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www.tammyworcester.com Workshop Handout: @http://www.tammyworcester.com/TWHandouts/New_Handouts/Entries/2011/2/7_TCEA_2011.html

__**Avatars**__ @http://www.myavatareditor.com/ writing (technical writings, poems, characters) genetics insert in PowerPoints using transparent backgound in png file

__**Random Name Picker (classtools.net)**__ @http://classtools.net/main_area/template_loader.php/?fruit_machine randomly selecting students names can save it embed in blog divide into teams call on students use it for other than student names (states, vocab words, math facts) __**Today's Meet: chatroom tool**__ www.todaysmeet.com check to see if site is blocked open for questions no log in required class research for finding resources can archive the whole chat can chat with people not in the classroom __**WallWisher: post it notes**__ @http://www.wallwisher.com/ Wallwisher is more effective than corkboard.me __**Imagination Cubed**__ @http://www.imaginationcubed.com/ can replay draw and label no account required __**Odpod**__ @http://sketch.odopod.com/ create sketches view the development of featured sketches great for art teachers **__Searching for Images__** **__@http://www.compfight.com/__** use commons only @http://copypastecharacter.com/ find a symbol, click, automatically copies to clipboard ★✔ **__Skitch:__** **__@http://www.skitch.com/__** Must-have for Macs (only for Mac) **__Jing__**: capture video **__TubeChop__** **__@http://tubechop.com/__** chop up YouTube Videos **__Worksheet Works__** **__@http://www.worksheetworks.com/miscellanea/graphic-organizers.html__** find all kinds of free printable worksheets __**StoryBird**__ __**www.storybird.com**__ select artwork and write a story about it __**Read, Write, Think**__ __**@http://www.readwritethink.org/**__ All kinds of interactives **__Spelling City__** **__@http://www.spellingcity.com/__** play games, take tests, etc. esl teachers **__Wordle__** www.wordle.com Create beautiful word clouds from a block of text.

**__TagXedo__** **__@http://www.tagxedo.com/__** like wordle **__JamStudio__** **__JamStudio - Create your own songs and music clips!__**

Educator account on bottom left side

**__Virtual Keyboard__** **__@http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/music/piano/__** with songs from @http://www.tammyworcester.com/TipOfWeek/TammyWTechTipOfWeek/Entries/2010/10/1_Tip_92_-_Virtual_Piano_Keyboards.html **__Free Posters__** **__@http://www.fablevision.com/posters/__** @http://www.fablevision.com/northstar/miniposters/index.html **__Cool Games__** ABCya - @http://www.abcya.com/ Traveler IQ Challenge - @http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq **__Just for Fun__** I cant find my phone: @http://www.icantfindmyphone.com/ do nothing for two minutes: @http://www.donothingfor2minutes.com/ __**Miscellaneous**__ use blog for trainings to control access livebinders

**__Changing Tools for Changing Times__**

Session#: 110515 Ballroom D Presenter: Jane Nauman, Nauman Educational Consultingjane.e.nauman@hp.com

Brave New World Video (website: paradigms) "See the opportunities, not the obstacles." Students should be prosumers: blend of producers and consumers Collective intelligence: by working together in new ways we create info that has the content of experts. **__ Teacher Classroom Skills __** [|wordle.net] allows you to create word clouds [|polleverywhere.com] allows you to poll using cell phones
 * pull, don't push
 * raise questions
 * create from relevance
 * allow for variation
 * no more spray and pray (let students get their hands dirty)
 * teachers are designers
 * build learning communities
 * connect with people

[|www.eyeplorer.com] gives you a web of ideas on a given word

[|Visual Thesaurus] graphical organizer for searches

[|Flat Classroom Project]

[|Fan Fiction] Students can adapt the books they read and post them to Fan FIction

[|Intel Teach]

[|Teacher Experience Exchange]

[|VoiceThread] contain a conversation about media; free educator access (for an educational application, see this [|video])

[|One True Media] [|Animoto] [|Experiential Learning] [|Course Lab]

**__Successful Solutions for Technol- ogy Integration in the Secondary Classroom__**

Session #: 110016 Ballroom A

Presenter: Janet Corder and Joan Gore, [|J2 Training] []

The 21st century secondary classroom must be exciting and engaging. Discover solutions, les- sons, strategies and best prac- tices for making your classroom come alive with technology.

[|Google Squared] : Puts googled data into grids (use governors of Texas as example) [|Animoto] : Be sure to use education account, which is free [|WallWisher] : virtual cork board [|Glogster] : Online poster; be sure to use education account [|Tagxedo]: turn bodies of text into word clouds (like [|Wordle])

[|PicLits]: choose an image and add text to describe it; will work on Promethean;

[|Blabberize]: put a mouth on a picture and add recorded voice to make it talk

[|Museum Box]: Create a virtual box with data about a historical person, event, etc.

[|KenKen]: like Sudoku puzzles, but with negative numbers, decimals, etc

[|JigZone]: create jigsaw puzzle

[|Twiducate]: social networking for schools Hetemeel