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**INTEGRATING WEB 2.0 TOOLS & AT WORKSHOP AT ATIA 10-28-09**
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10/28/09 – ATIA Brian Wojcik, Karen Janowski, Dave Hohulin Wikispace: http://atand21stcenturyskills.wikispaces.com/ They have given us Creative Commons license ([]) – we can share this with anyone as long as we don’t use it commercially and give citation and let them know how you are using it. DAVE PRESENTS 1. Kansas has SL teacher training activities – check it out! 2. Ginger – contextual spelling help online (yearly fee) 3. Good videos under Overview tab of their wikispace a. @http://www.handheldlearning.co.uk/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,58/topic,1490.0 4. Technology literacy component will be started next year in school assessment of NCLB a. ETS (Educational Testing Svcs.) ran a practice test with some teachers and found that many of the teachers couldn’t give the test because they didn’t understand it b. New Bloom’s taxonomy includes tech knowledge c. Need to help students build their own learning networks – and make 5. Ira Socol has blog – [] 6. Dave loves Clicker 5 for writing 7. Some of the tools we talk about are AT for others…udl 8. Nice concept map of udl – rti –at is at [] 9. If Skype is blocked in school, try tokbox [] because it doesn’t require a download from the web…you just use it right from the web. This looks very cool and I registered right away and found that it immediately locked up my computer. a. Allows user to record video up to 10 minutes and email it to others…sends link, not full video so it’s manageable b. Students could record report, etc. and send to teacher c. Teacher could send instructions to students d. Professional development e. Click on TV icon and choose etherpad for simultaneous sharing of information/creation of document 10. Slideshare.net
 * INTEGRATING WEB 2.0 TOOLS & AT **

BRIAN PRESENTS 11. Lipdub – college level lip synching to music…possibly use for students to lip synch to songs – then change the word “watch” in any youtube url to “warp.swf” and you’ll get lots of bubble-type links….overwhelming options I think 12. Twitter – why use it? Great way to get shy kids involved in responding to stuff in class maybe. Good for instant professional development if you follow good people. 13. Multi-tasking – is learning happening or not 14. Click Speak - an add-on for Firefox that will read web pages information that is highlighted – will highlight words or phrases as it reads [] 15. Tidy reader - [] allows you to eliminate some of the stuff on a web page 16. Magnify the screen with Big.com [] 17. Kartoo.com allows you to view preview of websites before going to them and to view results in list or concept map form [] 18. Lots of tips for teachers at [] including TrackStar which creates tracks of web searching activities 19. Another web resource for keeping track of web searching activities is Jog the Web [] 20. Polling in real time can be done at several websites a. Polldaddy lets you have surveys to imbed in web pages [] Which lets you go to Polls and Create a Poll to ask one question and share it in a variety of ways. Can embed it in your wikipage by clicking on the TV icon and adding it. Results are posted in real time. b. Poll Everywhere is another real time polling site. You can have several questions and they can be linked to a PowerPoint presentation that will show results as they come in. [] Free version only works with a limited number of responses per poll. Can have polls that responses are given with text message on cell phones. c. Wordle is an engaging way to analyze data. [] 21. Clipmarks is an extension that lets you clip out little bits of information and save it at the clipmarks site. [] It saves the location where you found the information. You do have to have an account with them (free) and to download the extension. Built-in copyright feature will limit amount of any web page that you can clip. 22. iLighter lets you highlight information on the web and save it in your iLighter account. (free) [] You have to download it to use it. This limits you to 700 words at a time…which can help teach students to be more selective about what they highlight. You can paste results into Word. 23. Google Squared lets you search for data to be compared…search for “states” and you will have a chart/table with lots of information. You can add another column on the right and it will search and try to fill in that column. []

KAREN PRESENTS 24. Pulse SmartPen …you can get My Script addition ($29.99) that will convert your writing to editable text. You can only upload it to one computer, but you can share what you have uploaded with others by making it public at the upload site. Good for teacher to share information with students. Or a person appointed to take notes for the class could upload the information for others in the class. You can set bookmarks. New 4 GB version is just coming out. 25. Xtranormal web site [] lets you type in text and create an animated movie. Pretty funny….cool. Once you have created a movie, you can grab the url and embed it into a web site, etc. Teachers have used it to present what is going to happen next in the class. 26. Word Magnets doesn’t require a sign-up and lets you enter words that become movable magnets. You can change the color of the magnets. Can make single word magnets or multiple word magnets or sentence magnets. A good SMARTBoard subsitute! [] 27. Voice Thread is good for differentiating instruction. Multi-media tool lets you record right into it. Can include Word docs., images, video, PowerPoint to it. [] Register as an educator and it’s free. Multiple ways to share include: 28. Glogster. Be sure to register as an educator. [] This lets you create an interactive poster that is linked to information for each item on the poster. Can link to other web sites, video, text, etc. Note: This site also locked up my computer for some reason.