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MACUL Conferenc 2011
MACUL
(Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning) has yearly
conferences. I attended the 2011 Conference in Detroit at Cobo Hall. This is a
collection of my notes and of sites and information that I found useful and
want to further pursue and share with other educators.
Look for the MACUL 2010 Conference notes and sites here.
Look for the MACUL 2010 Conference notes and sites here.
Camtasia Workshop
Scott Schopieray, Guy Larcom & Brandon Blinkenberg
Camtasia is software that allows you to record anything you see on your screen, and edit into a professional screencast you can share instantly. You can create tutorials, demos, courses and online videos. You can add effects, edit & present Camtasia screencasts anywhere. Click here for a free trial download of Camtasia.
TIP: To watch sections of a video and to isolate small clips, they recommended using Splicd.com & Tubechop.com.
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TIP: F9 Start Recording; F10 Stop Recording
TIP: Hold down the following keys to lock in these aspect ratios.Shift - 16:9
Ctrl - 4:3 TIP: Create an Animoto and upload it to Camtasia and make it part of your presentation.
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TIP: If you mess up when you are recording, clap and then pause. Continue the recording. This will help you find the section to cut and edit that section.
TIP: Create clips no longer than 3-4 minutes, to keep the viewer's attention.
TIP: Use notes from a PowerPoint and turn them into captions.
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Camtasia Workshop Wikispace- Their examples and lessons for this class was all compiled here. You need to join wikispaces and be accepted to use this site.
iSpringfree.com
iSpring Free PowerPoint to Flash converter works as PowerPoint add-in and creates web-friendly Flash movies. |
Google Earth Across the Curriculum
Googleearth.weebly.com
Easy things to do with Google Earth in different subject areas like math, science, language arts, and social studies. Includes Learning Activities and Scavenger Hunts. Site created by Andy Mann.
Googleearth.weebly.com
Easy things to do with Google Earth in different subject areas like math, science, language arts, and social studies. Includes Learning Activities and Scavenger Hunts. Site created by Andy Mann.
Jing
How you might use Jing
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Make a Quiz with Camtasia
Studies show that when watching a video, a person needs to do something within 7-14 or they have lost focus on the video. So....
Add a Quiz or Survey to your video
- Periodically asking your students questions is a great way to keep them engaged and break the "one-sided conversation" effect of recorded lectures.
- View Flash Quizzes and Surveys in Camtasia 6 to learn how to do this. Please note that while this was recorded for version 6, the quiz hasn't changed for the current version. The main interface will look slightly different, but the quiz functionality is the same.
NOTE: There are no previews of the quiz or test, you must produce it to see the quiz. Also, you must use flash output.
Add a Quiz or Survey to your video
- Periodically asking your students questions is a great way to keep them engaged and break the "one-sided conversation" effect of recorded lectures.
- View Flash Quizzes and Surveys in Camtasia 6 to learn how to do this. Please note that while this was recorded for version 6, the quiz hasn't changed for the current version. The main interface will look slightly different, but the quiz functionality is the same.
NOTE: There are no previews of the quiz or test, you must produce it to see the quiz. Also, you must use flash output.
What Technology Has and Hasn't Changed
Keynote Speaker: Rushton Hurley
- tinyurl.com/RH-MAACUL11 - This is the link to Rushton's collection of sites, links and videos he used in all his presentations.
- UJAM is a cloud-based platform that empowers everybody to easily create new music or enhance their existing musical talent and share it with friends.
- Audacity- powerful audio editor. Used it with 3rd graders. Had them record their voice to say, "I am not guilty." Edit it to say, "I am guilty." You can't always believe everything you see or hear!
- Classroom2.0 - Connect with educators
- Lipdubs
- NextVista.org
- xrl.us/nvnews - newsletter sign up, keynote evaluation.
Screencasting to Improve Student Achievement
Ron Houtman
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How the Flipped Classroom Is Radically Transforming Learning - Article about what a flipped classroom is and how it is changing teaching and learning.
Aaron Sams' Video- The Flipped Educator - 2 minute video about this teacher's new way to teach and the new way his students learn.
Salman Khan, Transformer - Article from "Connected Principals" about the founder and creator of Khan Academy.
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TIP: Create ONE place for all your stuff.
TIP: Create a video for the your sub lesson plan.
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Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements
Leslie Fisher
Tip: Tag your pictures to organize them. You can also rate your pictures.
Tip: Always Auto color correct your pictures. Tip: Photo merge: File/new/merge/3 photos; photo merge group shot. |
Tip: If your picture is too dark: make a new layer; new adjustment levels on the histogram. Error to the dark side.
Tip: Use image resize canvas size for picture for a newsletter heading. |
Notes for this section are minimal due to some technical difficulties at the conference.
Using Multimedia to Create Edutainment
Todd Beard
Click here for a Password Vocabulary Review Gameshow- PPT Template
You can make improvements with the PPT by putting a timer in the corner of the slide.
Bonus Round: Write down the last 5 passwords.
Change the names of your quizzes to Missions; call your chapters: Levels. Makes it more interesting.
Have the students make a Survival Game with Choices in PPT
Click here for the website to access a PPT template for Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? and sound effects & planning guide.
Another site with Power Point Games with Templates:
Includes:
- Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
- Password
- Jeopardy
- Wheel of Fortune
- Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?
- Twenty Questions
- Guess the Covered Word
- Undercover (Concentration)
- Several Versions of Hollywood Squares
Scratch Your Way into (Fun) Programming
Barry Webster
Alice
http://www.alice.org/index.php Alice is software that helps teach programming skills. It's very interactive, easy to use and kids love it! Other Recommended Cool Sites and Software:
Tuxpaint.org: Open Source Drawing software for Children Type to Learn: Software to purchase Lemonade Stand: An interactive online game to see how much money you can make by selling cups of lemonade. |
ScratchED
http://scratched.media.mit.edu/ Use this site to learn how to use Scratch with your students. TIP: Look for Scratch Cards that contain individual Scratch projects on the card. The front side shows the pictures and the back contains the directions.
http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Support/Scratch_Cards Book Recommendation of Barry Webster:
"The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education" by Dianne Ravitch |
Interactive Life Planning for Students
Karen Owen, Michigan Virtual University
Tracy Miller, Kalamazoo Public Schools
http://learnportwiki29.pbworks.com:
This is their wiki outlining the information they covered at this conference. Career Forward
An interactive website for career development in a global economy by Michigan Virtual University. net Trekker
netTrekker is a leader in the organization and delivery of digital K-12 educational content and is dedicated to enhancing education with highly effective technologies and services that help personalize learning and deliver engaging educational content to every student in a safe, relevant, easy-to-use format. In NetTrekker there are lessons utilizing Career Forward. O-Net Code Connector:
The O*NET Code Connector helps workforce professionals determine the correct O*NET-SOC codes for job orders, job applicants, and UI claimants. Key items from the O*NET Database are displayed so that workforce personnel can quickly find the matching code for a job order. |
Dipity.com
Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Their mission is to organize the web's content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps. Timetoast.com
Create timelines, share them on the web. Timetoast is a great way to share the past, or even the future... Creating a timeline takes minutes, it's as simple as can be. Cybersmartcurriculum.org
CyberSmart! Curriculum is now part of Common Sense Media Common Sense Media is pleased to announce that the free CyberSmart! curriculum is now part of Common Sense Media's education programs. Over the next year, Common Sense will be updating the CyberSmart! lesson plans and adding video, interactive components, and a rich complement of parent resources to create an integrated K-12 Digital Literacy and Citizenship curriculum. |
Have I Got a Site for You!
T.J. Koehler
by T. J. Koehler
The following is a list of sites that were recommended. Online storage for your files. Pick them up on any computer. Sync your files. FREE. Upgrades available. What is ScreenMarker™? ScreenMarker™ is a little piece of software that lets you make annotations on your computer screen. When to use ScreenMarker™? Use ScreenMarker™ to facilitate your online presentations and demos. Highlight important things and beef up your presentations. Your customers will love it! For online presentations we recommend Beam2Present. And the best thing, ScreenMarker™ is available for FREE.
Explore and share your images in full, high-resolution detail with Zoom.it, a free service from Microsoft. A facebook- like application for assignments/links/messages. FREE. Kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with their own, unique blog. Password protected.
Photo site- Creative Commons where you don't need to worry about copyright. Free images for your inspiration, reference and use in your creative work, be it commercial or not! Contains high-resolution stock photography images free for either corporate or private use. |
QuizStar is a free, online quiz maker that allows you to manage your classes, assign quizzes, and generate reports of quiz scores and student performance.
Create and share your own animated stories. Typing Test & FREE Typing tutor at Learn 2 Type - the leading FREE Web site that helps you master the skills of touch typing. Skinable desktop notes to remind one of important things to do. Once on screen, stickies will remain where placed until closed, even through reboots. OnlineStopwatch.com: Count down or Stopwatch. Google Moderator is a tool that allows distributed communities to submit and vote on questions for talks, presentations and events. Online whiteboard that's free, powerful and easy-to-use. Draw with flexible tools. Collaborate in real-time. Word Clouds with Style; Like Wordle FREE online file conversion program. Upload your file. The new converted file is emailed to you within minutes. YouTube Downloader lets you save videos from YouTube and play them on your computer, and best of all, it's free!
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Keep It Clean!
Luke Allen
Tech4Teachers- www.techluke.com
Tech4Teachers is Luke Allen's website that includes all the information and links he presents at seminars. How to contact Luke Allen: [email protected] Luke1946 on Twitter/Plurk/LinkedIn/Facebook/Skype Slow Starting your Computer What do we need or not need in the start up sequence? Run:ms config at the start up menu Use a Start-Up Optimizer. It describes the program and lets you know if you need it or not. You can remove it from the start up if you want to speed the opening process up.
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Major Causes of Speed Loss is Malware.
Junk Files
Foxfire ---> 0mg IE/Tools/Internet Options/Browsing History/Settings Foxfire/Tools/Options/Advance Settings/Off Storage/0 Temp Files Remove: Orphan shortcuts & Links Duplicate files. |
Personal Learning Networks (PLNs): Connecting Worldwide
Nicholas Provenzano
www.The Nerdy Teacher.com
Nicholas' Nerdy Teacher Blog. A great place for tech ideas and encouragement. http://bit.ly/gWW7eQ Nicholas' Prezi Presentation: PLNs: Connecting Teachers Worldwide |
Mathtrain.tv
Mathtrain.TV is a free, educational "kids teaching kids" project from Mr. Marcos & his Students at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, CA. Commoncraft.com Useful Handcrafted Videos Common Craft videos have helped teachers and trainers delight millions around the world by making complex ideas easy to understand. Some Great People to Follow http://bit.ly/fDns5s Includes Cyberary Man's Educational Websites (Nicholas' PLN's) and Twitter Chats- Tuesdays Edchat. |
Take a Look at a Page from the Perfect Digital "Textbook"
Keynote Speaker: Hall Davidson
Notes and info will be posted soon.