Wanna Use What We Have Better November 17, 7:30 Elementary Lab--Elem Lab and K-8 are the topics of the morning!

All students have their own loggin this year--which is one of the state technology standards, so everyone is responsible for their own dock. I want to show you how to add things to your dock, how to view applications listed so it is easier to see. I can send the garretson website homepage to Safari, but on Firefox, the kids have to set their own homepage. I will show you how!
Check out http://www.atomiclearning.com/ and you will find many great videos on OSX 10.4, which is the operating system here.

We will look at K to the 8 Power.
I put the book in the elementary lounge so you can see ALL the possibilities! Great reports showing you how your students are doing, too! Your students are enrolled, you have an account, we just need to set what you want them to do! I will demo how I log in as a teacher and set a program for the class to use and how a student logs on.
http://www.garretson.k12.sd.us/teacherinservice/Kto8.htm

21st Century Learning Websites

Poll Everywhere	Voting (Calendar Options)
Hippo Campus	Supplementary material for Lessons
Google	Google Apps, Books, Gmail, Picasa, Calendar, and even more...
Timeglider	Timeline creator
Etherpad	A brainstorming tool.
Readability	Drag Readability icon to your browser toolbar and it displays just text without ads and pictures.
Lingro	Add a url address and all text becomes clickable for definitions or translation.
Audacity	Free software for recording and editing sounds.You can do everything from recording podcasts to mixing and editing music.
Audio Dropboxes	A virtual dropbox for audio recordings.
Jeopardy Labs	Create your own Jeopardy game
Free Rice	For each correct answer, 10 lbs of rice is donated to the United Nations World Food Program. Includes practice for the following subjects: English, Math, World Language, Geography, Chemistry and Art skills
Jigsaw Planet	Create a jigsaw puzzle from an image you upload. Display on Smartboard and have students put puzzle together.
Zamzar	Free online file conversion - up to 100mb free. Convert pdf files, etc.
Kick	Easiest Youtube converter. Follow these steps: 1. Typing the word (Kick) in the url Change this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE To this... http://www.kickyoutube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE 2. Left clicking on a word (Go) 3. Right clicking on a word (Download)
Freeplay Music	Search for free music when you need background music for videos or podcasts.
Color Scheme Designer	Helps you find cool color schemes for daily lessons, class website, newsletter, bulletin boards, art projects outfits and more!
Wayback Machine	An archive of the Internet - look up websites as they were many years ago.
Wolfram|Alpha	A computational knowledge engine.

WANNA KNOW WHAT HAPPENED at TIE April 28th

Did you see something GREAT? Tell us about it!
Link for TIE Indepth and Breakout Sessions

Link for ESA2 to get your transcript of continuing hours from this year.
Link for spreadsheet to use to keep track of continuing hours and I will have a folder to keep certificates and hours in!

VOTE for your favorite Wanna Know this year! Bring your cell phone if you have a text package!

Replace audience response hardware with Poll Everywhere

Text me:

Get a free sms student response system at Poll Everywhere

Results:

Create your own sms poll at Poll Everywhere

April 14th Photostory 3.0--going beyond Powerpoint!

Link for Using Photostory in the Classroom
The above blog says it all! Check out the videos to see how this program works!
Link to blank pictures to use in photostory.
Document on how to use Photostory
Photostory I did yesterday--used photobooth and built in camera for the pictures, just held the book up, brought images into photostory, added voice to it, posted it to You Tube--time--about an hour total!

Directors Cut - Photo Story and Movie Maker

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You will need a folder in your documents for our exercise today. We will be making a movie about dogs. Please let me know you are coming, and I will drop the folder to have it ready for you!

Levels of difficulty for story telling: powerpoint, photostory (iphoto), animoto, producer, windows movie maker (imovie)

Wanna Know Where We are Headed with Sharepoint Sites March 24

Document about Share point
School using Sharepoint-Sisseton
School using Sharepoint-Gayville Volin
School Using Sharepoint-Colman Egan
Network Admin from Colman Egan
Several staff from Colman Egan:
lt002.k12.sd.us
ah004.k12.sd.us
School using Sharepoint for Teacher Accounts/Network admin
School using Sharepoint for Elem Teacher Websites
Our School Sharepoint Site
Liz's Sharepoint Site (only people with a log in can view at this time)
School Using Wikispaces for teacher webpages
Sharepoint Tutorials

Garretson Blog/Wiki Server and Setting up Delicious March 3

Here is a link to how to set up delicious bookmarks: (instructions here to download
Remember I am lbennett456@delicious.

For the Garretson blog/wiki server: (instructions here to download)
https://206.176.126.40/
This is a secure site and you will need to click on the continue.
When you get to the server click on users, login with your login for the server, create your blog and you are ready to go! Students should be able to log in with their login info and post!

A Cool video!
A palindrome reads the same backwards as forward. This video reads the exact opposite backwards as forward. Not only does it read the opposite, the meaning is the exact opposite..

This is only a 1 minute, 44 second video and it is brilliant. Make sure you read as well as listen forward and backward.

This is a video that was submitted in a contest by a 20-year old.
The contest was titled "u @ 50" by AARP. This video won second place. When they showed it, everyone in the room was awe-struck and broke into spontaneous applause. So simple and yet so brilliant.. Take a minute and watch it.

"Social" Wanna Know Wed February 3rd

We will look at a new Social Networking site called twiducate. This is a free resource for educators. Developed in 2009, their goal is to create a medium for teachers and students to continue their learning outside the classroom. This site differs in that only teachers and students may view classroom posts, thus creating a private network for you and your students and a safer online learning environment.

Many students already use social networking sites. Why not give them an opportunity to develop their learning in this type of environment but with control over visibility and content. Talk about student engagement!


It is a fact that students will need social networking, blogging and basic internet skills to compete in today's business world. As educators with an interest in web 2.0, we understand how education has and will continue to change. We want to provide an opportunity for our students to explore web 2.0 but are constantly facing barriers with existing social networking sites.

Social Bookmarking
I am lbennett456 so be sure and add me to see my bookmarks!
We will create an account at Delicious

What is Delicious?

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Wanna Know Wednesday on Publisher 2007!

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