Tech 20 Workshops

Session 9: Using Flickr to Eliminate Those Boxes of Unsorted Photos

Greg — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:40:44 +0000

Even with the advantages of digital photogtaphy, we too often end up with a “pile” of unsorted pictures on our computers. In this session we talked about the use of Flickr, Picasa, and other sites for storing and sharing photographs.

Video of this week’s presentation:

PowerPoint Slides:

Additional Resources:

www.delicious.com/gdhuyvetter/photosharing

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Session 8: What’s All This Fuss About Twitter? And if I Have 100 People Following Me, Where Am I Taking Them?

Greg — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:56:24 +0000

Twitter is one of the most talked about web apps right now. Ene if you don’t participate, it’s good to know about what it is and how people are using it. This week we introduce the Twitter service, give a listing of terms and uses, and explain how to set up a Twitter account.

Video of this week’s presentation

This week’s PowerPoint slides:

Additional Resources:

www.delicious.com/gdhuyvetter/twitter

My Twitter name:

www.twitter.com/GDhuyvetter

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Session 7: Three Great FREE Word Processors: Shhh, Don’t tell our Microsoft Overlords!

Greg — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:01:13 +0000

Microsoft Word is a wonderful word processor, but it is not the only one available. For a long time technological progress was measured by how familiar a person was with the Microsoft Office Suite, but now it is possible to use different tools and not lose the ability to communicate.

This session focuses on three free word processing options. Openoffice.org is a productivity suite with many of the features of MS Office. Both Google Docs and Buzzword are online word processors which offer convenient storage and sharing options.

Video of the session found at the following link: http://vimeo.com/3558815

To learn more about any of these issues, or to access the word processors, see my bookmark page at www.delicious.com/gdhuyvetter/altwp

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Session 6: Delicious & Social Bookmarking: A Tasty Way to Organize the Internet

Greg — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:30:10 +0000

Del.icio.us or Delicious.com is a valuable site to find, save, organize, and share bookmarks. Through the use of tag words you can quickly identify and find relevant sites, your own, and those tagged by others.

All links for today’s session can be found at www.delicious.com/gdhuyvetter/delicious

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Session 5: Creating Your Own Blog with WordPress

Greg — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:14:08 +0000

Everyone should try her or his hand at blogging. Blogging allows you to share your thoughts, experience, and expertise with the world and to connect with people of similar interests

This week’s links:

Free Blogs

WordPress

www.wordpress.com

Blogger

www.blogger.com

Live Journal

http://www.livejournal.com/

Resources

Blogging in Plain English (video)

http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs

How to Create a Blog

http://www.2createawebsite.com/traffic/create-free-blog.html

Blogging for teachers

http://mark.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-for-teachers-part-1-what-are.html

Blog Rules for Educators

http://www.edtechmag.com/k12/issues/november-december-2006/blog-rules.html

Legal Guide for Bloggers

http://w2.eff.org/bloggers/lg/

50 Useful Blog Tips for Teachers

http://www.teachingtips.com/blog/2008/07/21/50-useful-blogging-tools-for-teachers/

Article: Values and Difficulties with Teacher Blogs (Us News and World Reports)

http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/k-12/2008/09/19/in-search-of-support-teachers-turn-to-blogging.html

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Session 4: Copyright and Fair Use: My Life in Crime

Greg — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:46:56 +0000

Issues regarding copyright and fair use have become more challenging for teachers in an era of easy access and digital duplication.

This session dicusses the definitions and rules for appropriate fair use in an educational environment. Also introduced is the concept of Creative Commons and what these new licenses might mean for educators.

Sorry, but the video of this session crashed and is not available.

Links for this presentation

Videos on this Subject

Copyright for Educators (series)

http://www.youtube.com/user/KOCETV

Copyright 101 for Teachers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzlry1c76nc

Creative Commons – Get Creative

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io3BrAQl3so

Other Resource Sites

Teacher First Resource Listings

http://www.teachersfirst.com/getsource.cfm?id=7493

When Published Works Pass into the Public Domain (Chart)

http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm

Creative Commons

http://creativecommons.org/

Creative Commons Search

http://search.creativecommons.org/

A Crash Course on Copyright

http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm#top

10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained

http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

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Session 3: 10 Great Podcasts for Educators (How to Claim Your iPod as a Business Expense) ucationa

Greg — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:06:37 +0000

Podcasts are a great way to learn. These portable lessons allow you to “time shift” and access the material you want when you have time to listen (or watch). This session presented a group of podcasts that you can use as a starting point in discovering this new media.

This week’s PowerPoint

Video of this presentation can be found at

http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ed2a4f61b7aee4545ccb

Links for this workshop

Podcasts in Plain English Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-MSL42NV3c

Podcast Catchers

iTunes

www.itunes.com

Juice

http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/

Mediafly

www.mediafly.com/

Education and technology Podcasts

Moving at the Speed of Creativity

http://www.speedofcreativity.org/

Connect Learning with David Warlick

http://davidwarlick.com/connectlearning/

Teaching for the Future Podcast

http://www.teachingforthefuture.com/

Ed Tech Weekly

http://edtechtalk.com/

Twenty Minutes for Tech

http://www.twentyfortech.com/

Teaching Strategies for the Everyday Teacher

http://tenaciousteacher.theteachingexperience.com/

The Teacher Podcast

Teachers Teaching Teachers

http://teachersteachingteachers.org/

Teacher 2.0

http://thecleversheep.libsyn.com/

The Tech Teachers

http://www.thetechteachers.blogspot.com/

Other Podcasts

The Tech Guy Podcast

http://www.twit.tv/ttg

Buzz Out Loud

http://reviews.cnet.com/buzz-out-loud-podcast/

Grammar Girl: Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/

Hardcore History

http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh

This American Life

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/

The Writer’s Almanac

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/

Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me

http://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/

Other Resources

The Educational Podcast Network

http://epnweb.org/index.php?request_id=557&openpod=1#anchor1

Podcasting in Education

http://chatt.hdsb.ca/~magps/boylit/Podcasting%20in%20Education

Create and share your first podcast

http://h30411.www3.hp.com/courses/overview/p/courseId/2512/Create_and_share_your_first_podcast_course_.htm

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Session 2 There’s More to a Wiki than Wikipedia: December 11, 2008

Greg — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:57:18 +0000

Blogs and Wikis are two of the maintypes of websites. Each has it’s own particular characteristics and strengths. In this session we define and examine the wiki form.

Video of this presentation can be found at Teachertube at the following link:

http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=c421a49ff5a98d1e8530

Links for this workshop

Video Demo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY Common Craft

Free Wiki Sites

Google Sites (jot spot)

http://personalweb.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&sdn=personalweb&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jot.com%2F

PB WIKI

http://pbwiki.com

EduWiki

http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/

WetPaint Wiki

http://wetpaint.com

Wikispaces

www.wikispaces.com

About Educational Wikis

Wikis in Education

http://wikisineducation.wetpaint.com/

Wikis in the Classroom (slideshow)

http://wikisineducation.wetpaint.com/

Flat Classroom Project

http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com/

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Session 1 RSS and News Aggregators: Make Your Browser Work for You: December 4, 2008

Greg — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:31:31 +0000

It is so hard to keep up with all the information that is available on the Internet. Using an RSS feed aggregator can help to gather information in one place and present it in an easily digestible form.

Links for this workshop

Feed Readers

Google Reader

www.google.com/reader

iGoogle

http://www.google.com

PageFlakes

www.Pageflakes.com

BlogLines

http://www.bloglines.com/

Yahoo

www.yahoo.com

The Top Ten Windows-based Feed readers

http://email.about.com/od/rssreaderswin/tp/top_rss_windows.htm

Video: RSS in Plain English

http://commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english

A Few Blogs to Start

e-school news: Newspaper of educational technology

http://www.eschoolnews.com/

2 Cents Worth: Education and Learning

http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/

Moving at the Speed of Creativity: Podcasts

http://www.speedofcreativity.org/

So You Want to Teach?: Motivational and technique blog

http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/

Generation Yes Blog: Thoughts About Empowering Students with Technology

http://blog.genyes.com/

Tipline – Gates Computer Tips: Great Links

http://tipline.blogspot.com/

Demo Girl: Great videos of new applications

http://demogirl.com/

Lifehacker: General Technology, Great Timesaver Tips

http://lifehacker.com/

Mater Dei Technology Think Tank: The One and Only

www.MDtech.wordpress.org

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Welcome!

Greg — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:25:43 +0000

I’ve created this site to make the information for the Tech 20 Workshops available to anyone who is not able to attend on a given week or at all. For each week I will be posting a brief introduction, my PowerPoint presentation, links that I give out at the meeting, and additional support materials. We will also experiement some weeks with making a video of the session available (I’m certain that these will end up on Youtube’s greatest bloopers!).

I hope this will help the “time shifters” to take advantage of this resource.

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Enjoy!

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