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Monday - Scratch at MIT
[|Scratch Site]

Great resources to start working with:
Joyce Valenza workshop

Google forms – google docs – create a survey – goes directly into spreadsheet.

 * How could you use google docs?
 * Student polls
 * New materials for librarians

Backchat – chatting in the classroom for feedback…

 * Using it for movies…
 * Faculty inservice – generator

Wikis- “blank canvas” we can add all of the pieces together.

 * If you want to add items to the right side of a wiki - you create a table.

Glogster - education site.

 * Private site that will let you control the class site
 * Allows 200 accounts
 * you can embed this into other places using the code of your blog

Image sites
Compfight -
 * find images for comps, inspiration and research
 * you can search by creative commons

Flickrstorm. -
 * allows you to create a tray of images of 300 images
 * elementary level- a tray would be good

taggalaxy

flickr creative site -

check into edublogger - what is it?

Angela Maiers - Wordle fan. [|her site] >> 2 - words >> 1 - one product? Cue prompter - [|cueprompter.com] - free teleprompter software. VERY COOL!
 * Some very cool thoughts on how to use Wordle in the classroom.
 * Using wordle to see the students in your room. The kids write about themselves, parents write about the students, teacher writes about the student. This is our hope... this is who they are. It has tremendous power to remind us who's in our classroom.
 * You can put pictures on wordle... has directions on her page.
 * Teacher institute
 * 3 - images
 * k-12 teachers - describe an experience they had with parents... using two words
 * Parent involvement
 * Preassessment - what can we learn about each other?
 * give a list of adjectives + have the students choose the ones that match them.
 * give a list of adjectives + have the parents choose the ones that match them. - then when you're talking to the parents, use the words they use in the wordle activity. It tells the parents' that you hear them, you are working with them, you value their opinion.
 * The secondary level, pick 5-10 kids who could fall through the cracks... this will make a huge difference.

Stop watch... [|www.online-stopwatch.com] - free stop watch - she mainly uses it with speeches.

Edumoto- educational "twitter"

Twitter - search.twitter.com - lets you search content - if you want to twit blc'09 - use #blc'09 twazzup - another twitter search. mailana.com - mind map of the network. twitter4teachers - you might use this as a list of people you want to follow in your field.

Nings - [|Classroom 2.0] - this ning will alert you to new technologies

New tools in searches Google - WolframAlpha - new search tool...
 * show options -
 * related searches - for kids with a limited vocabulary
 * wonder wheel - related topics.
 * newstimeline.googlelabs.com
 * the timeline goes all the way back to the 1400's.
 * Google Squared
 * customizable matrix

Timespace:world
 * you can track news happening now
 * can go back in time by hour and day
 * see the concentration of news happening at what time of the day
 * where in the world are things happening....
 * can see the entire article

[|Pageflakes]
 * creating classroom pages
 * you can broadcast this for your students
 * you can get widgets
 * "The anything flake" - you can use the anything flake to add your databases - assorted widgets off of her new tools workshop page. Use the widgets from her page.
 * click on the make pagecast - it will give you an url...

Big huge lab - some great image options

Tektek.org > create for fictional figure Gizmoz > create an answering machine message
 * create an avatar for the students
 * create for historical figure
 * may have to be careful about the content on the site.
 * animate yourself
 * create a gizmo
 * may have to be careful about content on the site again.

Goanimate.com create a cartoon frame by frame

pixten
 * create a comic strip
 * customize the characters
 * move her all around

Voicethread -
 * Professional Development
 * Ticket to enter is a script.
 * Radio shack mike will work well
 * Language studies - record and redo over and over
 * You can bring video in.
 * You can change the amount of time in between the slides.
 * You can embed them anywhere...
 * works best when there is a conversation

BLabberize > what about an introduction at the beginning of the school year
 * what about reflection at the end of the unit
 * what about using it for review material
 * put a famous person out there - what would they say?

Parent Letter - to explain why we use the tools we do. Go ahead and use it if it's useful. Very bottom of her home page -

Pipl - you can search and see your digital foot print. You can search anyone and show them. It's awesome. Good way to talk to kids about their public profile. Their "positive" profile.