1. Online Tools and Applications

2. Purpose The purpose of this workshop is to provide an opportunity to learn a little more about web tools that can be used to improve and enhance your classroom experience, to see examples of how they can be used, and to share success stories and creative ideas about how to use and integrate them.

3. Where are you on this social media ladder?

4. Why Web 2.0 Tools? Tools many of us grew up with: Pen paper Scissors Glue Crayons Construction paper typewriter and watercolors Now we share what we are learning, through: Blogs Wikis Photo sharing sites Podcasts and other new online resources are the tools of today's students

5. Blogs Why Blog in the Classroom? Students and teachers have an opportunity to express themselves. Participants are: Motivated Enthusiatics about writing And love to show what they know

6. Where can you blog: Let’s check out: Easy Class Sites: http://www.ezclasssites.com/ http://www.ezclasssites.com/ Bravenet - http://www.bravenet.com/webtools/journal http://www.bravenet.com/webtools/journal

7. Keep Up-to -Date by Reading Blogs A simple way to do this is to sign up for an account on bloglines: http://www.bloglines.com Think of RSS as a beacon that announces when new online content is available.

8. Educational Technology Blog A practical guide to integrating technology in the classroom

9. Wikis in the Classroom Free Wiki for Classroom Use: Wikispaces http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers100K http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers100K Let’s take a look at how a teacher used as wiki for story telling: http://terrythetennisball.wikispaces.com/home

10. Just what is a Podcast? If blogs are similar to keeping a journal in cyberspace, and wikis relate to collaborating with others in cyberspace, then, podcasting is like broadcasting out loud thoughts, ideas, and knowledge in cyberspace.

11. How Podcasting Can be Done in the Classroom Audacity is downloaded to all teacher laptops, and is free software that is easy to use and contains an audio editor and recorder. Excellent tutorials for Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html http://www.guidesandtutorials.com/audacity-tutorial.html

12. What do you do with these audio tracks: Save the files as: MP3 files for downloading on an iPod or posting to a website. If you will be inserting the files into a power point, you may want to export the files into a WAV file.

13. Alternatives to Using Audacity Pod Bean An ultra simple podcast publishing solution. Everything you need. This is a free basic solution for entry-level podcasters. http://www.podbean.com/start- podcast?sourceid=goog_66 http://www.podbean.com/start- podcast?sourceid=goog_66 Free audio stories for kids: http://storynory.com/http://storynory.com/

14. Help of the Internet! Teacher Tasks less Tedious with the Help of the Internet! Here are some websites that you are sure to love! These websites give teachers the opportunities to utilize these wonderful “tools” that are free on the internet:

15. Free Online Flashcards With Spaced Repetition Faster, free and more elegant Flashcard DB makes it easy to create, study and share flashcards online

16. A Real Favorite: Personal Educational Press http://www.educationalpress.org/ Create free educational worksheets such as flashcards, game boards, and quizzes to print directly from your browser.

17. Free “Already Made” Timelines Browse the Past and some Futures... a collection of Timelines on the Web http://www3.canisius.edu/~emeryg/time.html

18. Bulletin Board “Hang Ups” http://legacy.teachersfirst.com/hangups.html Let’s have a little fun! Click here for a brain twister:

19. Teacher Tools and Templates From Education-World Click on Teacher Tools and Templates to find such items as award certificates, calendars, and worksheets.

20. Kid Friendly Search Engines Quintua For Kids – Narrow down their search http://quinturakids.com/ http://quinturakids.com/ Ithaki 4 KiDs helps you to find the best sites just for kids via searching in real time several search engines for kids like DmozKids, Yahooligans, FactMonster, ArtKIDSRule, AolKIDS, AwesomeLibrary & KidsClick!.

21. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words Pictures enhance teacher worksheets, awards and parent letters. Students products that utilize pictures make a story come alive. The following websites provide realistic images, cartoon-like clip art and photography: Google ImagesGoogle Images Than click on Images Flicker Pictures for Learning A Search Engine for Pictures Discovery School Clip Art Gallery Classroom Clip Art Teacher Files Educational Clip Art Clip Art ETC

22. Voice Thread for the Classroom Teachers register their students and form communities that are safe and secure. http://www.Ed.Voicethread.com Free service which should serve the average classroom. What’s a voice thread?

23. A Daily Dose of Technology! Look to these websites for sources of interesting daily activities: Daily Analogies from Fact Monster Physical Education Daily Kids Quiz Daily Jigsaw Puzzle Astronomy Picture of the Day Daily Quotations from Education World

24. I’d like to share my Wiki with you! Let’s take a few minutes to check out some online tools… www.learn-with-linda.wikispaces.com