Drawing Toolbar - Insert Clip Art, Speech/Thought Bubbles, Make lined Paper
Power of Color - Format>Background
Power of Voice - Add insert sound object icon to Toolbar; View>Toolbars>Customize>Commands>Insert>Voice Comment, drag icon to toolbar. Tip: When you start to record, you have 60 seconds. If you record for longer than 60 seconds, click the red record button again.
Is YouTube blocked at your school? Use Zamzar to download and convert videos at home which you can then show at school. Better yet, talk to your IT staff about unblocking sites that you use for instructional purposes.
SOCIAL SOFTWARE
The Three C’s – Connection, Collaboration, Coolness (Contagious!)
Social Bookmarking
Del.icio.us a social bookmarking tool that allows you to access and organize your favorites from any computer. Offers collaboration between teachers, students and parents.
Fill in username, full name, and password. (Hint: Choose a username and password that is easily remembered by you, Use the same username and password for all your applications.)
Click "register."
At a different computer, you will need to add a delicious button to your toolbar.
Log in to delicious and your account.
Click on "settings" on the top right.
On the left sidebar, under "Settings" click the blue FAQs hyperlink.
Under "the posting buttons", click on "How do I install the buttons again, now that I'm using a different browser or computer?"
Follow the directions to load buttons onto your browser toolbar. Start at "Step Two of Installation" at the top of the page.
Click "tag" when you are on a website that you want to keep. If you tag using more than one word, do not put spaces between the words. You can also bundle tags by categories. Be sure to network to other people who would be interested in the same site. Use "delicious" when you want to quickly link to your account.
Blogging -
A blog is a social website where entries are written in chronological order and readers can leave comments. No need to know HTML.
Wiki Collaboration Across the Curriculum by Vicki Davis - (27 minute long Video which demonstrates how to use wikispaces and discusses pedagogical uses of wikis)
NOTE: When you register, remember to click on the Pro version to get your free account as an educator - it is well worth the investment of time as this is an excellent differentiated instruction tool.
Podcasting for Beginners
Audacity - free, open source software for audio editing;
Screen capture is easy, free and allows you to quickly create on-screen tutorials. Has many uses - instruction, professional development, reinforcement of concepts taught in class, etc.
RSS (News Feed) -
Allows websites to deliver new content to your computer without having to visit each website; efficient, powerful subscription tool
WordTalk - a free text-to-speech program for the PC that works within WORD and Outlook and highlights each word that is read. Includes a talking spell checker and a talking thesaurus. Watch this teachertube.com video that I created to learn how to use it. It's best to watch it full screen.
Natural Reader - another free text-to-speech software program which converts any written text to speech (Word, pdf, websites, emails)
Click,Speak - a free Firefox extension that reads the Internet and highlights phrases and sentences as it reads
PowerTalk - free text-to-speech for PowerPoint presentations
Accessibar - a toolbar extension for Firefox which aims at providing various accessibility features including visual display manipulation and text-to-speech
AHA MOMENTS
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