Ed.Tech.Sessions

=**Skype in the Classroom - April 20th/10**=

[|Download Skype]

[|Around the World with Skype] A good video on how to get started using Skype in your classroom.
 * How to get going...**

[|LwICT Wiki Page on Skype] John Evan's Skype links on the LwICT wiki

[|50 ways to use Skype in the classroom]

[|It takes leadership to get creative in schools and support the use of skype] Wes Fryers is a ed tech consultant who writes here about the use of Skype in the classroom.
 * News Articles/Blog links**

[|Skype gives students window on the world]

[|A Skype Odyssey]

[|A list of Skype Jobs for students.]

Around the world with 80 schools: Florida school district seeks to connect with 80 schools around the globe. [|Skype in UK authors] [|Skype in US authors] [|11 different ways to use web conferencing on the internet]
 * Make a Skype Connection**

= = =WIKIS AND BLOGS IN THE CLASSROOM - Feb. 9th/10=

=BLOGS=

Create your own blog...
[|Blogger] a free blog service [|Kidblog.org] is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with their own, unique blog. [|Wordpress.com] another free blog service [|How to create a blog with Blogger] [|"Blogs in Plain English"]

**How Teachers use blogs...**
[|"Death March"] - Video Blog by Resource teacher explaining the IEP process in his division. [|"Our New House"] - Bill's blog chronicals the stages and phases of building a new family home. [|"Golden Bear Principal Blog"] Rob Tomlinson keeps the VCI community updated weekly [|OLCS Kindergarten Blog] Devon Caldwell and her kindergarten students use it as an online diary to document their class mascot's adventures [|2, 4, 6, 8, Meet Me at the Garden Gate] Alberta Kindergarten teacher's excellent example of a blog as an online journal and web page [|OLCS World History]blog This Grades 7/8 class uses blogging to share "history happening today" and a log of classroom activities. [|Blogging in High School] Chris Harbeck's blog includes links to a variety of high school blogs. [|A Difference:] Darren Kurowpatwa's blog...with links to lots of HS math and science blogs/wikis [|The Bosse Blog]: Bill has created a new blog here it touch on new developments in the Ed Tech Department of FLB

=WIKIS=

Create Your own Wiki...
Wikispaces a free wiki service [|PBWorks] another free wiki service [|Wikis in Plain English]

How Teachers use wikis...
OLCS Resource Wiki A compilation of links for resource programming at Oak Lake Community School-- still in the developmental stages! LwICT Wiki A number of resources for wiki creation and use BYTE 2010 Wiki: All presenters are using this wiki to link their presentational resources so that all conference participants can access. Mr.DCam's wiki: A rural high school teacher uses his wiki to manage a myriad of course and curricular details

= = = = =Movie Maker - Jan. 14th/09= [|Animoto] [|10 educational uses for video]

[|Cinema Forge] - free video format converter

= = =**Microsoft Office 2007 (Nov 24/09)**=

University of Wisconsin: [] Microsoft's Website resources: [] The NewPaperClip: [] Don Campbell's Blog: [] [|Close] MS Office 2007 Tips, Tricks and Tweaks Resources: [] Kevin's Link: []

Movie Maker April 15/09
[|Movie Maker handout2009.doc]

Comic Life May 11/09
[|You Tube Video- Comic Life for Windows - Basic Software Use]

[|Ideas for Comic Life.doc]

Samples [|1. Great Moments.pdf] [|2. Hatchet.pdf]