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**Dr. Susan Stansberry, OSU College of Education ** **http://simplycurious.net/presentations **
 * Ten Tips for Technology Integration this School Year **

=#1 Build your Professional Learning Network by signing up for Twitter, a great blog, or learning from videos.= Twitter [|http://twitter.com] The Ultimate Twitter Guidebook for Teachers [] Ten Twitter Tips for Teachers [] Two to follow on Twitter: @wfryer and @Larryferlazzo Free Technology for Teachers Blog [|http://www.freetech4teachers.com] Khan Academy [|http://khanacademy.com] TeacherTube [|http://teachertube.com] TED videos related to Education [] Common Craft [] a great place to learn new things Think Tutorial [] tutorials for basic computer help

=#2 Discuss Internet safety and privacy with your students= PASS Instructional Technology standards [] A Complete Guide to Web, Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus Privacy and Security [] Internet Safety with Professor Garfield [|http://learninglab.org] lessons for younger students Webonauts Internet Academy [] a great game from PBSkids Welcome to the Web [] lessons for young students A Thin Line [] lessons for older students from MTV Own Your Space [] A 16-chapter e-book for tweens and teens Brainify [|http://brainify.com] Build a library of academic websites specific for your HS class Sweet Search [] A search engine populated with sites approved by teachers and school librarians

=#3 Enhance writing assignments= BigUniverse [|http://biguniverse.com] Create your own picture books Bitstrips for Schools [] Create comics Carmun [|http://www.carmun.com] Tools for notetaking, bibliography, footnotes, etc. Exploratree [] Great mind-mapping/graphic organizer tool KidBlog [|http://kidblog.org] Set up blogs for kids in your classroom -- no e-mails needed Lulu [|http://www.lulu.com] Create your own e-book or printed book MixBooks for Educators [] Create, share, print your own books Myths & Legends Story Creator [] PaperRater [] Free grammar and plagiarism and proofreader Scribblar [|http://www.scribblar.com]/ Online brainstorming Simple Booklet [|http://simplebooklet.com]Publish your own story Story Jumper [] Create your own story for online or a published hardback ZooBurst [] A digital storytelling tool to create your own 3D pop-up books

=#4 Connect globally with a Collaborative Classroom project= Global School Net [] Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education [] KidLink Project Center [] ePals [] NASA Quest [] My Hero Project [] Sites Alive: K12 Learning Adventures [] Journey North: A Global Study of Wildlife Migration and Seasonal Change [] Global Grocery List [] Monster Exchange [] Scholastic Online Activities [] Literature-based Collaborative Projects [] Teacher’s Guide to International Collaboration on the Internet []

=#5 Enhance classroom presentations with new tools= GCast [|http://gcast.com] Create a podcast using the phone Jing [] Create and share using screen captures Jog the Web [|http://jogtheweb.com] Create "guided tours" of websites you would like users to visit (similar to Trackstar) Knovio [|http://www.knovio.com] A free tool for turning PowerPoint slides into rich video presentations right from your web browser. Textorizer [] put in the URL of an image and your text, and the site combines the two TubeChop [] Edit YouTube videos to the length you need

ViewPure [] Remove ads from YouTube so there are no extra links Wetoku [] Broadcast or embed two presenters -- great for interviews! Zamzar [|http://zamzar.com] Convert files from one format to another for free Zoho Show [|http://show.zoho.com]

=#6 Give students the opportunity to move from "consumer" to "producer"= Adobe Premiere Express Online Video Editing []Edit video online for free! Animoto for Education [] Audacity [|http://audacity.com] Free audio editing software – great for podcasts Aviary [] Image editing and screen capturing tools Create a Graph [] Fresh Brain [] Numerous production activities for kids by kids Glogster [|http://glogster.com] web-based posters Go Animate [|http://goanimate.com/]Use cartoon characters to create a short video Kerpoof! [|http://kerpoof.com] Create stories, cards, pictures and more! Loggel [|http://www.loggel.com] Create a "lifelog" for a variety of activities (literature study, timeline, digital story, etc.) Many Eyes [] Input your own data sets for a variety of visualizations. Memov [] Create animated videos PhotoStory3 [] Prezi []Great online presentation tool SchoolTube [|http:/schooltube.com] Students post videos with teacher approval ToonDoo [|http://toondoo.com] Visual.ly [|http://visual.ly] Explore the best infographics on the web and create your own <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Wix [|http://www.wix.com] <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Wordle [|http://wordle.net] or Tagxedo [|http://www.tagxedo.com] for word clouds <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">xTmeline [|http://www.xtimeline.com] <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">XtraNormal [|http://www.xtranormal.com] make a 3D movie with the text you type in as the audio and use their 3D characters

=#7 Increase your own productivity as a teacher= 4Teachers Family of Tools [|http://4teachers.org] - make rubrics, web posters, PBL checklists AirSet [|http://airset.com] Collaborate on projects, share files, and coordinate schedules from anywhere Assessing Student Learning through Web 2.0 projects [|http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/assess.html#web20] Big Huge Labs [] Create motivating classroom posters Collaborize Classroom [|http://collaborizeclassroom.com] Set up your own online classroom Need to transfer a huge file? Try [|http://copytaste.com] or [|http://uploaderbox.com] Diigo [|http://www.diigo.com] Access/share your web bookmarks from anywhere Google Tools [] organized according to Bloom's Taxonomy <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">LetterPop [|http://letterpop.com] Excellent template-driven printable newsletters, etc. Lingt [] An online tool for foreign language teachers Open Office [|http://openoffice.org] Stixy [|http://stixy.com] create tasks, appointments, files, photos, notes, and bookmarks on their Stixyboards and share with others SurveyMonkey [] Use this tool to collection information quickly within the class or around your school Tildee [|http://tildee.com] Create your own online tutorial When is Good? [] Coordinate schedules with others Wikispaces [|http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers]

Your Font []Turn your own handwriting into a font for your computer Zamzar [|http://zamzar.com] Convert files from one format to another for free

=#8 Use primary source documents= LIFE magazine Timeline [] Create your own timeline using photos and headlines from LIFE's archives. PrimaryAccess [|http://primaryaccess.org] PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools. Public Domain Sherpa [] Links to sites with high-quality public domain photographs Rag Linen [] educational archive of rare and historic newspapers The National Archives Experience Digital Vaults [] more than 1200 original photos and documents Library of Congress American Memory Collection [|http://memory.loc.gov] Teaching with Primary Sources (Smithsonian Institute) []

=#9 Take students on a virtual field trip= Digital and Virtual Field Trips [] Google Lit Trips [] Google Earth Lessons [] Travel DK [] Create your own travel guide TripWolf [] Tripline [] Map a journey adding text and pics

=#10 Meet students where they live by bringing social networking or gaming concepts into the classroom= Edmodo [] or Imbee [|http://imbee.com] Social networking for a school or classroom <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Fake iPhone Text [] <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Fake Twitter [] <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">TwHistory [] Create fake tweets from the perspective of historical characters <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Fake Facebook [] <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Fake Newspaper clipping [] Games to Explore in your Classroom [] <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Zondle [|http://zondle.com] Play games, customize games with your own content, embed games into your own website, create new games

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