NICE+1.31.09

**NICE CONFERENCE - January 31, 2009**

Please include any notes that you think others might find helpful for any of the workshops you attended. If you use **HEADING 1** (in the pull-down menu in the Editor toolbar) for your workshop title, it will show up in the Table of Contents.

Some of the presentations (including Laura's Google Earth workshop handout) are also available online at: http://chapters.iceberg.org/nice/resources.htm

toc =Top 10 Web 2.0 Tools= Presenter: Steve Dembo Presentation: http://tinyurl.com/toptenweb20 Notes by: Fred Koch

• Best part - it is SOCIAL (look for visitor – who are they reading?) o Connecting with other people of same interests, use __them__ as a filter
 * 1. Bloglines or Google Reader**– aggregater (Dembo calls aggregaters "THE BEST SOURCE of PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT")

• [|Delicious.com/teach42] (Steve’s list) • Search feature (for example: elementary math) • Look at recent dates for bookmarks • Look for # of bookmarks from people and go into their account • RSS feed – at bottom of delicious page ([|delicious.com/cfox2] – math bookmarks) o Click on RSS Feed link and bottom of page o Now cfox2 bookmark additions show up in my aggegator • [|delicious/Todd_Hall/science1] (workshop participant) • delicious/gcps (teacher approved project school district, mentioned by Steve)
 * 2. Delicious** – online booking tool (works beautifully with aggregator)

//Don’t get married to logo (program), get married to concept!//

http://crappygraphs.com/ • Steve creates hair length / waist size graph (hilarious!!!) • Great for "concepts" - don't always need graph for exact, precise numbers in axis • "Submit" ends as a .jpg for dropping into presentation
 * 3. Crappy Graphs**

http://voicethread.com • Steve recommended: http://greatbookstories.pbwiki.com o Look at //To Kill A Mockingbird// (for MCK) • Go to discovery education for images….
 * 4. VoiceThread**

[|LetMeGoogleThatForYou.com] - too funny!!!!!!!
 * 5. Let Me Google That For You**

http://www.polleverywhere.com • Text to 99503 • Type in # 46075 (Pittsburgh) or 46076 (Arizona) or 46074 (Ditka) • Web voting if phone not available • Shows up in real time • And add to PPT • Chicago-based company • Free account allows 30 participant per poll
 * 6. PollEverywhere.com**

http://shoutem.com • Create your own custom private Twitter • Password protected, on own domain, will remove ads for educators
 * 7. SHOUTEM.com**

http://www.mogulus.com • TV studio in your browser • SET ASIDE A FEW HOURS - IT IS WORTH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! • Wonderful for morning announcements
 * 8. Mogulus.com**

http://www.ostube.de/en/ostube "Because the only thing better than YouTube is your tube" - did not have time to explore...
 * 9. OsTube**

http://prezi.com • Presentation tool Steve used for this workshop
 * 10. Prezi.com**

=Check Out Those Pages= Presenter: Chris Hansen Notes by: Fred Koch

Version 2.0 – iWorks ‘08 iWork Family Pack for ’09 - $169

Templates • Nice brochure! • Use “reflection sheet” w/ brochure to cite images – Joe Brennan • Travel template • KEEPS PHOTOS TO SIZE OF MEDIA PLACEHOLDER in Templates! • Can enlarge photo (mask) to zoom in on certain section of photo for framed place holder

Template Chooser • Added a lot in ’09 and divided in categories o Quiz template is nice o Storyboard creator

Inspector View • Categorizes features • Very helpful, well organized • Merge feature is in LINK section (for example: from address book) • Create charts (nice feature), tables

=Blogging with 3rd Graders= Presenter: Amy Kenyon, North Shore Country Day School presentation: http://3rdgradeblogging.wikispaces.com Notes by: Fred Koch

Don’t forget about k12onlineconference archives!

Great quote from Brian Crosby: http://learningismessy.com/blog

Students drive blogging experience! • Parental consent! o Create user names for students o Amy will share consent form (send her an email) ---Fred now has it if you would like to see it....

Time capsule project - 3rd to 8th grade • Ask students: How can you show writing on Internet o Have discussions with students and other teachers, audience

Starter Activities • Recommends Paper Blog activity o What is a good comment, other than “cool”

Basics Before Posting • Amy uses Class Blogmeister program

What I Learned • Important to types posts onto a Word document, then copy & paste • NO formatting on word document – won’t render correctly

Mentioned Kathy Cassidy as example of great work with young kids…

Thinking of Starting a Classroom Blog? • To get kids writing (Amy’s focus) • Set up students with buddies (one is tech assistant – pair up carefully)

Blogging Platforms to Use • Class Blogmeister (http://classblogmeister.com) • The View from 3rd Grade – their class blog • Good idea of to have classes use same program

Check out these Great Examples • Brian Crosby – 6th Grade • Kathy Cassidy – 1st Grade • Mark Ahlness – 3rd Grade

What to Blog about? • List from students they wanted to share with workshop participants

Blogging Lessons and Activities • Blogging Unit for Download – highly recommended

Networking with Other Teachers • Likes Ning – Classroom 2.0 • ePals – to connect with other classes on projects!!!! o Amazing!

Hot Chocolate House • At NSCD – stool with microphone to read poetry, stories, etc… • Great idea!

Class Blogmeister • Can view other classes who use Blogmeister • Can type posts from home • Edit and fix spelling typos when moderating • Must have something to say, can’t say “I love pie!” with a bunch of moticons – who will respond? o Not very interesting, not motivation to respond…

Amy will put text of presentation in wiki!

=50 Ways to Spin a Digital Story= Presenter: Steve Dembo Notes by Leanna Fifhause
 * Amy also mentioned that at the end of the year she will probably be looking at a new program to replace Class Blogmeister!**

Steve Dembo demonstrated some of these All can be found at http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools From Alan Levine who used each site to tell the Domino story

Biography with Blabberize http://blabberize.com Spanish, For math have nickel, dimes and quarters talking, social studies have explorers telling their story of what they did.

Family Histroy with ToonDoo http://www.toondoo.com comic strip can save as image and put together in another doc.

KerProof is like Kid Pix for free. Login to save work

Xtimeline has timeline with links for more information

If need to have students email documents use, Gmail Lfifhause+(ILI3) @gmail.com will allow students to send and save.

Science Report with JumpCut Online edit of video http://www.jumpcut.com images, music or voice. Need to upload images so consider size of image.

My Plick for music Upload audio and video Then can snyc Just click image to where it fits! Cannot download to your computer.