Notes+from+Kathy's+classes

For readers rally blog make sure you get all comments in email first and set up how the comment should look. This is in settings.
 * blogger, free and easy to use for students. Posts have to be approved before uploaded.
 * Use a Gmail account for students to use to sign in to blog.
 * Blog for readers rally…questions and answers can be posted there. Could use a wiki also.
 * WIKI:coordinating information replacing multiple emails. Wikispaces, wetpaint, pkwiki
 * Seismic web account, works from school, can tweet from work.
 * Ed chat
 * Ed tech chat
 * TL café
 * Flickr is a great source of pictures that are a great way for a nice copyright lesson. Check to see if it’s unblocked in the fall. You can get into other photo sharing sites like shutterfly.
 * Picasa is another web program to use for photos, must download the program
 * Digital storytelling…”publishing” on the web.
 * “The world isn’t filtered”
 * Slide.com not blocked and can be embedded in other sites like blogs and wiki’s.
 * Animoto: educator account use a gmail account and it gives you **50** users so then you create dummy accounts like mcconnellmedia+1, mcconnellmedia+2, etc. in animoto. Make password the same for all. It’s a very simple program to use. Use for book reviews, reports, can work in groups.
 * Slideshare: can upload powerpoints made for class onto class blog for those not in class. Narration does not transfer over onto this program. Keeps imbedded videos, etc just not narration. Authorstream.com will upload narration.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Podcasting, just voice so it might not hold their attention. Watch or listen at your conveince. Need mic, videocamer and web access. Need a podcatcher. Download to computer, mp3 player, ipod. Podbean is a catcher, it hosts your podcasts. All you need is a mic and a computer. This might be fun for 8th grade social study classes. Audacity is a free downloading program for podcasting. Podcasting might be fun for book report projects, can be group projects. They write it then read it and record then publish it. You can search itunes for podcasts to share with your classes.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Remind teachers about Zamzar which converts video links so they are downloadable for classroom use.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Wordle for book reports.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">For those of you who were there for these sessions, these notes should be enough for you to remember things that were discussed but fill free to add this page!