TINT Technology Class

Getting Organized to Make the Most of Your Technology

Beth GemarPam Mendoza

Goals for this Class·See how Digital Kits can be utilized to organize your curriculum files · Set up Files within Curriculum Digital Kits

What is a Digital Kit?A collection of digital (tech) materials based on a unit you are teaching (ex. Australia)

Pictures and Clip Art

Video Segments

Sounds

Music Web SitesCitations

How to Create a Digital Kit1 - Create a folder for your Unit - Australia 2 - Set up sub-folders for the digital materials you will be using3 - Label the folders ( videos, pictures, sounds, student samples, lesson plans, etc.)4 - Create a Word Doc. or Inspiration page to cite sources and keep a log of web sites for citation purposes and reference, save this to your Citations folder

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Finding Great Pictures!

·Discovery Education or United Streaming http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm

·Pics 4 Learning - http://pics.tech4learning.com/·Morgue File - http://www.morguefile.com/·Public Domain Photo Database - http://pdphoto.org/·TIME & LIFE PICTURES - www.timelifepictures.com·National Geographic Photography - photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/·Culture Grams - great pictures of Countries and States

I PERSONALLY do NOT like Google Images - you get a LOT of misinformation.

Audio SourcesDiscovery Education Culture Grams - for National AnthemsFreeplay Music - freeplaymusic.comFind Sounds - findsounds.com/types.html

Video Segments·Discovery Education is the BEST source for videos

Setting up your Discovery Education Site............

How to Use Your Digital Kit

1. Enhance and differentiate instruction2. Students can use for Power Points, Photo Story, and other presentations3. Distribute by burning on to a disk,put into an Inspiration Web, placed on a shared folder for student use, sites loaded on your e-Board.