Technology Toolbox for Educators

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Technology Toolbox for Educators

• Wesley R. McCammon, MSNS
• Mississippi Virtual Public School
• 2009

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About me

• Originally from Bruce, MS
• Moved to Cleveland
• Attended Delta State University
• Masters Degree in Natural Sciences
• 2006-2007 3rd Congressional District Teacher of
  the Year, Rankin County Teacher of the Year,
  Pisgah High School Teacher of the Year

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About me

• Pisgah High School (6 years) Biology I, Science
  Skills and Reasoning, Human Anatomy and
  Physiology, AP Biology
• Mississippi Virtual Community College (1 year)
  Principles of Biology
• Holmes Community College (3 years) Adjunct
  instructor in the Biology Department 2008
  Hybrid pilot program instructor
• Mississippi Virtual Public School (3 years)
  Earth Science Facilitator
• Velma Jackson High School (3 years) Field
  Botany, Field Zoology, Environmental Science,
  Genetics, AP Biology, Marine and Aquatic Science
• Eastwood Junior High School (3 years) 7th and
  8th grade science

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1 Rule!!!

• LIE
• LIE
• LIE
• Make the students believe they will be successful
  no matter what you really think.

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Why is Technology Important?

• Technology is this generations paper and
  pencil
• Every generation is different.
• Essays collaborative wikis and maintaining
  websites and databases

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Our competition
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Who?

• We have to be able to design meaningful
  activities where technology is the most
  attractive option to complete an assignment
  rather than the pencil and paper method.

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What?

• http//www.jingproject.com/
• Quick, simple, easy to use screen capture
  program.
• SMART Board Recorder

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What?

• www.quia.com/shared
• Tons of free activities and games
• http//www.ucopenaccess.org
• GREAT site for Biology and AP Biology (as well as
  others)

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What?

• http//ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
• MIT open courses. Free MIT lectures and
  printables.
• http//www.landmark-project.com
• David Warlicks site on technology

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What?

• http//www.ustream.tv
• Create your own broadcast for your students
• http//fotoflexer.com/
• Online Photo Editor
• http//livestream.com
• Create your own broadcast and mix with life
  webcam.
• http//livestream.com/educatortoolbox

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What?

• Exam Pro
• Test maker program that lets you make internet
  tests
• Mindpoint Quiz show
• Test review software that kids can play and be
  interactive!

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What?

• http//voicethread.com
• Upload your powerpoints and record video or audio
  to go with them. Then embed them on your site!
• http//www.slideshare.net/
• Upload your powerpoints and share them and embed
  them

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What?

• http//www.usatestprep.com
• Testing website for SATP
• http//www.studyisland.com
• Testing website for MCT2
• http//www.teachertube.com
• The teachers version of YouTube!

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What?

• http//www.toondoo.com/
• Make your own comic strip!

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What?

• http//www.hippocampus.org/
• More free stuff for you online class!
• http//www.techsupportalert.com/
• Best-ever Freeware Utilities List

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What?

• http//www.komando.com/
• Technology Radio Show. Lots of links and
  downloads.
• http//www.docs.google.com
• Great tools from Google!

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What?

• http//www.sothink.com/
• Convert various types of media to flash
• http//www.google.com/options/
• Lots of Google tools

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What?

• http//www.engrade.com
• Online Gradebook Software
• http//www.gradekeeper.com
• Another good gradebook program

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What?

• http//audacity.sourceforge.net/
• Audacity is free, open source software for
  recording and editing sounds
• I use this free recorder to record audio
  tutorials and more.  It's really easy to use and
  free.
• http//www.pisgahscience.com/webpage/bookmark.htm
• TONS of subject specific links

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What?

• http//www.heathersanimations.com
• Tons of free animated gifs
• http//www.rockyou.com/
• Very cool website to make cool tools and stuff
  for your webpage.
• You can do stuff like this!

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What?

• http//www.wishafriend.com/
• You can add daily quotes and stuff to your site.
  Lots of cool stuff.
• http//jc-schools.net/tutorials/PPT-games/
• Download lots of PowerPoint games!

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What?

• Microsoft Producer
• for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 makes it
  easy to capture and synchronize audio, video,
  slides and imagescreating engaging rich media
  presentations. Capture, synchronize, and publish
  audio, video, slides, and images to create rich
  media presentations viewable in a browser. 
  Tutorials can also be found on this page.

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What?

• http//zamzar.com/
• Powerful File Converter for lots of various file
  types and its free.
• http//www.free-web-page-counters.com/
• Free Webpage Counter for your website

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What?

• http//go.hrw.com/gopages/index.html
• Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
• http//www.glencoe.com/
• Glencoe
• http//catalogs.mhhe.com/mhhe/home.do
• McGraw-Hill
• http//www.pearsonlearning.com
• Pearson

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What?

• http//edublogs.org/
• Edublogs hosts hundreds of thousands of blogs for
  teachers, students, researchers, professors,
  librarians, administrators and anyone and
  everyone else involved in education.
• Edublogs are completely free, without any
  advertising, and come with 100MB of free upload
  space (easily extended to 3 Gig) and a heap of
  great features
• We also cater for schools and universities
  looking to create, manage and control blogs at
  their own domain, with all the features of
  Edublogs.

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What?

• http//www.dabbleboard.com/
• Dabbleboard is an online collaboration
  application thats centered around the
  whiteboard. With a new type of drawing interface
  that's actually easy and fun to use, Dabbleboard
  gets out of your way and just lets you draw.
• http//www.flashcardexchange.com/
• Think of a small 35 index card with a question
  on one side and an answer on the other side. This
  web site is an internet application where you can
  create, study, print and download flashcards.

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What?

• http//multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/
• BioVisions is meant to close this gap by
  combining the highest quality multimedia
  development with rigorous scientific models of
  how biological processes occur. In addition, this
  new generation of science visualizations are not
  meant to simply be simulations or mirrors held up
  to reality, rather they are designed with a
  specific pedagogical goal in mind. This means
  that each decision made on how to represent a
  given biological process also includes
  consideration of how best to visually communicate
  particular aspects of the process.

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What?

• http//nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createAgraph/default.a
  spx
• Create a graph
• http//www.livemocha.com/
• Learn a foreign language and connect to native
  speakers.
• http//wigflip.com/automotivator/
• Make your own motivational posters!

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What?

• http//www.pageplugins.com/
• Fun stuff to spice up your news.
• http//www.myawardmaker.com/index.html
• Make your own awards
• http//www.cengage.com/biology/discipline_content/
  biology_websites.htm
• HUGE amount of biology links
• http//librivox.org/
• LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public
  domain.

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What?

• My Personal Website Service

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Make a Difference
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My E-mail Address

• wmccammon_at_rcsd.ms
• pisgahscience_at_yahoo.com