CVCUE at Sunnyside High School!
Written on April 5, 2008 – 3:35 pm | by Ed Warkentin
Today, April 5, 2008, Central Valley Computer Using Educators put on their Spring Conference at Sunnyside High School which is a part of the Fresno Unified School District.
The Keynote address was Marco Torres, an amazing educator. Here are some links that he gave us about him and what he’s done.
http://sfett.com/
http://torres21.typepad.com/flickschool/
http://cinedelagente.com/
He showed us some phenomenal stuff that he does with GarageBand.
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My first two sessions went very well, in my opinion. I setup a blog article for each of the sessions. (Just previous to this article)
Now I’m in a session with Mike Lebsock talking about Colonial Williamsburg and Podcasting. What an energetic guy – it was a pleasure to meet him and get to know each other today!
There’s a gold mine of resources for a 5th grade teacher in the form of the Colonial Williamsburg podcast.
I’m interested to find some high-quality podcasts that are specific to 6th grade content, as well. Whether it’s Ancient Civilizations, Science, or whatever…
A Moment in Time, by Dan Roberts is also a good resource for podcasts on American History.
Since he gave us a great packet of handouts, so I’m not taking notes terribly feverishly, as I might if we didn’t have handouts.
He recommended the Snowball mic (got it on eBay for $70 – retail price is about $300)
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Now I’m in “More than 100 Free Web Based Integration Tools” with John Corippo. For this one, I went with a sort of rapid-fire note taking style. He explained the following tools. Some I was able to get the URL’s for, others, I’ll have to explore more later…
thinkfree.com
googledocs
GoogleApps (http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/index.html)
Dance Mat Typing (for Mac) http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/
TuxTyping (for Windows or Linux)
VoiceThread (http://voicethread.com/)
Tooble/tv
Photoshop for free
Young Frankenstein – puns
Picasa (Google’s version of iPhoto; PC only; upload pictures from any camera)
David Jakes tutorial on Picasa
Jingproject.com (only limitation = 5 minutes)
Screencast
Stock Xchng (http://www.sxc.hu/)
EdZone (http://www.k12hsn.org/edzone/)
Utah Education Network / UEN (http://www.uen.org/)
Contains an improvement on Starfall
http://www.uen.org/3-6interactives/index.shtml
http://ctap7.pbwiki.com/Tech+Integration
Tags: conference, CVCUE
One Response to “CVCUE at Sunnyside High School!”
Ah yes, rapid fire would be a perfect adjective to describe working with Mr. Corippo.
Thanks for a listing his resources.
I really enjoyed your presentation too. Getting ready to teach my students how to crop out video for teachers around the campus.