March+2+Inservice

=Technology Integration and Transformation=

Goals: Explore some of the tools that we have avilable to sign out. If you would like to sign out one of the carts please go to wahscarts.youcanbook.me

Web 2.0
One of the things that makes the internet powerful is the webistes. With the advent of Web 2.0 (click here if you don't know what Web 2.0 is) websites went from being 1 way portals of information to 2 way forms of intraction and collaboration. Now that our students have e-mail addresses they will be able to sign up for and use these tools. Please take some time and check out the websites listed below. I tested them all on a student laptop and as of 9:34AM on 1 March they all worked!


 * 1) Prezi []
 * 2) Present Me []
 * 3) Much Enough http://muchenough.com
 * 4) Edmodo http://www.edmodo.com/
 * 5) Pearltrees http://www.pearltrees.com
 * 6) Flubaroo http://www.flubaroo.com/
 * 7) Study Ladder http://www.studyladder.com/
 * 8) Hippo Campus http://www.hippocampus.org/
 * 9) Learn Zillion http://www.learnzillion.com/
 * 10) Math Train http://mathtrain.tv/
 * 11) Side Vibe http://www.sidevibe.com/
 * 12) School Notes http://new.schoolnotes.com
 * 13) Yacapaca http://www.yacapaca.com
 * 14) Simple Meet http://www.simplemeet.me/
 * 15) Class Dojo http://www.classdojo.com/
 * 16) Gnowledge http://gnowledge.com/
 * 17) dushare http://dushare.com/#
 * 18) iBooks Author http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/
 * 19) Remind 101 http://remind101.com/
 * 20) Oh Life http://ohlife.com/
 * 21) Boom Writer http://boomwriter.com/
 * 22) Scrible http://www.scrible.com/
 * 23) Paper Rater http://www.paperrater.com
 * 24) NBC Learn http://www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/learn/k-12
 * 25) You Tube Teachers http://www.youtube.com/teachers
 * 26) Capzles http://www.capzles.com/
 * 27) Docs Teach http://docsteach.org/
 * 28) Useful Charts http://usefulcharts.com/
 * 29) Desktop QR Code Reader http://www.dansl.net/blog/?p=256
 * 30) QR Notes http://qrnot.es/
 * 31) QR Voice http://qrvoice.net/
 * 32) ptable http://ptable.com/
 * 33) screenr http://www.screenr.com/
 * 34) 1001 Free Fonts http://1001freefonts.com/
 * 35) Jeopardy Labs http://jeopardylabs.com/
 * 36) Study Blue http://www.studyblue.com/
 * 37) Cacoo https://cacoo.com/
 * 38) Spaaze http://www.spaaze.com/
 * 39) Free Sound http://www.freesound.org/
 * 40) Vocaroo http://vocaroo.com/
 * 41) Blabbarize http://blabberize.com/
 * 42) fotoable http://www.fotobabble.com/
 * 43) Jelly Cam http://www.jellycam.co.uk/
 * 44) Voice Thread http://voicethread.com/
 * 45) Producteev http://www.producteev.com/
 * 46) Paper.li http://paper.li/
 * 47) pen.io http://pen.io/
 * 48) Sumdog http://www.sumdog.com/
 * 49) Pattern Cooler http://www.patterncooler.com/
 * 50) Mentimeter http://mentimeter.com/
 * 51) Skitch http://skitch.com/
 * 52) Jing http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
 * 53) Fotoflexer http://fotoflexer.com/
 * 54) Shmoop http://www.shmoop.com/
 * 55) Zamzar http://www.zamzar.com/
 * 56) Evernote http://www.evernote.com/
 * 57) Buzzsprout http://www.buzzsprout.com/
 * 58) Voice Thread http://voicethread.com/
 * 59) Poll Everywhere http://www.polleverywhere.com/
 * 60) GeoGebra http://www.geogebra.org/cms/
 * 61) Diigo http://www.diigo.com/
 * 62) readthewords http://www.readthewords.com/
 * 63) Time Toast http://www.timetoast.com/
 * 64) Google Translate http://translate.google.com/
 * 65) Animoto http://animoto.com/
 * 66) TeacherTube http://www.teachertube.com/
 * 67) CuePrompter http://cueprompter.com/
 * 68) Scribblar http://www.scribblar.com/
 * 69) WallWisher http://www.wallwisher.com/
 * 70) WikiSpaces http://wikispaces.com
 * 71) Wordle http://www.wordle.net/
 * 72) Khan Acadamey http://www.khanacademy.org/
 * 73) Xtranormal http://www.xtranormal.com/
 * 74) Ustream http://www.ustream.tv/
 * 75) CoverItLive http://www.coveritlive.com/
 * 76) Doink http://www.doink.com/
 * 77) Easy Bib http://www.easybib.com/
 * 78) EduBlogs http://edublogs.org/
 * 79) Wolfram Alpha http://www.wolframalpha.com/
 * 80) Geni http://www.geni.com/
 * 81) Quizlet http://quizlet.com/
 * 82) Lucid Charts http://www.lucidchart.com/
 * 83) Socrative http://www.socrative.com/

iPad/iPhone Apps to check out
iMovie* - Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fast and fun moviemaking app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Designed for the Multi-Touch screen, iMovie puts everything you need to tell your story at your fingertips. Browse and play projects in the Marquee view. Make a movie in minutes by adding video, photos, music and sound effects. Then give it the Hollywood treatment by adding a theme, titles and transitions. And you can share your movie with the world – right from iMovie. iBooks - iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the latest bestselling books or your favorite classics – day or night. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages. Keynote* - Keynote is the most powerful presentation app ever designed for a mobile device. Built from the ground up for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, it makes creating a world-class presentation — complete with animated charts and transitions — as simple as touching and tapping. Use full-screen view to present right on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Or use video mirroring to present it on an HDTV, and preview your slides and notes on your device using the presenter display. Keynote works with iCloud, so your presentations stay up to date across all your iOS devices — automatically. Pages - Pages is the most beautiful word processor you’ve ever seen on a mobile device. This powerful app has been exclusively designed for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Create, edit, and view documents wherever you are. Use dictation in iOS 5 on your iPhone 4S to easily create and edit documents. Pages works with iCloud, so your documents stay up to date across all your iOS devices — automatically. Scan - Scan is the fastest, simplest and most user-friendly QR Code and barcode scanner available. If your iPhone (or iPod Touch*/iPad 2) came with a built-in QR Code scanner, this would be it! Dictionary - The free Dictionary.com app delivers trusted reference content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com. NO INTERNET CONNECTION IS NEEDED TO SEARCH WORDS. The app includes nearly 2,000,000 words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms. It also features audio pronunciation, voice-to-text search and Dictionary.com’s popular Word of the Day and The Hot Word blog. RedLaser - RedLaser - Impossibly accurate barcode scanning. The ALL-NEW RedLaser is the best and easiest to use RedLaser yet! It has everything you loved in RL Classic andmore of the functionality you have told us you are looking for! <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Google Earth - <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #898989; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Hold the world in the palm of your hand. With Google Earth for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, you can fly to far corners of the planet with just the swipe of a finger. Explore the same global satellite and aerial imagery available in the desktop version of Google Earth, including high-resolution imagery for over half of the world's population and a third of the world's land mass. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Zapd - <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #898989; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Zapd is a super simple and fun app that lets you create instant, themed websites straight from your iPhone. Just select a theme and then add photos, text, or links and you’re done! <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">iTranslate - <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #898989; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Supported languages: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #898989; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Irish, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Popplet Lite - <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #898989; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Great for work. Great for school. Popplet is a platform for your ideas. Popplet's super simple interface allows you to move at the speed of your thoughts. With Popplet you can capture your ideas and sort them visually in realtime. Quickly and easily! <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Scratch Work - <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #898989; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">ScratchWork allows you to take notes and browse the web while having the two side by side to avoid back and forth flipping. It also provides a custom math keyboard. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">neu.Notes - <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #898989; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Take notes and draw on your iPad™ with the best app in the store for handwritten notes, sketching, mind mapping, and more! <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">iPrompt Pro - <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #898989; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Professional Tele-prompting software for your iPad. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #898989; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Use your Apple iPad as a professional teleprompter for location reporting, corporate video productions, info-mercials, video blogs, podcasts and all types of public event speaking. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Show Me - <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #898989; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Turn your iPad into your personal interactive whiteboard!ShowMe allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. It’s a radically intuitive app that anyone will find extremely easy to use, regardless of age or background. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">History Maps - <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #898989; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">"History:Maps of World" is a fun and educational collection of high-resolution historical maps.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Constitution - <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #898989; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Senator Sam Ervin pulled one out of his pocket during the Watergate Hearings... Now prepare to own any legal debate with a copy of the US Constitution on your iPad! <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">eClicker - <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #898989; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">eClicker is a personal response system that allows teachers to poll their class during a lesson. It provides teachers with the real-time feedback they need to be sure their messages are being received. Developed for smartphones and laptops, eClicker leverages the hardware already in the hands of many students providing a low cost polling solution for the classroom. All you need to get started is the eClicker Host app running on an iOS device, a Wi-Fi network, and students with internet-enabled devices to participate. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">NASA - <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #898989; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">The NASA App collects, customizes and delivers an extensive selection of dynamically updated information, images and videos from various online NASA sources in a convenient mobile package. Come explore with us. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">NASA Viz - <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #898989; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">NASA SCIENCE: REVEALED! This is the NASA Visualization Explorer, the coolest way to get stories about advanced space-based research delivered right to your iPad. A direct connection to NASA’s extraordinary fleet of research spacecraft, this app presents cutting edge research stories in an engaging and exciting format. See the Earth as you’ve never seen it before; travel to places otherwise unavailable to even the most intrepid explorers! Download it now, tap into the power of NASA’s cutting-edge research today and check for new stories every week!
 * Denotes currently on iPad Cart 2 only

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Videos to check out
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Flipped Classrooms by Salman Khan media type="custom" key="12738690"

TED talk by Salman Khan media type="custom" key="12738700"

Ken Robinson describing why we need to change the way we teach media type="custom" key="12738742"

Need a moment of Zen? Feed some Turtles!

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