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=Welcome to Berea City Schools Etech Conference 2010= We will post interesting resources from sessions, keynote speakers, and displays attended during the three days of the conference. A page has been set up by day and by session for posting purposes. (See Navigation bar on the left.)

What is a wiki? Click below to view short video explaining a wik media type="custom" key="5631427"

Below is an example of how you might post the information under the corresponding Session day and time.

SESSION TITLE - Presenter(s) names Session description (can be copied from Website -www.etech.ohio.gov/educators) Links to resources given in presentation or posted on etech website. Comments about how you see this information being used in the classrooms at BCSD. ( Ex. Good for middle school math, or k-12, etc)

I see this as a way to share the information with the district when we return. Sue

E-Tech 2010 Conference ResourcesBy: Lori Sveda Sorry I didn't follow Sue's format suggestion but I think you will still find very useful!

Below is a list of a “few” of the many resources that I learned about during my sessions at the 3 day conference. I will probably have more to share but for now there is plenty of GREAT resources to check-out.

[|www.Blogster.Com] [|www.Kidsblog.org] [|www.blogger.com] 3 recommended sites for blogging

[] online collection of **thousands of websites ** which are **high-quality **, **teacher-reviewed **, Standards in **math **, **science **, **language arts **, and **social studies **, and ready for use in your classroom.
 * interactive **, and **free **. Each website is aligned directly to the Ohio Academic Content

[] Digital graphic writing is one genre students need to be fluent. Comic Life is the "word processor" of digital graphic writing.

[|www.portaportal.com] social bookmarking, better for students than delicious. Easier for students to get to website- teacher sets it up.

[|www.wordle.net] Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. Can be used educationally in many ways

[|www.boolify.org] Boolify illustrates the logic of web search to teach search skills

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">[|www.edheads.org] Edheads helps students learn through educational games and activities designed to meet state and national standards- example: Students can do a virtual hip replacement surgery

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">[|http://edu.glogster.com] is a powerful tool for students to use to create online collages that they can share with their friends and classmates. [] is a photo movie website. creates slideshows. you must import you pics as jpegs, free, but must create an account. Embeddable to wiki's and websites. [] another photo movie maker website, can add pics and music. Embeddable.

[] Create account. Create a timeline. Add events. Edit status. Publish. Get embed code.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[] RUBISTAR is a free online tool for creating quality rubrics. Rubrics are created based on a topic. Sample topics include; oral projects, multimedia, math, writing, products, reading, art, work skills, science and music.

[] create online, creative quizzes that look great. Embed them on your webpage [] add audio to photos using the internet and a phone. free. everyone has access to call in to make recording. redo as many times as you want. super easy. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">

[] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Thinkfinity is a Web site filled with free lesson plans, interactive and instructional materials, and professional development opportunities for educators and the literacy community

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">[] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Curriki is a 3-year-old organization that offers a large collection of free and open source content and collaboration tools. By open source, I mean that users can not only use the content at no charge, but they also have rights to customize much of the content to meet their specific needs

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">[] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Pics4Learning should be one of the first places you and your students look for photos and other images online. Educators and students have donated thousands of images for Pics4Learning, so anything you find is free for use in the classroom

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">[] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">is a graphical search engine that presents search results in a compact, visual format in three dimensions.

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">[] combine your videos, photos, blogs, and mp3’s into rich multimedia storylines/timelines

[] These games were created in PowerPoint. Download the templates and modify the games to fit your curriculum needs. Includes Who Wants to Be a Millionare, Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader and Wheel of Fortune [|http://www.classtools.net] Class tools allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge! <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-weight: normal;">[|http://www.voki.com] Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages. ... <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">[|http://taggalaxy.de] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> Incredible <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Cambria','serif';"> Site- Browse through Flickr photos in 3D with this flash application. Narrows down search terms [|http://www.tineye.com] <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. [] [] [|http://reader.kaywa.com] [|http://www.quickmark.com] [|http://www.qrstuff.com] [|http://www.jag.ag] [|http://www.wirenode.com] [|http://www.zinadoo.com] [|http://atomic.wirenode.mobi] [] Useful links for using Mobile Phones as Learning Devices. Includes Using QR Codes, 2D Codes, Creating QR and 2D, Creating Mobile Websites and example of how it can be used video <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-style: normal;">[] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-style: normal;">Google Goggles lets you search from your cell phone simply by snapping a photo. Want more info. on a product? Take its picture. Need info, about a business? Photograph the storefront. Put simply this thing packs some serious power, and its capabilities stretch far. Works on Android phones right now.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-style: normal;">[] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">National Trail Local School District offered several sessions at the Technology Conference. This is a link to their Conference materials on the following sessions: Video Podcasting, Installing and Configuring Moodle Modifications, MODcasting (motivation on demand), Study Island, Moodle IN and OUT of the Classroom. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Hello everyone! I included all the 2.0 tools from the Etech Conference on the wiki. It is in a PowerPoint format. You can find it under the "Monday" page. Enjoy! Amy Jambor