ACTEM+2010

The 2010 ACTEM conference was inspiring to say the least. Here are some of the new resources that people shared:
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Keynote
One of the Key Note speakers was Angela Meyers. Her wiki has tons of info! Read more about Angela at http://www.angelamaiers.com. Viki Davis is a Computer Science teacher and IT Director. Read more at http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com

Chatting Across the USA
For more info on video chatting in your classroom: [] [|//ClassChats.com//] is a social network that has been setup to help educators connect world wide.

Purpose Driven Twitter
Learn how to get the most from Twitter and why it is so powerful: http://learning-now.wikispaces.com/TWITTER Check out your online persona:
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Invent Something! Be Visionary! Maybe these tools will help...
Free tools for teachers: Amazing talks by kids! [] (They'll remind you WHY you teach!) Remove clutter from what you are reading online with Readability: [] Look at news a new way: [] A collaborative brainstorming tool: [] A new way to search for info. Go to [] and type in something simple like "monkeys" to get the gist of this one. Need original source documents? This site is VERY cool: [] Media pre-production software (storyboards, etc.) [] View YouTube video without the distractions (no related videos, no comments, create links to embed!) [] Choose illustrations and write stories collaboratively...very cool! [] Make and publish a real magazine. The proof is FREE! [] Free online books:
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More Notes from ACTEM
Digital Pictures, Now What?

http://sutterworkshops.wikispaces.com

Contact Sarah Sutter - an art teacher sutterview@gmail.com @edueyeview on Twitter sarahsutteredu on Skype sarahsutter.com or sarahsutterphoto.com

Image editors: GIMP confusing but very powerful editor iPhoto – use effects juditiously - use the same effects throughout the project Calibrate screen

www.whs.svrsu.org

http://www.flickr.com - Flickr online photo management and sharing applicaion CoolIris http://www.cooliris.com/

CoolIris Wall – http://www.cooliris.com/developer/documentation/ embed ‘Flikr’ code which goes in 2 places

http://animoto.com/education Animoto educator – 30 seconds long video from 12-15 images that you or students choose Free http://voicethread.com and http://voicethread4education.wikispaces.com VoiceThreads educator

NING

Presenter: Melissa Noack, Visual Arts Teacher, Yarmouth High School, Yarmouth, Maine

Ning is a social networking site like facebook but is private. Ning is not free Mini ning - $50 / year Medium ning - $250 / year http://actem2010.wikispaces.com - has the information from her talk. This has a good resources page.

http://yhsartdept.ning.com/ Melissa’s ning at Yarmouth High School. Open for visiting and seeing what her kids do.

This teacher doesn’t use pix of kids but uses Avitars. These avitars are often a

photo of something. Teacher uses the space to put all blogs, videos, images comments etc. instead of having these stored at various websites.

http://arted20.ning.com/ A global community of art educators exploring uses of new technology.

Melissa often uses voicethreads to have students comment on similar projects

She uses an iGoogle account to manage all the comments of her students RSS organizer

Kendra who lives in Beijing, China is collaborating w/ Melissa. Her wiki is http://msfarrellsdigitald.wikispaces.com/ Connecting the dots. Her wiki has a useful websites.

http://prezi.com/ Prezi is the zooming presentation editor to make presentations more interesting

iPad in Education

you can epub in Pages and then publish to put on iPod or iPad as a book that can have images and video. Only problem is that everyting has to be input linearly. Look up epub on Apple web site to learn more. iPad ver 4.2 makes multitasking possible. If there is a feature you would like to see on the iPad / iPod go to Apple.com/ beedback LogMeIn app used to control your computer

iTunesU podcasts Beyond Campus iBook has some public domain books free

inkling – a free app to create an account. Can download a chapter of a book or whole books w/ video and pictures. So don’t have to dissect that frog every year. Rated for 12+ due to content.

Geek Tools

EDTECHserver.com

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/10/best-of-edtech-web-2010- updated-with.html

http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ - qr code generator / http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code explains what qr code is all about http://tedxredmond.com tech conference for ans by kids 10-16 what adults can learn from kids

http://tedxdirigo.com/ Maine’s first TedX conference http://dirigo.com/list/bobsprankle/tedx http://www.ted.com/ TedX http://tedxnyed.com/2011/ TEDX ed New York

http://www.preceden.com/ Preceden – easy way to make a timeline http://lifesnapz.com/ Lifesnapz – a timeline http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ Readability – put in menu bar of browser and it gets rid of pictures and ads http://newsmap.jp/ Newsmap.jp http://www.edistorm.com/ Edistorm.com Edistorm takes the metaphor of sticky notes on a boardroom wall and brings it online allowing anyone - anywhere to brainstorm with only a web browser. http://www.google.com/squared Google.com/squared used to compare things of same type. Cars for example. http://docsteach.org/ Docsteach.org Bring original documents to students Connectd to the nat’l archives Primary sourcendocuments / images Create your own archives http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/mobilebroadband/? page=products_mifi Mifi Verizon $43/month/nonprofit org w/o limits to use with computers in areas where coverage. Write “kick” in front of a YouTube site and you can download onto desktop “pwm” instead of www http://celtx.com/ – Celtx is the world's first all-in-one media pre- production system. It replaces 'paper & binder' pre-production with a digital approach that's more complete, simpler to work with, and easier to share Good for scriping / storyboarding formatting Could use with fractured fairy tales in Kin???

pdf export http://www.boardgamegeek.com/ - if you are into board games this is the site for you. http://camstudio.org/ download free open source software to record video on your screen screenrecord omg = “quicktime player” - file new screen recording to record video http://quietube.com/ use quietube to watch videos without distractions. So if there is a YouTube video you want to show the kids this will take out all the ads and other stuff and leave just the video. http://www.thersa.org/ RSA Royal Society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures and commerce. rsa animate has an exciting series of video lectures from the world's most inspiring thinkers. http://blog.merjis.com/2010/06/13/rsanimation-drive-motivation-lecture- on-youtube/ Drive: the surprising truth about what motivates us by Dan Pink http://www.symbalooedu.com/ symbaloo edu lets you organize and share the best of the web with your students http://storybird.com/ – Storybirds are short, visual stories that you make with family and friends to share and (soon) print. Collaborative story boarding. You can upload photos. http://www.magcloud.com/ magcloud – where you publish and print your own magazine. http://www.tumblebooks.com/ Tumblebooks are ebooks which are animated, talking picture books for elementary or read alongs for older kids. TumbleTalkingBooks: Your Online Audio Library - is an online audio book library collection for public libraries and schools. A subscription to TumbleTalkingBooks gives your patrons/students UNLIMITED remote access to your audio book collection. (from Portland Public Library) http://www.storylineonline.net/ Storyline online – video books read by members of the Screen Actors Guild with activities. http://mrnussbaum.com/ MrNussbaum.com geography, math, science etc activities for various grades http://www.delicious.com/ social bookmarking http://www.delicious.com/seedlingsgeekoftheweek ACTEM conference bookmarks http://www.wordle.net/ Wordle is a toy 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://www.slideshare.net/JenniferW/wordle-ideas ideas of how to use Wordle in your classroom http://www.wordles.com/ Wordles a site to have fun with words. The links page has other sites that might be of interest. Seedlings podcasts on iTunes – free downloads.