Antwuan Stinson Ed. D.Assistant Professor

Alabama State University

Current Professional Development

What Professional Development should look like

1. To give you an idea what is available for teachers

2. Guide you through a few tools that I use with my students

3. Give you some ideas to help you expand your information and page on the schools website

CoolToolsforSchoolsWikispaces

Google for TeachersGoogle appsMy Google Site

EdWeb2Wikispaces

GO2WEB20.NET

Rubistar

Alabama Learning Exchange (ALEX)

Youtube

Designate a day for critical thinking or creative ideas for a major grade

Try Glogster for online student development of multimedia posters

Use Voicethread for the collection of group conversations, images, documents, and video

Create a Edmodo site for classroom interaction (blog, discussions, projects)

An avatar is a personalized graphic file or rendering that represents a computer user.

Add a voki to your webpage speaking in the target language to enhance students listening skills

Give your homework assignments using your voki on your webpage

Have students create vokis and speak on any grammar or vocabulary theme (describing self, illness, family, friends, how to’s, etc.)

Have students email vokis to each other and comment on them.

Log in to VokiBefore getting started

Use 1 username and password for all webtool accounts to minimize forgetting

Create a different email account so you don’t junk–up your main one

www.voki.comCreate an account or sign in

Create a Voki

1. Create your character2. Give it a voice3. Customize your

background4. Change your player

Add your voice by phone

Record your message using your microphone

Record your file using a digital recorder

When you are happy with your character, select the Publish button. You will be asked to name your character then save.

Select standard Voki link.Copy link then paste onto a blog

Type in the text, select a voice and select a Language

http://kmswildcatlibrary.wikispaces.com/Hunger+Games+VokiVoki Collection

http://mrspilver.wikispaces.com/Magic+Schoolbus+Vokis School Field Trip

http://cyberbrook.wikispaces.com/Our+Voki's Cyberbrook Classroom

http://mwiser.wikispaces.com/Voki http://jamestownreads.wikispaces.com/voki http://techietuesday.wikispaces.com/Voki

Display a variety of information in one place including videos, slideshows, calendars,

presentations, attachments, and text

Create your sitehttps://support.google.com/

sites/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=153197&to

pic=23216&ctx=topic

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Name your site

Choose a template for your site

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Capture classroom moments then post them

Have 1-2 students be responsible for helping with the site

Organize teams to submit project—based learning assignments

Student Handbook Discipline Plan Experience as a teacher Upcoming Projects

Link it to your school’s website under

Link your lesson plans Link or embed your

Voki to the school’s webpage

Allow students to help create it!!!

Teaching & Learning Screencast Tutorials Tips and Tricks

EdWeb2 Wikispaces Lee Summit School District

Teacher Help

Embed Voki into a site Link Templates to choose from

ALEX Resources Flipbooks Standards Inside Math Site

http://www.rubrics4teachers.com/

Create videos from photos, video clips, words, and music

Projects Teachweb2 Vocab/Grammar

Create stunning presentations that move and capture attention.

Autobiographies Book reports Illustrating poems Lab reports Group projects Venn Diagrams Project-based learning

◦ Budget, Cost, Time frame

Build Prezi over a duration

Prezi for Vocabulary Zooming into details

of a picture Use Prezi as a mind

map Mini-lectures Synthesis level

thinking

What can Voicethread webtool be used for? Students can share stories or design a project which explains an assignment. Allow students to change or amend it any way they wish. This authentic assessment will engage creative students for hours.

Book Stories Solving math

problems Flip books Pre-reading and

making predictions Field trips Back to school night

tour of your classroom

Creating digital collages over the year

Authors of a certain period

Scientific method Animal Habitats Photosynthesis Lab report or

dissections

While addressing Instructional Technology and Web tools in the 21st Century,  we also need to deal with the critical thinking skills needed to evaluate the validity of websites, the importance of ethics responsibility in the digital age, ways to address cyber-safety as well especially in a social network environment.

Antwuan Stinsonastinson@alasu.edu

(334) 229-7690 (office)(334) 377-0537 (Google Voice)