Moving to a technology-based campus has become a hard road for many districts. Schools are looking to grants to help not only build the infrastructure, but to educate our educators to use the technology they are gaining. The Vision 2020 & T3 (Target Tech in Texas) Conference has opened up the opportunity for districts receiving these grants to come together to share ideas, learn more about using the technology to help our students, and provide for the need of technology professional development.
This has been an amazing experience! This will be a a part of my intersnship hours, but I am so pleased that the information that I am gathering will be extremely useful to my classroom, and the teachers in my district.
Among other things, I went to a phenominal seminar at the conference hosted by Krista Scott. She discussed some great web 2.0 tools. Some of the tools were familiar either because of course work or things I have experimented with, but I was excited to find some new tools to introduce to teachers for various parts of the classroom. Livebinders helps you create a list of topics to limit the search efforts by students...sort of a web notebook of resources similar to the good old Reader's Guides of yesteryear. Blabberize makes pictures speak. Penzu allows students to journal online, but is not an open online program like a blog. Xtimeline allows students to create a timeline. Bbubl is an online word map builder. Voki allows students to create an avatar that speaks using their voice. Fotobabble is also fun. It gives students the opportunity to take a photograph and share information by recording speech! Whlie some of these sites make great places to play. The potential benefits to the classroom is simply amazing! Find more awesome web 2.0 tools at a great site by Krista Scott, Krista's Tech Tidbits!
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