1. Technology and Engagement
Technology Tools and Tips to Engage Your Students
Monday, September 28, 2009

2. Who Am I?
Family Man
7th year teaching
TU and BSU
Google Certified
I love traveling, reading, coffee,
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3. Today’s Agenda:
✴Rationale for using tech tools to
engage this generation
✴Preview tools that can be used in
the classroom and collaborate on
uses
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6. Did You Know?
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7. A Vision For Students
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8. “With dropout rates approaching 50 percent
in many urban school districts (Swanson,
2008) and recent education surveys showing
that students are overwhelmingly bored in
school (Bridgeland, Dilulio, & Morison, 2006;
Yazzie-Mintz, 2007).
- Ed Leadership Mar. 09
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9. What is Web 2.0?
“Web 2.0 describes a business model whereby
Internet companies actually provide a service
rather than sell products or promote ready-made,
static artifacts.”
- Ed. Leadership March 2009
It is the idea of using the web as a platform for
learning, creating, and sharing.
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10. Time to Collaborate!
http://drop.io/cmstech/
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11. Pull Some Of These
Out Of Your Hat!
✴ Etherpad
✴ www.glogster.com/edu
✴ Edublogs
✴ Wikis
✴ http://notaland.com/
✴ Tiny Chat
✴ Animoto
✴ Ning
✴ Wordle and Wordia
✴ Photo Story (you know this one )
✴ http://theweekinrap.com/
✴ http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/
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12. Pull Some Of These
Out Of Your Hat!
✴ www.wallwisher.com
✴ www.jaycut.com
✴ http://www.stupeflix.com
✴ http://www.readthewords.com/
✴ www.vozme.com
✴ www.befunky.com
✴ www.picnik.com
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13. Pull Some Of These
Out Of Your Hat!
✴ http://classtools.net/
✴ http://www.yolink.com/yolink/
✴ http://www.xtranormal.com/
✴ http://www.toondoo.com/
✴ http://www.dipity.com/
✴ http://www.voki.com/
✴ http://www.superteachertools.com/
✴ http://aviary.com/tools/myna
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14. Classroom Timers
✴ http://e.ggtimer.com
✴ http://www.online-stopwatch.com
✴ http://classtools.net/education-games-php/timer/
✴ http://www.timeme.com/timer-stopwatch.htm
✴ http://billychasen.com/clock/
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15. Other Free
Learning Tools
✴Zoho and Google Docs
✴http://www.diigo.com/index
✴www.280slides.com
✴Sliderocket
✴Prezi – Zoom Presentations
✴Dim Dim
✴http://drop.io/
✴Create Stories from Photos at Photo Peach
✴Voice Thread
✴http://vyew.com/site/
✴http://writeboard.com/
✴Edmodo - private twitter for education
✴Creative Commons Search – Copyright Safe Search
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16. Online Discussion
Tools
✴ Tiny Chat
✴ Chatzy
✴ Today’s Meet
✴ Moodle Forums
✴ Drop.io - Chat
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17. Mind Mapping Tools
http://mind42.com/
http://www.exploratree.org.uk/
http://bubbl.us/
http://www.mindmeister.com/
http://www.lovelycharts.com/
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18. Comic and Book Creators
✴ http://makebeliefscomix.com/
✴ http://stripgenerator.com/create
✴ http://goanimate.com/
✴ http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/
✴ http://pixton.com/
✴ http://www.piclits.com/compose_dragdrop.aspx
✴ http://www.biguniverse.com/createkidsbooks
✴ Art inspired stories - Storybird
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19. Interactive White Boards
http://www.dabbleboard.com/main
http://www.scriblink.com/
http://www.skrbl.com/
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20. Design Quizzes, Tests, Polls, Flash Cards
http://jeopardylabs.com/build
http://www.superteachertools.com/jeopardy/index.php
http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/
http://www.mystudiyo.com/
http://www.ediscio.com/
http://quizlet.com/
http://cramberry.net/
http://www.polldaddy.com/
http://brainflips.com/
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21. Google Lit Trips
Real World Math
Search Tips - Google Similar Images
Wonder Wheel
Google Sites
Google Earth and Maps
http://www.davidrumsey.com/gmaps.html
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22. Student Email Trick
My students don’t have email addresses, what can I do?
Never fear as Gmail is here! Simply set up a Gmail account, for example
james.edublogs@gmail.com and then add a + sign and a number and/or letter
to the end of your email name.
For example: james.edublogs+1@gmail.com, james.edublogs+2@gmail.com etc.
Or: james.edublogs+johndoe@gmail.com, james.edublogs+sallanne@gmail.com
etc.
This way Edublogs will think that each email is a new one, and all email
usernames and password will go easily to the one gmail account that you
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