dreamweaver) I used Patricia Phillips, she is actually based in Arizona: 928-505-5220
Misc Photoshop Resources
- http://www.theonion.com/ (fake news using Photoshop)
- www.freakingnews.com/ (Fake news - like the onion.com)
Miscellaneous Resources
- http://www.microsoft.com/education/pil/IT_home.aspx (Innovative Teachers)
- Google Sketchup (tours, buildings, people)
- http://www.weebly.com/ (free websites)
Session: Photoshop Across the Curriculum
- Genetics: Kids can use pictures of two adults and create hypothetical offspring following the rules of genetics. Like Conan O'Brien's "If they made it" segment. Ask me if you don't know what I am talking about, and I'll be happy to explain.
- Kids take pictures of themselves dressed up for project and then make photos looks aged in Photoshop
- Anti-drug posters
- What kind of product would you like to invent? (Show photo of swiss army knife/mp3 player or other item)
- Reinforce vocabulary: Create captions at bottom of photo of that represents the word or use speech bubble to make the person look like it's talking. Captions define the word and use it in a sentence. I can explain what this means if you're interested.
- Magazine advertisements
- Self portraits: scan students image in and then paint it in Photoshop
- Collages
- New take on an art movement: surrealism, pop art, etc.
- Short and simple animations: Use different layers and loop them together to form the animation.
- Use it as a technology requirement: file management, computer image modes (RGB/CMYK), types of image files (.gif, .jpg)
- Create tutorials with screen shots
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