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I started a New Page "**Wii White Boards**" on the left to streamline discussions. Please feel free to add and or comment often :) This project should be credited to Pete Scofield as he referred it to me.

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12 Essentials for Technology Integration
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Technology Funding for your classroom
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Ten Ways To Get Beyond Powerpoint With Classroom Projectors
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 * Apr 14 2009 9:38AM** **URL:**http://www.techlearning.com/article/17198 True tech integrators know the digital projector can be used for much more than projecting. Here is a sampling of some creative ways to use your projector in any curriculum. • Reading/Writing. Display images, words, or phrases for writing prompts in creative writing or poetry class. Model savvy formatting and editing skills by giving live demonstrations in your word-processing software. And put away those old flashcards—young students love singing karaoke to practice their pronunciation and identify targeted sight words. • Mathematics. Utah State University's National Library of Virtual Manipulatives offers hundreds of multi-sensory games, illustrations, exercises and puzzles for K-12 students that explore numerical operations, algebra, geometry, measurement, and data analysis. (nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vLibrary.html; free online, $39.99-44.99 for enhanced desktop version). • Science. Ask students to add their experimental data directly to your spreadsheet and project graphs of their results for everyone to see—you'll identify those pesky outliers in no time. Protect your eyebrows and your budget by showing videos of dangerous chemistry demonstrations. • Social Studies. Google Earth (earth.google.com) works wonders but loves to crash on older computers. Try the University of Texas at Austin's renowned Perry-Castañeda Library Virtual Map Room (www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/; free) for a wide array of PDF maps from around the globe. • Timer, Stopwatch, Countdown. Using a simple freeware program like TimeLeft (www.timeleft.info), students will see exactly how long they've been working on a project, how much time is left, or how many days until the ice cream social after your final exam. • Games and Quizzes. Turn those groans to glee come quiz-time with hyperlinked Powerpoint presentations that mimic popular quiz games like "Jeopardy!" or "You Don't Know Jack." Free Sheppard Software (sheppardsoftware.com) has dozens of interactive games that will have your students begging for more. • Board Work. Standing at the whiteboard terrifies many students. Why? Writing large print on a vertical plane isn't easy for everyone and little handwriting slips can turn into big, embarrassing mistakes. Ask students to do the work on a sheet of paper, fire up your doc camera, then project their results. No more stage fright! • Graphic Organizers. Online diagramming software like Gliffy (www.gliffy.com; free basic membership, premium account varies by number of users) or Bubbl (bubbl.us; free) can make creating lively instructional flowcharts, cluster diagrams, and spider maps a breeze. • Guest/Substitute Lectures. Live streaming or podcast lectures from guests will give your students access to experts around the world without footing for an airline ticket. Record your own lectures with software like Camtasia (www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp; $299) or upload your Powerpoint presentations to Slideshare (slideshare.net; free) and you'll be the toast of the substitute teaching pool. Best of all, students can access these lectures for future reference. • Drama/Theater. Want to do some on-the-fly improv theater? Hang a white sheet, place the projector behind the sheet facing your audience, and let your students perform inexpensive miniature theatrical productions. Project image "backdrops" from your computer and you'll have the fastest set changes in history. For almost eight years, Ron S. Doyle served as a teacher, technology coordinator and Director of Studies at a charter high school for youth in crisis in Boulder, Colorado. He left his beloved career in education in 2008 to care for his two young daughters full time.---Kathy Kline || A hint to keep track of this and other webpages, sign up for an igoogle account, then go to notify me and get the RSS feed for the webpage. Paste the feed address to your igoogle page. Whenever changes are posted to the website, it will show up in your igoogle page. Mindy Holland **[[image:computers5.gif width="71" height="70"]]Tons of cool animated icons for PowerPoint presentations or Active Inspire Flipcharts [] **( **Right click and save as a picture. Clip art needs to be in .gif format to animate in Activinspire flipcharts.) ** =

=__**//Blackboard at Mohonasen//**__= This year I have the pleasure of teaching The American Civil War and Holocaust distance learning classes to Mohonasen seniors, as well as students from Broadalbin Perth High School. One of the tools I use to send out information, post discussions, as well as dozens of other uses is Blackboard. I've used Blackboard as a teacher and a student and I could see it being used in a variety of ways here at Mohonasen. I've created a "dummy" username and password for anyone that is interested in taking a tour of the website. I'm constantly updating the information so I apologize if things change from day to day. One of the areas I would direct your attention to is the Discussion Board. I use this feature to get the students talking about a wide variety of issues. I've found that if they type their thoughts online before discussing whatever the issue might be in class often times they are more likely to contribute in class. Click on the image to the left and use **mohontech** as the username and **mohon** as the password. Feel free to send me any questions.

Enjoy...Mal Martin

=Here is a great comparision between= Blackboard and Moodle an Open Source equivalent of Blackboard

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Moodle (Open Source Alternative) []

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This is a page for posting and discussing ways to use technology more effectively in our classrooms. Please feel free to add ideas to this page. If you are a member of this WIKI you can add anything to this page. Lets also discuss what is put here on the discussion tab above. 
 * Top Ten Tips for Using Technology in the Classroom!**

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Imagine if we had this technology on an interactive whiteboard! This is where music education is going! Check it out! - John B.

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Google Apps Overview (LONG)

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 * 0-6 minutes (Overview Why Use Google Apps in School)
 * 11:19: Gmail Overview
 * 5:00 Google Calendar Overview
 * 20:50 Google Docs Overview
 * 23:00 Google Forms (Survey's etc..)