Personal

= Personal Use of Technology = = November 13, 2009 =

Here are pictures that were taken on our Personal Use day. These pictures are posted on Patti's Flickr account and this is an embedded slide show of the pictures.

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Pre-Session Activities

 * 1) Take the Technology Inventory Survey by [|clicking on this link]
 * 2) Go to your personal wiki page and answer the two questions that are there.(You get to your page by first clicking on "Participant Pages" in the navigation bar on the left side of the screen)
 * 3) Post your Vision Statement on your personal wiki page
 * 4) Read the following article: Picture This: Using Photography as a Learning Tool in Early Childhood Classrooms



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 * Here's the embedded VoiceThread for today's session

For more information check out these links
Excellent series of PowerPoint Tutorialsfor PowerPoint 2007 Tutorials for PowerPoint 2000

Here is the VoiceThread tutorial that was used in the breakout group.

Video of using Skype in the classroom to connect with a student who was homebound

** Today's Tools: **

 * Photo Sharing sites
 * [|Shutterfly]
 * [|Snapfish]
 * Photo Editing Software - [|Picasa]
 * [|How to guide] for Picasa
 * Blogging Tools
 * Blogger
 * Edblogs
 * Word Cloud Creator - Wordle
 * Self Publishing Sites
 * Lulu
 * Blurb- has free software that you can download to layout your books
 * Illustory- kits to create individual books that are published in hardcover
 * Online Multimedia Shared Slideshow - [|Voicethread]
 * Website Hosting
 * Google Sites
 * Weeblyor Weebly for Education
 * Screencasting - Jing
 * Collaborative Scheduling
 * Doodle
 * Google Calendar
 * Video Chat
 * Skype
 * Oovoo