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

View more presentations from Jennifer Dorman.

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)