1. Teaching with Technology
It’s Easier Than You Think
Jamie Eddleman & Kim Gates

2. Teaching
With Technology
• Why is it important to teach with technology?
– Many teachers are digital immigrants (or digital
aliens)
– Our students are digital natives
http://youtu.be/gT2E2F0DmyE

3. Technology Assimilation Gap

4. Slideshare

5. The First Five Days Project
• The First Five Days project aims to start an
international conversation about how to make
the start of the school year the best it can be.
• While there is general agreement that the first
five days of school are “absolutely essential”
for establishing a culture of learning that will
set the right tone for the rest of the year,
there is very little research or discussion about
how to make these first five days the most
relevant and productive they can be

6. The First Five Days Project
• Created by November learning - To participate,
go to http://blc.vxcommunity.com [3], click on
“Register,” then click on the “Five” tab.
• There is also a new Twitter hashtag, #1st5days,
that educators can use to share their ideas via
the popular micro-blogging service.
• What can we do to give our students a great
first five days and set the tone for the year?

7. Poll
Everywhere
http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choi
ce_polls/MTMyOTM1MjAwNg
http://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_poll
s/MjI5NTgxMTA1

8. Voki

9. Voki
• Sample Voki:
http://vhss-
a.oddcast.com/vhss_editors/voki_player
.swf?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fvhss-
d.oddcast.com%2Fphp%2Fvhss_editors%
2Fgetvoki%2Fchsm%3D06ee38dd357601
907fc97fa2c31b43ed%26sc%3D2543585

10. Wordle
• Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds”
from text that you provide. The clouds give
greater prominence to words that appear more
frequently in the source text. You can tweak
your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and
color schemes. The images you create with
Wordle are yours to use however you like. You
can print them out, or save them to the Wordle
gallery to share with your friends.

11. Wordle Example

12. Animoto

13. Animoto
Educators can apply for a free Animoto Plus account for use in
the classroom. Its powerful features can be used to creat
stunning presentations incorporating images, video clips,
music and textOverview
Animoto helps you create extraordinary videos from your photos,
video clips, words and music
• Choose your images
• Choose your music
• Share your video

14. Animoto
• Educators can apply for a free Animoto Plus account for use in
the classroom. Its powerful features can be used to create
stunning presentations incorporating images, video clips,
music and text

15. Share My Lesson
• Share My Lesson is an online network that lets
teachers around the globe access, review, and
discuss lesson plans and other learning
materials.
• This free online portal for teachers, will debut
debut this summer with more than 100,000
user-generated lessons

16. Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ikkoskinen/53134
14605
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomcochrane/3
215225090

17. Use Flickr to….
• Creative writing assignment with individual pictures or
storytelling with multiple pictures…can you imagine the
possibilities?
• Create Virtual field trips!
• Teach students about intellectual property rights with
Creative Commons licensing.
• Create various different groups to upload photos to and
encourage collaboration and commenting from students.
• Explore with Flickr’s map feature to see what is happening all
over the world.

19. • SugarSync helps me:
•work at home
•access my files from work on any machine (no software needs installing -
BIG thanks for this)
•always have the most updated version
•never have to remember to sync a file
•share documents
•not have to worry about taking along my USB drive or losing it (students
would love this as my exams are on it)
•edit files via the web and they are saved back ready to be synced at home
(very handy)
•use the web interface to launches the needed program to edit the file (E.g.
MS Word)

20. Sugarsync: File
Sharing

21. Evaluating Internet Resources
• Considerations
– Subject
– Grade / skill level
– Format of information presented
• Visit this website by Georgetown University
that gives additional information on what to
look for when evaluating a website:
http://www.library.georgetown.edu/tutorials/
research-guides/evaluating-internet-content

22. Sample Internet Resources
• http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/
• http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
• http://www.quia.com/shared/
• http://www.merriam-webster.com/
• http://dictionary.reference.com/
• http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

23. Sample Internet Resources
• http://youtube.com/
• http://schooltube.com/
• http://teachertube.com/

24. Sample Internet Resource
• http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/

25. Sample Internet Resources
• It’s discussion time!

26. Final Video
• Video: Instructional technology: Where have
we been & where are we going?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdwEIi22Dv8