Carrie Rathsack Assistant Director Center for Teaching Learning and Technology BGSU Bowling Green State University
I attended this first conference of the morning, found it fun and informative... just a few highlights below
Why use digital tools:
Serve multiple learning styles
Supplement learning in the classroom
Save paper
Students are already using these tools socially
Digital Literacy
Serve people with disabilities
FIGHT BEING BOARD
Because it is fun
Involving students
Students learn better when they are involved
Facilitate instruction of different learning styles
Tools discussed:
Many were discussed but these stood out to me. I hope I have typed in the links correctly... I will fix later if so
Animoto: upload pictures, pick music and it automatically makes a video montage
http://www.animoto.com
Jing: Record what's on your screen and turn it into a video
Uses:
Language: Show word with pronunciation
Teach software
http://www.jingproject.com
Vyew: Free always-on collaboration and live web conferencing
http://vyew.com/site/
Cmap Tools:
http://cmap.ihmc.us
Wetpaint: Wiki
http://wetpaint.com
Podomatic: podcasting
http://www.podomatic.com
PodProducer: PC Podcasts
http://www.podproducer.net/en
Audacity: Podcasting
http://audacity.sourcefourge.net
Zoomerang: Survey tool
http://www.zoomerang.com
Uses: You can make surveys available outside of your class, make it available to the whole world.
Twitter: microblogging
http://twitter.com
Uses: Reminders to yourself or your students
Rubistar: create rubrics
http://rubistar.4teachers.org
Jott: Audio to text based conversion and notification
http://www.jott.com
Uses: Reminders phoned in and converted to text and emailed to yourself or others
Zamzar: Convert flies to different format
http://www.zamzar.com
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Not sure why my name is not listed as author... any help with this would be helpful
Autumm Caines acaines@capital.edu
It was a great session. Check out the wiki for a list of tools and copies of her handouts.
Posted by: Rich James | March 03, 2008 at 09:57 AM