Two days of Tech Connect & interesting post from Will Richardson
Completed the Tuesday workshop out at STW with Catt-LV teachers and they just soaked everything up. We looked at quite a bit with Voicethreads again and one of the teachers showed what her kids have started to do. They worked on setting up their class wiki with pages for each unit (two teachers work on this together for most of the day). We also used Audacity for podcasting, looked at iTunes and found other educational podcasts on-line. I really liked what they came up with the site Gcast. They can call in from a phone and record their voice, so students will use call Gcast, enter in the phone and 4 digit pin, then the audio is saved in the teachers account (that the kids can’t get to). We also looked at our BOCES podcasting site to store files and a few other neat things with these sites, just for additional knowledge: New visual search tool at: http://searchme.com
Collaborative site to let you invite others to draw, insert shapes to pictures or just a whiteboard: http://twiddla.com
Want to make a cartoon character and have it talk on your blog/wiki? Go here. It does freak me out a little bit though: http://www.voki.com/
In the afternoon I was able to talk about the great things being down at Randolph for the WNY-PLP and other area Western New York schools. Excellent teachers to work with and are using wikis, Adobe Breeze meetings for afterschool help and a variety of other Web 2.0 tools. I am their liason and there to help, but they don’t need me. They have been doing it for years, so basically, they’re just making me look good!
Today, working in Hinsdale with more Audacity and podcasting. I’m going to show them del.icio.us and some other services offered by CABOCES and the BOCES MEDIANET and their wiki at Media Net Services
Check out Will Richardson’s latest post on his blog (It’s part II of teachers putting inappropriate info on their myspace/facebook pages). I mentioned that this is something we need to bring up to our new teachers….anything you put out there CAN and probably WILL be seen by people you know and work with.
