Hot New Technology Tools

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Hot New Technology Tools

• Beth Malapanes
• bmalapan_at_amphi.com
• CDO Library 696-5711

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Video

• Google Video (Blocked so use Zamzar to convert)
• http//video.google.com/?hlentabiv
• Teacher Tube
• http//www.teachertube.com/

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Windows Movie Maker

• Comes with Windows XP and Vista
• Make professional looking videos with still photos

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Zamzar.com

• http//www.zamzar.com
• Online file converter
• Have you ever wanted to convert files without
  the need to download software ?

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Audacity

• http//audacity.sourceforge.net/
• Audacity is free, open source software for
  recording and editing voice and sounds

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Voicethread

• http//voicethread.com/
• Pictures with voice added, no special software
  needed, just a microphone
• Example
• http//voicethread.com/qgrandparents.b3763.i3052
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• Peggys works http//www.amphi.com/technology/tec
  htalks/online/dec07/bestpract.htmarticle1

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Tumblr.com

• http//www.tumblr.com
• Extremely easy place to post text, images, audio,
  and sound
• http//bmalapan.tumblr.com

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Photos

• Flickr http//www.flickr.com/
• Flickr is a photo sharing site where you can post
  your photos and tag them so others can find them

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Other Photo Sites

• Photo storing and sharingPhotobucket
  http//photobucket.com/Picnik http//www.picnik.c
  om/Picture Trail http//www.picturetrail.com/Tab
  blo http//www.tabblo.com/studioRock You
  http//www.rockyou.com/ Slide showsBubbleshare
  http//www.bubbleshare.com/ Slide showsSlideroll
  http//www.slideroll.com/ Slide showsSlide.com
  http//www.slide.com/ Slide shows

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Clustrmaps.com

• http//www.clustrmaps.com/
• See at a glance where your site's visitors are
  located
• Check out the map at the bottom of Amphis
  interactive whiteboard page

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Bubbl.us

• http//bubbl.us/
• Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application
  that lets you brainstorm online

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Bibme

• http//www.bibme.org/
• The best free bibliography maker

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• For educators http//www.google.com/educators/inde
  x.html
• Gmail - Offer email to your faculty, students and
  staff with 2 gigabytes of storage per account,
  search tools to help them find information fast,
  and instant messaging built right into the
  browser (chat can easily be disabled for the
  whole school if you don't want students to be
  able to IM with their accounts). Google
  Talk - Teachers and students can call or send
  instant messages to their contacts for free --
  anytime, anywhere in the world. Imagine the
  possibilities for people collaborating on
  projects from different locations. Google
  Calendar - Everyone can organize their schedules
  and share events, meetings and entire calendars
  with others. You can even publish the school
  calendar on your website to let families know
  about events like back-to-school nights,
  homecoming and vacation days. Google Docs
  Spreadsheets - Students and teachers can create
  documents and spreadsheets and then collaborate
  with each other in real-time right inside a web
  browser window.Google Page Creator - Create and
  publish web pages for your domain quickly and
  easily with this what-you-see-is-what-you-get web
  design tool. No technical expertise required.

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Jott.com

• Get More Done
• Create To Do Lists and Reminders
• Send E-mail and Text Messages
• Message groups in one call
• ... all with just your voice

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MediaMax

• http//www.mediamax.com/
• Free online storage up to 25 GB

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Tinyurl.com

• TinyURL.com
• Making long URLs usable! More than 50 million of
  them. Over 1.1 billion hits/month

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Wikispaces.com

• Wikispaces for teachers
• http//www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers100K
• Wikis can be used for collaborative writing
  projects group work management online reference
  guides and manuals and electronic portfolios
• My wiki class

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Skrbl

• http//www.skrbl.com/
• Online interactive whiteboard that can be
  created and shared

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Writeboard.com

• My writeboard http//123.writeboard.com/398e639c50
  f4cc87a

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Letterpop.com

• http//letterpop.com/
• Lets you create newsletters, flyers,
  announcements, etc, all within a browser

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Scrapblog

• http//www.scrapblog.com/
• Create online scrapbooks that can be
• shared online, printed, or burned to DVD

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More cool stuff

• NECC 2007 Links
• http//amphinecc.wikispaces.com/