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)

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Zamzar
http://zamzar.com

1. Select files (Choose File) or paste URL.
2. Choose the format to convert to:
(Image, Document, Music, Video, and more!)
3. Enter your email address to receive converted file.
4. Click “Convert”.
5. Wait for the email.
6. Click on the link in the email to download converted file.
7. Put video in iTunes for easy access during class.

•Wait time has increased since the paid account option appeared.
•YouTube or TeacherTube videos are now “harvestable” to your hard drive.
•Grab video that might be blocked on your campus, or otherwise not be accessible during class time.
•Put downloaded videos in a video editor like iMovie to crop, combine, etc.

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Handbrake

1. Download at http://handbrake.fr/
2. Put application in the proper place (Applications folder on Mac OS X) so it runs off the hard drive instead of the disk image.
3. Run program & insert DVD.
4. Wait. Program will take time to read the chapters on the DVD.
5. Choose the section of the DVD that you want to harvest to your hard drive (might be tricky; might have to guess).
6. Explore pop-up options.
7. Click Start.
8. Wait. Now it’s reading and harvesting the chapter from the DVD to your hard drive.
9. Locate file on your hard drive. If it’s too long, use a video editor such as iMovie to trim it down.
10. Put it in iTunes for easy access during class.

Click here to download a Word document version of this Zamzar and Handbrake How-To

Please comment below if you have additional tips on either of these two tools, or if you think something I’ve done here could be improved.