Tutorials

Tutorials to Some Technology Tools! = __**Online Surveys and Polls**__ = = = = = ** Windows Movie Maker Now replaced with Windows Live Movie Maker **
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 * = Survey Monkey link here to resources to create and use survey monkey as a free online survey tool adn ssessment tool. =
 * [[file:Live Movie Maker Instructions.docx]]
 * What is Movie Maker? Microsoft Windows Movie Maker is a digital video editing tool. Users can upload their video files from a camcorder, import video, audio, and images, and customize their movies. If you are working with a registered copy of Microsoft XP, [|download Movie Maker here] for free.
 * [[file:Video Segment Planning Sheet.docx]]
 * [[file:Story Board for Video.pub]]
 * [[file:Transferring Flip Video to Computer.pub]]
 * [[file:Movie Maker Instructions for Students.doc]]
 * [[file:BlueScreen MovieMaker.doc]]
 * [[file:Video Project Rubric.docx]]
 * Sample videos by MIDDLE SCHOOL students: [], and []

=Photo Story 3=
 * What is Photo Story? Microsoft **Photo Story** is a free application that you can download from the Internet. It allows users to create a presentation from their digital photos, including still images, music, and narration. [|Download here.]
 * __Some General Ideas for Use__: to promote upcoming school events, to document field trips or other school events, to highlight student work, to introduce your course on Open House night, to identify/explain a series of images, to sequence events in a timeline, to promote books, to summarize a story, to create a biography or an autobiography, etc.!!!
 * [|Possible Uses in English Classroom]
 * [[file:Preparing for a Photo Story.pub]]
 * [[file:Story Board for Photo Story.pub]]
 * [[file:Using Photo Story 3 for Students.doc]]
 * [[file:Photo Story 3 Resources.doc]]
 * [[file:Photostory3 Rubric.doc]]


 * Sample Photo Story: media type="file" key="Robert Frost Photo Story.wmv" width="300" height="300"

** Citation Generators **
 * What are citation generators? Online tools which facilitate the creation of works cited pages. In most cases, students input the data about the resources, and the applications format the output according to guidelines and standards, such as the MLA Style Manual.
 * [|Bib Me] ( Revolutionary, because it will give you the citations of books when students input only their titles!)
 * [|Knight Cite]
 * [|Son of Citation Machine]
 * [|NoodleBib]
 * [|Easy Bib] (A personal favorite, because it will easily save multiple citations for a works cited page.)

Blogging
 * What is a blog? An online diary; a personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page, which can include images, videos, etc. Blogs are typically updated on a frequent basis, and others can comment on the author's entries.
 * [[file:Evaluating Blogs.doc]]
 * Our new favorite blogging site:
 * [|21 Classes] This site allows a teacher to have his own classroom blog site, and each of his students can have a blogging site that branches off the classroom site. The teacher can not only manage the student sites, but he can also set it up so that each posting / comment must be approved by the teacher. Students need not have email addresses to have branch-off blogging sites, and the teacher can make the sites as public or as private as he likes. Students can customize their sites as well.
 * Check out the Librar'ys blog at http://blogs.vbschools.com/fchslibrary/.
 * All about Class blogs, including a whole slew of ideas: http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/blog/blogbasics.cfm
 * An excellent overview of how and why to incorporate blogs into your classroom repertoire: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/articles/blogging-elt
 * [[file:Sample Blogger Agreement.doc]]
 * [[file:Creating a 21Classes Classroom Blog.doc]]
 * [[file:Ideas for Using Blogs in an English Classroom.doc]]
 * [[file:Ten Things to Do With Your Blogs.doc]]

** Podcasting ** > > > > ** Wikispaces **
 * What is a podcast? An audio file which is published on the Internet. A true podcast is designed for playback on portable digital audio payers (such as iPods) as well as computers and is delivered via an RSS feed over the Internet to subscribers. [|Download Audacity here.]
 * [[file:Podcasting Brochure.pdf]]
 * [[file:Podcasting for Instruction.ppt]]
 * [[file:audacity-quickstart.pdf]]
 * [|All About Audacity] (written and video tutorials)
 * [[file:Creating a Booktalk Podcast Presentation with Ppt.doc]]
 * [[file:Creating Podcasts and Saving to Wikispace.doc]]
 * [[file:Creating Podcasts and loading it SharePoint.doc]]
 * [[file:Agenda for Podcasting InService.doc]]
 * [[file:Creating a Podcast Using Audacity.doc]]
 * A Sample: [[file:Sample Podcast.mp3]]
 * What is a wiki? A collaborative Web site set up to allow users to edit and add content, including text, images, videos, etc.
 * [|Video Tutorials on Creating Wikispaces]
 * __For ideas of how to use a wikispace with your classes, go to __ [|Wiki Ideas for the Classroom] __.__
 * [[file:Ideas for Using Wikis in HS English.doc]]
 * [[file:Evaluating Wikis.doc]] To use when trying to decide whether or not a particular wiki resource is worth using for research.
 * [[file:Getting Started with Wikispaces.pub]]
 * [[file:Using Your Wikispace.doc]]
 * Rubrics: [[file:WikiGradingRubric.pdf]] [[file:wikirubric.pdf]]


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**Voki** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: calibri,sans-serif;">Voki is a free online service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your wiki, blog, profile, and in email messages. A video tutorial to using Voki:

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<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Glogging with [|Glogster.com]: Glog: An interactive multimedia image similar to a poster that allows the readers to interact with the content. It is fully designed by you using text, images, links, music and video. Whether it is minimalist, glitzy or emo your glog becomes a perfect tool to express yourself.

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Here is a Power Point Presentation created by discovery learning which explains how to creat a glog and is a resource for teaching how.

Link here to see an example. You will want to scroll your mouse around to link to all the resources. []

Rubric for Glogster

Glogster for Education

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Blabberize ! A fun way to give voice to an image. Blabberize works similar to a Voki but instead of creating an avatar, students find an image they want to use and give it a voice. It is a free online service. Once created, you can share these as widgets or links on your wiki, blog, profile and email messages. I have attached instructions if you would like to try creating one yourself. Go to [|www.Blabberize.com] Have FUN!!! = Discovery Education Streaming = Link and open this document to find information on how to use

<span style="color: #e07a15; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Using Google Documents

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