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

Most of the session will consist of demonstrating the application. We will also cover “Google Sketch-Up.” Here are some links that you might find useful in getting familiar with GoogleEarth and Sketch-Up

GoogleEarth home page. Download the program and access support community, Google Sketch-Up (click on “Build 3D models”), etc. all from here.

Google Sketch-Up, 3D Warehouse. Download 3D models others have built.

Sketch-Up Help Center

My del.icio.us links tagged GoogleEarth

Wes Fryer’s del.icio.us links tagged GoogleEarth

“What’s del.icio.us?” you ask? Read this blog post. I describe it more fully there. (Here’s another post about del.icio.us)