I attended the following sessions on Thursday: Prezi, Gloster, and Mural.ly-Oh My! Presentation Tools Your Students Will Love, Evernote, Teaching the the 1 iPad Classroom, and Using QR Codes in the Classroom for Daily Instruction. One of my major highlights was the use of QR Codes in the classroom. I was able to see how you can easily incorporate the codes in centers and well as during Parent Chat Nights, I was also very intrigued with how useful Evernote would be for me in the classroom. There were several apps that I learned about that will be beneficial to me in the classroom. Several include ClassDojo, Math Blaster, Story Wheel, Quizlet, and Freedom Tour.
PART 1 - On Thursday, June 13, I attended the following sessions: Free Technology Tools That Increase Productivity, Evernote, iOS Support Group, and The Reality is...Your Curriculum Needs to be Augmented!.
In Free Technology, we learned that the average person spends 45 minutes a day searching for things they've lost or misplaced. We also learned that a weekly edition of the New York Times contains more information that a person of the 17th century was likely to encounter in a lifetime. Thus, the need to be organized and more productive.
The speaker briefly discribed igHome, a dashboard of useful tools to make on your homepage, (kind of like the old iGoogle home page). He aslo describe a similar tool called Netvibes.com. The two main applications the speaker discussed were Dropbox and Evernote. Dropbox provides 2 GB of free storage for users for things like photos and documents. These items can be shared with others. It is a great way to keep up with docs without having to have a flash drive or external hard drive. The speaker also discussed Evernote. It is an online service for notetaking and archiving, but has lots of other features. It has unlimited storage although the amount users can upload in a months time is limited. There is a desktop client as well as an app for mobile devices. It too allows users to store notes, photos, documents, and recordings. It has the look and feel of email. Users can search their Evernote for specific items, and can send emails from the program. We discussed Vlingo - a free app for any device. It dictates what you speak into your phone or device into text.
PART 2 - The next session I attened was Leslie Fishers session on Evernote. Some key points include: The program has note synchronization where notes entered from your PC, iPhone, etc... are synchronized. One downside is the program looks different on each platform, so there is a learning curve. Notebook is like a folder where you can store things. There is a microphone feature that you can use to record audio conversations. You can take a screenshot of something and store there. The program searches uses text recognition, and can even find text in photos. You can take a photo of a written document and then use text recognition to search for it. Many document scanners and hardware are pre-programmed to be Evernote ready. You can add tags to your Evernote items. You can drag-and-drop photos into new or existing notes. You can attach documents to notes. You can share notes on Facebook, Twitter, etc... When someone shares an Evernote, the people it is shared with can save that note to their own Evernote accounts (although the speaker warned that it is not really designed to be a collaborative tool). It has an atlas that tracks where you are when a note is added so you can search for notes by the location you were in when you made the note. The program makes it easy to share links with students and others. In iOS Support Group, we learned about the following; You can split your keyboard in half so you can use your thumbs to type. You can now have pages of things in your iPad folders. We learned about Waze, a great app for traveling. It keeps up with traffice and accidents live using GPS and location services. Passbook - a useful app for keeping track of rewards cards or gift cards. iOS apps for teachers - Screenleap.com, a great way to share your screen with other users. Haiku Deck - a presentation app that allows users to create presentations, has a large library of free photos, and exports to Powerpoint and PDF format. Items can be shared on Facebook and Twitter. She also discussed Dropbox. Good Reader - allows you to open any Microsoft office file on iPads and iPhones. Classdojo - A student behavior and classroom management app. ScreenChomp - Turns your device into a white board with the ability to record the pen and audio. Cloudon - Cloud based access to Dropbox, Google Drive, and allows full editing of your docs in the cloud. Explain Everything - Allows users to annotate, animate, and narrate presentations. Then you can export them as MP4's or .png (photo) files. Wunderlist - Great app for to-do lists. Catch Notes - App for really quick notes. Can set alarms, make photos, etc... Zite - A news app that gives you the most common, or hottest news trending items. Twitter Search #edapp - Finds tweets about educational apps. Flipboard - Gives a newspaper view of what your students are talking about. Camera Awesome - Allows you to change both your focus and exposure on your device. Has lots of filters and effects too, including time lapse. Collabracam - Can connect 5 devices to a director device. All connected devices send info to the director cam. Vyclone - Meshes videos together. Stop Animator - High-def motion video, can create time lapse videos. Word lens - a cool dictionary. Dophin Browser - A quick browser that supports gesture controls. You can use your finger to do things like open new tabs. Pocket - create a pocket of info that you can then share with others.
Augumented Reality - more info at http://bit.ly/tedtalk/ARI. You can morph photos. You make augumented reality segements with a tool called aurasma studio. Seems to work kind of like QR codes without the code. It uses location services to provide an 'aura', a piece of information a person who is nearby. Would work great for things like virtual museums, virtual halls of history, etc...
I attended the following sessions on Thursday: Prezi, Gloster, and Mural.ly-Oh My! Presentation Tools Your Students Will Love, Evernote, Teaching the the 1 iPad Classroom, and Using QR Codes in the Classroom for Daily Instruction. One of my major highlights was the use of QR Codes in the classroom. I was able to see how you can easily incorporate the codes in centers and well as during Parent Chat Nights, I was also very intrigued with how useful Evernote would be for me in the classroom. There were several apps that I learned about that will be beneficial to me in the classroom. Several include ClassDojo, Math Blaster, Story Wheel, Quizlet, and Freedom Tour.
ReplyDeletePART 1 - On Thursday, June 13, I attended the following sessions: Free Technology Tools That Increase Productivity, Evernote, iOS Support Group, and The Reality is...Your Curriculum Needs to be Augmented!.
ReplyDeleteIn Free Technology, we learned that the average person spends 45 minutes a day searching for things they've lost or misplaced. We also learned that a weekly edition of the New York Times contains more information that a person of the 17th century was likely to encounter in a lifetime. Thus, the need to be organized and more productive.
The speaker briefly discribed igHome, a dashboard of useful tools to make on your homepage, (kind of like the old iGoogle home page). He aslo describe a similar tool called Netvibes.com.
The two main applications the speaker discussed were Dropbox and Evernote. Dropbox provides 2 GB of free storage for users for things like photos and documents. These items can be shared with others. It is a great way to keep up with docs without having to have a flash drive or external hard drive. The speaker also discussed Evernote. It is an online service for notetaking and archiving, but has lots of other features. It has unlimited storage although the amount users can upload in a months time is limited. There is a desktop client as well as an app for mobile devices. It too allows users to store notes, photos, documents, and recordings. It has the look and feel of email. Users can search their Evernote for specific items, and can send emails from the program. We discussed Vlingo - a free app for any device. It dictates what you speak into your phone or device into text.
PART 2 - The next session I attened was Leslie Fishers session on Evernote. Some key points include: The program has note synchronization where notes entered from your PC, iPhone, etc... are synchronized. One downside is the program looks different on each platform, so there is a learning curve. Notebook is like a folder where you can store things. There is a microphone feature that you can use to record audio conversations. You can take a screenshot of something and store there. The program searches uses text recognition, and can even find text in photos. You can take a photo of a written document and then use text recognition to search for it. Many document scanners and hardware are pre-programmed to be Evernote ready. You can add tags to your Evernote items. You can drag-and-drop photos into new or existing notes. You can attach documents to notes. You can share notes on Facebook, Twitter, etc... When someone shares an Evernote, the people it is shared with can save that note to their own Evernote accounts (although the speaker warned that it is not really designed to be a collaborative tool). It has an atlas that tracks where you are when a note is added so you can search for notes by the location you were in when you made the note. The program makes it easy to share links with students and others.
ReplyDeleteIn iOS Support Group, we learned about the following; You can split your keyboard in half so you can use your thumbs to type. You can now have pages of things in your iPad folders. We learned about Waze, a great app for traveling. It keeps up with traffice and accidents live using GPS and location services. Passbook - a useful app for keeping track of rewards cards or gift cards. iOS apps for teachers - Screenleap.com, a great way to share your screen with other users. Haiku Deck - a presentation app that allows users to create presentations, has a large library of free photos, and exports to Powerpoint and PDF format. Items can be shared on Facebook and Twitter. She also discussed Dropbox. Good Reader - allows you to open any Microsoft office file on iPads and iPhones. Classdojo - A student behavior and classroom management app. ScreenChomp - Turns your device into a white board with the ability to record the pen and audio. Cloudon - Cloud based access to Dropbox, Google Drive, and allows full editing of your docs in the cloud. Explain Everything - Allows users to annotate, animate, and narrate presentations. Then you can export them as MP4's or .png (photo) files. Wunderlist - Great app for to-do lists. Catch Notes - App for really quick notes. Can set alarms, make photos, etc... Zite - A news app that gives you the most common, or hottest news trending items. Twitter Search #edapp - Finds tweets about educational apps. Flipboard - Gives a newspaper view of what your students are talking about. Camera Awesome - Allows you to change both your focus and exposure on your device. Has lots of filters and effects too, including time lapse. Collabracam - Can connect 5 devices to a director device. All connected devices send info to the director cam. Vyclone - Meshes videos together. Stop Animator - High-def motion video, can create time lapse videos. Word lens - a cool dictionary. Dophin Browser - A quick browser that supports gesture controls. You can use your finger to do things like open new tabs. Pocket - create a pocket of info that you can then share with others.
Augumented Reality - more info at http://bit.ly/tedtalk/ARI. You can morph photos. You make augumented reality segements with a tool called aurasma studio. Seems to work kind of like QR codes without the code. It uses location services to provide an 'aura', a piece of information a person who is nearby. Would work great for things like virtual museums, virtual halls of history, etc...