Cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com
Phuser.com
Skype
www.mrthorne.com
Microsoft mathematics graphing calculator
Microsoft worksheet generator
Blog post about math worksheet generator
Microsoft education labs
Spellingcity.com
Ignitelearning.com
Friday, February 4, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
Alan November Notes
Packrati.us- Tool that allows tweets to automatically be saved to your delicious bookmarks.
Every teacher is learner and every student is a teacher.
Tool for the teacher to improve teaching, not improving learning.
http://www.mathtrain.tv/
Little girl podcast bob about prime numbers seen 12,000 times
Army of kids designing tutorials
http://www.jingproject.com/
Is there anything in what you teach that children can design.
Children are tutorial designers to create library for the teacher and student resources.
It is a shift of control.
Research shows that adults do not want to allow a shift of control.
Kids work harder than their teachers.
Job #1 kids as the designers
Kids go to staff development with teachers.
http://www.novemberlearning.com/
Students as contributors is the digital learning farm.
Every teacher is learner and every student is a teacher.
Tool for the teacher to improve teaching, not improving learning.
http://www.mathtrain.tv/
Little girl podcast bob about prime numbers seen 12,000 times
Army of kids designing tutorials
http://www.jingproject.com/
Is there anything in what you teach that children can design.
Children are tutorial designers to create library for the teacher and student resources.
It is a shift of control.
Research shows that adults do not want to allow a shift of control.
Kids work harder than their teachers.
Job #1 kids as the designers
Kids go to staff development with teachers.
http://www.novemberlearning.com/
Students as contributors is the digital learning farm.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Mid South Tech Conference Day 1
Vicki Davis
Cool cat teacher blog
What can you do, not what can't you do.
Reverse monitors John seely brown the power of pull
Use your students as student tech teams.
Students teach you and others.
Pink shirt day 2-23-11
Tools are value natural.
Rizzolatti "premotor cortex and recognize...
Self control is contagious. Van dellen
You become who you watch!
Connect to a good personal learning network.
Bit literacy by Mark Hurst
Flatclassrooms.Ning.com
http://www.igoogle.com/ rss reader
30 minutes of research prevents
Exercise boost brain power
If people mirror you, what will they look like?
Connect to yourself through exercise, humor, and time alone.
Dale carnegie how to stop worrying and start living
2 types of people transformers or transmitters
Be a transformer by transforming negativity into positive.
Remove the obstacles or be the obstacles.
Be a transformer by removing obstacles and beware of transmitting negativity.
The only thing I can change is me.
Influence formal leaders and opinion leaders.
Become an opinion leader influencer p. 154
Knowledge, trustworthy, and generous with their time.
Successful technology change is people centered.
Ideaphobia, kainphobis,
Vicarious learning influence deep beliefs
Get over a snake phobia in 3 hours
Harness the power of vicarious learning.
Learning
Organizations should examine and limit data streams. You become what you measure.
False evidence appearing real
If Helen Keller were in your school, would she become Helen Keller?
Pick three to learn about, to do, etc.
Every day is a new day to a wise man. Dale Carnegie how to stop worrying and start living.
Cool cat teacher blog
What can you do, not what can't you do.
Reverse monitors John seely brown the power of pull
Use your students as student tech teams.
Students teach you and others.
Pink shirt day 2-23-11
Tools are value natural.
Rizzolatti "premotor cortex and recognize...
Self control is contagious. Van dellen
You become who you watch!
Connect to a good personal learning network.
Bit literacy by Mark Hurst
Flatclassrooms.Ning.com
http://www.igoogle.com/ rss reader
30 minutes of research prevents
Exercise boost brain power
If people mirror you, what will they look like?
Connect to yourself through exercise, humor, and time alone.
Dale carnegie how to stop worrying and start living
2 types of people transformers or transmitters
Be a transformer by transforming negativity into positive.
Remove the obstacles or be the obstacles.
Be a transformer by removing obstacles and beware of transmitting negativity.
The only thing I can change is me.
Influence formal leaders and opinion leaders.
Become an opinion leader influencer p. 154
Knowledge, trustworthy, and generous with their time.
Successful technology change is people centered.
Ideaphobia, kainphobis,
Vicarious learning influence deep beliefs
Get over a snake phobia in 3 hours
Harness the power of vicarious learning.
Learning
Organizations should examine and limit data streams. You become what you measure.
False evidence appearing real
If Helen Keller were in your school, would she become Helen Keller?
Pick three to learn about, to do, etc.
Every day is a new day to a wise man. Dale Carnegie how to stop worrying and start living.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
TETC Day 2 Dec. 2, 2010
Accessibility: iOS, OS X on iPad, iPod, and Mac
2% with severe disabilities if they can use it 100% are also accessible
One rule of thumb
90% of Apple team have vision impairment
iSight camera
Multi-Touch trackpad
Voice over allows the trackpad to do more
System preferences
Seeing
trackpad
Universal Access-Voice over, Zoom, Display
Enable access for assistive device
Hearing
Play stereo as mono-head sets play in both ears
Keyboard
Sticky keys
Mouse and Trackpad
increase cursor size so that it is not lost on the screen
Visual impairments 1.8%
Hearing 1.5%
Autism 1%
Learning disabilities 6-10%
"Alex" Voice over has the ability to understand vocabulary within the context and provides a human breath pause at the appropriate punctuation marks.
command option d on a highlighted word will bring up the dictionary
"Alex" also recognizes numbers
command fn F5 will start voice over
bluetooth braille display
change the rate of speech
You can customize what Alex says
enable portable preference on usb drive
Turn off voice over command fn F5
iTunes completely accessible and educational
iTunes U Virginia has ADA podcast completely accessible by adding close captioning
subler-helps with close captioning
iPad update to 4.2-slide becomes the mute button
triple click to enable voice over
Voice over on iBooks also tags images with descriptions
dyscalculia problems with arithmetic and math concepts
central auditory processing disorder (day dreaming)
quicktime player to do screen recording (built in)
Safari-reader turn page into pdf, voice over, under services add to iTunes as a spoken track add text to lyrics
iTunes U lit2go
proloquo2go Roger Ebert uses this
Assistive Ware
edseminars.apple.com accessibility
apple.com/accessibility/resources
speechlanguagepathologysharing.blogspot.com- list of accessibility apps.
Diverse learners guide on apple website
podstemic.com rates educational apps
apptivities.org rates educational apps
tune in series weekly webinars on accessibility
Volume purchasing program every Wed. this mouth
2% with severe disabilities if they can use it 100% are also accessible
One rule of thumb
90% of Apple team have vision impairment
iSight camera
Multi-Touch trackpad
Voice over allows the trackpad to do more
System preferences
Seeing
trackpad
Universal Access-Voice over, Zoom, Display
Enable access for assistive device
Hearing
Play stereo as mono-head sets play in both ears
Keyboard
Sticky keys
Mouse and Trackpad
increase cursor size so that it is not lost on the screen
Visual impairments 1.8%
Hearing 1.5%
Autism 1%
Learning disabilities 6-10%
"Alex" Voice over has the ability to understand vocabulary within the context and provides a human breath pause at the appropriate punctuation marks.
command option d on a highlighted word will bring up the dictionary
"Alex" also recognizes numbers
command fn F5 will start voice over
bluetooth braille display
change the rate of speech
You can customize what Alex says
enable portable preference on usb drive
Turn off voice over command fn F5
iTunes completely accessible and educational
iTunes U Virginia has ADA podcast completely accessible by adding close captioning
subler-helps with close captioning
iPad update to 4.2-slide becomes the mute button
triple click to enable voice over
Voice over on iBooks also tags images with descriptions
dyscalculia problems with arithmetic and math concepts
central auditory processing disorder (day dreaming)
quicktime player to do screen recording (built in)
Safari-reader turn page into pdf, voice over, under services add to iTunes as a spoken track add text to lyrics
iTunes U lit2go
proloquo2go Roger Ebert uses this
Assistive Ware
edseminars.apple.com accessibility
apple.com/accessibility/resources
speechlanguagepathologysharing.blogspot.com- list of accessibility apps.
Diverse learners guide on apple website
podstemic.com rates educational apps
apptivities.org rates educational apps
tune in series weekly webinars on accessibility
Volume purchasing program every Wed. this mouth
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