Technology with Purpose for Gifted

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


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

8 Apps, 4 for school, 4 not

Grade Cam
Numbler
NearPod
Overdrive - Borrow free books
Card Star - scan card with barcode
Evernote
Tripit
Face Swapper

Research Notes - Spring Into Technology Conference

Research

Do not let students hand in typed drafts

Ruhl English speakers website

Help by dividing the work into segments, what information has to be found out

Create essential questions first.
Color code  each segment

Highlight information that you need.

Put all the colors together

Open new pages, one page for each color

Then, one document as collective highlights

Next, work on their outline with each section

Easy bib.com

Excel - Spring into Technology Conference

Site with all the resources:  http://moodle.esasd.net/moodle/course/view.php?id=45
Excel 2011 is for the Mac
Excel 2010 is for the PC

In view, normal is default, page view is neat
Window Freeze pane

All functions start with = (the cells that work) in the parentheses are the cells that you want to work on.  Use the : to anchor, after you put in the =MAX

Double click between bars to auto-click

Highlight columns and drag, all will be the same size

Put mouse on column One, under format, then cell, then alignment, adjust to angle top line.

To highlight two different columns, for a graph,  hold down command or shift key.

To copy or paste, go to edge of chart for commands.

To label graph, right click on "piece of pie"

Format = fluff or fun, be sure to check out

look for Bingo program to make in Excel Jen

For a checkbook, =f2 -d3+d4

Always use Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

NetTrekker

How to use iBooks in the classroom

Challenge base  by Apple

Choose animal, how are they helping?

Research

Need Lion, not Snow leopard

Write in word, then go to ibook author

Why write a paper when you can write a book for everyone to see
To share with others, just share

do not put on iTunes

Only
View on iPad

Apple takes i/3 if you sell your book

Once changes are made to thenew book, must update. Notes stay the same!  Get the book right the first time!

Create hotspots, three D images


Cteduonline

Bookry make the videos smaller, use youtube widget

Check out infographics, scroller sidebar

To keep file size down, use just shapes ctedu.online
Easier to duplicate, not add

Shut down portrait mode.  Make small boxes, watch how this shifts between portrait and landscape

Get paid account, not free account

Google docs is a bit tricky, use Pages best, Word ok, google doc is tricky, must go back and forth????   Check this out

Ibook author

Lock the story in place

Have inspector offnto the side as you are creating

Widgets make it interactive

Tumbnails do not ordinarily show up, go to widget in inspector

Inspector is the key to using this

Scrolling sidebar, really neat

Fantastic idea, use this with gifted

iBooks Generator
Bookry.com/ widgets


Sharing be careful

In itunes, link on right nav bar, go to iBooks