Digital Tools for Teachers

BYTE 2008

February 29

 

Hello, Welcome to my wiki,

 

 

 

 

                 

 

 

What DOES this video prompt YOU to think about creativity and learning?

After all, an escalator can never break. It can only become stairs. Have we nullified the capacity of our students to be creative in the very ordinary yet essential daily processes of learning? That’s the message the video gives to me

 

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Personal Tools

 

tools to access and view content as well as communicate with others (for your own personal learning/working)

 Examples: Firefox, GMail, Skype, Del.icio.us, iGoogle, Bloglines

 

Production Tools

tools to develop and deliver content and other learning solutions (for yourself and others)

 Examples: Word, PowerPoint, Audacity, Photoshop, Moodle

 

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What is a Wiki? How would you use it?

If you would like to edit this page, the password is shsd

 

Wikipedia

 

Literacy with ICT - IMYM tutorials Wiki

 

 St. Francois Xavier Community School

 

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Flickr - photosharing, annotated pictures

Photo set - 366/2008

 

Flickrcc - creative commons pictures - tagging

 

Flickr Creative Commons

 

Flickr Storm - creative commons pictures - imagery for storytelling projects.

 

Flickr Toys

 

Create Animoto Video

 

 

               

 

 

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 iGoogle

 

Silliness: Some amazing graphics

 

 

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RSS Readers! Bloglines, Google Reader

 

Top Educational Bloggers

 

Technorati

 

A Difference - scribe post - Daren Kuropatwa

 

Use Clarence Fisher’s  - Remote Access

 

 

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Flixn

Are you more thankful than a first grader?

 

Screencasting

Jing

Example

 

Social Bookmarking

Del.icio.us

 

 

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Moodle

 

Slideshare - sharing presentations on the web

 

 

 

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Gliffy

 

Skype

 

Citation Machine

 

Scrapblog

 

SPresent

 

Zamzar - free online file conversion

 

Interactive Introduction to the Human Body (National Geographic for Kids)

 

 

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Final Thoughts 

 

 

 

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