tutorials08

This page contains links to tutorials recommended by graduate students in EDTC 5203 Foundations of Educational Technology, Fall 2008.

Ashley Garrison:

Movie Maker Basics -

This tutorial is the basic steps on how to work windows movie maker. It isn't anything indepth, just the basics to making a simple video.

http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/PapaJohn/30/Movie_Maker_Basics.aspx

Dreamweaver tutorial - video

http://www.dreamweaver-made-simple.com/?hop=entheos777

This video is a very indepth tutorial on how to use dreamweaver to create webpages.

Microsoft Excel tutorial -

http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/

This is a great site that gives many views on how to use excel. It isn't a video but it is helpful if you are like me and can only make a color coded schedule on excel. Haha.

Internet Tools

This is a great tutorial to the basic using of the internet. I have acutally used this in my classroom, for our computer skills portion. The 8th graders really figured it out. It's very helpful.

http://www.internettutorials.net/

Debbie Dawson: I have a new interest in using digital storytelling* as a project for my sophomore English classes, so I’ve explored several sites and tutorials related to that. I've only heard and read about them in a journal; until tonight, I'd never seen them or had any idea how to create one, much less teach it. I’ve learned a lot by browsing through these, but I haven’t used any of them for class projects. . . yet :)

The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/ This site is created by the University of Houston College of Education and seems to be a one of the most valuable resources; it has most everything necessary for to get started: examples, software suggestions, tutorials on creating, and even rubrics for grading.

DigiTales – The Art of Telling Digital Stories http://www.digitales.us/resources/seven_steps.php This tutorial shows how to create a story into a 3-5 minute digital movie.

Digital Storytelling – tell me a story http://ali.apple.com/als/2ndmult/projects/3024.html This site provides a curriculum guidance and gives student project ideas. It also provides links to other useful tutorials.

Digital Storytelling resources for Educators http://www.techteachers.com/digitalstorytelling.htm This site has many examples of digital stories. It also has templates and a collection of other resources.

Digistories http://www.digistories.co.uk/ This site includes a tutors manual for a radio storytelling project.

“Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in education typically last between two and ten minutes. And the topics that are used in Digital Storytelling range from personal tales to the recounting of historical events, from exploring life in one's own community to the search for life in other corners of the universe, and literally, everything in between.”
 * Definition and explanation from the University of Houston website:

Jennifer Campbell: The Internet Tourbus http://internettourbus.com Internet Tourbus is one of my favorite listservs. It is run by two men Patrick Crispen and Bob Rankin. If you subscribe to the Tourbus you get an email about once a month with information that they have gathered. Patrick teaches at a school in California. I have met him at conferences. The tips he sends are relevant to educators. The site is described as “Why Surf When You Can Ride The Bus? Get the scoop on computer viruses, search engines, spam, cookies, urban legends and the most useful sites on the Web. Internet gurus Bob Rankin and Patrick Crispen (aka the "Click & Clack" of the online world) explain Internet technology in plain English with a dash of humor. I have learned many things from this site, All of the mailings are archived, It is worth checking to see if these two have reviewed any tool you are looking for. They will give you good advice and links to tutorials

Twitter http://twitter.com I am not a huge twitter fan. Twitter It almost seems arrogant to think someone would want to know what I am doing at all times. However, it has not been mentioned, it is interesting, and there may be pedagogical uses for this tool. The site has information about what twitter is, why you would twitter, and how to twitter. I found a tutorial for Twitter at http://blip.tv/file/685097

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) http://merlot.org MERLOT is an open source site that instructors can use to add content to courses. The site description reads “Putting Educational Innovations Into Practice. Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. Share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues. Be recognized for your contributions to quality education. I did a search on Merlot and found that Black Hills State University has developed a tutorial for how to use Merlot. http://www.bhsu.edu/Academics/TheColleges/CollegeofEducation/CentersResearch/LearningOnlineTeachingResources/MerlotETutorial/tabid/2153/Default.aspx

CamStudio http://camstudio.org Cam Studio is a free version of Camtasia. The site description reads “What is it? CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)" The How tos are built into the program. I looked further and did find a tutorial on CamStudio. It can be accessed at http://econtent.typepad.com/CamStudio/CamView.htm

Hot Potatoes http://hotpot.uvic.ca/tutorials6.htm The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Tutorials are readily available at Hot Potatoes Tutorials

Toby Brown: Apple Quick Tips A great collection of quick (1 minute or so) how-to's for everything Mac. very comprehensive http://www.apple.com/business/

MacBreak Weekly (usually) vidcast of quick how-to's, updates, conversations, etc. For the general tech audience. http://www.pixelcorps.tv/macbreak

Photoshop for Digital Photographers a pretty good, wide-ranging collection of photoshop how-to's, the majority of 'casts are 5-15 minutes in length. Most of the how-to's I've seen used a PC but if you half-way follow what's going on, Mac users should be able to rapidly translate key commands/menus/etc. Skip the first minute or so...silly ads. http://www.thedigitalphotographyconnection.com

ScreenCastsOnline I almost didn't include this one because all of their 'casts aren't free...they post a free session every two weeks but Members Only can see weekly 'casts. I posted because the vidcasts are pretty good so I suppose the quality makes up for the quantity (and I'm cheap and won't pay just to see a podcast every week, thanks...I can always google for another tutorial). http://www.screencastsonline.com

Making Music with OS X The only audio podcast I'm including in my official list of 5. Aud-ly enough, it's about audio on the mac and goes pretty far beyond GarageBand and iTunes. The 'casts are usually 15-20 minutes in length and include pretty good content. The companion website is also good. http://www.mmwosx.com

and, as a bonus for reading all of the above, I'm tossing in one of my favorite 'casts, ever. Grammar Girl. Because you're creative only if you communicate creativity effectively. and for many of us, that includes writing in the english language; tune in and become a better communicator. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com

Jessica Tsotsoros: http://www.mayer-johnson.com/Content/TipsTricks/Writing%20With%20Symbols/WWS%20Basic%20tutorial.pdf

Mayer Johnson’s Writing With Symbols tutorial. This is a software program that helps educators provide literacy support for students. As the student/teacher is typing a word a symbol pops up above the word to provide a visual cue for the student.

www.intellitools.com

http://www.cedu.niu.edu/tlrn/projectaccept/mod5_att/low%20incidence/ClassroomSuiteIntelliPicsshorttutorial.pdf

This is a tutorial on how to use intellitools to adapt curriculum for students who may have difficulty accessing it in a typical way. They can use a switch to select an answer to a question or activate a story. It also provides visual supports for math.

http://pbwikimanual.pbwiki.com/Getting+Started

Getting started guide for a wiki. This site offers a free wiki and is very user friendly. It can be used for collaboration of projects as a class. It is basically a webpage that whoever has access to the password can change the content of the page.

http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Tutorials/HowToEditVideo.aspx

This is an easy to use tutorial that walks you step by step through the process of editing video with Windows movie maker. The screenshots are very helpful.

http://www.learnwebskills.com/search/googlesrch5.html Google Images

This may be too basic, but it is something I use quite a bit and is helpful to quickly find an image and copy and paste it into a webpage or document.

Jackie Haub: http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/How-to-Make-a-Rhythm-Game-in-AS2/38134

This tutorial walks you through the steps of making a rhythm game. It begins with brainstorming and then has you create the required symbols/ art. After that it takes you through two steps of programming the symbols. Creating the levels is next, then scoring, and then the finishing touches.

http://www.microsoft.com/education/winmediatutorial.mspx According to the website above, “In this tutorial, you will learn how to incorporate multimedia content into your curriculum using Microsoft Windows Media Technologies 7. The tutorial provides tips for customizing your presentations to fit different student learning styles. Topics covered include how to capture and incorporate sound, animation, charts, graphics, narration, and video. • Step-by-step instructions are provided for converting an existing audio file, and for providing students with visual and audio feedback using Windows Media Encoder 7. • The accompanying instructor presentation offers a guide to the tutorial, suitable for instructors leading a class or for self-paced learning.”

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/06/06/icon-design-tutorial-drawing-a-pencil-icon/On the website above Vu Tran and Min Tran state, “Nowadays we can see icons everywhere, from a game console to web applications. Icons are getting more and more popular and play an important role, maybe the most important role in user interfaces. However, the resources about icon design are not that popular which is why when we have done our first steps in icon design, it was really hard to find a good starting point.” http://www.tizag.com/beginnerT/According to tizag (the website above) “In this tutorial you will be transcribing code into notepad and then viewing it with a web browser. The code is called HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) and notepad is a commonly used text editor on Window PCs. HTML may seem confusing at first, but we will help you understand how it works in this step-by-step tutorial of how to make your first web page.” http://www.mediacollege.com/video/streaming/overview.html In the introduction section, “How to Create Streaming Video”, of the website above the authors state “This tutorial covers the different types of video streaming on the internet and introduces the two main methods of streaming video: Streaming servers (true streaming) and HTTP streaming. This tutorial is suitable for people who are familiar with basic digital video concepts, and who understand how websites work (see our video tutorials and internet tutorials for more information). When creating streaming video, there are two things you need to understand: The video file format and the streaming method.”

Leslie Bell: One tutorial I have found is http://earth.google.com/tour.html. I feel like Google Earth would be a good place to go if you were learning about a country to even some place here in America and most of your students had never been there, you could show them what it looks like.

http://photoshoptutorials.ws/-- This website has several different tutorials on it. Some of them include Adobe Photoshop, Elements Photoshop, and Photography. From this site, you can click on one of them and find out all kids of information.

http://www.geeksontour.com/picasa.cfm-- This is a good one for pictures. Picasa is a good program to have for pictures. It is easy to upload your pictures to it and it does some really cool things. Another good thing about it is that it is a free download.

http://www.microsoft.com/education/tutorials.mspx-- This website has several tutorials to use with Microsoft products. This would be good for teachers who do not do a lot of stuff with computers. They may be able to use these tutorials to teach students how to use these products.

http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie-- This is a good website for learning all kinds of things. You can do things with photos, movies, web, and DVDs. It looks like it would be good.

Todd Gungoll: Google SketchUp http://sketchup.google.com/training/

http://www.go-2-school.com/podcasts

Google Sketchup is a relatively new tool which Google created for 3D modeling. I have been very excited about this product since I found it as my last attempt with 3D modeling did work well for me as the product was overly complicated. The first link goes to Google's website, and it offers both excellent videos as well as self-paced, downloadable files on which to work. This has helped me understand the program much easier. As for the second link, I have not explored it much, but it offers specific techniques and procedures for once you have an understanding of the program. These are in video format.

Podcasting with Audacity http://curriculum.union.edu/tips/audacity.php

http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/17-audacity-tutorial.htm

Dr. Curry first turned me onto this tool to do podcasting. While I ahve not worked a lot with podcasting, I ahve found Audacity somewhat easier to intuitivlly use instead of GarageBand. I offer two tutorials here which I believe are useful. The first offers a quick-and-dirt, get you started set-up with text and screen caps. The second offers multiple videos on how to create a podcast. (The site includes other aspects of the entire podcast experience, as well.)

Learning Latin http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/latin/beginners/

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/latin/advanced/

These tutorials come form the National Archives of the UK. Their purpose is to assist people in learning Latin if they wish to read official English documents from 1086 through 1733 when official government documents were written in Latin. (Therefore, while not classical Latin, it appears to cover a good deal of mechanics with, of course, differing vocabulary.) It not only provides step-by-step learning of the language at your own pace, but also they have added interactive activities with Adobe Flash as well as other web tools in order to give instantaneous feedback. I have not had a great deal of time with the site since I found it, but it is one of the better ones which i have found. In addition, it should be a site which stays around for a great while as it is sponsored by an entity of the UK.

Learning PHP http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp

I have one more from W3Schools. Again, I have been using some of their tutorials in another class. This one assists with learning PHP, ". . . a server-side code scripting language for creating dynamic and interactive websites." I had a very basic knowledge of hand-coding, but this site has been one of the ones which has assisted me through it. It is not as robust as the HTML tutorial, but it still provides great information. In addition, it does include options for a traditional assessment. Again, I have found this site to be extremely helpful.

Learning HTML http://w3schools.com/html/default.asp

I see that someone else has posted something from W3Schools. We have been using some of their tutorials in another class. This one assists with learning HTML to code webpages/websites. I had a very basic knowledge of hand-coding, but this site has been one of the ones which has assisted me thorugh it. It lets one take your own pace and step-by-step. In addition, since it itself is on a website, it offers dynamic feedback in terms of a Try-It-Yourself tool. This essentially lets you try your code and see immediate feedback instead of having to publish the information on a webserver. In addition, it does include options for traditional assessments. Finally, one of the parts which I like is the Quick List which gives one references to code.

Apple iMovie '08 http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie

I am sure that many of us are familiar with Apple'e iLife suite, and I have been fascinated for years with iMovie. It is a digital video editing program which allows for easy video manipulation, editing, transistions, etc.. While not a professionallevel tool, it is cheap to free--depending on your circumstances--and I have been able to create quiet a few movies, both professionally and personnaly, with it.

I have included a link to Apple's own tutorial on iMovie, which I have used and found very helpful. The main reason that I used it for the latest version of iMovie is that Apple completely rediesigned the tool compared to all other iterations. While it is suppose to be more intuitive, it requires a different way of thinking about the process, the process which I had been use to using. Therefore, this tutorial helped me familiarize myself with the new version and process.

Kristy Seymour:

For this assignment I decided not only to look for technical programs that I could use but also tutorial programs for extracurriculars for students, teachers and myself.

The following site helps people learn how to play the cello. This site offers: Virtual Sheet Music Forums

Classical Music Discussions

Cello Tutorial Films

http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=465

This site offers tutorials for just about every Microsoft program. They explain every button, every process...I'll be spending some quality time with this one :)

http://www.baycongroup.com/wlesson0.htm

This next webpage could jump start a knitting club to feature in the library. They explain different stiches step by step with pictures:)

http://www.stitchdiva.com/custom.aspx?id=49

I don't have any experience with video editing, therefore I can't assess how helpful it actually would be. I think this might be a great opportunity to tap into the expertise of the students :)

www.animationsforvideo.com/html/tutorials.htm - 92k - video

This website approaches instruction in a different way, appealing to younger generations fond of learning by trial and error. The instruction is on demand as you take the steps toward creating a presentation.

voicethread.com

Mohamed Ibrahim: I might share with you my love to create video. To produce video you might need:

1- Video files

2- Music

3- Video Editing software

4- Sound effects

5- Graphics software.

So I will share with you few websites cover these five areas, and its tutorials.

First, you can use your own video files from your digital camera, or digital still images. Then upload it to your computer or laptop.

You can use the free video editing software comes with Windows, Movie Maker, or the free one comes with Mac, I- Movie.

Or you can get an easy to use and free to download software like video thong:

Free Video Editing software:

http://www.videothang.com/view-demo/

Free Music:

You might need to add music to your video, so it gives it personality. Here is a huge collection of free music for video production:

http://freeplaymusic.com/search/category_search.php?t=s&i=8

Free Sound effects:

Sometimes you would love to add some sound effects to your video to give it natural feel, like Halloween, wind, rain, laugh, or anything else. In video production field they use sound effects. Sound effects are what make the video look convincing. So I found a collection of free sound effects you can use in your video production

http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com/

Free Graphic Software:

In video production, you might want to create an eye catching opening or closing graphics; here is free software that you can use to create graphics or to add later to your video.

http://www.gimp.org/

Ok, here are the tutorials for creating you award winning future movie:

Mac I- Movie Tutorials:

I-Movie is a video editing software application which allows users to edit their own home movies. It was originally released by Apple. Here are the tutorials:

http://movies.atomiclearning.com/uk/imovie2x.shtml/

Windows Movie Maker Tutorials:

Windows Movie Maker 2 lets you create, edit, and share your movies right on your PC. It's easy to use, yet it provides powerful capabilities that rival those of expensive computer editing packages. You can download the software FREE from Microsoft®. It works with both Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional Edition.

http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/moviemaker2

Gimp tutorials

Here are the tutorials for the graphics software Gimp.

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

OK, now I will show you video I shot in my kitchen area, yes I mean my kitchen area and edited on my laptop, enjoy it

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=xXl5_yAPyiY

Laura Roush: http://www.planetphotoshop.com/stylized-comic-book-effect.html This is a Photoshop tutorial for transforming a photograph of a person into an image that has a comic book effect to it. The tutorial is in video format; I found it helpful for me to watch the instructor create the image while he gave instructions. The instructor is using a Mac, but he does tell PC users the equivalent terms. There are also many other tutorials for how to use different elements of Photoshop on this site. I think this would be a great tool to use when creating a website for the school library media center. Many students are interested in graphic novels and manga, so I think incorporating this feature into the website design would be eye-catching to the students. I used this tutorial to learn more about the different features within Photoshop.

http://www.guidesandtutorials.com/podcasting-tutorial.html This tutorial provides an overview on how to create podcasts. Scrolling down the page, you will see additional, more in-depth tutorials for podcasting. I liked that these tutorials provided links within the instructions to other topics and tutorials for which the user may need more information (for example, there were links to Audacity and RSS feed tutorials). I think podcasting could have many applications in the media center. Students could create podcasts about book reviews or about research projects they have done. This tutorial showed me the basic steps of how to create a podcast with minimal cost.
 * There are advertisements that break up the flow of the page a bit…sorry about this.*

http://www.w3schools.com/Flash/flash_button.asp This Flash tutorial gives instruction on how to create a “button,” or link on a website. You insert an image, convert it to a button, and add a URL to it, which makes it into a link. I have very little knowledge of Flash, but I thought the tutorials on this site seemed fairly easy to follow. I would use this tool to create and manage the school library media website.

http://www.guidesandtutorials.com/non-linear-powerpoint.html This tutorial discusses the use of non-linear PowerPoint presentations. Below the overview are more tutorials for how to create these types of presentations; most of the tutorials are narrated. I was not very familiar with non-linear PowerPoint presentations, but I was amazed at how interactive the information could become for the user when offered in a non-linear format. I think this could be used in the media center to help teach literacy skills to students. Students could also create these types of presentations instead of traditional research papers.
 * There are advertisements that break up the flow of the page a bit…sorry about this.*

http://www.inspiration.com/popups/insptutorial/index.cfm#top This Inspiration tutorial provides a step by step guide to using the program. It is a bit lengthy, but I think it was written so that older students could follow the directions easily (younger students would still need a lot of assistance). You can watch a tutorial at Inspiration’s website, but you must have QuickTime to view it. Inspiration would be a great tool to use in the media center. I think the media specialist, teachers, and students could all find ways to use this tool for teaching and learning.

Lynn Daugherty:

So I had a lot of fun finding various tutorials for this assignment. I think I might be playing with photoshop and flash more often now.

http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/ti_nspire This tutorial is about TI-nspire which is the latest graphing calculator. It is great for teachers to use and very easy for students to use. I did the tutorial on "creating a program" under "calculator". I can create any program for my students to use using the TI-nspire. I would probably creating a random simulation for heads and tails or even a dice using the numbers 1 through 6. This will help with my probability lesson because then we can graph results using the calculator.

http://www.entheosweb.com/Flash/motion_guide.asp This is a Flash tutorial on creaing motion with a shape. I can use this change the shape of a graph and to follow points on a graph. This would be a new approach then the graphing calculators (definitely a colorful approach). This is handy to have if you are wanting to show any motion at all.

http://www.entheosweb.com/photoshop/reflection.asp This is a photoshop tutorial on reflection. I really liked the penguin picture in this one. We do a lesson on reflection, translation, and rotation. I would use this tutorial to demonstrate reflection.

http://www.entheosweb.com/photoshop/great_looking_textures.asp Another photoshop tutorial on tiles. You can break a photo into several tiles. I thought of an idea when I read this tutorial on puzzles. When we graph on a coordinate plane, I can cut the pictures up and put coordinates on the back of each tile. The student must put the tiles in the correct spot on the coordinate plane in order for the picture to come out correctly. You can make pictures into puzzles pieces as well.

http://www.entheosweb.com/Flash/shape_tween.asp Last one is a Flash tutorial on shape tweening. This is a simple effects tutorial. The picture below with the effects of the sun on a flower sparked my attention. I can use this to demonstrate shadows on objects. We find the height of a large object by finding the proportion of the shadows to the actual height of the objects.

Sorry if all my tutorials were math related, but you can use these for about anything. This was my ideas in the math world.

Jody Klopp:

On Sept 20 I attended a workshop at Oklahoma Baptist University by a professor at the National Foreign Language Research Center at Michigan State University. They have developed the application and tutorials for audio drop boxes, and online conversation applications for teachers. They are very easy to use and can be integrated into D2L and other existing web sites.

http://clear.msu.edu/teaching/online/ria/index.php See how an audio drop box works

http://bubbl.us - create and share mind maps online

http://creator.zoho.com/explore/web-form-builder.html#web-form-builder -- Learn how to create web forms and upload them to your web site without having to know code. This is free for personal use.

http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/audacity_pc -- Audacity - audio recorder and editor

http://www.voki.com/create.php - Create a speaking avatar and place on your own web siteHere is a Spanish speaking avatar that I created in 3 minutes!

http://www.zamzar.com - Convert files online without having to download software

Janelle Scribner:

[|How Stuff Works - How Web Pages Work]

Have you ever wondered how a Web page works? Have you ever wanted to create your own Web page, complete with titles and text and graphic icons? Have you ever heard the word "HTML" and wondered what it means? If so, then read on...

In this article, we will look at the art and science of Web pages and experiment with a number of techniques that you can try out on your own machine today. We've even created a tool that lets you try out HTML and view it instantly. As it turns out, Web page creation is both incredibly easy and a lot of fun, and totally within your reach. By the time you finish reading this article, you will be ready to start assembling your own!

8th and 9th grade students seem to LOVE creating web pages using HTML! The MySpace users have lots of fun tips and tricks to share sometimes leading to some deep learning as we deconstruct 'junk' tag. This is the tutorial I have used for 5 years and it continues to work for me and my students! A great introduction to HTML!

[|The Spider's Apprentice]

The Spider's Apprentice, Spidap, is not another search engine. Our purpose is to help you understand and use search engines. How do they work? Why do certain results come up frequently and others not at all? Which search engines are most useful and efficient? How can you improve your searches and find what you want more easily? If you are a web page designer, how can you utilize search engines to draw more traffic to your website?

That's what we're all about -- helping you use the Web more efficiently.

Google, Google, Google! This site gives students one an opportunity to look at how search engines work and how to use different ones for different reasons. I haven't used it the past few years but found it very useful in the past with students and professional development with teachers.

[|mozilla firefox tips and tricks]

Whether you’re a beginning, intermediate or advanced user, these shortcuts and suggestions will help you get the most out of Firefox 3.

There is nothing like learning to use a new web browser on the run! This is a tutorial for users at all levels providing info to create an efficient, secure, customized browsing experience with firefox.

[|Teacher Tube]

TeacherTube officially launched on March 6, 2007. Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.

I use Teacher Tube in the classroom, providing professional development for teachers and when I need info and/or inspiration!

[|7 Things You Should Know About Series]

The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's (ELI's) 7 Things You Should Know About... series provides concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices. Each brief focuses on a single technology or practice and describes:

What it is How it works Where it is going Why it matters to teaching and learning Use ELI's 7 Things You Should Know About... briefs to:

Enhance faculty development activities Open a dialogue with senior administrators about emerging technologies and their implications for your institution Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies 7 Things You Should Know About...pieces provide quick, no-jargon overviews of emerging technologies and related practices that have demonstrated or may demonstrate positive learning impacts. Any time you need to explain a new learning technology or practice quickly and clearly, look for a 7 Things You Should Know About... brief from ELI.

I don't know how to say it any better than the above description. As we educate and inform ourselves and others about emerging technologies 7 Things... is one of my top go to sites!

Amie Allen:

Dreamweaver Tutorial

http://www.thesitewizard.com/gettingstarted/dreamweaver1.shtml

This tutorial shows you how to create a website using Adobe Dreamweaver Creative Suite 3 (CS3). According to this website, Dreamweaver CS3 is a web editor that allows you to “create, build, and manage complex websites.” There are more than six tutorials on this website that walk you through initial creation of a website to how to add a feedback form on your website.

Microsoft Access Tutorials

http://www.microsoftaccesstutorial.com/free-101-cd/?key=GOO_Access_Tutorial_1Dollar_KeySrch_Microsoft%20Access%20Tutorial#FREE_Sample_Tutorials

Microsoft Access is basically a database management system. This website gives three short video tutorials that range in difficulty from beginning to advanced concepts.

Social Networking Tutorial

http://www.metro.org/tutorials/social-networking/

This website is created by the Metropolitan New York Library Council. The link above offers a self-paced tutorial covering social bookmarking, collaboration and collaborative tools, and information including how to keep up with social networking. As I looked through the tutorial, it focuses on introducing social networking and how it affects libraries. It discusses sites such as Facebook, Myspace, Flickr, and Youtube.

Blogging Tutorial

https://www.blogger.com/start2

I think we all know what blogs are. A blog is an online journal or a forum to write your thoughts. This website allows you to create a blog free of charge. There is a short video tutorial that walks you through how to create a blog.

Picasa Tutorial

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8305010142720964859

Picasa is a photo-sharing site where you can post albums and then e-mail them to your friends and family. This link takes you directly to a video tutorial that will walk you through how to download Picasa so you can upload your pictures to the web.

How to create a video game tutorial

http://www.stormthecastle.com/video-game-design/video-game-design-index.htm

This a website where you can create a video game for free! I selected the “Tutorial for beginners.” This tutorial walks through the programming steps to create a video game.

http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Flash/Games/1

This is a link to Macromedia Flash Game Tutorials.

Lynn Daugherty:

http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/ti_nspire This tutorial is about TI-nspire which is the latest graphing calculator. It is great for teachers to use and very easy for students to use. I did the tutorial on "creating a program" under "calculator". I can create any program for my students to use using the TI-nspire. I would probably creating a random simulation for heads and tails or even a dice using the numbers 1 through 6. This will help with my probability lesson because then we can graph results using the calculator.

http://www.entheosweb.com/Flash/motion_guide.asp This is a Flash tutorial on creaing motion with a shape. I can use this change the shape of a graph and to follow points on a graph. This would be a new approach then the graphing calculators (definitely a colorful approach). This is handy to have if you are wanting to show any motion at all.

http://www.entheosweb.com/photoshop/reflection.asp This is a photoshop tutorial on reflection. I really liked the penguin picture in this one. We do a lesson on reflection, translation, and rotation. I would use this tutorial to demonstrate reflection.

http://www.entheosweb.com/photoshop/great_looking_textures.asp Another photoshop tutorial on tiles. You can break a photo into several tiles. I thought of an idea when I read this tutorial on puzzles. When we graph on a coordinate plane, I can cut the pictures up and put coordinates on the back of each tile. The student must put the tiles in the correct spot on the coordinate plane in order for the picture to come out correctly. You can make pictures into puzzles pieces as well.

http://www.entheosweb.com/Flash/shape_tween.asp Last one is a Flash tutorial on shape tweening. This is a simple effects tutorial. The picture below with the effects of the sun on a flower sparked my attention. I can use this to demonstrate shadows on objects. We find the height of a large object by finding the proportion of the shadows to the actual height of the objects.