Technology Tools for Teachers

Tools for Creating, Editing,  and Sharing

Documents Zoho Google Docs Scribd Open Office AbiWord NeoOffice IBM Lotus Symphony Scribus   Diagrams and drawings Gliffy Bubbl.us Freemind Project Draw Mindmeister Imagination Cubed Cmap Flowchart.com Mind-mapping.org Mapul Sketchcast Mindomo Google Sketchup   Images Editing or creating Getpaint GIMP Picnik Inkscape Photoshop Express Aviary Flaunter Irfanview pikfix.com  rsizr.com Splashup   Sharing Flickr Picasa  Windows Live Photo Gallery

Presentations Creating and editing Zoho Google Docs SPresent Thumbstacks 280slides Animoto Photoshow  Empressr Sharing Slideshare Authorstream Zentation Slideboom   Web pages Creating a Website Google Sites Wix Weebly Infogami Popfly Backboard pForm Nvu KompoZer Notepad++   Blogging Blogger Edublogs WordPress WindowsLiveWriter w.bloggar CoComment co.mments DisQus

Collaborating pbwiki Wikispaces WetPaint   Video Editing or Recording VideoSpin Wink MediaNotes qik Taksi Capture Me  Xvidcap Jing Cinlerra Eyespot.com Jumpcut.com Miro MythTV TVersity Ustream.tv Echo360   Converting files Video Converter ViLoader.Net HandBrake   Sharing or Playing Teachertube Google Video YouTube VoiceThread Sclipo Howcast 5min.com Jing

Ustream YouTube Uploader Video LAN MPlayer VLC media player   Audio Editing or Recording Audacity Gabcast Mixwit Levelator Reaper Wavosaur   File Conversion NCH Software   Search Skreemr   Sharing or Playing Podbean Gcast Gabcast Educational Podcast Network iTunes Foobar WinAmp Songbird Riffster Lite

 

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Tools for Communicating and Networking

Instant Messaging GTalk AIM MSN Digsby Meebo Pidgin Trillian   Discussion Forums Google Groups Lefora

Web conferencing and broadcasting Skype Yugma Elluminate qik Ustream DimDim ooVoo SightSpeed Second Life GizmoProject

Tools for Networking Ning Facebook LinkedIn Spokeo Swurl FriendFeed Second Life   Networking around books Library Thing Goodreads Shelfari

Microblogging Twitter Pownce Plurk

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Tools for Managing Time, Tasks, and Information

Course Management Moodle Engrade Chalksite Haiku Utips Time Management Google Calendar Calgoo.com Yahoo! Calendar Lightning Sunbird Tsheets   Task Management Remember the Milk Tada List Todoist Tudu Voo2do.com TracksLife 30 Boxes Jott mySchoolog CollegeRuled Gradefix   Project or Team Management Basecamp Huddle  ClockingIT Tuggle TeamCowboy

Information Management Searching for Information   General Search Engines Google Ask.com Alltheweb Cuil Yahoo!   Metasearch Whonu Surfwax ixquick  Clusty Mamma Dogpile Kartoo    Specialized Search Engines Technorati Hakia Schoolr Powerset Librarians Internet Index 2lingual.com Video fetcher seeqpod Search.twitter.com Boardtracker askkids.com Zoeybot

Search Engines with visual display Kartoo Wetmount Piclens  Viewzi   Search Engine Tools Boolify.org Search Engine Watch Collecting Information Survey Monkey Poll Daddy Doodle  Poll Everywhere Google Documents   Organizing Information Libra Plaxo EssentialPIM Free   Personalizing your start page and/or reading feeds iGoogle PageFlakes Netvibes Bloglines Google Reader Juice

Bookmarking and Citation Management Diigo delicious Stumbleupon Furl Magnolia Connotea CiteULike Sync2It Only2Clicks Zotero   Notetaking Google Notebook Stickies MyStickies Awesome Highlighter Evernote Notely Notesake Kwout Change to Link

 

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Tools for Making It All Work

Protecting Your Data Malware Detection AdAware Spybot Avast! AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition Avira AntiVir Personal Edition Classic HijackThis NanoScan ThreatFire AntiVirus Trend Micro HouseCall

Firewalls, etc. Comodo Firewall Pro ShieldsUP! SmoothWall Express ZoneAlarm Free EULAlyzer Hotspot Shield Kruptos 2 PC Flank SendShield

Filtering Content K9 File Sharing Sentinel B Gone Free Shield Parental Control Bar Crawler Parental Control Software

Customizing a Browser Browser Options Firefox Flock Maxthon Opera Prism   Browser Add-ons IE7Pro Mozilla Firefox Add-ons

 

 

Best Websites for Teaching and Learning: Media Sharing

Masher
Are you a little hesitant to create videos? Masher makes it’s easy. You can “mix, mash, and share” video clips, audio files, and photos into polished movies. Students own content as well as media from the BBC Motion Gallery and Rip Curl free for the mashing, and can then be shared on social media sites or via email.

Definitions of Instructional Design

Instructional Design as a Process:

Instructional Design is the systematic development of instructional specifications using learning and instructional theory to ensure the quality of instruction. It is the entire process of analysis of learning needs and goals and the development of a delivery system to meet those needs. It includes development of instructional materials and activities; and tryout and evaluation of all instruction and learner activities. 

Instructional Design as a Discipline:

Instructional Design is that branch of knowledge concerned with research and theory about instructional strategies and the process for developing and implementing those strategies. 

Instructional Design as a Science:

Instructional design is the science of creating detailed specifications for the development, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance of situations that facilitate the learning of both large and small units of subject matter at all levels of complexity. 

Instructional Design as Reality:

Instructional design can start at any point in the design process. Often a glimmer of an idea is developed to give the core of an instruction situation. By the time the entire process is done the designer looks back and she or he checks to see that all parts of the “science” have been taken into account. Then the entire process is written up as if it occurred in a systematic fashion. 

Instructional System:

An instructional system is an arrangement of resources and procedures to promote learning. Instructional design is the systematic process of developing instructional systems and instructional development is the process of implementing the system or plan. 

Instructional Technology:

Instructional technology is the systemic and systematic application of strategies and techniques derived from behavioral, cognitive, and constructivist theories to the solution of instructional problems. 

Instructional technology is the systematic application of theory and other organized knowledge to the task of instructional design and development. 

Instructional Technology = Instructional Design + Instructional Development 

Instructional Development:

The process of implementing the design plans.



Amazing Web 2.0 Projects

Another fantastic resource from Terry Freedman, you’ll find:

• 87 projects.
• 10 further resources.
• 52 applications.
• 94 contributors.
• The benefits of using Web 2.0 applications.
• The challenges of using Web 2.0 applications.
• How the folk who ran these projects handled the issues…
• … And what they recommend you do if you run them.
• What were the learning outcomes?
• And did I mention that this is free?!

Teaching with technology is a wicked problem

TPACK – What is TPACK

The rapid increase in access to technology at schools is changing the teaching practices and teacher roles. Along with technology integration,  teachers are beginning to take new roles, adopt a range of new skills and new work practices such as working in teams to develop learning resources which are not found in traditional academic work. Research has also found that technology integration is shifting teacher’s instructional and pedagogical practices.  As researchers continue to search for answers to seminal debate between Clark (1983, 1994, 2001; Clark & Salomon, 1986) and Kozma (1991, 1994), on the role of  technology and media on learning, they are convinced that the pedagogy has never been independent of a technology, but has been formed through the affordances – potentials and limitations – of the technologies used (Relf, 2007). Misra and Koehler (2006), referred to this interconnectedness between technology, pedagogy and content knowledge as Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK).

This talks about “essential qualities of knowledge required by teachers for technology integration in their teaching.”

Cool video introduction to TPACK by Misra and Koehler.