Thursday, April 18, 2013

Technology with Purpose for Gifted

Dr. Brian Housand (start) bit.ly/page2013


#gtchat every Friday at 7pm, chats about gifted
#page13

All the students now are 21st Century learners

bit.ly/page2013
bit.ly/nets-profiles

bit.ly allows you to create shortened views of web links
Take bit.ly address and put in link and.qrcode will add a QR code

Google Drive, has research piece that will cite the image with different MLA, APA

Drawings can be used as a mind map

Writing prompts.tumblr.com -

Good Reads - social sharing of books
Shelfari
google Books, check this out and magazines!  LIFE Magazines in the past are here

Diigo has a teacher's console
Tagxedo can create and save a Wordle

For Math:  Desmos, Vi Hart, Myscript Calculator

Wonderopolis - things people wonder about
Doc Teach - Primary source documents

Internet archives...see what google looked like in previous versions

TedEd, you can "create a lesson" for for your students
Any Ted Talk can be flipped
Use same engine for any video on YouTube  check out "Best Flips"

Educreations create your lesson online. Share directly to site, or can create a private classroom.  Set it up on the computer first.  Can view on any computer.

Press home and any button takes picture

JING records up to 5 minutes on your screen, Snagit can work but costs $

Weebly:  give site a name,every time you publish you will see a screen.   Option 2 can use a domain name. 50 or so designs.  Can change the way things look.  Editing can be done, as well.  click and drag to add text.  Title is also available.  Create multiple pages, as well.  embed videos, slide shows.  Click on publish button, then at the end, the weebly is published.  Looks pretty, like you did something that is really complicated.  Publish sites.

60in60.org has a collection of resources

Check out Wired Magazine.....Google employers are looking for Google is to find andcreate things 10 times as great as what already exists.  LOfty goal for our kids.



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