This i-movie was designed by Christy Barrow, Erin McElroy, and Melissa Palmer (2011).
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
Day 5
Interactives
All Subjects
- Free lesson plans and interactive resources
- The interactive maps are great for geography lessons.
- More lessons, resources, games, quizzes
- Great videos
- Great interactive math and science games
- A lot of technology resources
Math
- Contains State Standards
- A lot of helpful questions for students
- Needs to be installed
- Online graphing calculator
- You can search my grade level and standards
- Narrow search to only showing lessons with online activities (good for the smartboard)
- Search grade level and standards
- Free math software
- Great for younger students
- Collect data within the classroom, grade level or lower school
Science
- The brain, weather, simple machines
- Older grades
- Must install Java
ELA/Social Studies
- Lesson Plans and Activities -> Lesson Plans based on era
- Create posters and movies
- Pathway challenges: Choose a historical character -> answer the questions by finding the correct archive
- Students can also create their own pathways.
- Choose historical eras
- Exploring maps by typing in a desired location
- 60 seconds to write about the given word
Games/Quizzes
- Jeopardy Templates
Class Tools
- All are great for SmartBoards.
- Click save as a web page
- Great activity for students to complete
- Individual or group work
- Create quizzes and exercises.
- Interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises- Don't have to be on the Internet to open them after they have been saved.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Day 4
Presentation Tools
Glogster
- make sure you're on Glogster Edu.
- Global presentation platform
Prezi
- Presentation tool
- More interactive than powerpoint
Museum Box
- Build arguments or descriptions of an event, person, or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.
Animoto
- Photos to music
- 30 second videos
PhotoStory 3
- Create slide shows using digital photos.
- Narrate pictures and customize motion.
- make sure you're on Glogster Edu.
- Global presentation platform
Prezi
- Presentation tool
- More interactive than powerpoint
Museum Box
- Build arguments or descriptions of an event, person, or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.
Animoto
- Photos to music
- 30 second videos
PhotoStory 3
- Create slide shows using digital photos.
- Narrate pictures and customize motion.
Audio
Video
I. Players and Converters
- "Free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols"
- Add on in Mozilla
- If you go to a website that has video on it, the drop down from video helper will allow you to download the video.
- Example: if youtube is blocked, download the video at home and then watch it at school
- How to get it: Tools -> add-ons -> search video download helper
- Convert to a different format
- Great to use if you need something quicker.
- Good for converting files
- Download youtube videos; just need the url.
II. Editors
- Free video editor
III. Sources of Videos
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