The Exciting Things
Tech can do for you!
The Evolution of internet…around 2005….
Old Tech:
Internet as a giant librarySoftware $$$$$$$ for each PC
Web Pages w/ webmasters
New Tech
Internet, Online applications Opensource software Free
Interactive, collaborative Desktop And browser applications
Wiki, blogs, Social Networking
Teacher Tools
Assessment:
Quiz Star- 60 days free to create test quizzes on line-
Or MY FAVORITE BELOW
online test creator from MSU-Choices include:multip choice, true/false fill in ect
Rubrics-
Check out the saved rubrics-no reinventing the wheel
Trackstar
As you collect websites on a topic you are studying you can add them to Track star and it will create and interactive lesson for you.
Assignment Calendar you can keep and allow students to have access to
Casa Notes
ThinkTank is designed to help students develop a Research Organizer (a list of topics and subtopics) for reports and projects. Based on the subject assigned, the students can refine it by choosing from a variety of suggestions and by using a random subtopic generator. This helps students learn how to refine a subject so that it is more manageable for Internet research.
Collaboration
Wiki Don't Lose That NumberBy: Chris O'Neal, GLEF.org | Community: Cool Tools | July 27, 2007
Several of us have chatted before about wikis. As an educational-technology person who spends lots of time online, I can tell you it really does take a lot to win me over as far as new technology and its worthiness in education are concerned. Wikis, however, have done just that. What I like best about wikis is that the technology itself isn’t earth shattering, it’s just incredibly easy to use as well and serves some good purposes for teachers. The use of wikis ranges from employing low-level communications tools to creating enriched, collaborative multimedia projects.
Let’s set up a wiki—
Possibilities
1.Media Rich lessons for kids growing up in the digital age
2. Project based learning to differentiate instruction
3.One-line newletters-save paper save the earth
4. On line grades fastdir.com ACS
Open Source Free Software
Publishing
Desktop Publishing Scribus is powerful software that helps you create great looking documents of all kinds
OpenOffice
OpenOffice.org the product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety
Mind Mapping is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java, Free alternative to Inspiration.
Digital Photo/Audio/Video Stuff
Photo Editor is an open source image editor for Cocoa.
Image Editor image editor
Digital Morphing- amazing picture morphing software transforms one person or object into another before your eyes!
Digital Photo Locate and organize all the photos on your computer. Edit and add effects to your photos with a few simple clicks.
Audacity
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
Blender
Blender is the Open Source Software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation, and playback. Blender allows students and teachers to animate 3D computer graphics.
Cam Studio
screen activity from the Windows desktop into standard AVI movie files.
Mediacider
translates audio video files
Language
Spelling Help Providing stimulating activities in a wide range languages.
Maps
Google Earth earth
Drawing
C.A.D.www.sketchup.com/ Sketch Up CAD Program
Drawing www.tuxpaint.org Program similar to Kid Pix Paint
3D Model Maker of Illusion is a full featured 3D modelling, rendering, and animation studio. It is written entirely in Java, and can run on almost any operating system.
Interior Design application for quickly choosing and placing furniture on a house 2D plan drawn by the end-user, with a final 3D preview
Painting to use, stylish painting package that lets you get painting from the moment you open it up. You can paint with oils, sketch with pencils, sprinkle glitter, and more. You can paint with gold leaf, silver foil, and other metallic colors. You can even load in your photos as Tracing Images to help you recreate them as paintings
Pop Art Andy Warhol Replicator is an outstanding application for adding Pop-Art effects to your digital photos. The freeware comes with ready to use filter effects pre-defined in various color compositions. As adddition, Andy Warhol Replicator can be used for grey scaling, picture rotating, sharpening and black-and-white converting.
Simulations
Celestia
The free space simulation that lets users explore the universe in three dimensions. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft, as well as a catalog of additional downloads. Students and teachers can plot a course and navigate a 3D solar system. See also
Open City to SimCity