Technology: Exciting, Disruptive but No Longer Overwhelming! – goo.gl/UVLdB

• A Day in the Internet – http://www.onlineeducation.net/internet
• The Top Ten Disruptive Technologies – http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=681107
• Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy – http://www.tubechop.com/watch/170739
• The Cost of Technology – http://www.intac.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/cost-of-technology.jpg

Polleverywhere.com – goo.gl/RLB7I

• Polleverywhere.com – http://www.polleverywhere.com
• Classroom Example -http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/NDI4MDE2MTQz
• An affordable CRS accessible to all educators – http://www.polleverywhere.com/sms-classroom-response-system
• Real Time Assessment – http://novemberlearning.com/resources/handouts/real-time-assessment-with-poll-everywhere/
• Using Poll Everywhere in the Classroom – http://digitalteach.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/using-poll-everywhere-in-the-classroom/

Presented at Technology Boot Camp @ CEDFA Summit 2011

The Technology Toolbox – http://goo.gl/JQSD0

• Skype – http://www.skype.com
• Skype Projects in the Classroom – http://education.skype.com/projects/
• Call Recorder for Skype – http://ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder/
• Skype Explained Visually – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1mflr-kQlk
• Find Other Schools and Students on Skype – http://www.epals.com
• Find Authors Willing to Skype – http://skypeanauthor.wetpaint.com/
• Tips from a Teacher Using Skype – http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/10/using-skype-in-classroom-or-just.html
• Teachers’ Experiences with Skype – http://www.robcoschools.org/cpes/teachers_and_skype
• Class Skypes with Ill Classmate – http://learningismessy.com/blog/?p=196
• Skyping with an Illustrator – http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/02/12/skyping-in-mike-artell-illustrator-author/
• Production Staff of Movie Skypes with Class – http://clc.yale.edu/2009/02/18/videoconferencing-in-the-classroom-with-skype/
• Dropbox – http://dropbox.com
• Teacher Shows How He Uses Dropbox – http://www.thenerdyteacher.com/2010/03/dropbox-must-for-all-teachers.html
• The Magic Pocket – A Dropbox Manual – http://manuals.makeuseof.com.s3.amazonaws.com/MakeUseOf.com-Dropbox.pdf
• Have Students Upload Documents into your Dropbox – http://dropitto.me/
• Prezi – http://www.prezi.com
• Prezi Quickstart Guide – http://www.activehistory.co.uk/Miscellaneous/free_stuff/worksheets/Prezi.pdf
• Free Prezi License for Educators – http://blog.prezi.com/2010/01/24/new-release-features-educational-license-reuse-learn-center/
• Evernote – http://www.evernote.com
• Posterous – http://www.posterous.com
• Instapaper- http://www.instapaper.com
• QR Codes – all QR codes in this presentation made with goo.gl

Some interesting links I’ve found useful lately:

• The teaching blog of a technology teacher at an international school
• TheThinkingStick – The Blog of EdTech presenter Jeff Utecht, plenty of great information that might help you focus on giving your students the technology skills they need.
• A Digital Citizenship curriculum for PK-12 students and teachers at International School Bangkok
• Wakeland Highschool Library’s guide for website evaluation.
• Really Bad Powerpoint – what not to do.
• Teacher training videos
• including teacher training on twitter -
• 100+ Google Tricks for Teachers
• Free Lesson Plans and Educational Resources from the Verizon Foundation

Rasmussen College has a great article on 100 applications useful for educators. Maybe you’ll find your next indispensable app on their list?

100 Apps for Tech–Savvy Teachers

Presented 1/20&21 at the Ohio Free-Tech Conference in Cincinnati

Presentation:

Handout:

http://tech.savvyteachers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Moodle_Outline.pdf

Resources

Moodle Benefits

http://www.smartschools.ph/SmartSchools/SmartTools/BenefitsMoodle.htm

About Moodle

http://docs.moodle.org/en/About_Moodle

Moodle Philosophy

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Moodle/Philosophy

Review of HS use of Moodle

http://aiken.moodlerooms.com/wb/pages/academics/moodle/moodle-at-aiken-high-school–introduction/moodle-at-aiken-high-school–images.php

Getting Started

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Getting_started_for_teachers

Blackboard vs. Moodle

http://www.humboldt.edu/~jdv1/moodle/all.htm

Hot potatoes – Create Interactive Activities

http://hotpot.uvic.ca/

Wikipedia’s Moodle Article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodle

Demo Course – Features

http://demo.moodle.net/course/view.php?id=5

2 Minute Moodles – Videos

http://tomazlasic.net/moodle/moodle-tutorials-2-minute-moodles/

Moodle Documentation

http://treadwell.cce.cornell.edu/moodle_doc/

Here’s some excellent information about using twitter to improve your classroom.

Do you use twitter to improve your teaching? How do you find great twittering teachers to follow?

photo credit: Extra Ketchup

• Typer Shark
• Typing of the Ghosts
• Cup Stacking
• Alphattack
• TuxTyping
• Learn2Type
• TyperShark
• Bubbles
• Baracuda
• Arachnid Falls
• Spacebar Invaders
• Outerspace Fleet Commander
• The Frogs are Off Their Diet

Edutopia has a great article on how many teachers are finding ways to use web2.0 sites that are often blocked in the classroom. This goes along well with our recent article on how to bring youtube videos to class dispite filters.

Youtube has plenty of educational content, from Photoshop tutorials to great speeches from history, just about ever content area can be found on the site. Unfortunately, a ton of inappropriate content can be found too. How can you keep the good yet protect your students from the bad?
TeacherTube may be the answer. It’s a youtube-like site that has many of the same features yet has some protection built in to keep out the bad. In the past, educators have found that no matter how stringent a site is on content, it’s always possible that something could sneak through and make it to your students. Evaluate the site, see if there’s good content and if you feel comfortable using it in the classroom.