0) Registration stuff and creating Google accounts

Are your print jobs are coming out crumpled, shredded and blotchy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG-swkL0s7M&feature=related

Tech Support - the original change

1) All About Us (you know - that touchy, freely sharing stuff) Who are you, where do you teach, why are you here?

TABBED browsing and why you should use it!!!

2) What's this Communication noise about anyway ???

An overview and Some resources

Websites screened by Teacher Candidates  and  Practicing teachers  

3) Better For You !!!

     Creating and sharing your info --- Wikis and/or Blogs - Weebly, PBWorks, Wikispaces, Blogspot and Google docs

What's the difference between a wiki (many people) and a blog (one person) ???

My blogs - University Courses, Girls in Gaming, Student Blogs

Other blog samples - Grade 7 Classroom, REC Math, Western Civ   

Wiki samples - Science, REC Courses, Internet Pedagogy, Teacher and Tech, Computer Science Methods

Teacher Candidate Samples:

Michelle - http://reachtheteach.blogspot.com/ 

Crystal - http://musicalcreativity-cryssi.blogspot.com/ 

Amanda - http://the-creative-classroom.wikispaces.com/

• Setup
• Security and comments
• Look and feel - templates
• Look and feel - extras

4) Gathering info --- RSS feeds - (Newspaper format) Microsoft Montage,  Paper.li  or Scoop.it and NetVibes, or Google Reader

Why alternatives? Divisional access and/or personal preference (only one login for all Google stuff) 

• set-up
• adding feeds
• organizing
• viewing

Survey Monkey - free online surveys.

Polleverywhere.com - text in questions or answers

Doodle - arrange meetings

5) Some simple sharing - Book Club Sharing (My books in my Blog), Social Bookmarking

        Uploading and finding Powerpoint presentations

Teacher Tube (not usually blocked)

6) Collaborative info sharing

Google docs - creating a presentation and sharing it and working collaboratively.

Google forms - creating a simple survey and getting the results

Google Sites - collaborative web site.

Graphic Organizer - Bubble.us, Gliffy.com

Shared Whiteboard - Skrbl

7) Shows Understanding

Great online paint programs - SumoPaint, Art Pad, Odosketch, SketchPad, Photoshop Express (online)

Script to 3D animation - Xtranormal

3D modeling - Google SketchUp

Podcasting - Garageband on Macs or Audacity on Macs and PCs, iPadio (phone to web), PodBean (Free podcast hosting)

Video and videoish -  

Middlespot - web mashups

animoto - video from images

Doink - simple drawing and animation
Glogster - create posters with pictures, movies, etc 

VLC = an INDISPENSIBLE tiny app for Mac or PC that plays just about any video format. Keep a copy on your USB stick