Transcript WEB TOOLS FOR EDUCATION - New Hanover County Schools

WEB TOOLS FOR
EDUCATION
Helen Arnett
Fall Mini-Conference
September 10 -11, 2012
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If you have a computer go to www.nhcs.net
Select the school tab
Select departments on the left menu
Under Departments select Career and Technical
Education
• Select Teacher Resources on the left menu
• Select Resources
• Click on the Brilliant Quiz
• Take the quiz working with 3 or 4 other
• Record you answers
Quizlet
Countdown timer
7/18/2015
Workshop Objectives
Sharing Websites
Survey Monkey Evaluation: please
send your email to:
[email protected]
OBJECTIVES
Antivirus– Make sure it is up-to-date
Comments- Search the Internet for comments
about particular websites (be careful for “biased”
comments”)
Attributes of the Website- Age of the site
(updated regularly?) Is there a contact person
(Webmaster?) Recommended by professionals
(sites which are used daily
by people in the technology field) www.nhcs.net
How to determine the
validity of the website
Malware- Software used to disrupt your
computer
Spyware- Tracking software which gathers
information of a individual or company
without their knowledge
Viruses- Unauthorized software designed to
make changes to a computer
Website Issues
Tooledo - Organize Your Tasks. Use folders, tags,
contexts, subtasks and more to organize, search
and sort through your tasks.
Evernote - help you remember and act upon
ideas, projects and experiences across all the
computers, phones and tablets you use.
Basecamp - keep track of project discussions,
files, and events from beginning to end—all in
one place
ORGANIZATION
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from
text that you provide.
Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news
articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters
into a visually stunning word cloud.
Paper Li – start your own class newspaper today!
Diigo - Bookmark sites and add your own
highlights and sticky notes.
LITERACY
Weebly – easiest way to make a website
WIX - create your free stunning website
Webstarts - Easy drag and drop interface. No
programming skills needed.
• Includes your hosting, web address, and design
tools Webstarts.
WEBPAGES
Collaborize Classroom – a free collaborative
platform for teachers and students
Wikispaces - A wiki is a space on the Web where
you can share work and ideas, pictures and links,
videos and media
Blogger – create a blog
Mission to Learn -15 free online collaboration
tools and apps
Six Revisions – 15 free online collaboration tools
COLLABORATION
Jamendo – royalty free music
Google voice - Google Voice enhances the existing
capabilities of your phone, regardless of which phone
or carrier you have - for free
Tinyurl - entering in a URL in the text field below,
we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email
postings and never expires.
Camtasia – create your own on line tutorials
Tin Eye - image search
Glogster – online interactive multi-media poster
board kids design
WEB 2.0 Tools
Camstudio – (PC only) screen capture that
is not web-based
Screen cast omatic – move window over
area of screen you want to record
Google Apps Marketplace EDU –
PhotoStory - create slideshows using your
digital photos
Extranormal - Xtranormal instantly turns
your words into a 3D animated movie
Web 2.0 Tools
Free Technology for Teachers –
Richard Byrne Blog
Free Web 2.0 tools
Web 3.0 Tools
Pearltrees - lets you have all
your interests at hand all the
time
Free web based resources
www.toshiba.com *accepts Grades 6 -12 applications for
$5000.00 or less on a rolling basis
www.digitalwish.com/digitalwish/grant_awards
*Dedicated to helping schools gain technology assess across all
subject areas with grants awarded every month.
http://nspires.nasaprs.com NSPIRES is the NASA
solicitation and Proposal integrated review and evaluation
system.
http://foundation.verizon.com Verizon Foundation Grants.
How to Apply for a Grant: Lowe's Toolbox for Education
Grants from Lowes on October.
www.iteea.org Pitsco/Hearlihy/FTE grant * Engineering
teacher scholarship in December.
Grants
Collaboration