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10 Tech Tools You Need to Tackle Classroom Challenges

Dr. Howie DiBlasi “Emerging Technologies

Evangelist”

Digital JourneyPresentation : 2012

TWITTER: hdiblasi

howie@frontier.net

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www.drhowie.comTWITTER: hdiblasi

Skype: durangodirectore-mail: howie@frontier.net

Conference Links:Tools For The Classroom

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10 Tech Tools You Need to Tackle Classroom Challenges

• Research and information fluency • Creativity-Innovation• Communication• Collaboration• Global connections• Critical thinking• Problem solving• Digital citizenship• Professional growth• Community involvement

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Tools.But how do you choose the right one?

And how do you keep up with all the new and often better tools?

• Here are some ideas >>>>>

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10 Tech Tools You Need to Tackle Classroom Challenges

• Research and information fluency • Creativity-Innovation• Communication• Collaboration• Global connections• Critical thinking• Problem solving• Digital citizenship• Professional growth• Community involvement

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My 4 search criteria:• General thomas gage or general tomas gage• Showing results for general thomas gage

Search instead for general tomas gage

• mikee mouse or Mickey mouse or MIK mouse• Showing results for mickey mouse

Search instead for mikee mouse • tree octupus• Showing results for tree octopus

Search instead for tree octupus• • ben franklin• Showing results for ben franklin

Search instead for ben franklen

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http://www.instagrok.com/

10Wonder Wheel-Rebirth???

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Boolify Project: An Educational Boolean Web Search Tool• http://www.boolify.org/

• Lessons• Using Basic Boolean Search Operators (AND, OR, NOT ...

Project: An Educational ...• You and your students will be up and running with the tool in a ...

About• Why Use Boolify: Librarians, teachers and parents have told ...

An Educational Boolean Web ...• Boolify provides learners with a manipulative mental model for ...

Help• What is Boolean logic? Boolean logic is a mathematics-based ...

Boolify Project• Boolify provides learners with a manipulative mental model for ...

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15http://www.theodora.com/country_digraphs.html

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10 Tech Tools You Need to Tackle Classroom Challenges

• Research and information fluency • Creativity-Innovation

• Communication - Oral/Written/Presentation

• Collaboration-Global connections• Critical thinking• Problem solving• Digital citizenship• Professional growth

• Community involvement

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This I Believe Essays New and Old- Thirty Things I Believe…by 6 year old - Tarak McLain

I believe life is good.

I believe God is in everything.

I believe we're all equal.

I believe we can help people.

I believe everyone is weird in their own way.

I believe hate is a cause for love.

I believe we should be generous.

I believe I should not whine.

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This I Believe

• international project engaging people in writing, sharing,

• the core values that guide their daily lives

• short statements of belief

• http://thisibelieve.org/

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Creative Writing

• Storybird http://storybird.com/• Build your own stories (with images) and share them with others•  • ZooBurst - www.zooburst.com/• a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own

3D pop-up books. Sign up! Learn More. Premium ZooBurst accounts are ...

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Where could you use it?http://zooburst.com/zb_gallery.php

• ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books.

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http://www.studentreasures.com/

• Welcome to Studentreasures Publishing!     

• Do you want to create a fun learning experience for your students? Do you want them to get excited and motivated about writing?

• Studentreasures publishing is the perfect tool to help guide your students through the writing process!

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Create books using our traditional Mail-in Kits! Our traditional mail-in kits are perfect for teachers that wish to capture their students' handwriting and illustrations in a timeless keepsake. Select the program that best fits you.

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10 Tech Tools You Need to Tackle Classroom Challenges

• Research and information fluency

• Creativity-Innovation• Communication• Collaboration-Global connections• Critical thinking• Problem solving• Digital citizenship• Professional growth• Community involvement

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Glogster Glogster.EDU

• Lesson ideas to foster creativity and higher order thinking skills

• Teachers and students can create interactive posters for research, websites, presentations, reflection,

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Applications for Education http://www.moglue.com/

• Moglue – Create Interactive eBooks for iOS and Android Devices

• Moglue a beta development phase – Free

• • Moglue -students to build interactive stories.

• Educators-develop interactive etextbooks to match the content they teach.

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10 Tech Tools You Need to Tackle Classroom Challenges

• Research and information fluency • Creativity-Innovation

• Communication - Oral/Written/Presentation

• Collaboration-Global connections• Critical thinking• Problem solving• Digital citizenship• Professional growth

• Community involvement

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Creative Writing• Storybird http://storybird.com/• Build your own stories (with images) and share them with others•  • ZooBurst - www.zooburst.com/• a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own

3D pop-up books. Sign up! Learn More. Premium ZooBurst accounts are ...

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Where could you use it?http://zooburst.com/zb_gallery.php

• ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books.

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Three Minute Tales• Tell a three-five minute story,

most of us stumble.

• Writing a 500-word story "strikes at the very heart of the short story as a project, which is to get something going rapidly.“

• http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105685925

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Round 6 Stories

• Send us original works of fiction

• One of the characters tells a joke• One of the characters cries

• Our Round 6 winner was "A Saint And A Criminal" by Lauri Anderson.

• http://www.npr.org/2011/04/03/133542373/a-saint-and-a-criminal

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10 Tech Tools You Need to Tackle Classroom Challenges

• Research and information fluency • Creativity-Innovation• Communication

• Collaboration-Global connections• Critical thinking• Problem solving• Digital citizenship• Professional growth• Community involvement

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Give Kids A Global Voice: Globalize the Curriculum

http://www.epals.com/

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Using Web 2.0 Tools and

Social Networking for Global

Collaborative Learning

Dr. Rita Oates

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Student/Collaboration:Project Overview

• Friendly letters with email

• Compared cultures

• Connect: Skype/Video Conf

• Completed “documentary”

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• Connecting classrooms in 200 countries

• 20 million students & teachers

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Select a Country

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Project Search

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Hello From Sao Paolo, BrazilCollaboration across the Digital Divide:

New York Students and their ePals in Botswana

Louisiana and United KingdomStudents from the Guangxi School, China

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Flat Classroom® Projects

• http://www.flatclassroomproject.org/

• Flat Classroom® Directors, Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis, are excited to announce the opening of projects for 2011-12

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The principles of these projects are always the same but the content is varied:

• Content united between classrooms• Personalized learning experiences• Classrooms from around the world for

interaction Innovative implementation • 21st Learning Skills• Curricular objectives• Empowered-Engaged teachers

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• Flat Classroom Project• - application deadline September 1 for FCP11-3

• Digiteen (non-profit) - - application deadline September 15 for Digiteen 11-3

• 'A Week in the Life...‘ - application deadline September 1 for AWL11-2

• Eracism - - application deadline September 15 for Eracism 2011

• NetGenEd - - application deadline February 1, 2012 for NetGenEd 2012

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10 Tech Tools You Need to Tackle Classroom Challenges

• Research and information fluency • Creativity-Innovation• Communication• Collaboration-Global connections

• Critical thinking

• Problem solving• Digital citizenship• Professional growth• Community involvement

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What is Critical Thinking?

• In 1605, Sir Francis Bacon, the father of scientific thinking, outlined these habits of mind (paraphrased):

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1605- Sir Francis Bacon

• "Nimble and versatile" enough to see relationships among things, in addition to subtle distinctions between them.

• Inquisitive. • Patient enough to doubt and ask questions. • Fond of reflecting. . • Slow to assert and ready to consider multiple

points of view. Careful to support their points of view and to formulate an argument with reasons and evidence.

• Alert to all deception.

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Applying critical thinking skills through web research can help students:

• http://www.microsoft.com/education/en-us/teachers/guides/Pages/critical_thinking.aspx

• Improve search skills. • Evaluate the information they find. • Incorporate them in their work.

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Brain Sharpener

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Practice :

List uses for a balloon

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Practice 3: Name things that have holes in them.•  • Practice 4: Give uses for Velcro•  • Practice 5: List uses for a balloon•  • Practice 6: Give uses for a piece of toast•  • Practice 7: Give uses for a windshield wiper•  • Practice 8: Give ways to put out dragon's fire•  • Practice 9: In 1 minute name countries•  • Practice 10: Compare and Complex - Name a manufactured item for each letter of the alphabet. (example a-

abacus b-block c- car etc•  • Practice 11: Your ship is sinking. What will you do? ( really think outside to box on this one or throw the box

away)

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Book Exercises:

"BRAIN STORMING" (sample from the book)by Marty Fligor Published by Creative Publishing Mansfield Center, CT

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CSI Web Adventures for Students

• http://forensics.rice.edu/index.html

• Rice University has partnered with CBS, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History to produce educational web adventures based on the CSI television series.

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Thinking Critically About UFOs

• Conspiracy Theories in Aerospace History

•  • A Lesson in Critical Thinking for the Internet Age

• http://www.smithsonianconference.org/conspiracy/roswell/

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• Thinking Critically About UFOsRecording Available

• Welcome and Introduction to Critical ThinkingRecording Available

• Thinking Critically About Amelia Earhart’s DisappearanceRecording Available

• Thinking Critically About the Attack on Pearl Harbor

Recording Available• Thinking Critically About the Apollo Moon Landin

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Recording Available

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10 Tech Tools You Need to Tackle Classroom Challenges

• Research and information fluency • Creativity-Innovation• Communication• Collaboration-Global connections• Critical thinking• Problem solving

• Digital citizenship• Professional growth

• Community involvement

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GENERAL DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP/IDENTITY/CYBERBULLYING RESOURCES

• PLEASE NOTE - Because of the type of presentation (towards awareness), there are a few websites described below that would NOT be appropriate for the classroom.

• Wikipedia description. • Descriptions themselves can be somewhat

shocking so I would advise caution in viewing the page.

• Dr. Alec Couros - couros@gmail.com

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Dr. Alec Couros - couros@gmail.com

• Digital Citizenship - My wiki featuring a number of digital citizenship resources.

• Media Literacy - My wiki featuring a number of media literacy resources.

• Cyberbulying - My wiki featuring a number of cyberbullying resources.

• Cyberbullying.ca Bullying.org - Great sites from Bill Belsey.• Digizen - Excellent site on digital citizenship from the UK.• Digital Citizenship Resources - Comprehensive site from

Wolk Creek• Digital Citizenship Wiki - Great resources from Jason Ohler.• Literacy with ICT Across the Curriculum - from Manitoba

Education with a focus on critical and creative thinking and ethics and responsibility when using ICT.

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10 Tech Tools You Need to Tackle Classroom Challenges

• Research and information fluency • Creativity-Innovation• Communication• Collaboration-Global connections• Critical thinking• Problem solving• Digital citizenship

• Professional growth• Community involvement

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Build Your PLN(Personal Learning Network)

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• Connect– ISTE Connects Blog– Communities

• ISTE Community Ning

• ISTE Conference Ning

• Second Life• Facebook• LinkedIn• Wikispaces• Twitter

– Special Interest Groups

• Join/Manage SIGs – ISTE Mobile– Volunteer with ISTE

• ISTE Volunteers – Career Center– Ambassador Progra

m– Australia Study Tour

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Classroom 2.0 All Members ( 60,819 )http://www.classroom20.com/

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50 Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom

• Twitter in the Classroom | Powerful Learning Practice

• 5 Unique Uses of Twitter in the Classroom - U.S. News & World Report

• How Twitter in the Classroom is Boosting Student Engagement

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Twitter In Education - Who Should I Follow ?

• Gift for Administrators by Beth Still

• http://www.drhowie.com/

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10 Tech Tools You Need to Tackle Classroom Challenges

• Research and information fluency • Creativity-Innovation• Communication• Collaboration-Global connections• Critical thinking• Problem solving• Digital citizenship• Professional growth

• Community involvement

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•  The Parent, School, and Community Involvement Guide

• Fostering School, Family, and Community Involvement

• The Importance of Community Involvement in Schools

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Make a connection and contribution to society ..what

can I do to change the world ?

Community Connections

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•Kiva - http://www.kiva.com

• Pay-It-Forward: Collecting donations for Kiva Micro-loans • Microbank project teaches lessons in applied

philanthropy, capitalism

•  FreeRice-non-profit websiteby United Nations World Food Program. http://www.freerice.com/

• Two goals:1. Provide education to everyone for free.2. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.

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Kids are Heroes - Kids are making a difference in this world

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•from the book: The Backdoor to Enlightenment:

•Eight Steps to Living Your Dreams and Changing Your World

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• For every nine people who denounce innovation, only one will encourage it.

• For every nine people who do things the way they have always been done, only one will ever wonder if there is a better way.

• For every nine people who stand in line in front of a locked building, only one will ever come around and check the back door.

• Our progress as a species rests squarely on the shoulders of that tenth person. The nine are satisfied with things they are told are valuable.

• Person 10 determines for himself what has value.

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Symbaloo ??? Access your bookmarks anywhere

• Symbaloo is the easiest start on the internet. Add YOUR favorite websites!

• Click on the tiles you would like to add to your Symbaloo webmix ...

• Bookmarker

• The Symbaloo bookmarker is an add-on for your browser. www.symbaloo.com/

Social Bookmarking

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10 Tech Tools You Need to Tackle Classroom Challenges

Dr. Howie DiBlasi “Emerging Technologies

Evangelist”

Digital JourneyPresentation : 2012

TWITTER: hdiblasi

howie@frontier.net