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Resources Collected from MACUL Conferences
MACUL (Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning) has yearly conferences. I attended the 2010 Conference in Grand Rapids. This is a collection of my notes of sites and information that I found useful and want to further pursue in the future. Look for the MACUL 2011 Conference notes and sites here.
Mike Flanagan - First Keynote Speaker
Click here for the Speaker Handouts from the 2010 MACUL Conference.
- Follow Mike Flanagan on Twitter - www.twitter.com/suptflanagan.
I Am Part of a Lost Generation
This is the video that Mike Flanagan shared but this is a version where the words are a bit smaller. Rushton Hurley shared this particular copy.
Developing Self-Paced Video Tutorials
Dale Rogers
- Suggested software: HyperCam, Camtasia (by Techsmith.com) $179
- Suggestion: Tech Smith gives out $2 milion in grants
- Jing-a free download- Screen capture software
- PIP- Picture in a Picture - Where your small video of the teacher is at the bottom of the tutorial.
- Tips for making Tutorials:
- Short & Concise
- Break into Segments
- Develop a "Video Persona"
- Dual Monitor setup
- one for the tutorial
- one for the the application
- connect to the same computer
- USB Video adaptor
- PDF Redirect
- Foolproof print tip: see PPT
- Use Call Outs/Text Boxes
- Text Met
- Magic Trick Web Site -Something fun!
- augmented reality
- See a video of the front cover of the Popular Science Magazine done in 3D
- Dale Rogers PowerPoint for the Convention:
- To contact Dale Rogers:
Using the Wii Interactive Whiteboard in Your Classroom
John Sowash, Teacher, Southfield Christian School
Click here for his blog:
http://electriceducator.blogspot.com/
Click here for his blog:
http://electriceducator.blogspot.com/
From One of the Student Displays
The Web 2.0 You Might Not Know About
Leslie Fisher
www.lesliefisher.com
Twitter
www.lesliefisher.com
- goodies:
- widget
- Tweetdeck
- Hidden Google Applications:
- Google Calendar
- can imbed in a web page
- Google Maps
- Google Forms
- Evernote
- Evernote.com
- Use Evernote to save your ideas, things you see, and things you like. Then find them on any computer, phone or device you use. For free!
- For Collaboration- EtherPad:
- Etherpad.com
- EtherPad is the only web-based word processor that allows people to work together in really real-time.
- EtherPad has been acquired by Google. Changes to come.
- Free
- Limit 15 people at one time.
- Google Wave
- wave.google.com
- dubbed Facebook and Twitter Killer
- Beta Only- Preview
- Jott
- www.Jott.com
- How does it work? With Jott Assistant and Jott for Salesforce, you just call a simple phone number, speak your notes, messages, or updates and hang up. Jott Voicemail works the same way, but your friends, family, and colleagues are the ones leaving the messages when they call your number. Then, Jott takes the spoken messages, turns them into text, and sends them to the right destination via email, text message, or web update. Learn more.
- Google Sites
- Google Voice
- Teach your phone new tricks - Voicemail like email, call routing, voicemail transcription, and more. All for free. Watch this video to learn more about Google Voice.
- Remember the Milk
- small fee/ or free
- online to do list and task management
- http://www.rememberthemilk.com/
- U Stream
- www.ustream.TV
- broadcast yourself live
- free with ads/ paid version as well
- example to use: student(s) in another location
- SmugMug
- Smugmug.com
- free gallery of stunning pictures
- (you can sell your photos to them, I think)
- Audioboo.fm
- uses your 1Touch Phone only to record and post
- Tripit.com
- Organize all your travel plans in one spot
- Yelp.com
- Yelp is the fun and easy way to find, review and talk about what's great - and not so great, in your area.
Give 100% to Your Elementary Classroom
presentation by Jeff Van Dis & Ken VanDalsen - Battle Creek Public Schools.
These sites are from the Handout that was given out at the conference.
Look for things like:
http://ikeepbookmarks.com/kenvandalsen
Look for things like:
- I Keep Book Marks.com
- Ben's Guide.gpco.gov
- Virtual Tour Supreme Court
- PBS.org
- Mi.gov.kids
- Quiz- Birth of a coin
- State Web Games K-5
- Sheppard software.com
- The US 50.com It's great!
- seattletimes.nwsource.com- Martin Luther King
- Go west with Lewis & Clark: nationalgeographic.com
- freeplaymusic.com
- Study Island -online paper/pencil test - paid site
- multiplication.com
- BBC.com data picking
http://ikeepbookmarks.com/kenvandalsen
- JamesTown Online
- Game where you make decisions like Oregon Trail (but lots shorter)
Digital Video & The Projects You'll Want To Do
Rushton Hurley
- Flicker
- pick out pictures that relate to my units
- Choose pics that make them say-Whoa, What's that?
- Cooliris
- Photowall
- Make a Lab Rules Video (he was going to post his on the Macul site)
- Googlesketchup
- 3DModeling program
- can teach shadows/time of day/seasons of the year
- Freebrain.org
- free online video course
His non-profit site:
NextVista.org
Library of videos by teachers 5 minutes or less FREE
Light Bulb - academic
Example: Multiplying by Nines http://www.nextvista.org/multiply-by-nines/
Global Views
Seeing Services - the joy of helping others
Check this out. You may be able to make videos for this site. He talked some about grants for video equipment to make videos for him.
Contact Rushton Hurley at:
[email protected]
www.nextvista.org
xrl.us/NVnews- sign up for his newsletter
Check out all of his stuff from his four sessions.
- What I'll Be Doing (or What I Did, depending on when you see this)
- Digital Video and the Projects You'll Want To Do
- Getting Teachers to Adopt Technology
- Hope for Teaching and Learning
- Hordes of Free Tools from a Google Certified Teacher
- Sitemap
xrl.us/RushtonatMACUL2010
Recipes 4 Success
Free Benefit for all MACUL Members
Recipes 4 Success are tutorials you select and put in order for the project you assign and share them with your students. Free service for all MACUL members. Services available for individuals, classrooms or schools for varied prices.
Recipes are tutorials for 45 mins to one hour
3 Levels:
Level 3: 8th grade reading and assumes you know technology
Level 2: 5th grade reading level with some technology knowledge
Level 1: 2nd grade reading level with no knowledge of technology
Account Settings
set by platform; applications
User Access
make same user name/password for students
allows 35 people on at one time
Recipes are tutorials for 45 mins to one hour
3 Levels:
Level 3: 8th grade reading and assumes you know technology
Level 2: 5th grade reading level with some technology knowledge
Level 1: 2nd grade reading level with no knowledge of technology
Account Settings
set by platform; applications
User Access
make same user name/password for students
allows 35 people on at one time
Hall Davidson
Final Keynote Speaker
- kitzu.org - Digital kits for education brought to you by the Orange County Department of Education. The kits can contain photos, audio, videos and print descriptions about the subject.
- wallwisher.com - A new way to communicate! Wallwisher is an online notice board maker. Wallwisher is an Internet application that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It is ideal for making announcements, wishing people, keeping notes and things you can do with Post-its. View a Demo Wall here.
Additional resources I found about wallwisher, not a part of Hall Davidson's presentation. Here are some ways I found to use wallwisher in the classroom:
- 21 Interesting Ways to use Wallwisher in the Classroom
- Wallwisher - 105 Classroom Ideas
- Jane's Pick of the Day - Wallwisher
- polleverywhere.com - The fastest way to create stylish real-time experiences for events using mobile devices.
- tinyurl.com - Makes millions of long URLa usable! They create a tiny URL that you can suggest and it will not break in email postings and never expires.
- flickr.com - Share your photos & videos. Watch the world. Great place to get pictures.
- animoto.com - They make killer video from your images automatically.
Google Lit Trips
Google Lit Trips How-tos:
- http://techconferences.wikispaces.com
- http://tools4tech.wikispaces.com
- Go to Google Lit Trips: http://googlelittrips.com