Live Blogging: Social Media for School Leaders

Presenter: Bill Carozza

Why utilize Social Media?  Connect to your Community, Connect to your Staff, Develop Professionally.

• Today's Meet
• Poll Everywhere

The internet is about relationships  Technology initiatives have to improve upon the  instructional, curricular, or assessment practices we  already have..

Robin Good  -- Collaboration Tools

Screencasts with Screenr --  Take  video  tutorials from your desktop and post to your website.

Blogging: Begins a cycle of collaboration, requires reflection and greater understanding, and build your school brand.

TWITTER
Cybraryman - Hashtag library  http://www.cybraryman.com/edhashtags.html

10 Free Things

At the back of each NEA Today magazine is a list of resources called "10 Free Things": a list of activities, posters, printables, lessons, videos and more.  There is also an online version that you can access here. 

For example, you can sign-up with your school email and access an ebook called "20 Free iPad Apps for Educators."

Live Blogging DTEC Workshop: 25 Tools for the Digital Classroom

Good afternoon, folks!  We're back and here's 25 Tools for the Digital Classroom:

3:56 Xtranormal  Animated 3-D Movies based on a user created script; $10 per teacher for classroom set-up.
        Storybird   Students add the story to a collection of related artwork; teacher account is free.

3:58 Youtube & Teachertube  We've spent a lot of time on this blog sharing our love of Youtube EDU, but did you know that Teachertube is a video hub for teachers by teachers with emphasis on educational content.

4:04  Today's Meet Discussion

4:06 Polling Websites for PollDaddy, SurveyMonkey, PollEverywhere, FluidSurveys, MicroPoll, Zoomerang, Pollmo, Twtpoll, Celly

4:19  Slideshare  Share your Powerpoint Presentations online

4:21  Audio share...Voicethread & Podomatic

4:22  Pictures & Visuals...Dipity (interactive timelines), Picnik (free photo shop), Pixlr (free photo editing), Smugmug (photo editing)

4:28  WizIQ  Fee based Test Hosting Site

4:29  File conversions with Zamzar, Free PDF Converter

Whew!  Made it under the wire...good job Julie!

Resources for Intermediate and Secondary Teaching

This resource comes for the April 2012 issue of Today's OEA.  Like Innovative Classroom for Elementary Teachers, the HippoCampus website offers 6-12+ teachers with a collection of digital media resources for the math, science, history and humanities contents.  Registration with a free account is required.  

Resources for Elementary Teaching

This resource comes for the April 2012 issue of Today's OEA.  Innovative Classroom website offers K-5 teachers with a collection of lesson plans, thematic units, interactive bulletin boards, reproducibles, and more...

Live Blogging Today's DTEC Workshop: ITSC 2012 Show & Tell

3:30pm...Welcome!  Don't forget to sign in and pick up a timecard.

3:35pm...Cool Tech Blog.  If you haven't signed up to get our Cool Tech Blog Updates...you can type your email into the bar in the top right corner of the blog to get an email update of each post we add to the blog.  This is a great solution for busy people.

3:40pm...My Bloomin' Toolbox.  Presented at ITSC by Cindi Lane.  Free Web 2.0 sites to use in your classroom to promote higher level thinking and responses.  

3:45pm...Today's Meet.  Create a virtual classroom forum online and in real time.

4:00pm...Learn360.  Tim presented a quick overview of this subscription based video website.

4:15pm...Next Vista for Learning.  Rushton Hurley is one of our favorite ITSC presenters.  Tami presented his website and his first meeting of Flat Stanley. 

4:20pm...Michelle presented some exciting information about the district's move to a Google App environment next school year. 

4:26pm...Langwitches.  Digital Literacy in the 21st century. 

4:29pm...Paperwork, paperwork, paperwork!  Don't forget your PDU's, Timecards, and evaluations. 

ITSC 2012: Awesome Site

A Google a Day

http://agoogleaday.com/
Every day the website asks questions. A great way to practice smart searching skills!!!