Building
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21st century
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Virtual Productions
    www.xtranormal.com
    Introduction animation for our presentation. Free online animation creation. Sign-in required.
    Able to save multiple videos under account. If you use RealPlayer, you can download for use in
    PowerPoint.

Cell Phones, iPods in Education
    www.polleverywhere.com
    Cell phone texting activity. Free for up to 32 students for education.  May pay for larger
    participating audiences.  Able to poll via Twitter, Smart Phone, Web, PowerPoint.

Instructional Videos for Engaging Classroom Instruction
    www.YouTube.com
    Although blocked by many districts, it does have good educational videos. However there are a
    lot of inappropriate videos.  I tend to use YouTube for my presentations and/or sharing ideas but
    recommend using TeacherTube for within the classroom.

    www.TeacherTube.com
    The video, 3 Steps to 21st Century Learning, is one of many informative and motivational videos
    available through TeacherTube.  Free to join, it also offers a home page to store your favorites.  
    Conduct searches on specific needs, i.e. Math Lessons, U.S. History, Education and a thousand
    more.

    www.TheFuturesChannel.com
    This bike video is from The Futures Channel. Each video comes with an activity related to an
    academic theme. Sign up for their weekly newsletter for the latest video. It appears that there is
    now a fee if you want access to all videos, but with the weekly newsletter, you gain free access.

Extended Learning and Visual Connections
    www.hippocampus.org
    Free Instructional videos on secondary academic subjects, from basic algebra to calculus, U.S.
    History, and some in Spanish.  Excellent multimedia lessons and resource materials.

    www.neok12.com
    1,000's of free instructional videos, including the site that holds the video we shared on slow
    motion, under the section called "Full Videos". A great resource for teachers to show a video
    during the first few minutes or those last few minutes of class.

    www.teachersdomain.org
    Free, sign-in required multimedia lessons for the classroom. Features unique videos, i.e.
    interviews, relevance and career based themes.

    www.mrcoley.com
    The best, as well as the most useful site I have found that exemplifies student, parent, teacher
    use. The creator of this site,  Mr. Coley includes regular podcasts made by students, MathCasts
    he has created via the Interwrite pad (www.einstruction.com) to support parents and students in
    math concept reviews, as well as  resources.  His site is always up-to-date and provides
    resources for teachers to learn how to do these podcasts. Permission granted by Mr. Coley to
    share his expertise!

Web 2.0 -> 3.0
    www.voicethread.com
    The latest in social collaboration media.  This free online source is a web-based site where
    groups can share documents, video, images and discuss the content and/or topic.

    www.twitter.com
    Many people respond, "I don't get Twitter" and I didn't either about a year ago.  Then after reading
    many educational articles in support of this new online collaborative connection, I joined the
    global forces in May of 2009. This has become my number one source of online learning.  I
    follow about 200 key educators, global leaders, news feeds, and a few entertaining twitters. I now
    have almost 1000 followers. Follow me @jodylo and see how the world is conducting research
    and finding the best resources available!

    www.skype.com
    Unfortunately we were not able to Skype during our presentation, but do consider contacting my
    sister, Susan Barr Aguilar, who runs an English School in Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico to connect with
    her high school students learning English. susanbarrag@gmail.com

    The other recommendation is to research other schools around our globe interesting in
    communicating and collaborating with students at www.epals.com. While using Twitter, I have
    found that @familyonbikes will Skype with your students.  This is a family who have decided to
    travel the world with their children on bikes.  They are presently in South America.

    www.google.com/educators
    Google has so much to offer. This link takes you to the education page which describes many of
    the resources available.  As a free resource, sharing Google with your parents, students, and
    staff can open the doors to the instructional and personal values of the Internet. Here are some
    FREE ideas just to name a few:
Web Site
Online Photo Album and Editing Software
3D "Sketch It" software
See the world, ocean, and skies via Google Earth
Google Docs offers online word processing, spreadsheets, presentation software
Google Docs also offers free survey creation which can also be used for homework and
information requests - all data is sent to a spreadsheet for further analysis and display.  
Many schools use and pay for online survey services -- this is free and has no limits as to
number of responses or entries.
Google Docs also now offers online storage of any type of documents.
Google Calendar
For more "almanac" classroom ideas
Exclusively
designed for the
UASSP
participants at
the Winter
Conference on
January 25-27,
2010, St. George,
Utah.
We hope you enjoyed our presentation. Here are the links to key resources that we included
at the conference.  If any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.
                                                                                                                              
Thank you Utah!! Jody Oliver and Kathleen Steele