October 4

Elluminate

5:00 pm
October 4

Kati's cell: 404-661-9416

In connection with the Georgia Educational Technology Conference (GaETC), Discovery Education and Glogster EDU will be hosting an event November 4th at GPB in Atlanta. Time is 5:30 - 8:30. You will be glad you attended! It will replace our second online class.

September 27

Random Name Picker

Online Stopwatch

Internet Archive

Fodey

School Tube

Jing

SlideShare

Voice Thread

24 interesting ways_to_use_voicethread_in_the

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT . . . In lieu of one of our online classes.....

Please plan on attending this event. We can arrange carpools.

In connection with the Georgia Educational Technology Conference (GaETC), Discovery Education and Glogster EDU will be hosting an event November 4th at GPB in Atlanta. Time is 5:30 - 8:30. You will be glad you attended!

September 27

VoiceThread

Wallwisher

September 20 - Audio

At this point, everyone should have a BLOG with a Voki on it. Please make sure that I have your blog address. (Send it to be searcy@fultonschools.org )

There are several make-up opportunities if you missed the Discovery Education Streaming webinar last Monday. Check out earlier blog entries for the information.

Agenda:

Wordle and it's Cousins -- Tagxedo and Tagul

Blabberize

Audacity

CinchCast



Pod-O-Matic


TED Talks



Wallwisher - TED Talks

Homework:

Get Jing on your computer


Get a SchoolTube account

If you missed the webinar on September 13, here is a make-up opportunity:

Using the Teacher Center in Discovery Education Streaming

September 13, 2010

Get a Voki now!


Introductions

Line up by number of years in education

Speed dating - 1 min each rotation (30 secs each person)

About this Class

Connections

Setting Class Norms

Wallwisher

Create a g-mail account

Start blogging



Create a Wallwisher

Link to it on your blog

Create a Voki

Embed the voki on your blog

7:00 - Discovery Education Webinar

The Discovery streaming webinar provides core information for our flagship service. With over 9,000 videos, in addition to thousands of video segments, images, articles, songs, and more, this powerhouse of digital content is a snap to navigate. The webinar begins with the basics (logins and passwords) and moves quickly through searches, the teacher center and builders, incorporating digital content with web 2.0 tools, and classroom building through our online organizational tools.


For next week, have the following programs installed on your laptop:
Audacity
Lame file for Audacity
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Welcome!

Course Goals:
In this course, participants will learn how to infuse higher-level thinking into their curriculum using free Internet resources.

Participants will gain a working knowledge of the following free Internet resources:

Audacity
Voki
CinchCast
Blabberize
Animoto
School Tube
Jam Studio,
WallWisher
SlideShare
Survey Monkey
Doodle
Discovery Streaming
Wordle
Blogs
Podcasting
Elluminate
and more

There will be 7 face-to-face classes and 2 online classes. There will be a few small projects to be completed outside of course hours.

Class Dates:

September 13 Milton Center
September 20 Milton Center
September 27 Milton Center
October 4 Online Class
October 11 Teacher Workday - No Class
October 18 Milton Center
October 25 Milton Center
November 1 Milton Center
November 8 Online Class THIS CLASS WILL BE AT GPB on NOVEMBER 4th.
November 15 Milton Center

Class begins promptly at 4:30. You will be on your way home before 8:30 each night.

In order to receive PLU credit for this class, you may not miss more than 10%. Since we meet nine days x 4 hours, you may not miss more than 3.5 hours of this course and still receive credit.