Encyclo-Media Presentation October 3, 2012

1. ISTE SLAM
QUICK REVIEW OF WHAT WE SAW AT ISTE

2. Tina Ham
Rogers Early College High
http://community.simplek12.com/scripts/student/home.asp
Free ebooks
http://blog.simplek12.com/education/top-7-ebooks-for-
educators/

3. Kristi Merchant
Patrick Henry Elementary
http://edu.glogster.com/
• Educator account is still free
• Use it as your web newsletter!

4. Carolyn McClure
http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
Gives students the information they need, when they need
it. Use Jing to record your feedback as you grade papers,
or take a snapshot to share with your class. Students can
even use it to collaborate, or ask questions.

5. Example from school website
How to Format Research Papers

6. Earon Cunningham
Zarrow International School
www.google.com
Google Sites for Portfolios (using templates)

7. Earon Cunningham
Zarrow International School
Student Portfolio Example

8. Stephanie Brucks
Rogers Early College High
www.tubechop.com
• use portions of YouTube video embed code with
chopped portion view pure –
• display video without adds

9. Tina Ham
http://www.blockposters.com/
• Create any size posters from any size images
• Free to use
• Upload an image from your computer
• select how many sheets wide
• download pdf

10. Kristi Merchant
http://www.voki.com/
Try the free educator version. Easy to use and can also
be embedded onto your website.

11. Carolyn McClure
http://cel.ly/school
Instant group text and polling that supports collaborative
learning

12. Earon Cunningham
http://present.me/
Record your presentation with a webcam and another
document (image, Power Point etc)

13. Stephanie Brucks
http://www.comicmaster.org.uk/
Make comics, save & print sign in don’t have to make an
account.

14. Tina Ham
http://www.pimpampum.net/phrasr/
Enter a phrase and it brings up images
Youtube promotional video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl5lk8t_vvk

15. Kristi Merchant
LiveBinder
http://www.livebinders.com/
Teacher can create a binder for students to use, or
students can create their own.

16. Carolyn McClure
Remind 101:
https://www.remind101.com/
A safe way for teachers to text message students and stay
in touch with parents. Free.

17. Earon Cunningham
Pics4learning
http://www.pics4learning.com
• Free, copyright friendly images for education
• bookmark browse topics page to bypass social media
filters

18. Stephanie Brucks
Instagrok – mindmap searching
http://www.instagrok.com/
Youtube promo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N_Ptrm8OCI

19. Tina Ham
Print friendly – make any page printer friendly
http://www.printfriendly.com/
http://youtu.be/SOYKL7KYeSQ

20. Kristi Merchant
Google Blog
www.blogspot.com
Very easy to create blogs - just log into your google
account

21. Wikimedia Commons
Carolyn McClure
Wikimedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
copyright free images (includes historical photos), sounds,
videos

22. Earon Cunningham
Wallwisher
http://wallwisher.com/
• Digital sticky notes or bulletin board posts

23. Stephanie Brucks
Lino sticky & photo sharing
http://en.linoit.com/
lino is an online web sticky note service that can be used
to post memos, to-do lists, ideas, and photos anywhere on
an online web canvas

24. Tina Ham
Worditout
http://worditout.com/
• Customize more settings than any other word cloud generator
• Create word clouds from sentences, whole documents, web addresses or
tables
• Decide how to filter that text, which words to display or remove, and tweak
their importance with ease
• Design your word cloud as you like, find perfect layout, choose your own
colors, fonts and sizes, or let WorItOut find a random look for you
• Free to use and no sign up

25. Kristi Merchant
Animoto
http://animoto.com/education
Use podcasts instead of the music. Tip – use it for poetry
writing.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Use Audacity to create the podcasts.

26. Carolyn McClure
Librivox – public domain audiobooks
http://librivox.org/

27. Earon Cunningham
Popplet
http://popplet.com/
-Digital Graphic Organizer – super easy

28. Stephanie Brucks
http://www.google.com
One of those things I kept promising myself I'd do and I
just didn't. It's super easy & I've already tutored a couple
people on how to make their own (they think I'm cool now)