Thursday, November 4, 2010

What's New with GPB Digital Education and Discovery Education


Jennifer Dorman, Discovery Education 
Thursday 3:00 - 4:00 
Join us for an exploration of the latest updates to GPB Digital Education and Discovery Education. We'll take you behind the scenes as we show off the latest content, features, and resources to engage your 21st century learner.  
STRAND: Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment AUDIENCE: General Interest TYPE: Concurrent 

www.links.discoveryeducation.com/GaETC2011 for handouts
 Patrice Weaver- pweaver@gpb.org, 404-685-2563

Raising Readers- On GPB Site http://pbskids.org/island/
Mission US- Interactive Game http://www.mission-us.org/
ITUnes U- Type in Ga Public Broadcasting--Podcasts of prominent Ga Biographies- Free
GPB Also streams high school sporting events online
Education News-- Part of GPB now (gpb.org/education)
Will also come to school to do FTF streaming education classes-- Small groups during prep/planning periods
GPB on Facebook

Create a GPB account w/ passcode (See Sandi for Passcode) - bookmark your resources.  Shuffle the User if you move to a new building (5th Avenue).

GPB For Students- own account- teacher can assign content-- go to Teacher Center- upper left corner- Children's Online privacy protection act- module explains student access.  Upload students/ import multiple student accounts.  Sandi can send home parent letter- (also Spanish version).  Students will get assignments/ status of assignments/ writing prompts/ resources, etc.-- all assigned by teachers.

Downloading--
Set Stream Type to Flash
Download Type- Quick Time high, but download in Flash for activboard
Citations--
Related Materials-- Teacher Guides, Quizzes, etc.
"More to Explore"- things you may want to see that relate.  (3-10 things)

















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Plugging In: Leveraging Technology for Student Engagement

Shelley Paul, Woodward Academy / AATE 
German 3-4 Thursday 1:45 - 2:45 Capacity: 88 
Engaged students demonstrate deeper understanding, better retention of content, and more successful transference of their learning to new contexts. Reviewing key engagement concepts from Phillip Schlechty's "Working on the Work," and touching on Dan Pink's "Drive," the presenter will share innovative examples and simple ways teachers can leverage technology to increase student engagement. Twitter summary of this presentation: "To engage students, let them create content that matters and contributes. Use digital tools to connect them constructively to the world."

Work that has wings- Marco Torres and Students http://21k12blog.net/2009/02/27/marco-antonio-torres-and-digital-publishing-of-student-work-outstanding-21st-c-education/
Developing Expert- Darren Kuropatwa http://expertvoices.blogspot.com/
Animoto - Spanish-- Ms. DeSantis' Blog http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/bsdbsd/2008/11/23/who-knew-animoto-spoke-spanish/
Contest- Be a Famous Writer http://teachingwithcontests.com/?p=2049http://teachingwithcontests.com/?p=2049
Our City- Podcast- Tony Vincent http://learninginhand.com/OurCity/
Google News- Search vocabulary words to see where it was used today http://news.google.com/
 






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Photoshop - Fun with Text

Step by step handouts provided for editing text into interesting effects.
Monica Pierson - Calhoun City Schools
See also: http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tut_text.htm
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Great i touch / i pad apps -- Leslie Fisher

 www.lesliefisher.com

Misc Tips—
Hold home button/ tap power to take screen shot- will be kept in photo library
Tap on “from”- scroll wheel will come up for all email addresses on your phone
Jewelers Loop- Bring up URL and tap and hold

Fun 4.0 things:
Re-size photos and emails now
Can put folder into dock- drag to dock
Game Center-  geek@lesliefisher.com -  online games
ipads-  Golden Master-  Just released  IOS4 for ipad soon
www.AppShopper.com
Lists in time order when apps have been released.  Can search for ipad or iphone,  education search, etc.  Supports RSS feed—Will get digest of items released that day.
www.Appolicious.com  App Community

Cool/Productive iphone/ touch apps
  • Built in Calendar- bad except on ipad
  • SaiSuke!  Plug in to Google calendar- make calendar private, then login to google calendar
  • Evernote- Note syncing – notes sync to  evernote.com
  • Ipad - SoundPaper—has record button at top of note paper
  • Tap in your notes, it will play back the audio portion where you tap
  • Twitter-

USTREAM-- viewer, recorder, broadcaster-- all free-- need account to post and stream.
Whistle Phone- Brings calls to your ipod
Line 2- gives your phone a second number-- can set up a phone tree -- even an 800 number.  9.99 per month if you want to keep using it.
Loopt- can ping someone and find their location http://www.loopt.com/
Foursquare- http://foursquare.com/
Gowalla http://gowalla.com/
Around Me- Mapping Applications--
Geocaching- Find Caches, etc.
i-Finder  -  helps people who get lost.  Breadcrumb trail to where you are so you can get back.
http://www.gpsnuts.com/Lowrance/iFinder.htm
Motionx GPS Drive -- 2.99

Just for Fun Apps
Shazam - free-- identifies any song that plays
Sportacular Pro - Up to minute scoring, fantasy football help, game reminders
Slapdown-  One app per week
Yelp-- Food/Food Service Reviews.  Tap nearby and it will show you restaurants and ratings nearby
Fast Food Premium- 
Viper Smart Start- For your car-- will lock / unlock and pop trunk/ start car
Deposit Mobile- for depositing checks
Red Laser- Scan barcodes and get pricing and comparison
Babelshot- Take a photo- item will be translated and it will also be read aloud
Jibbigo English Spanish- Speech Translator
Run Pee Mobile- Tells you which point in the movie is safe to run.  Even gives you text of dialogue you miss while gone
Ipad apps (games for fun) http://lesliefisher.com/index.php/blog/my-favorite-ipad-games

2screens presentation app
People Magazine App
USA Today
Time Magazine

Webers on the grill- recipes w/ video, cooking calculations/ timers, etc.
POI Viewer- Point OF Interest -- worldwide map.  Upload and view
Education Apps by
OCARINA- iphone is a pan flute
AUDIO BOO-
Baloonimals
ABC Animals
Writing Apps-- storykit for ipad-- make a story book, iwritewords

Iridium Flares
iMagnify
Mathboard K-6
Convert- Unit COnverter
Milly and Molly Q Books-- Variety of Languages- can read along
Flashcards Deluxe

iReward

































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Leslie Fisher - Great Sites Gadgets and Tech Products For Everyone! 2010

Jonathan Coulton- technology singer- http://www.jonathancoulton.com/
Leslie Fisher- www.lesliefisher.com


Cool Web 2.0 Sites- 

  • www.eventbrite.com  Great way to sign up for an event online.  Can process credit cards and accept donations.  Manage Recurring Events.  Prints Name Badges and Administration.  Free for free events.  Also manages waiting lists, etc.
  • Google Voice- Sets up universal phone number-- Attach your number to it.  Delegate numbers you call to ring to multiple phones or go straight to voicemail.  Voicemail to do text transcription as well as SMS and email.  Integrated w/ GMAIL now!
  • www.tripit.com Send your travel iteneraries to plans@tripit.com from your signed up email account.  It will create an itinerary for you!  Share w/ friends or print itinerary.  
  • www.jott.com will send text to your "to do" web page-- $3.00 for 10 minutes 
  • www.evernote.com - grab notes w/ camera from cell phone, etc. and upload
  • www.ustream.tv  set up free account- broadcast video.  Great for absent students - they can watch your lessons.
  • www.mozy.com 2 free gigs online backup
  • Cisco Media Hub
  • Apple Time Capsule- paired with Time MAchine for hourly backups
  • Orbicle Undercover- http://www.orbicleundercover.com/undercover/ -- $49 -  will take pictures of person who has your Mac laptop if it is stolen.  Will turn volume up to MAX and yell "STOLEN"!
  • www.clipart.com  12.95 per month
  • Art Explosion- www.novadevelopment.com $199.00



Utilities- 
Digital Camera Fun-


Sound and Video and TV-

  • Cable drop- but no TV assigned to it--  use a USB Television Card http://www.pinnaclesys.com  Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick
  • EyeTV Hybrid-  
  • Sling Media- Now works with HD, Wireless, Most any configuration-- iphone app to watch shows via wifi on phone or Touch  $199-299
  • Netflix Streaming- Now on Roku box, PS3, Wii
  • HULU- www.hulu.com Commercial sponsored streaming of TV, Cable, Networks
  • Boxee-  like Face Book for media-- share media w/ friend list
  • Universal Remote-- $250 Logitech Harmony One or $499 for Harmony 1110 (touch screen)

Going Portable- Music-

  • 7 hour battery
  • several textbook publishers have announced they are going to the ipad
  • proloquo 2 go  - great for special ed app
  • star walk
  • istudiez pro
  • NewsRack-- 3000 RSS feeds
  • Instapaper
  • GoodReader
  • www.getaheadcase.com
  • ipad wireless microscope- www.bodelin.com  430.00
  • Document Cameras- IPEVO Point 2 View USB (1.5 pounds)  $70.00- great portable solution
  • Lumens Ladybug- $300.00 smaller red flexcam


Out there Geekyness-

  • Gowalla- allows users to create new locations 
  • www.solio.com-  solar powered charger
  • www.kensington.com- power charger
  • www.mophie.com/products/juice-pack
  • Just how old school are you? http://ion-audio.com  $134.00 makes MP3s out of old LPs or Cassettes
  • http://www.virtual-laser-keyboard.com
  • http://livescribe.com- pen w/ video camera/ audio recorder
  • www.keyspan.com-  great wireless remote./mouse
  • Think Geek.com-- great geeky T Shirts, etc...
  • www.sfbags.com  great computer bags
  • www.thinktankphoto.com


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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Patrick Crispen's Most Useful/Not So Useful Sites of 2010

 Speedtest.net

Duarte Blog

Tired of PowerPoint? Check out Prezi. This Flash-based online visualization, storytelling, and zooming presentation editor lets you quickly and easily create dynamic presentations. Prezi offers a free “Edu Enjoy” account to educators that lets you make your presentations private and removes the Prezi watermark from those presentations.
Prezi

The easiest and fastest way to share files between computers as well as to backup your files online, Dropbox is a free program that creates a new “dropbox” folder on your computer. Anything that you put in that folder is automatically backed up to dropbox.com and to the dropbox folder on any other computer on which you have installed the program. Dropbox runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, and iPhone and the free, basic account gives you 2 GB of space.

DropBox




Xtra Normal

DropBox

Wolfram Alpha

Chan!

Know Your Meme

Krebs on Security
 Wired Magazine’s Feburary 2010 profile of Cheezburger Network at http://tinyurl.com/cbwired/

Created by the folks at Getty Images, Moodstream is a free site that combines images, video footage, and short snippets of audio clips to create a screensaver-type environment within your web browser. You can customize the experience by mood or click on the presets wheel.
Finding how-to videos on YouTube is often a hit-or-miss proposition. That’s where Howcast comes in. The site has over 100,000 semi-professional, high quality how-to videos on topics ranging from ‘how to connect your laptop to your television’ to ‘how to drive a stick shift.’ Warning: Some topics may not be safe for work. www.howcast.com

Cheezburger Network

TED

Cooking for Engineers

Moodstream

Howcast

GameTrailers- great for parents who are buying video games for their kids...

Hate the touch-tone labyrinth most 800 telephone numbers make you go through before you can speak to a real, live human being? This constantly updated website tells you which buttons to push and even what your estimated hold time will be.
GetHuman


By Dr. Patrick Crispen
This work is licensed by Patrick Crispen [webmaster@netsquirrel.com] to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution- ! NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/http://prezi.com/
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Patrick Crispen- What's New and What's Next in Technology

The Cloud:
What is it?
Web 1.0- the old web pages that just gave information
Web 2.0- Interactive


How we interact w/ computers in classroom and at home- will change forever.  No need for keyboard, mouse, etc.


Technology that just might change your life!

  • Google TV
  • Apple TV
  • Drop Box- even works with ipad- FREE-  great for file back-up
  • Gaggle.net-- Create classroom sets of e-mail addresses
  • MS Office 365
  • Blackboard Course Sites
  • drop.io (like drop box- going out of business this month- move your files now if you use this site)
  • Kaltura-- Open Source
  • Project ROME

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