Moving+Ahead

Try one or more of the following! Better yet, challenge yourself to try one a week!
abcd || Find some clip art or photos and add them to your class web site. || abcd || Check out this list of educators on Twitter. Select a couple who interest you and read their tweets (postings on Twitter). Sign up for a Twitter account and join the conversation! abcde || abcd || Learn more about creating effective PowerPoints, KeyNotes or other presentations for your classroom. || abcd || Have fun with graphics--create some personalized graphics for your class web site. || abcd || Learn more about evaluating Web sites. What will you teach your students about checking the validity of their sources? || abcd || Read a blog or two. Join the community, add a comment to one of the blog entries. || abcd || Explore some of the free Google tools available to folks with Google accounts. || Create a YouTube account or use your Google account to log in, and save some videos as "favorites" Check out YouTube EDU Check out Khan Academy on YouTube abcd || abcd || Create a Diigo account, and start saving and organizing bookmarks. Add a Diigolet or Diigo toolbar to your browser to make it really easy to save and organize bookmarks. abcd || abcd || Create a Voki, a talking avatar, and add it to your Web page to introduce yourself, welcome your new students or give them info about the upcoming school year. Directions for making a Voki Directions for embedding in Wikispaces Directions for embedding in FirstClass abcd || abcd || Revisit the Professional Development Day, November 2009 Wiki, and explore a topic or two. It contains a myriad of resources! || abcd || abcd ||
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 * = 8. || Find a YouTube or other video related to your curriculum. Learn how to embed it in your Web site.
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 * = 12. || Visit the WMS SMARTBoards Wiki. Explore some of the resources and using what you learn, create a Notebook!
 * = 13. || Overwhelm yourself by visiting Go2Web20 and checking out the //gazillion// Web 2.0 apps. Use the tags on the right side to find few apps of interest.