Competencies

** Wikis **
Recommended sites to open a free,new wiki: [|www.wikispaces.com] or [] [|Wikis in Plain English] [|Tips for a Good-Looking Wiki] [|Advanced Customizations for your Wiki] [|5 Strategies for Using Wikis in the Classroom] [|Wiki in a K-12 Classroom]

** Blogs **
@http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs Everything You Need To Know About Setting Up A Class Blog--- @http://theedublogger.com/2010/01/05/week-1-create-a-class-blog/ [|http://www.tumblr.com] [] [|www.google.com/blogger] [|40+ Free Blog Hosts]

**Mind Mapping** Top 10 Sites for Brainstorming and Mind Mapping

 Instructional Software ** -- **
Seven Steps to Responsible Software Selection [|Educational Apps for Apple/iPhone] [|Community Effort to "Grade" Educational Apps] [|Blackboard & Instructional Software Overview]

How to conduct virtual field trips
 * Virtual Field Trips -- **

**Talking Photos**
Fotobabble

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal;">Other options that you could use include Voki and Voicethread

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">** Create a learning object telling students how to do something on the computer. **
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal;">Check out website Screen-Cast-O-Matic

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal;">** Rubrics **
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal;">Use Rubistar to make a rubric

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal;">** Podcasts **
> <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; color: black; cursor: pointer; line-height: normal; padding-right: 10px;"> @http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/winterfe/325/Audacity.php
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Download Audacity at home Windows or Mac @http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;"> Need help? Follow Dr. Winterfeldt's tutorials
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Need some free music? Try @http://freeplaymusic.com/

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;">Information from: David Kapuler, media and technology specialist at Greendale (Wis.) School District. Read his blog at cyber-kap.blogspot.com. =====
 * 1) <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;"> Myn a - Far and away my favorite online music editor. This is very similar to Garageband and a nice alternative for those who do not have the Apple application.
 * 2) <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;"> Soundation - Very easy to use, with a drag/drop interface for creating excellent-sounding music.
 * 3) <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;"> Jam Studio - Fun site that lets users select a "key" to play in and a theme to match.
 * 4) <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;"> Loop Labs - Nice time- line editor; learning curve is a bit higher than most sites.
 * 5) <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;"> Your Spins - Great site for mixing prerecorded music and sharing with others.
 * 6) <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;"> Indaba - Unique site where users can create collaborative music pieces to make one final product.
 * 7) <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;"> Creating Music - Very user friendly website shows kids how to create digital music.
 * 8) <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;"> Contrapunctus Variations - Wonderful site for creating orchestral music by selecting an instrument and clicking on a time line.
 * 9) <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;"> iNudge - Fun site for kids, who can make music by drawing shapes.
 * 10) <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;"> Glitchscape - Create sound by drawing vector shaped rectangles.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"> PowerPoint
<span style="background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[] <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[] [|Avoid the Pitfalls of PowerPoint Presentations - by Microsoft]

Prezi:
www.prezi.com :Online presentation building site that is much more funky than PowerPoint.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal;">** Digital Collaboration **
<span style="background-position: 100% 50%; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; padding-right: 10px;">100 Web Tools to Enhance Collaboration <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal;"> [|Dropbox] is software that syncs your files online and across your computers**.**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal;">** Navigating the Web with Students **
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal;">Teachers are excited about using social media with students, and understandably concerned about privacy and permission issues. Practical Presentation has created a one-page guide available online, Social Media Checklist for Youth Projects. This download is a good starting point for integrating social media into your classroom, as well as discussing these projects with administrators and colleagues: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">@http://bit.ly/8UwhYX

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">WebTools4U2Use is a fabulous wiki with suggestions and tutorials on easy to use and free web tools. Developed for media specialists, it's become a favorite destination for teachers of all grade levels too. This is a site you'll want to bookmark and explore when you have a few free hours: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal;">** Google Tools **
<span style="background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; padding-right: 10px;">100 Ways Google can make you a better educator <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal;"> Sketch-up: 3-D Modeling [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Check out the free instructional posters available from Google too @http://www.google.com/educators/posters.html <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 18px;"> Google Lit Trips combines Google Earth satellite images and literature to enhance learning.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">** Video Conferencing **
<span style="background-position: 100% 50%; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 18px; padding-right: 10px;">[|Skype]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">** Digital Storytelling and Video Production **
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">** What is digital storytelling? ** [] <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 18px; padding-right: 10px;">[] <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 18px; padding-right: 10px;">[] [|Free Digital Storytelling Software] []

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"> Video editing software
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 18px; text-indent: -0.25in;">Robin Good listing: []

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"> Digital Images and Scanning
> (http://www.scantips.com/)
 * 1) <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Read about digital images in Nick Dvoracek's manual or online @http://idea.uwosh.edu/nick/digitalimaging.htm
 * 2) <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Read Scanning Basics 101 - All About Digital Images
 * 1) <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Read ** Understanding Images: A Guide to Resolution and Size  ** [|//What you need to know about DPI, PPI, resolution, and megabytes//]
 * 2) <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;"> ( [] )
 * 3) <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 3em;">[|PPT on graphics and scanning]
 * 4) <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Use Google Images to find graphics: [| www.images.google.com]

Word Clouds
[|www.wordle.net] [] []