Techie Teacher Talk - Wednesday, March 23th 11:20 – 12:20

Technology Smörgåsbord Part Två (2)

The Technology Support Committee will sponsor the 6^th Techie Teacher Talk (T³) on Wednesday, March 23^th from 11:20 – 12:20 in the Roberts Auditorium.  This session will be a continuation of our last and present quick, simple bites of technolgy that our TSC members are excited about using in their classrooms or their own learning.  Tom Haynes, Nick Counts, Matt White, Mary Weirich, Larry Emmons, and Josh Pretzer will each present a five-minute taste.  Lunch will be served and one Techie Teacher Toy will be raffled off at the presentation for attendees who submit their RSVP by Tuesday, March 22^nd.

Greplin: A Social Indexing Database

Greplin is a web-based search tool designed to let you quickly access posts, documents, and other information available on a variety of "Web 2.0" sites. The search engine takes an aggregate approach in that you are able to search multiple social media sites through a single filter. It's very helpful for finding files/emails/posts that may have only been submitted on the web.

If you'd like a quick intro to what Greplin is and what it does, make sure that you check out the video below.

Greplin Introduction

Techie Teacher Talk - 2/18/11 (11:20 - 12:20)

Technology Smörgåsbord 

The Technology Support Committee will sponsor the 5^th Techie Teacher Talk (T³) on Wednesday, February 23^th from 11:20 – 12:20 in the Roberts Auditorium.  This session will be like our very first and present quick, simple bites of technolgy that our TSC members are excited about using in their classrooms or their own learning.  Sue Freymiller, Matt Gerber, Cindy Seley, Jim Brugh, Chris Carrillo, and Phil Cook will each present a five-minute taste.  Lunch will be served and one Techie Teacher Toy will be raffled off at the presentation for attendees who submit their RSVP by Tuesday, February 22^nd via below.

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Members of the Technology Support Committee are here to help you use technology to better both student and your own learning.  The thirteen members of the committee are: Jim Brugh, Chris Carrillo, Phil Cook, Nick Counts, Larry Emmons, Sue Freymiller, Matt Gerber, Tom Haynes, Josh Pretzer, Mark Sayer, JJ Schmiedlin, Cindy Seley, and Mary Weirich.  Please feel free to contact any of these individual for support, direction, guidance or even a class visit!

Techie Teacher Talk - 10/27/10 Prezi Workshop

Information on Prezi has been posted earlier in the blog.  Please feel free to contact Phil Cook if you have additional questions on this piece of presentation software.

One Note Brief

Here is a screencast showing what we covered in the TTT presentation. OneNote screencast

Google Forms

Creating a Google form is pretty easy and can be a great way to solicit quick feedback from students to survey their understanding on a particular topic.  This tutorial link goes through the mouse clicks and shows how one teacher uses it in his classroom.

You need a Google account to do this.  To register for Google, click here.

Techie Teacher Talk - 9/29/10 (1:45 - 2:45)

Members of the TSC will introduce techniques teachers can use to encourage collaboration including OneNote, VoiceThread, Edmodo, VoiceThread, and Google Docs/Forms. One Techie Teacher Toy will be raffled off at the presentation for attendees who submit their RSVP.

Attendees from the first two workshops will be asked to evaluate the usefulness of the various techniques presented in these first two sessions; full hour, "hands on" workshops on the most useful techniques or tools will presented in future T3 sessions.

Dropbox and VoiceThread

Both of these tools have exceptional tutorials onsite, but our faculty members can help you get going.  For Dropbox, feel free to ask any member of the technology support committee how to get started with this tool.  For VoiceThread, please contact Josh Pretzer for access information and a list of faculty currently using this powerful collorabtion tool.

Jing for Screen Capture

Jing is a screen capture program that was presented by Chris Carrillo in the first Techie Teacher Talk.  The tool is useful to capture and quickly edit images on your screen or capture video tutorials on your computer.  The Jing website has a wonderful tutorial right next to the download spot to put the program on your computer.  Please feel free to contact Chris if you wish to learn or know more about this great little tool.

ToonDoo

ToonDoo is a cartoon and book creation program that is free and web based. Toondoo will let students create cartoons with drag and drop features and provide a variety of characters to choose from. The simplicity and ease of the program will lend itself to many educational endeavors. I have used this program to have my students create political cartoons.

Here is a quick sample:

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