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• 31 Oct 08
  

  Karen Chichester

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• 22 Oct 08
  

  Mark White
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    1.) Google docs - I keep my daybook all online. This way it is with me no matter where I travel, if I'm at home compared to school, etc. It also allows me to share it with parents, kids, other teachers, my administrator, etc. In the classrroom using this suite of tools it allows us to create far less paper. Kids complete their work and share it with me. Then I can comment on it, grade it and send it back to them. No paper created. As well, over the year it gives us an entire record of things they have written. Easy if you need to do portfolios of some kind because nothing is ever lost.

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  • • 2.) iGoogle - Another free Google product, using iGoogle we can design pages of feeds that we want to share with kids as a starting point to any study. For example, working on environmental issues, I started by designing a page with about five blogs on it that I had found and wanted the kids to read. Once I shared this tab with them, I then ask them to find additional sources of information to add that we can use as a class. This is a great way for kids to begin to evaluate information for their own use and for the classroom as a whole. Tab can turn into the textbook for a class quite easily so it is important for both you and your students to choose information sources carefully.
    • .) Flickr - Flickr is coming on fast with me. While I always have enjoyed just searching around some times in it, the incredible vastness of this resource is becoming much more important to me. I have a pro flickr account for my classroom and this is the one piece of technology that I will pay for. This year I am going to get some of the kids in my class to take pictures each day. Over time I'm hoping this will help students to take better pictures, but also that it will serve as a great resource and record of the life of our classroom over the year.
    • .) Audacity - Another free must have, Audacity is voice editing software that allows you to make your own mp3s. They miht be music, voice or a combination of both. Simple to use and yet very powerful, I like Audacity because it allows kids to learn a new medium to express themselves in. Mos students are relatively inexperienced doing this kind of work so doing things with timelines, drawing in effects and generally learning to work in layers of voiceovers, music and effects forces their literacies often into new and unexplored corners. Once kids can do this the move to video editing is relatively easy because it is the same weaving together of information to form a coherent whole that takes place in both
• 01 Oct 08
  

  sheryl preiser

  I was asked a few times in Shanghai about a list of things that I consider to be "top tools," things that I think are essential both for me and my students. Here's my list: 1.) Google docs - I...

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  Ben Harper

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• 21 Sep 08
  

  Rob Jacobs

  To Ten Tech Tools for teacher and their classrooms

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    • 5.) Skype
    • 6.) Flickr
    • 7.) Phun and Scratch
    • 8.) Audacity
    • 9.) Google Earth
    • 10.) Video Games
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  Rob Jacobs on 2008-09-21
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