Erika Eich summarized an ICE 2011 presentation called Top Ten Tech Applications for Education by Jason Janczak from Grayslake Central High School. Her handout included links to his recommendations and some possible ways that the tool could be used.
Several of the applications which Erika covered were also included in the recent Edublog Teacher challenge http://teacherchallenge.edublogs.org The challenge link is also noted below. We plan to spend our next meeting experimenting further with some of these ideas.
• Wallwisher
www.wallwisher.com
teachers have editorial power; 140 characters or less about WHATEVER!
great for: book reviews, exit slips, summarize a reading (brevity), questions at the beginning of a class
• Lino – An option instead of wallwisher:
www.en.linoit.com
not as much control as to what students post
• Online map making
www.bubbl.us
more collaborative
great for: mapping out chapters; mapping out books
• Google Search Stories Video Creator
http://www.youtube.com/user/SearchStories
• Edmodo: http://www.edmodo.com/ - we would be likely to use Blackboard, but if you have colleagues who need a free option, here is more info from the Edublogs Teacher Challenge for Edmodo.
• My Fakewall
www.myfakewall.com
create Facebook accounts for historical characters
• Tagxedo: “Wordle on steroids.”
www.tagxedo.com
• Xtranormal: Students write the storyline, and the program puts the video together for them.
www.xtranormal.com
• Jaycut: online movie maker; will work at home or at school; not real-time
www.jaycut.com
• Glogster: great tool for getting to know others at the beginning of the year
http://www.glogster.com/
Our next meeting is Tuesday morning, May 3rd at 7:30am in Jim Foster’s office. We will use our meeting time to experiment with one or more of the tools discussed above.
In attendance: Raquelle Brennan, Ian Duell, Erika Eich, Jim Foster, Judy Gressel, Andy Horne, Linda Straube and Matt Stuczynski.
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