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= Teachers Training Teachers on Technology =

This page is intended to be a professional development tool for teachers at Central High School. Because it is a wiki, it can be added to or edited by anyone. Here you will be able to share with your colleagues the various types of technology you use in your classroom. You will be able to illustrate the advantages of a particular piece of technology as well as give pointers or tips on its use. Beyond sharing, this is also a place where you can discover new technologies or tools and experience them for yourself. Hopefully, some of them will find a place in your classroom. Initially I have begun with three categories: Hardware, Software, and Websites, but feel free to add categories as you see fit.
 * Note: Names of technology are in font type "Heading 3".**

Digital Data Projector
As it's name implies, this technology projects digital media onto a screen for viewing by an audience. This can be useful for giving notes on PowerPoint, showing video clips, using an ELMO (described below), or displaying web content to your students.

ELMO
This device captures a live image or video and projects it onto a screen using a data projector. It is a great resource for science teachers that can capture images from a microscope and project them for the whole class to see. A specimen can also be dissected under it, and shown as an example for the class. It can also be used to display images from a textbook, while the teacher or students interact with them. The library has 3 ELMO carts that can be checked out on a daily basis.

Webcam/Flip Video Camera/Digital Camera
These tools can be used to capture content to share with your students, for teacher-student or student-student communication, or to vidoerecord things like presentations, skits or projects. Once recorded, videos can be shared via moodle or internet websites such as youtube (with appropriate permissions, of course).

Clickers
Great for formative assessments or review. Available for check-out in the library. Each student gets a remote control, you ask them questions, they punch in an answer. You can see on the screen who answered and who didn't. It will also give you statistics for each question.

Laptop Cart
Students can use the laptops to research, do webquests or explore learning simulations, blog, communicate, and much more.

Moodle
A course management system that allows you to post course content (like assignments, notes, etc.) online. It can also be used to facilitate collaboration through things like discussion forums, chat rooms, and wiki's. You could even use it to create an online course. [|http://moodle.grps.k12.mi.us]

Diploma (for Chem Comm)
This test-generating software is alligned with the //Chemistry in the Community// program. It allows you to easily search the test bank for questions by type, chapter, section or topic, and place them on a test. From there the questions can be scrambled so various forms of a test can be made. See Linda Jennette for CD-ROM.

Skype
With this free software you can make free internet telephone calls, or, more importantly, videoconference with other users. Skype can be used for all of the following types of communication: student-student, teacher-student, teacher-parent, class-class (for example, your class could videoconference with students in europe for a discussion on global climate change), class-expert (students could communicate with a doctor, chemist, geneticist, or other professional). Skype has enourmous implications for bringing more relevance to your lessons. []

ScreenToaster
This free software allows you to capture and save video of your computer screen. I use it for student tutorials. []



Glogster for Education
Interactive posters, mix graphics, photos, videos, music and text into slick Glogs. [] 

Jing
Use Jing to capture anything you see on your computer screen and share it instantly...as an image or short movie. []

Audicity
Free software that allows you record and edit sounds. With this, you can create, or have students create podcasts. []

Primo PDF
Convert any file you can print into a PDF Document. []

[|www.nclark.net] (for biology and chemistry)
This incredible website is organized by topic, and has numerous links to labs, activities and resources for biology and chemistry teachers.

[|www.explorelearning.com]
This website contains online simulations for an assortment of topics in the fields of math and science. Many of the interactive simulations allow students to experience things they wouldn’t ordinarily be able to in their classrooms. The simulations are very realistic and focused on data collection and interpretation.

[|http://mi.learnport.org]
Michigan curriculum benchmarks aligned with lessons. 

h[|ttp://www.curriculumcrafter.com/]
Best site for us – ask Mark Raffler for own login details. 

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free site for digital lessons. 

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computer lesson and instruction. 

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create web surveys. 

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Web surveys. 

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Upload and share your presentations and documents on SlideShare. Share publicly or privately. Add audio to make a webinar.

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music videos for your images and pictures, powerpoint presentations. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

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allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

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Prezi is the zooming presentation editor. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

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Evernote allows you to easily <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">capture **information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">accessible **and** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">searchable **at any time.** <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

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Protopage is your own personal page, which you can access from any computer or mobile phone. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

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People connecting through video. Making video has never been easier. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

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Picasa is free photo editing software from Google that makes your pictures look great. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

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The worldwide standard in online plagiarism prevention. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

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Edmodo is a free private Microblogging for teachers and student and students to communicate while outside the classroom. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|http://www.scribd.com/tools/ipaper]
The iPaper document reader enables anyone to share their documents - regardless of file type - on the web. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

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Effortlessly create and manage student’s blogs. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

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video sharing, community networking and scientific fun for middle school and high school students.

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free web-based collaborative mind mapping tool for brainstorming and project-management. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

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Create and share flowcharts, network diagrams, floorplans, user interface designs and other drawings online. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

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the world's easiest way to create your own podcast channel. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

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Text-to-Movie. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

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The site was built as a flash-based catalog. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ===<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|[[http://vozme.com/index.php?lang=enFrom|http://vozme.com/index.php?lang=en]]] === From text to speech. On-line tool that offers applications and services to convert text into speech. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

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Design your own graphs. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

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building your presentation you can share it any way you like. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

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Several thousand copyright friendly, public domain images for students and teachers, free for any use. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

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Wikis are simple web pages that groups, friends, and families can edit together. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

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science games for complex concepts. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

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videos to show in class. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

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lesson plans and educational resources.

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