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22 Web Resources & Projects You May Have MISSED !!!

Dr. Howie DiBlasi “Emerging Technologies

Evangelist”

Digital JourneyPresentation : 2012

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[email protected]

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Conference Links:Tools For The Classroom

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Tools.But how do you choose the right one?

And how do you keep up with all the new and often better tools?

• Here are some ideas >>>>>

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• What is Poll Everywhere?

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This presentation contains the poll(s) you downloaded

Slide Contents

2 Suggested verbal notes for presenters

3 Instructions slide to educate audiences on responding via text messages.

4,5 Instructions slide to educate audiences on responding via web or mobile web. This must be enabled on your poll in PollEverywhere.com.

6 Instructions slide to educate audiences on responding via Twitter. This must be enabled on your poll in PollEverywhere.com.

7+ The actual poll(s) you downloaded are embedded on these slides.

What’s next? Jump to slide 7 and enter Slide Show mode (F5) to see your poll in action. Copy & paste slide 7 and beyond into your own presentation, or just use this presentation.

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How To Vote via Texting

1. Standard texting rates only (worst case US $0.20)2. We have no access to your phone number3. Capitalization doesn’t matter, but spaces and spelling do

TIPS

EXAMPLE

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How To Vote via PollEv.com/istesat

Capitalization doesn’t matter, but spaces and spelling doTIP

EXAMPLE

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How To Vote PollEverywhere

Capitalization doesn’t matter, but spaces and spelling do

http://www.polleverywhere.com/

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11 Web-based Polling and Survey Tools

• Kwiqpoll• • •MicroPoll

• •Flisti • • •Quiz Snack • • •Pollmo • • •Urtak

• •Yarp

• •Vorbeo• • •Obsurvey• • •Polldaddy • • •Kwik Surveys • • Google Documents

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How far did you travel to attend ISTE 2012

• Please respond in :

• TODAYSMEET

• EXACT MILES PLEASE

• http://todaysmeet.com/traveliste

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Utilities and Resources -2012

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Google A-Z • Google offers a lot of free products and services for a wide

variety of purposes.

• Have you ever wondered just how many there are?

• Where you can find them all?• Peter Beens has compiled a list of them all.• • The list can be found in this public Google Document.

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TQupkuKAo7HQT-Sc8wMOcqVvXtc9j4QGWA2BrfBWpbI/edit?hl=en_US

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Symbaloo ??? Access your bookmarks anywhere

• Symbaloo is the easiest start on the internet. Add YOUR favorite websites!

• Click on the tiles you would like to add to your Symbaloo webmix ...

• Bookmarker

• The Symbaloo bookmarker is an add-on for your browser. www.symbaloo.com/

Social Bookmarking

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Add YOUR favorite websites! http://www.symbaloo.com/

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19 PencilsThe Easiest Way to Discover and Share Educational Content.

Customizable site for teachers Share websites, quizzes and videos in one

location. • http://19pencils.com/

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Curriki http://www.curriki.org

• Free, global, community-driven, open-source web site

• Allows educators to free teaching resources

• Activities, lesson plans, units of study, and whole courses on Curriki

• Validated by subject-area experts

• Templates provided -materials

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EduHound.com• EduHound Directory is a highly specialized K-12

educational directory with categorized resource links.

• EduHound Lesson Plans feature thousands of free lessons that meet state and national standards.

• EduHound Site Sets are collections of topic-based online education resources.

• Awesome Clipart for Educators offers educators FREE clipart, backgrounds, fonts, icons, worksheets and more.

• EducatorTemplates.com is your FREE directory of customizable & printable education related templates.

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RubiStar Home http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

• Free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics • Choose a Topic to create a new rubric based on a

template: • http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

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iRubric: Home of free rubric tools:

RCampus.com

• iRubric: The only free rubric builder and assessment tool. Working with rubrics has never been easier. Build, Assess, Share, and Collaborate using our intuitive ...

• Over 164,000 rubrics and growing...

• http://www.rcampus.com/indexrubric.cfm

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Free online file converter• http://www.online-convert.com/

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Your turn…..

1. Go to www.drhowie.com

2. Locate a PP and download it

3. Save to your desktop

4. Use Free online file converter and convert it from Powerpoint into a PDF

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Best Free Online Document Collaboration

• Crocodoc• Convenient tool to collaborate• PDFs, Word and Powerpoint

documents• Highlight, add or strike out

text• Add a note shared by an URL• Password protection $$

• http://crocodoc.com/

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http://www.picmonkey.com/

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Your turn…..

1. Search Google for IMAGES of Mickey Mouse- download it (right mouse click

2. Select- SAVE IMAGE AS

3. Save to your desktop

4. Use PIcMONKEY to CROP-ROTATE fix -ETC THE IMAGE

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Pinterest / Home http://pinterest.com/

• 5 Tips For Using Pinterest In Your Classroom | Edudemic

• Are you playing with Pinterest yet? • http://stephenslighthouse.com/2012/02/08/pinterest-and-education/

• Classroom Ideas • http://pinterest.com/rdooly3/classroom-ideas/

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YouTube- Education-

• History

• Chemistry

• Primary & Secondary Education »

• Lifelong Learning »

• Science »

• Mathematics »

• Engineering »

• Business »

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How the Ancient Egyptians Made "The PYRAMIDS" (Lego

History) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6YmFbgSCUg&feature=edu

_spotlight

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YouTube- Education- Watch, upload and share videos http://www.youtube.com/education

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LEGO

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SparkNotes on YouTube

• From the pages of "I wish this had been available when I was in high school" I just discovered that SparkNotes has videos on YouTube. The SparkNotes YouTube channel offers 23 short animated video overviews of literature commonly read in high school courses. Below I've embedded the first of three videos about The Odyssey.

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Video SparkNotes: Homer's The Odyssey summary

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BCXRxD85Xc0

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• MIT + Harvard = edX

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18191589

Top US universities put their reputations online

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Educators are integrating Facebook, Ning, and other sites into K-12 life despite

concerns about privacy and behavior

• . Social Networking Goes to School

• http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2010/06/16/03networking.h03.html?intc=mvs

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Quickly Gauge Your Students' Understanding with Understoodit

• http://understoodit.com/

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30 Online Multimedia Resources for PBL and Flipped Classrooms

• http://www.techlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=67&EntryId=4327

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BrainPOP Free Stuff FLASH

• http://www.brainpop.com/free_stuff/

• Explore a selection of free movies, quizzes, and activities from BrainPOP's suite of educational, animated resources.

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BrainPOP | BrainPOP Educators Homepage: Free Tips, Tools

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Edheads helps students learn through educational games

and activities designed to meet state and national standards.

• http://www.edheads.org/

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Edheads brings you high quality, free educational

activities for your classroom

Edheads helps students learn through educational games

and activities designed to meet state and national

standards. We partner with various school systems in the United States, which help us

research, design and test our activities every step of the

way!Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills

http://www.edheads.org/

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Teachers - Kerpoof Scholastics™ Integration ideas- Kerpoof and lesson plans

• http://www.kerpoof.com/teach?c=lesson_plans

• EDUCATOR VERSIONTeacher Accounts

• Ability to register students and arrange them into classes.

• Students may chat with each other• .

• The Plot Thickens... (grades 3-6) (PDF) • Patterns (Pre-K - grade 2) (PDF) • Visual Thesaurus (grades 4-6) (PDF) • Biz Movie Sneak Peek (grades 3-8)

• Visit the BizWorld BizMovie curriculum.

– Lesson Plan (PDF) Worksheet (PDF)

Kerpoof

• http://www.kerpoof.com/

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Emphasis Today On:Teach Critical Thinking Skills

• Study: • Many college students are not learning to think

critically. Many of the students graduated without knowing how to determine fact from opinion.

• Web site = Thinking Critically About UFOs

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CSI Web Adventures for Students

• http://forensics.rice.edu/index.html

• Rice University has partnered with CBS, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History to produce educational web adventures based on the CSI television series.

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Thinking Critically About UFOs

• Conspiracy Theories in Aerospace History

• • A Lesson in Critical Thinking for the Internet Age

• http://www.smithsonianconference.org/conspiracy/roswell/

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• Thinking Critically About UFOsRecording Available

• Welcome and Introduction to Critical ThinkingRecording Available

• Thinking Critically About Amelia Earhart’s DisappearanceRecording Available

• Thinking Critically About the Attack on Pearl Harbor

Recording Available• Thinking Critically About the Apollo Moon Landin

gs

Recording Available

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Boston Massacre• Smithsonian Source Lesson Plan: Fact, Fiction, or

Bad Memory

• http://www.cfmediaview.com/lp1.aspx?v=6_544944165_28861_19

• Lesson plan to commemorate the Boston Massacre - March 5, 1770.

• Using primary and secondary source documents• Students can evaluate bias or point of view• Investigating what really happened outside the

Boston Customs House• Between the colonists and British soldiers• Appropriate for grades 4-12• National standards are addressed for this grades•

http://www.smithsoniansource.org/display/lessonplan/viewdetails.aspx?TopicId=1004&LessonPlanId=1016

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http://www.smithsoniansource.org/display/lessonplan/viewdetails.aspx?TopicId=1004&LessonPlanId=1016

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Glogster Glogster.EDU

• Lesson ideas to foster creativity and higher order thinking skills

• Teachers and students can create interactive posters for research, websites, presentations, reflection,

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Digital Vault – 10 Billion Records

• National Archives Experience

• Exploring the Digital Vaults is easy. You can browse through the hundreds of photographs, documents, and film clips and discover the connection between some ...

• http://www.digitalvaults.org/

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“The Digital Vaults.” Explore:Share

and Compare http://www.digitalvaults.org/

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Questionaut • Journey through strange worlds and test your

knowledge of English, Maths and Science• Magical mission-recover your friend’s hat.• Analysis: Questionaut has enough wonder and

imagination here for gamers of all ages. • Each level is a self-contained environment

Questionaut Walkthrough Guide, Review, Discussion, Hints and Tips http://jayisgames.com/archives/2008/03/questionaut.php

• PLAY-CLICK BELOW:• http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/games/questionaut/

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• New to Google Lit Trips? Download

• Basics of Viewing a Google Lit Trip.pdf document for tips on the Basics of Navigating a Google Lit Trip..

• http://www.googlelittrips.org/•

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A Whole New Way to Appreciate Great Literature!

• http://www.googlelittrips.org/

• SNEAK PEEK!

• Take a look at this short video for a sneak peek at some coming attractions planned for the Google Lit Trips project.

• NEW Sign up for our mailing list to get free automatic updates for your Google Lit Trips the very moment they are updated or revised.

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MagicPen • Shapes you draw-affected by three basic principles:

gravity, friction, and inertia. • Physics. Drawn shapes will fall to the ground, bump

against each other, and sit still unless acted upon by another moving shape.

• Draw any object you please, but Magic Pen automatically smooths out jagged edges into a more block-like shape. Game is mouse-driven-click and start drawing.

• PLAY: http://jayisgames.com/archives/2008/04/magic_pen.php

• Game Instructions http://www.bubblebox.com/play/puzzle/975.htm

• One of the most genius games ever• Magic Pen Instructions -Worksheet

Magic Pen Walkthroughhttp://hoodamath.com/worksheets/#magicpen

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Information Literacy

3 New Ways To Think and Search in Your Classroom

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My 4 search criteria:• General thomas gage or general tomas gage• Showing results for general thomas gage

Search instead for general tomas gage

• mikee mouse or Mickey mouse or MIK mouse• Showing results for mickey mouse

Search instead for mikee mouse • tree octupus• Showing results for tree octopus

Search instead for tree octupus• • ben franklin• Showing results for ben franklin

Search instead for ben franklen

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http://www.instagrok.com/

72Wonder Wheel-Rebirth???

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Boolify Project: An Educational Boolean Web Search Tool

• http://www.boolify.org/

• Lessons• Using Basic Boolean Search Operators (AND, OR, NOT ...

Project: An Educational ...• You and your students will be up and running with the tool in a ...

About• Why Use Boolify: Librarians, teachers and parents have told ...

An Educational Boolean Web ...• Boolify provides learners with a manipulative mental model for ...

Help• What is Boolean logic? Boolean logic is a mathematics-based ...

Boolify Project• Boolify provides learners with a manipulative mental model for ...

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Short list: Google Maps -My TOP List

• 1. See where UFOs have been sighted

• 2. Check what's on the other side of the world

• 4. Find the elevation/height above sea level

• 6. Map the 7 Wonders of the World

• 7. Simulate a flood to show damage effects

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22 Web Resources & Projects You May Have MISSED !!!

Dr. Howie DiBlasi “Emerging Technologies

Evangelist”

Digital JourneyPresentation : 2012

TWITTER: hdiblasi

[email protected]

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