Wanna Know How to Make Movies on the PCs May 11 7:30 AM John's Lab

Today we are going to make a movie about South Dakota with Windows Movie Maker. This program has been free since the windows XP days and came in with service pack 2. It is loaded on all the windows xp machines in the school!

I have a data folder with the files we will need.

We're going to have FUN and learn about South Dakota History at the same time!

This is the last Wanna Know of 2010-2011!
http://garretson.k12.sd.us/tie2008/moviemaker.htm
http://garretson.k12.sd.us/tie2008/moviemakerwalkthrough.htm
Basic Steps
Atomic Learning Tutorials on Windows Movie Maker
I saved a Wordle as LBSouthDakota which is shown below:.

Wanna Know How to Make Movies in the Elementary Lab! April 20th, 7:30 AM

We will be using imovie and iphoto for this. I will also show you the bean cameras (we have a pack of 5 of them) that we can use to take pictures of the students or scavenger hunt items.

We will be making a movie about dogs, man's best friend!

There are built in microphones on the computers for our voice, and we will also use a song in our movie. We will use the quick keys command c to copy, command v to paste. We will use the control/shift 4 to capture parts of the screen.

Files will be found at:
http://www.garretson.k12.sd.us/tie2008/Files/
or you can go to GO/Network/MyNetwork/Xserve09
pick connect and pick Elementary for the volume to mount
Double click Elementary, and drag the Demos-Dog folder to your desktop

It will be FUN!

Wanna Know How to Ride a Roller Coaster! Wednesday April 13th

7:30 AM Macbook Lab  Bring your comb! We are going to be making a movie with you riding in a roller coaster!  And—where is my stuff?  How to find your things on the file server with the mac platform?
We will be using Photobooth and iMovie for this wanna know!
iMovie Tutorials
What is Photo Booth?

Wanna Know About WORD CLOUDS! Wednesday, March 30, 7:30 AM John's lab

Please bring your class list, spelling words, a poem, or just come!

Wordle is a great way for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
http://wordle.net


EdTech Tips for Teachers - Wordle from SimpleK12 on Vimeo.

Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence
http://www.tagxedo.com/


How about an easy word cloud for the little guys:
http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm
http://www.edgalaxy.com/journal/2010/1/22/the-ultimate-guide-to-wordle-for-educators.html
http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/ict/wordle/
So what can I do with the image:
     Print from the cloud when you make it.
     Save in the gallery and email your teacher the link of your cloud
     Print it to another file and use it in powerpoint, word, photostory, keynote, etc.
          How:
          1)  Windows XP, Print Screen button prints the entire screen. Alt Print Screen button prints the current window. Go into paint, paste, save as type JPEG
          2)  Vista and Windows 7 Snipping tool, save as type JPEG
          3)  Macintosh Command, Shift 4 lets your crop and saves as a preview file. Merely open and click in drop down to save as JPEGhttp://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm

Wanna Know about FREE Online Resources? Wednesday, March 16, John's Computer Lab

Wanna Know--free online resources for your classes that are
better than Google? The State Library provides online magazines, practice tests, and encyclopedias for all ages and content areas. Come and see!

7:30 AM John's Computer Lab
Jane from the South Dakota State Library will present! You won't want to miss!


Jane Healy, Electronic Resources Coordinator
South Dakota State Library
800 Governors Drive
Pierre,SD 57501
phone:
605-295-3174
1-800-423-6665
(SD ONLY)
jane.healy@state.sd.us

Wanna Know about Computer Curriculum! Monday, March 14 7:30 AM Conference Room

The state has tech goals per grade. Here are the published documents per grade:

Grades 9-12

Grade 8

Grade 7

Grade 6

Grade 5

Grade 4

Grade 3

Grade 2

Grade 1

Kindergarten
(These are located in a shared google docs file--you will need to log in to get them)
http://doe.sd.gov/contentstandards/
Is the state site where you can find them, scroll down to the technology standards.

Please join the tech committee and see what ideas they have for you for the computer curriculum for our K-12 students! You will accumulate 30 minutes of wanna know time!

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!

Link to Google Doc

Create a Blog with Blogger Wed November 18, 7:30 AM

Please be sure to have created a google email account before coming to this! Our goal is to create a class blog for you to use with our students.


Remember I have step by step from December of last year found here:

Previous Blog with Instructions
How to Embed a YouTube video on your blog:
First, go to YouTube and find a video that you like. It doesn't have to be a video that you created. Next, look for the box directly to the right of the video. Not only does this box let you subscribe to videos, it also gives you the code for embedding video. Go to the line marked Embed at the bottom of this box. Click inside the code box next to the word Embed. All of the code text should automatically be highlighted. If not, you'll need to select it. Copy this code. You can copy by right-clicking on your mouse and selecting copy from the drop-down menu.
Log into your Blogger account and compose a new message for your blog. Select the edit HTML tab, and paste the code you copied from YouTube. It is important to make sure you have the HTML tab selected first. You can paste the code by right-clicking and selecting paste from the drop-down menu. That's it. Press the post button and then preview your blog, to make sure everything works. When readers look at your blog, they'll see the embedded video, and they can click on the play button in the center to view the video.

Wanna Know Wednesday November 4, 2009 7:30 AM GOOGLE!

Google has so much to offer everyone! You don't have to have a google mail account to use google docs, but why not set one up. Simplifies things!

Site for workshop: http://sites.google.com/site/cuegli/events/2009-09-24/search

Folder with information about google:

http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B53GzZRq31tXMDIyMDVmNWMtMjdkOS00OGQwLWE1ZTYtOGI0NjFlYTBjNGQ0&hl=en

Info for google docs tour: http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour6.html

Links and Resources for google docs: http://sites.google.com/site/sdclassrooms/Home/links-and-resources

Lennie's Link for Nutrition Google Docs Exercise http://lsymes.tie.wikispaces.net/nutrition

Google Docs

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Google - A Wonderfull world

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Wanna Know Wednesday Teacher Reports in DDN Campus September 23, 2009

Liz showed some of the different reports available in DDN campus to print out to see your students progress per assignment, blank spreadsheet, portal usage, student summary, student labels, etc.

We then looked at newsletters to publish to the DDN site for parents to see as well as the messenger service to send to their inbox info about failing grades, missing assignments, etc.
http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B53GzZRq31tXODE0ZjRjOTMtZDBkMy00Mzc3LThjODYtZjEyZjk5ZWU4MTRk&hl=en

Wanna Know Wednesday Smart Board Applications September 9, 2009

Jay Swatek was our guest presenter and show us different sites he has found to use the smart board with. Here is a link to his porta portal with his resources listed!
http://guest.portaportal.com/swatek

We also showed how to hook a doc cam up to the smart board and told to shut them down if there weren't going to use them for 5-10 minutes or more.

Wanna Know Wednesday Lab and Resource Scheduler September 2nd, 2009

Liz showed Lab and Resource Scheduler, explained how to log in and their password, as well as the labs available by time. We then did a tour of all the labs and were shown how to use the projectors and where to get the key to use the lab.

Wanna Know Wednesday School Reach August 26

Mr. Long showed the school reach system our school is using and gave the teachers a template to put their information on. He showed how to record a message and send it to your group.