Cool Software

OmniGraffle
Popular for Macs
Requires Leopard operating system

Pencil
2-D Drawing Software
Pencil Firefox Ad-on

EC Sharing Session

Ideas from other teachers about what they are doing with technology:

ComicLife

• Animal Reports - Heredity and Survival - 5th grade
• Animal Reports - Predator/Prey - multiple pages - 9th grade
• Demonstrate patterns created with pattern blocks - work displayed on a ComicLife page - this was used as the consequence for his students fighting at recess - they had to learn to work together to create the patterns
  
• Class Newspaper - produced monthly
  

Movies

• Moon Movies - kids took photos of moon phases, then put them together into a movie - 6th grade
• Claymation Movies - students take still photos and put them together into a movie

Podcasts

• Non Fiction Book Reports - audio & still photos - created on GarageBand - 6th grade
  

Blogs

• Club Blog - for groups and clubs at the school
• Teacher Blog - teacher posts assignments and worksheets on the blog - links to google docs - so if the students lose their copy they have to go online and print themselves a new one - they could even submit online

Office

• Use Excel to create graphs - to avoid problems with different versions of Excel, SaveAs the older version
  

Wikis

• Posting assignments online

My UEN

• Notes to parents about what is going on at school and in the class
• Links
• Calendar

Ideas From Bonnie
Picnik
Jing Project
ScreenCast
Wee World
PhotoFlex
Screen Capture - Shift Apple 4
Lulu
Plasq
Skitch
Digital Teaching Tools
Export entire albums from iPhoto to Picasa
Create a Podcast using the document camera - See Kelly's Podcast to learn how:

• http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/t4
• Go to "T4 Tips Podcasts"
• Go to "T4 Tips Podcast #40 - AverVision 300 AF+ Document Camera"

Create a movie using the document camera

• Plug in a USB port from the document camera to your computer
• The AVerVision screen will pop up
• Click the record (the movie reel)

By the way, there is an anti-glare screen for the document camera!

Engaged Classroom

This blog has been created to post items required of me as a "21st Century Engaged Classroom" teacher. I have several other blogs that I have been using to display and discuss technology use in the classroom already, but I decided it would be easier to one central location for this particular assignment. I also decided I didn't want my personal blog on the Engaged Classroom wiki. I may eventually use this blog as my classroom blog, but I haven't decided yet if I prefer to use a blog, a wiki, or just my UEN site. I think having all 3 may get a bit confusing for my students!

So, please take a look around. I am linking my existing graduate school blogs and several websites I have found helpful in teaching with technology. I would like to go back at some point and add some labels to my old blog posts to make them more easily searchable, but for now you can simple search them by key word.

That's all for now!