What tools will you be trying this week?
Which tools do you plan on using.
List in the class wiki http://technologypd.pbwiki.com/plugintools
TeacherTube
TeacherTube is to provide an online community for sharing instructinal teacher videos. http://www.teachertube.com/
How to add video to your wiki
1. Get your embedded code from TeacherTube (edit copy)
2. Click “Edit Page” >> “Insert Plugin” >> “Video”
3. Click on YouTube Video
4. Paste the box embedded code in the box
5. Click Next and Finish
It will appear shortly afterwards. Remember, your video uploads do not use any of your wiki storage space.
YouTube
Link http://youtube.com/
SlideShare
SlideShare is the best way to share your presentations with the world. Let your ideas reach a broad audience. Share publicly or privately. … http:// www.slideshare.net/
Photos – Sharing
Bubble Share http://www.bubbleshare.com/
is the easiest, and most fun way of sharing your photos and the stories that go with them. Share and manage your photos with friends, family, …
RockYou http://www.rockyou.com/
Photo sharing, MySpace slide shows, codes, and music.
FLICKR http://www.flickr.com/
Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. http://www.flickr.com/
Jing
What is Jing? http://www.jingproject.com/ The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere.
What is this thing called Jing? Video tour.
Download information http://blog.jingproject.com/2007/07/getting_started_with_jing.html
*note must install Microsoft .net
Skype
With Skype you can make free calls over the internet to other people on Skype for as long as you like, to wherever you like. It is free to download.
Audacity http://www.audacity .sourceforge.net/
A free, open source software for recording and editing sounds in Linux, Mac OS X, and other operating systems.
Screencast on Audacity
Link http://www.educause.edu/Screencasts/Audacity/Untitled.html
VoiceThread http://www.voicethread .com/
Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice and text commenting.
Animoto http://www.animoto.com/
Animoto videos–music videos for your images and pictures. With high production value motion graphics synchronized to every beat of your music, …
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Just skyped my grandkids. For some reason, I seem to have more technical difficulties with my California granddaughter than my Detroit grandson. It took several tries to hook up to my granddaughter. Then she kept on fading in and out.
This print is VERY
My comment got innterrupted…why is this font so tiny? I could hardly read it. Pam
I just scrolled up and saw how to make the font larger. I’m off to fix my wiki. I’m going to try to resize my pictures so it won’t take as long to upload the site. Pam
I just tried to copy a link from above (ie:jing) but couldn’t …why? why aren’t they hyperlinks?
Hi – I did not get a chance to hyperlink the URL’s in class yesterday. I did a copy/paste from word and it did not keep the hyperlinks. I will try to update later.
My freshmen have created a wiki! Check it out at GeneticsCurrentEvents.pbwiki.com We learned some things — slideshare.net doesn’t accept the latest Powerpoint, so we had to “Save As” to the older version. And our school website had “youtube” blocked, but when they changed the block to “youtube.com”, then we were able to upload slideshare shows into the wikis.
I’ve told 2 administrators about the novemberlearning.com conference. And I’ve signed up to do a professional development seminar this fall for NAWG-MT (Naragansett, Ashburnham, Westminster, Winchendon, Gardner, Monty Tech) professional development seminar, so that is extra motivation to learn this stuff well!
- Linda