Tech Thursdays
Each month Upstate Writing Project Teacher Consultants and Technology Liaison will use first-hand classroom experience and technology skills learned during the Summer Institute to demonstrate current technologies and how they apply to writing and content in the classroom.
All sessions are free and open to anyone, from 5:00 until 7:00 pm at the University Center in Greenville. Please RSVP by 9 am the day of the session to ga@upstatewritingproject.org
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Tech Thursdays Online Registation
2008-2009
Integrating Video into your Classroom
Join us Thursday, November 13, 2008 for Tech Thursday where we will be working with Movie Maker. UWP Teacher Consultants will demonstrate how to incorporate video into your instructional plans in order to emphasis and invigorate student writing. Participants will use Movie Maker to make their writing really pop!
Online Collaboration: Digital Writing for your Classroom
Join us February 19, 2009 as our teacher consultants demonstrate how to encourage students to collaborate with peers by creating a writing community online. Our TCs will show classroom examples of how they have used Voice Thread and Blogs to provide an easy and safe experience online. See real examples of the power of collaboration, how you can incorporate it into your classroom community and experience the tools first hand.
Click here to save your seat and Register Online!
Social Networking and its Effective Use in the Classroom
March 19, 2009 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Learn how to use Nings and Twitter to foster collaboration. We will share strategies to promote deeper, more democratic classroom discussion centered around students' reading and writing.
Social Networking Email
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April 15, 2010 - Writing With Location - Google Earth
Flips In The Classroom
Join us this Thursday as UWP teacher consultants guild us through using Flip cameras in the classroom as a writing stimulus.
Flip cameras, along with the Flip software, are simple enough for students (and teachers) of any age to enjoy using! The intuitive controls make it possible to tell a digital story in around a hour, and yet are flexible enough for larger and more complex projects. Whether allowing your students have fun and get familiar with the process by creating a digital story in an hour, or engaging them with prewriting techniques, story-boarding, scripting and props, the simple to use Flip digital camera is the way to go!
UWP TCs will share how they have used the Flips in both local schools and with other teachers. They will also allow plenty of guided free time for participates to become familiar with this versatile tech tool.
FREE! Greenville County Tech Points awarded! PD Certificates Available!
Register Online through Greenville County's Portal, or email ga@upstatewritingproject.org
University Center of Greenville, SC Room 507
March 11, 2010 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Sponsored By:
January 21, 2010 - Above and Beyond With Word
Online Collaboration: Blogging and VoiceThread
November 12, 2009
Encourage students to collaborate with peers by creating a writing community online. We will show you how to use voice threads as well as how to create a Greenville County Approved Blog to get your class writing, reading and working together!
Blogging
http://blog.greenville.k12.sc.us
http://ipuffer.blog.greenville.k12.sc.us/
inga.puffer@greenville.k12.sc.us
Voice Thread
Photo Stories For Your Classroom
October 23, 2008
Engage your students in telling their own stories through the use of Photo Story. See how this simple software tool works in real classrooms, where students can present their own narratives using both pictures and words.
In our first Tech Thursday TC Jessica Alexander will share and demonstrate her experiences using photo story across curriculum with her students. Along with her insightful use to encourage students to write, we will demonstrate and instruct participants in the use of photo story software.
Links
Photostory Links
JakesOnline - Photostory Tutorials
Great Resource for Tutorials. This web site has great indepth video tutorials. The pdf version was handed out during the lession.
Microsoft Photostory Download
Follow the links to download the photostory software.
Digitalstoryteller.org
An online alternative to Photostory. Great for mac users.
Photo Source Links
Flickr Storm
Great source of photos. Searches Flickr and displays the photos in a very handy manner. Also has the option of searching using Creative Commons Licenses. Great for when you need to be sure you have the right to use the photo.
Social Networking - Facebook and Nings
Learn how to use Facebook to stay connected to your favorite professional organizations. Also, we will show you how to catch your student's interests with Ning! We will model how to make reading and writing part of your students' profiles. Finally we will demonstrate how to create word clouds to help your students collaborate and brainstorm on any topic in the classroom.
Ning
http://education.ning.com/ - educational ning
http://techliaison.ning.com/ - Example Professional Ning
http://scwritingprojects.ning.com/ - A newly formed Professional Ning bringing different State sites together
Podcasting and Vodcasting with Nings-
To podcast you can just attach a mp3 or wma file to any discussion or blog post or replay.
To post video to a ning you can upload it under the Video tab. The video must be under 100mb. This is a tough size to meet and may require resizing. An alternative to this is to use an external website such as vimeo.com to upload the
Apps
- Book review apps
- Visual book shellf
- WeRead
- Flip cards
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Paper Social Networking Exercise
Drawing out your social network based on your contacts from your phone. Who are your key contacts? Your contacts that connect you to the most people? You already have a social network, how has your social network help you? What sub groups do you have within your IRL social network? School, Work, Home, Church, Significant others work?
Contacts:
tech@upstatewritingproject.org
Jasonkaminski@upstatewritingproject.org
ingapuffer@upstatewritingproject.org
lisawilbanks@upstatewritingproject.org
Podcasting For School And Home
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January 22, 2009Podcasting is a powerful distribution tool to share writing and encourage collaboration. During this Tech Thursday we will explore using podcasting to teach point of views in writing. |
Resources:
Examples
- 2010 Tech Thursdays Podcasting Feed
- 2010 Tech Thursdays PodcastingPage
- 2009 Tech Thursdays EduBlogs Blog
- 2009 Tech Thursdays EduBlogs iTunes Podcast
- 2009 Tech Thursdays EduBlogs RSS Feed
- 2008 Summer Institute Video Podcast Blogger Blog
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Summer Institute Video Podcast Blogger RSS Feed
Software/Services
- Audacity: A free audio file editing software
- Edublog: A free to teachers blogging site. Gives you 24mb of space
- Blogger: Googles take on blogging
- Pod-o-matic: great podcasting site. Built only for podcasting and vodcasting. Gives you 500mb of space.
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Feedburner: Podcast Feed converter and monitor. Very useful if you will be posting your podcast on iTunes podcast directory.
Guides
First Choose How you want to record your Podcast.
Audacity and a microphone is all you need if you are going to be near your computer. For a cheap usb mic, check your nearest Gamestop and pick up a used PS2, PS3, or Xbox360 usb microphone for 9.99. These are great because they have really long cords which give you great flexibility. If you want even more flexibility and have an iPhone or iPod Touch you can download Recorder application or iTalk application to record directly on your iPod. Please note that the iPod Touch does not have a built in microphone so you will need to use a headset with one built in. If you don't have an iPhone or iPod, or just don't want your students running around with your's, you can buy a digital voice recorder. These range from $30 at Walmart for your basic recorder to $150 for massive space and features. Some models require applications to transfer the files but others just plug in like any other Jumpdrive, keydrive, or usb memory drive you have. Most of these will require you to convert the audio files to mp3, but since Audacity is free, this isn't a problem.
- Audacity Install Guide
- Audacity MP3 Creation Guide
- Using a handheld digital voice recorder to podcast
- Using Recorder on the iPhone and iPod Touch to Podcast
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Using iTalk On the iPhone and iPod Touch to podcast
Second Choose Your Podcasting Host
There are many different places to post your podcasts. Some of the more popular are Edublogs, Blogger, or Pod-O-matic. Edublogs and Blogger are blogging sites that can be used for podcasting, too. This can be great for simplicity. Blogger is an excellent blogging, podcasting, and video podcasting site, which will give you plenty of space. However a large number of school districts block it. Edublogs is an excellent blogging site, targeted specifically to educators. Some of the features of the paid version make it very enticing, such as gigs of space, easy student blog setup, and detailed controls. However with only 25mb of space given to the free version, Edublogs is limited as a podcasting tool and almost pointless for video podcasting. Since Edublogs seems to be the least blocked by schools this maybe the only solution for you, and if so you may want to consider paying the $7 a month for the premium version. Another option is Pod-o-matic. This site is specifically made for podcasting and gives you 250mb of space to work with, which makes it ideal for podcasting. Pod-o-matic is more often blocked than Edublogs. After taking all of this into consideration, you just need to choose the correct solution for you.
- Edublog MP3 Posting Guide
- Blogger Podcasting Guide
- Pod-o-matic Podcasting guide
- Custom Podcasting Guide
Subscribing to a Podcast
So now your podcast is setup and you've published your first podcast, now what? Now we subscribe to the podcast so you can listen to it in its serialized glory.
Those Extra Steps
To feed burn or Not to feed Burn
Sharing Your podcast with the World
What’s The Point of Wiki?
April 16, 2009
What is a wiki and how can it help my students? Come see how collaborative research and writing projects can transform students’ attitudes about non-fiction reading, writing, and the research process. Participants will see student examples from a middle school classroom, experience the collaborative process of writing online, and set up a wiki for their own classroom.