July Robin Smith Hollidaysburg Area School District

Goal of this Tech Tools Session Show you some tools you may not have known about before so you can use tech tools to make your life easier.

What we will be covering? Why it is important to use tech tools Tech Tools – Hardware Tech Tools – Software Tech Tools – Web 2.0

Please have your cell phones out and turned on!

Why ????? You are a leader in your district or you wouldn’t be here. As a leader you need to be modeling technology use to your staff.

Which leadership role do you have? 1. Superintendent Assistant Superintendent Principal Tech Directors Other To vote: Text a CODE to For those of you who can access the web on your phone, you may visit poll4.com to submit your response instead of sending a text message.poll4.com

Who has more knowledge about tech tools and web 2.0? To vote: Text a CODE to or go to 1. Administrators Teachers Students10773

Students seem to have unlimited time to spend on technology. They grew up with it as part of their everyday life. They have no fear of breaking anything or something not working.

At the minimum, you need to find a way to stay in the loop of what is new and on the horizon. You don’t need to know everything – but need to have at least a few tools that will let staff know you are on the ball and using new technologies.

Most administrators are overwhelmed with duties and obligations. No Time Isolation Resources Don’t know where to start

Making technology a priority Schedule time Meet with others who want to learn similar technologies and teach each other Meet with your tech director or tech administrator and have them provide updates/overviews of new tools. Bring someone in to show administrators tools Attend conferences and trainings.

A Changing Landscape

Net books

Flip Video

Smart Phones What is a smart phone? A smartphone is a mobile phone offering advanced capabilities, often with PC-like functionality.

Tech Tools – Software Principalm Allows administrators to transfer student-information system data to a handheld device. Because data can be accessed from a handheld immediately.

Appraise A teacher observation tool on the smart phone. Runs on palm, windows, and blackberry operating systems Has PDE and other forms included. Made by Eduphoria Amy from Eduphoria here to discuss the program for just a few minutes.

Web Pages More and More companies are providing web page templates and services to help you have a powerful presence on the web. At Hollidaysburg, We use SchoolWires, which we think is the best….but many companies offer similar programs. Schoolwires has blogs, photo-galleries, and podcasting available within their pages. They have many new web 2.0 tools on the horizon.

Online Gradebooks Improves communication between parents and schools. Increases parent involvement Provides information to parents and students 24/7 Many programs available. We use ProgressBook

Online conference requests. Tracks professional development activities Automated reporting of Act 48 hours to PDE Online district catalog of professional development activities. Online registrations

Cloud Computing Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. As we look at netbooks and mini-laptops, smartphones, etc. Cloud computing offers districts many options for saving $$$$ and making equipment last longer.

Cloud Computing

Tech Tools – Web 2.0 What is Web 2.0? "Web 2.0" refers to what was perceived as a second generation of web development and web design. It is characterized as facilitating communication.Web 2.0

FREE Many Web 2.0 tools are totally FREE Others are very inexpensive. Some are made especially for education or have education subscriptions

Google Tools Google Toolbar Calculations Conversions Be sure to use the word “in” Dictionary Define: Weather Type weather and city

Twitter Launched in 2006 by asking “What are you doing?” 140 Characters or less Tweeting seems to be the latest craze Statistics show that only 20% of users are active (Posting within the last 7 days) Of those 20% only a small portion are posting every day or more often. Some famous tweeters……Oprah, President Obama, Suze Orman, Martha Stewart.

Twitter Forces people to be succinct. More and more organizations are utilizing Twitter to communicate with members.

My Space and Facebook April Statistics Myspace - 54 Million visitors 7% decrease from April 2008 Facebook - 71 Million visitors. 217% increase since April 2008

Jing and Ning

Working with Photos

Sharing a Long URL A=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&C=

Personal Collection Pages

Cell Phone Tools

Wallpaper and Logos Pix2Fone is a free service that lets you make custom cell phone wallpapers, backgrounds and logos in a snap.

Voice Conferencing

Mobile Notes With a simple phone call, Jott Assistant lets you use your voice to capture notes & to-dos, set reminders and appointments, send and text messages, and post to your favorite web services, all on the go. Our voice-to- text service turns your voice notes, messages, and updates into text and sends them where you want.voice-to- text service They now charge a fee $3.95 per month

Podcasting FREE FREE

Ringtones

Text For Free

Create Mobile Web Sites

Personalized Voice Mail Private voice recording site You can leave different messages for different people It sends you an message letting you know you missed a call. If the person is in your contact list, it will tell you who it is from.

Others

Questions???

Thank You For Attending Tech Tools for Administrators