1. New Teacher’s Toolbox Things you need to start your new job! ITEA CONFERENCE PRESENTATION 2009 Andrew M. Klenke – International TECA Advisor

2. Always start with your ABCs!

3. LAB INVENTORY – Make it easy, make it good! http://www.vault24.com/public/

4. LAB INVENTORY – Make it easy, make it good!

5. Lesson Planning These websites house various lesson plans and usually provide all worksheets and material needed. http://www.lessonplanspage.com/ http://www.lessonplans4teachers.com/ http://teachersnetwork.org/lessonplans/ http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/ http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/ http://www.lessonplanz.com/ http://www.theteacherscorner.net/lesson-plans/ http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/ http://www.mcrel.org/lesson-plans/

6. PowerPoints These websites house various PowerPoints on almost any subject. PowerPoints tend to: 1.Keep teachers on task 2.Allow teachers to focus on questions/discussions rather than material 3.Reach students with different learning styles 4.Facilitate connections with visual displays, audio reinforcements, and video clips. http://www.nebo.edu/misc/learning_resources/ppt/ http://www.worldofteaching.com/ http://jc-schools.net/PPTs-la.html http://www.seaford.k12.de.us/it/pp/home.htm http://teach.fcps.net/trt10/PowerPoint.htm

7. PowerPoints Download and then add your own material. www.slideshare.net

8. Music Four places to consider using music; 1.Before Class - helps sets the “tone” (upbeat/exciting or quiet/cotemplative) and/or focus on topic 2.During Movement - upbeat music helps motivate students to complete tasks more rapidly with sense of enjoyment. 3.Behind Small Group Discussion - effectively “pads” the room so sounds from one group doesn’t interfere with another 4.After Class - leave on a positive note

9. PowerPoint Games Free downloadable teaching materials. Games tend to: 1.Make learning fun 2.Motivate learning 3.Lead to higher retention and reflection 4.Create new concepts related to topic http://facstaff.uww.edu/jonesd/games/

10. Mapping and Organizing Tools Mindmeister Bubble.us

11. Lesson Planning http://www.microsoft.com/education/products/offi ce/onenote/default.aspx#tips

13. CLASSROOM RESPONSE SYSTEMS – TESTING YOUR STUDENTS IN A NEW WAY! Integrates with PowerPoint Works on Radio Frequency Engages students during class Receive Instant Feedback Create “On-the-fly” quizzes Track Scores and Generate Reports www.Qwizdom.com

14. CLASSROOM RESPONSE SYSTEMS – TESTING YOUR STUDENTS IN A NEW WAY! Creates excitement in learning Works on Radio Frequency Easy To Use Receive Instant Feedback Create “On-the-fly” quizzes Formal assessment capable www.renlearn.com

15. “I can’t afford MS Office for my lab!”

16. WRITER = WORD

17. CALC = EXCEL

18. IMPRESS = POWERPOINT

19. DRAW = ?

20. BASE = ACCESS

21. INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS - VIDEOS www.zamzar.com

22. General Cool Video Sites You Tube Teacher Tube School Tube These sites provide videos for your classroom.

23. An Example From Zamzar

24. INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS - VIDEOS Mozilla Firefox

25. Other Conversion Tools Media Convert - convert and split sound, ringtones, images, docs - MP3 WMV 3GP www.media-convert.com/ Media Converter - audio and video converter www.mediaconverter.org/ OnlineConverter www.vixy.net/

26. Photo Editing and Sharing MagMyPic - Upload your picture to make a magazine cover www.magmypic.com/uploadwww.magmypic.com/upload Picasa - Organize, add effects, and share photoswww.picasa.google.com/www.picasa.google.com/ Fliptrack - Upload to edit slideshow with music, effects, themes www.fliptrack.com/www.fliptrack.com/ Scrapblog - Create multimedia scrapbooks www.scrapblog.com/www.scrapblog.com/ Flickr Toys - Do fun stuff with your photos www.bighugelabs.com/flickr/www.bighugelabs.com/flickr/ Flickr - photo sharing www.flickr.com/www.flickr.com/ Splashup - Photo editing www.splashup.com/www.splashup.com/ Picnik - Photo editing www.picnik.com/www.picnik.com/ VoiceThread - Group conversations around images www.voicethread.com/#homewww.voicethread.com/#home BubbleShare - Photo sharingwww.bubbleshare.com/www.bubbleshare.com/ BeFunky - Turn photos into paintings, cartoons, avator www.befunky.com/www.befunky.com/ Animoto - Create video out of photoswww.animoto.com/www.animoto.com/ Mixbook - Create books of photos www.mixbook.com/www.mixbook.com/

28. Podcast Hosting and Creation Gcast - Record voice messages and mix in your favorite music to share. www.gcast.com/?nr=1&&s=345584421www.gcast.com/?nr=1&&s=345584421 Audacity - Audio Editor and Recorder www.audacity.sourceforge.net/ www.audacity.sourceforge.net/ PodcastPeople – Publish text, audio and video to a customized podcasting show. www.podcastpeople.com/www.podcastpeople.com/ Podbean - Free Podcast Hosting, Searching and Subscription, Audio Video Blog Hosting www.podbean.com/www.podbean.com/ Talkr --Converts text-only blogs into PodCasts. www.talkr.com/www.talkr.com/

29. Wiki Wiki – Wetpaint http://cooltechstuff.wetpaint.com/http://cooltechstuff.wetpaint.com/ www.wetpaint.com/ Wikispaces www.wikispaces.com/ PikiWiki www.pikiwiki.com/ews/index.jsp PD Wiki (Education - Personal) www.pbwiki.com/ PmWiki | PmWiki / PmWiki www.pmwiki.org/

30. Wiki Hosting Pbwiki PikiWiki Wekispaces

31. Blog Hosting WordPress - Publishing platform to publish site www.wordpress.org/ Edublogs - Education blogs www.edublogs.org/ Google's Blogging Toolset www.Blogger.com Bloglines www.bloglines.com/

32. Social Networks – You know MySpace & Facebook HOW ABOUT SOME OTHERS: Classroom 2.0 - Network for Web 2.0 in educationwww.classroom20.com/www.classroom20.com/ TeachStrong - Network for developing teacher technology skillswww.teachstrong.org/www.teachstrong.org/ Imbee - Controlled social network for kids, teachers & parentswww.imbee.com/www.imbee.com/ Global SchoolNet - Project exchanges for teachers www.globalschoolnet.org/index.cfmwww.globalschoolnet.org/index.cfm TakingITGlobal - Network for global issueswww.takingitglobal.org/tiged/about.htmlwww.takingitglobal.org/tiged/about.html WiZiQ Online Teaching - Virtual classroomwww.wiziq.com/www.wiziq.com/ LiveJournal- Start a free blog or journalwww.livejournal.com/www.livejournal.com/