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Present & Create- Audacity creates mp3 audio files for embedding in presentations or for podcasting.
- Audacity Tutorials
- Audacity is a program available to students through the Student Utility Menu. It is available to staff in the Staff Utility Menu.
- Students can record their narrative, edit out any errors or "um's," and embed the file into their Prezi, Scrapblog, Glogster, or one of many other presentation formats.
- Get free music from Freeplay Music for a professional-sounding background track, and add to the Audacity file.
- It's easier than it sounds, and takes just a little training.
- Gliffy allows users to create flowcharts, timelines, cause and effect charts, decision charts, floor plans, and more.
- Glogster gives students a place to create an online, interative poster presentation. Students can not only put text and images on their poster, but also embed audio and video files, or link to external sources of audio and video.
- Glogster Tutorial
- Glogster Tutorial on YouTube
- Chemistry Glog: Acids: see embedded videos
- Algebra Glog: Exponential Functions: top text box scrolls to include text not bounded by the frame
- Biology Glog: Angelman Syndrome: with scrolling textbox and embedded videos
- AP French: Imperialisme: with embedded videos
- History or Music: Jazz Legends in their time: embedded video
- PhotoStory3 creates a photostory, or animated slideshow, and allows for recording narration and embedding mp3 recordings.
- TCAPS Moodle Support Page for PhotoStory3
- PhotoStory3 is an application available through the TCAPS server (not an online application).
- Many language arts teachers have used this application already, so ask them for help.
- Teachers and students can record their narration directly into PhotoStory3, or use Audacity to create the narrative.
- Music can also be added directly within Audacity, or users can download music from Freeplay Music.
- Picasa Actually a part of Google's free suite of products, Picasa allows students to store and share photos online.
- Prezi A dynamic presentation board without slides. Fly from text to image to embedded sounds and videos. With Super Spinning Action!
- Scrapblog is now Mixbook Are you a scrapbooker? You'll love this... and your students will, too. See the examples below. Not all ideas suggested have examples. But all the blue links are student produced examples.
- Scrapblog Tutorial Page
- Student creates a presentation with images and text, but it looks like a scrapbook. How cool is that?
- Geometry All Around Us Project
- Lab Report with Photos (e-mailed from student phones where allowed in class)
- World Languages Presentations
- Art portfolio or presentations on artists with annotations
- Math solutions with images of the solution in progress and narrative of the thinking process
- An honors French student's presentation
- History Project
- Biology Presentation
- Student Recognition
- Screencast-O-Matic records your computer screen as you demonstrate an activity or process, with or without narration.
- Screencast-O-Matic Demo/Tutorial
- The narrated video demos you get from time to time are created using a similar screencasting application (Camtasia) .
- Record your screen as you demonstrate using an online tool, or how to fill out a lab report.
- Use the built-in microphone on your laptop to record audio directions or explanations
- Students can use this tool to record a presentation for later retreival.
- Skype offers a secure, free, online method of calling collaborators across town, downstate, across the country or around the world
- Imagine a collaboration between classrooms separated by a few miles or by a few thousand. Skype makes it possible, either in audio alone, or with video (using a Webcam).
- World language teachers often use Skype to call students in other countries.
- Exchange students use Skype to call home inexpensively or for free.
- VoiceThread offers a unique opportunity for feedback. Users can record audio feedback, leave text comments, and even draw on the document for emphasis.
- VoiceThread Manuals Pick the one you or your students need and make available as a PDF.
- A fourth-grade project titled "Letters from Internment Camps" - images were scanned and uploaded to VoiceThread for commentary.
- A high school online art display with commentary.
- A biology lab report with images and narration. Available for comments.
- Upload an image for online discussion
- World Language students speak about an image
- A visual art piece for critique in art classes
- An historical photograph for reflection or prediction
- An artist's rendering of a character from a novel or play.
- As noted above, a lab report in Biology or other sciences!
- A student's artwork for critique
- An excerpt for an historical document or passage from any written work
- Weebly offers a "no technical skills required" application for easily and quickly creating websites and blogs.
- Weebly Help Page - See the menu on the left for specific help topics
- Weebly in Education Video
- So you want your students to compose a lab report? or a character analysis? or keep track of their fitness levels over time? or present a historical figure? Have them create an informational website.
- Maybe you want a slicker-looking homepage for your class where you can post photos of what's going on in the room.
- Need a place for parents to go for Neighborhood News without sending them to Moodle? Send them to your website. It's way cooler than a newsletter.
- Wix (building web pages) allows students to create web pages from a template, most of which are totally free.
- Academic Career Resource Guide
- Develop a photography portfolio
- Create a multimedia presentations combining images and text
- Experiment with online lab reports in science classrooms
- Wordle creates "word clouds" from user-provided lists to show the prominence of ideas within a text.
- The larger the text, the more often the word is used in the text.
- Paste in the text from an explanation of a scientific concept, the text from a play, or a historical document, and see which words and ideas are the most significant to the author and speaker.
- Wordl based on the U.S. Constitution
- Xtranormal (animation) If you can type, you can make movies. Really. Type in your dialogue, drag icons to indicate animation, facial expressions, and gestures, and publish on the web.
- Xtranormal Tutorial
- What would George Washington say to Barack Obama? Kids can make that happen.
- What would an interview between a Galileo and Albert Einstein sound like? You can find out.
- What would a Calculus III student say to teach a concept to a Calculus A/B student? I'd like to see that myself.
- Vocabulary Lesson: Accrue
Research & Reference- California Free Textbook Flexbook Project: Customize an online textbook to either supplement or replace your current textbook by selecting only the chapters relevant to your course.
- Video Tutorial from CK-12 Foundation
- Textbook content is correlated to State Standards (an ongoing process).
- The flexbook for AP Calculus, for example, can be tested from book-to-standards, or from standards to book.
- Create a customized textbook that can be made available online, or can be printed or downloaded.
- You can also access your customized textbooks using the free Kindle applications (for PC, Mac, and iPhone) or iPad.
- Example: Biology: The Cell Cycle, Mitosis, and Meiosis--Includes embedded videos.
- NOTE: This project is ongoing, and does not contain textbooks for all courses in all curricular areas...Yet.
- Citation Machine Citation machine helps students to properly credit the information that they use. MLA, APA, Chicago & Turabian formats available.
- Evernote provides an easy way to collect information gathered on the Internet.
- Fathom Description
- Google Earth
- Take a Lit-Trip - follow characters on their journey in novels like The Grapes of Wrath, The Odyssey, The Kite Runner, and more.
- HippoCampus contains a variety of online courses in math, science, and social studies.
- Use the courses to supplement your textbook and your teaching.
- Students can review content related to information missed during an absence.
- Use to supplement those pesky independent study kids' textbooks.
- Example: Environmental Science: Energy
- LMC Databases
- The new home of TC West's Library Media Center
- Destiny
- Gale Reference Center
- Opposing Viewpoints
- Michigan eLibrary
- ...and much more
- Middlespot
- Middlespot Tutorial
- Middlespot Help (click Home Tab, then Help)
- Notecards are so 19th Century... Really. The "research paper" procedures and format were developed in the 1800's.
- Middlespot provides a virtual canvas on which students can place text documents, images, videos, and more from which to create their research projects.
- No more "lost" cards
- Students share their workspace with you, so you can track progress online.
- Productivity, Organization & Assessment
- TCAPS Cloud Applications
- Set up folders in GOOGLE DOCS for each class. When students share folders with you, store these in the appropriate folder. Never "lose" a paper again. With GoogleDocs autosave feature, students can't claim that the computer "lost it" either.
- Note: Students can upload files to Google Docs for retrieval by the teacher, regardless of whether or not the file is a Google Doc file (document, presentation, or spreadsheet)
- Do you need a student to submit a photo? Google Docs can store it for the student in way that you can view it, too.
- Do you need a student to submit an mp3 recording? Students can upload that file, too.
- Use the CALENDAR to plan your curriculum
- Post your weekly plan
- Share your calendar with TCAPS Student users
- Students can access your calendar to get information on what was missed, or to plan ahead for tests, projects, or planned absences.
- Use the calendar to simply remind yourself of necessary tasks to be completed during the year, like entering CAAP scores, dates of exams, etc.
Google Forms!
- Moodle
- While this is available through the Cloud, it deserves its own space.
- Store documents relevant to your curriculum
- Upload presentations, or link to them if they are stored online (like through GoogleDocs)
- Make audio and video files available to your students
- Post assignments and grade online quickly and with the opportunity to leave commentary
- With one-to-one computing on its way, this work can be done in class to guarantee no one is "sharing" information
- Students may also copy your assignment into a document to print and take home if necessary.
- Takes away the added time necessary to decode some students' handwriting.
- Create quizzes once, and use next trimester or next year with a new batch of kids, while Moodle collects all your data.
- Start a collaborative Glossary to be populated by the students:
- vocabulary
- biographies
- book reviews
- course-specific terminology
- and more...
- aTube Catcher allows you to download any video to avoid those pesky DeepNines on YouTube and other video services.
- NOTE: Be sure to see your friendly, neighborhood ITL or Curriculum Tech Coordinator before installing this utility. Otherwise, you may end up with some add-ons you don't want.
- Download videos from video hosting sites to post on your Moodle page.
- Avoid your students not having access to YouTube videos when they try to watch them at school.
- At home, download that cute video of your neice dancing in the ballet.
- Create-a-Graph Input your data set and this program will let you quickly make any style of chart or graph to represent that data. Easily exported to .JPEG so charts/graphs may be inserted into presentations, assessments, or assignments.
- Doodle Meeting Scheduler
- Doodle Tutorial (PDF)
- Example of a Doodle Scheduling Invitation
- Rubistar makes it easy to customize or create rubrics online
- Customize pre-made descriptions within rubrics in art, math, reading, writing, products, science, work skills, oral presentations, and more.
- Don't like their models? Make your own from scratch!
- Rubistar now integrates with Moodle! We have to figure this out, though. Bear with me.
- Screenshots & Keyboard Shortcuts 101 Description
- Vozme Description
- ZamZar file converter now converts not only image and document types, but music and video formats as well.
- Need to convert a jpeg to a tiff? Or an mp3 to an avi?
- Does your computer give you some weird message about not being able to play or display content?
- Zamzar might be your answer.
- Diigo - Online Organizer
- In addition to organizing bookmarks, Diigo allows you to add sticky notes, annotations and highlights to items on the web.
- A good replacement to Delicious
- Remember to sign up for an 'educator' account if you join
Thinkfinity Description
- Audacity Tutorials
- Audacity is a program available to students through the Student Utility Menu. It is available to staff in the Staff Utility Menu.
- Students can record their narrative, edit out any errors or "um's," and embed the file into their Prezi, Scrapblog, Glogster, or one of many other presentation formats.
- Get free music from Freeplay Music for a professional-sounding background track, and add to the Audacity file.
- It's easier than it sounds, and takes just a little training.
- Glogster Tutorial
- Glogster Tutorial on YouTube
- Chemistry Glog: Acids: see embedded videos
- Algebra Glog: Exponential Functions: top text box scrolls to include text not bounded by the frame
- Biology Glog: Angelman Syndrome: with scrolling textbox and embedded videos
- AP French: Imperialisme: with embedded videos
- History or Music: Jazz Legends in their time: embedded video
- TCAPS Moodle Support Page for PhotoStory3
- PhotoStory3 is an application available through the TCAPS server (not an online application).
- Many language arts teachers have used this application already, so ask them for help.
- Teachers and students can record their narration directly into PhotoStory3, or use Audacity to create the narrative.
- Music can also be added directly within Audacity, or users can download music from Freeplay Music.
- Scrapblog Tutorial Page
- Student creates a presentation with images and text, but it looks like a scrapbook. How cool is that?
- Geometry All Around Us Project
- Lab Report with Photos (e-mailed from student phones where allowed in class)
- World Languages Presentations
- Art portfolio or presentations on artists with annotations
- Math solutions with images of the solution in progress and narrative of the thinking process
- An honors French student's presentation
- History Project
- Biology Presentation
- Student Recognition
- Screencast-O-Matic Demo/Tutorial
- The narrated video demos you get from time to time are created using a similar screencasting application (Camtasia) .
- Record your screen as you demonstrate using an online tool, or how to fill out a lab report.
- Use the built-in microphone on your laptop to record audio directions or explanations
- Students can use this tool to record a presentation for later retreival.
- Imagine a collaboration between classrooms separated by a few miles or by a few thousand. Skype makes it possible, either in audio alone, or with video (using a Webcam).
- World language teachers often use Skype to call students in other countries.
- Exchange students use Skype to call home inexpensively or for free.
- VoiceThread Manuals Pick the one you or your students need and make available as a PDF.
- A fourth-grade project titled "Letters from Internment Camps" - images were scanned and uploaded to VoiceThread for commentary.
- A high school online art display with commentary.
- A biology lab report with images and narration. Available for comments.
- Upload an image for online discussion
- World Language students speak about an image
- A visual art piece for critique in art classes
- An historical photograph for reflection or prediction
- An artist's rendering of a character from a novel or play.
- As noted above, a lab report in Biology or other sciences!
- A student's artwork for critique
- An excerpt for an historical document or passage from any written work
- Weebly Help Page - See the menu on the left for specific help topics
- Weebly in Education Video
- So you want your students to compose a lab report? or a character analysis? or keep track of their fitness levels over time? or present a historical figure? Have them create an informational website.
- Maybe you want a slicker-looking homepage for your class where you can post photos of what's going on in the room.
- Need a place for parents to go for Neighborhood News without sending them to Moodle? Send them to your website. It's way cooler than a newsletter.
- Academic Career Resource Guide
- Develop a photography portfolio
- Create a multimedia presentations combining images and text
- Experiment with online lab reports in science classrooms
- The larger the text, the more often the word is used in the text.
- Paste in the text from an explanation of a scientific concept, the text from a play, or a historical document, and see which words and ideas are the most significant to the author and speaker.
- Wordl based on the U.S. Constitution
- Xtranormal Tutorial
- What would George Washington say to Barack Obama? Kids can make that happen.
- What would an interview between a Galileo and Albert Einstein sound like? You can find out.
- What would a Calculus III student say to teach a concept to a Calculus A/B student? I'd like to see that myself.
- Vocabulary Lesson: Accrue
- California Free Textbook Flexbook Project: Customize an online textbook to either supplement or replace your current textbook by selecting only the chapters relevant to your course.
- Video Tutorial from CK-12 Foundation
- Textbook content is correlated to State Standards (an ongoing process).
- The flexbook for AP Calculus, for example, can be tested from book-to-standards, or from standards to book.
- Create a customized textbook that can be made available online, or can be printed or downloaded.
- You can also access your customized textbooks using the free Kindle applications (for PC, Mac, and iPhone) or iPad.
- Example: Biology: The Cell Cycle, Mitosis, and Meiosis--Includes embedded videos.
- NOTE: This project is ongoing, and does not contain textbooks for all courses in all curricular areas...Yet.
- Citation Machine Citation machine helps students to properly credit the information that they use. MLA, APA, Chicago & Turabian formats available.
- Evernote provides an easy way to collect information gathered on the Internet.
- Fathom Description
- Google Earth
- Take a Lit-Trip - follow characters on their journey in novels like The Grapes of Wrath, The Odyssey, The Kite Runner, and more.
- HippoCampus contains a variety of online courses in math, science, and social studies.
- Use the courses to supplement your textbook and your teaching.
- Students can review content related to information missed during an absence.
- Use to supplement those pesky independent study kids' textbooks.
- Example: Environmental Science: Energy
- LMC Databases
- The new home of TC West's Library Media Center
- Destiny
- Gale Reference Center
- Opposing Viewpoints
- Michigan eLibrary
- ...and much more
- The new home of TC West's Library Media Center
- Middlespot
- Middlespot Tutorial
- Middlespot Help (click Home Tab, then Help)
- Notecards are so 19th Century... Really. The "research paper" procedures and format were developed in the 1800's.
- Middlespot provides a virtual canvas on which students can place text documents, images, videos, and more from which to create their research projects.
- No more "lost" cards
- Students share their workspace with you, so you can track progress online.
- Productivity, Organization & Assessment
- TCAPS Cloud Applications
- Set up folders in GOOGLE DOCS for each class. When students share folders with you, store these in the appropriate folder. Never "lose" a paper again. With GoogleDocs autosave feature, students can't claim that the computer "lost it" either.
- Note: Students can upload files to Google Docs for retrieval by the teacher, regardless of whether or not the file is a Google Doc file (document, presentation, or spreadsheet)
- Do you need a student to submit a photo? Google Docs can store it for the student in way that you can view it, too.
- Do you need a student to submit an mp3 recording? Students can upload that file, too.
- Use the CALENDAR to plan your curriculum
- Post your weekly plan
- Share your calendar with TCAPS Student users
- Students can access your calendar to get information on what was missed, or to plan ahead for tests, projects, or planned absences.
- Use the calendar to simply remind yourself of necessary tasks to be completed during the year, like entering CAAP scores, dates of exams, etc.
- Set up folders in GOOGLE DOCS for each class. When students share folders with you, store these in the appropriate folder. Never "lose" a paper again. With GoogleDocs autosave feature, students can't claim that the computer "lost it" either.
- Moodle
- While this is available through the Cloud, it deserves its own space.
- Store documents relevant to your curriculum
- Upload presentations, or link to them if they are stored online (like through GoogleDocs)
- Make audio and video files available to your students
- Post assignments and grade online quickly and with the opportunity to leave commentary
- With one-to-one computing on its way, this work can be done in class to guarantee no one is "sharing" information
- Students may also copy your assignment into a document to print and take home if necessary.
- Takes away the added time necessary to decode some students' handwriting.
- Create quizzes once, and use next trimester or next year with a new batch of kids, while Moodle collects all your data.
- Start a collaborative Glossary to be populated by the students:
- vocabulary
- biographies
- book reviews
- course-specific terminology
- and more...
- aTube Catcher allows you to download any video to avoid those pesky DeepNines on YouTube and other video services.
- NOTE: Be sure to see your friendly, neighborhood ITL or Curriculum Tech Coordinator before installing this utility. Otherwise, you may end up with some add-ons you don't want.
- Download videos from video hosting sites to post on your Moodle page.
- Avoid your students not having access to YouTube videos when they try to watch them at school.
- At home, download that cute video of your neice dancing in the ballet.
- Create-a-Graph Input your data set and this program will let you quickly make any style of chart or graph to represent that data. Easily exported to .JPEG so charts/graphs may be inserted into presentations, assessments, or assignments.
- Doodle Meeting Scheduler
- Doodle Tutorial (PDF)
- Example of a Doodle Scheduling Invitation
- Rubistar makes it easy to customize or create rubrics online
- Customize pre-made descriptions within rubrics in art, math, reading, writing, products, science, work skills, oral presentations, and more.
- Don't like their models? Make your own from scratch!
- Rubistar now integrates with Moodle! We have to figure this out, though. Bear with me.
- Screenshots & Keyboard Shortcuts 101 Description
- Vozme Description
- ZamZar file converter now converts not only image and document types, but music and video formats as well.
- Need to convert a jpeg to a tiff? Or an mp3 to an avi?
- Does your computer give you some weird message about not being able to play or display content?
- Zamzar might be your answer.
- Diigo - Online Organizer
- In addition to organizing bookmarks, Diigo allows you to add sticky notes, annotations and highlights to items on the web.
- A good replacement to Delicious
- Remember to sign up for an 'educator' account if you join
- TCAPS Cloud Applications