Welcome Tech Toolkit II Class

Here is the link to your survey

CLICK HERE

Welcome to Day two of TTK!

Welcome back for day two of the Technology Toolkit class!

We are going to spend a good portion of today looking at a variety of web resources designed to help us integrate technology into the curriculum and increase teacher productivity. Here are some of the websites we will look at:

Technology Toolkit Class

Education World

Basics of Computer Hardware- Internal Components

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sites for Teachers

Sites For Teachers rates educational Websites by popularity with teachers.

The Educator's Reference Desk: Resource Guides

The WebQuest Page at San Diego State University

The WebQuest Page includes freely available training materials and examples of the WebQuest lesson format.

WebQuest Resources from Education World

The netTrekker suite of award-winning products

i-SAFE Inc.

Dogpile Web Search Home Page

Dogpile.com makes searching the Web easy, because it has all the best search engines piled into one. So you get better results from more of the web. More engines. Better Answers. One Click. Dogpile Web Search Official Home Page.

Software Tutorials - Atomic Learning, Inc.

Online narrated QuickTime screen movie software training and tutorials for school, home, and business. Tutorials on all major applications.

Microsoft Office Home Page

Office Online offers how-to articles, downloads, templates, clip art, and more for your Office programs.

SurveyMonkey

SurveyMonkey.com is a revolutionary new tool to create and publish custom surveys in minutes, and then view results graphically and in real time.

Google Products

Fair Use Guidelines 1

Fair Use Guidelines 2

Fair Use Guidelines MJSD

DPI Copyright Links

This page is an annotated bibliography of links to copyright resources for schools and libraries.

ERIC - Education Resources Information Center

There are also several activities planned for today including the following:

DAY TWO ACTIVITIES

Activity 2-1: Install Picasa and iTunes software on the computer

Activity 2-2: Take stock photos or digital camera pictures and use Picasa2 to edit them and reduce their size

Activity 2-3: Create a Powerpoint with 6 slides. Add appropriate design, transitions, animations, and embed appropriately sized photographs and clip art.

Activity 2-4: Create a concept map of a topic/subject that you teach using Inspiration

Activity 2-5: Find a lesson plan idea using MarcoPolo or Wikkipedia

Activity 2-6: Set up your own Blog site on Blogger.com

Activity 2-7: Use your Blog site to create a webquest for your students

Activity 2-8: Complete Reflective Journal Day Two Activity

Welcome Technology Toolkit Class!

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome my technology toolkit class to my blog site. Blogging is an overused term that is basically a "web log". In other words it is a webpage or webpages with someones ideas and thoughts on them. In this case mine!

In some blogs you can respond and in others you can not. But in the end they are essentially websites generated using WYSIWYG tools. (WYSIWIG = What You See Is What You Get). We will post a variety of links and materials on this site for you to use in class. Good luck and have fun!

The first thing we wil be doing is getting a sense of where everyone is with their technology and the needs they have for this course. Please go to the following website to take the technology toolkit survey:

CLICK HERE FOR THE TECH TOOLKIT SURVEY

I have also put together a syllabus that you can view by simply clicking on the link below!

CLICK HERE FOR A SYLLABUS