Improving+Teaching+Through+Technology

Place to go and view iste sessions on-line-- http://www.istevision.org/landing_page.php  http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/2010/glance/remote_access.php

To see an great example of 21st century education I highly recommend watching Twitter Goes to School: Telling Stories through Digital Threads. I am sure the others who attended can recommend other sessions that they saw that were outstanding. I know I plan to watch some of the videos that I wasn't able to attend.---Anne posts this.

Looking for a creative way to display vocab, ideas, stories etc? Go to www.wordle.net and create your own design. Be sure to read the FAQs so you can give proper credit to your creations--Barb posts
 * Wordle**

http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathtype/default.htm
 * MathType**

**Concept Map Google** http://www.googlewonderwheel.com/google-wonder-wheel-step-by-step

**Concept Map Thesaurus** It is a thesaurus in the form of a concept map. . . http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ --Ann posts

Learn about ipod touches here--Anne posts http://web.me.com/jill.burdo/iPodTouchK-8Classroom/Start_Here.html
 * iPOD Touches**

Here is the link for education apps from the ipod touch course I took. Even though the web site has a LS theme there are things for older students - go the sections labeled teacher tools and additional resources.

From my notes: 1. an app for a response system "Take a Poll" $.99 and a pro version for $4.99. Another one mentioned briefly " Poll everywhere" - phone, computer, smart phone. We didn't look at this

2. you can add text to an itunes library and then have the text read outloud to you! There are some steps to do this, let me know if would like this. I haven't tried it yet. . . it is on my list.

3. Favorite blogs to follow all things Mac. unofficial Appleweblog (TUAW) appleinsider slashdot - not necessarily mac, uses for tech info


 * Student Response Systems**

Here is the link to the response ware site: http://www.turningtechnologies.com/studentresponsesystems/mobiledistancelearning/higheredresponseware/

**Teaching with a Blog** Here is a link to a blog - UNI professor who taught his class from this blog. Assignments are posted etc

http://eitsummer10.blogspot.com/