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1. Teaching With
Technology 2.0
version
Learning for the 21st Century
Presented by Homer Colunga, M.S.
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2. DO NOW
• Fill in the KWL chart in your packet for what you
KNOW about technology in the classroom and
WHAT you would like to know about technology in
the classroom.
• You may also participate in the LIVE KWL chart
online at the following website:
http://bit.ly/REPsUn

3. 21st Century Learning
• Video
• Discussion

4. Twitter in the Classroom
• Make use of the twitter fast follow feature
• (A Mass Text Message Alert)
• Use it for Online Discussion/Collaboration
• Connect to parents

5. Please take out your cell phone!!!!
• Do you want to receive TEXT
MESSAGE
• alerts about class?
• Text: follow hcolungaSTCMV
• To the number: 40404

7. Classroom Collaboration
• LinoIt-Online Sticky Notes
– Digital Bulletin Board
– Digital Brainstorming
– Classroom Collaboration
– can be used to do KWL Charts

8. Classroom Collaboration
• POLL EVERYWHERE:
o Poll anywhere is a great way to bring in mobile devices into the
classroom
o Assess student knowledge during discussion

9. How To Vote via Texting
1. Standard texting rates only (worst case US $0.20)
TIPS 2. We have no access to your phone number
3. Capitalization doesn’t matter, but spaces and spelling do

11. Classroom Assessment
• Infuse Learning
• Assess student performance during class.
Find out immediately how a student is
responding and take a grade from their
responses.
• View a demo by going to
student.infuselearning.com in your
computer/mobile browser

12. Create Digital Content
• MindMeister
o Create Mind Maps that can display trees of information

13. Digital Multimedia
• VOKI:
o Voki is a great way to have students share their knowledge of a topic in 60
seconds or less.
o Makes students organize their thoughts to focus on key details.

14. Digital Content
• Flickr
– Go on virtual field trips
– Display photography and art
– Label Diagrams

15. Digital Content
• BIG HUGE LABS
o Create motivational posters
o Trading cards
o Magazine covers
o Movie posters

16. Big Huge Labs

17. Create Digital Content
• ToonDoo
o Create your own cartoons with your own dialogue and messages

18. Sample Cartoon

19. Create Your Own Digital Content
• QR CODE Generator: Add Codes to your
assignments
• Create a homework assignment that can be done
on a mobile device!
SCAN NOW!!!

20. Create Your Own
Multimedia
• Flip Your Classroom
o Create video lectures that are viewed at home
for homework
o Traditional Homework is completed in class along
with other hands-on activities
• Jing
o Can be used to record screen shots or make
screen casts which can be viewed online
• ScreenChomp
o (FREE App)
o Video Example

21. Create your Own
multimedia
• iPad
o ScreenChomp (FREE App)
o Video Example
• TabletPC, SmartBoard, Interwrite Pad, etc.
o Jing (FREE SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD)
• Video Example
• Posts to screencast.com
o Camtasia Studio (License Required)
• Can post to virtually anywhere, including YouTube!

22. YouTube in the Classroom
• ViewPure.com-
o Watch YouTube Videos without ads and related
videos
o download videos for offline viewing.
• TubeChop.com-
o Allows you to chop YouTube Videos, so that you
get straight to the point you were focusing on.
• Meograph-Allows for 4-dimensional
storytelling, embedding photos and videos.

23. Digital Dialogue
• Ifaketext.com—Have students create a
dialogue via “Text Message”

24. Teacher Tools
• DROPBOX:
o Share files across any computer
o Drag and drop convenience
o Eliminates the need for USB Flash Drives
o Available on Mobile Devices

25. Web Tools
• Bit.ly
o Have a long website address? Use Bit.ly
o Shortens long website addresses
o Track number of views to your link.

26. Online Assessment
• Quizlet.com
o Create Flash Cards for your class, or have students prepare these to study
key terms and ideas.
• GoogleDocs
o to create tests/quizzes/homework that are sent to you after completion

27. Teacher Tools
• WorksheetWorks
o Create worksheets, graphic organizers, etc. that
can be saved as PDFs
• Improve Google Searches
• Engrade.com-
o Free Gradebook
o Classroom activities
o Seating Chart
o Record attendance

28. Share Your Digital
Content
• SlideShare
o Allows you to upload Power Point Presentations and share with the world.
o You do not need to have Power Point installed on your computer
o Can be viewed on mobile devices

29. Website Builder
• WEEBLY
o Build your own website with Drag and Drop
convenience.
o No programming knowledge required.
o Add files and multimedia for your classes.
o Keep parents and students updated with Blog
features.

30. Annotate on your iPad
• SKITCH-
o an app that allows you to annotate text, images, maps,
websites on your iPad!
o Connects with Evernote to save your annotations
automatically to your Evernote account.