TIES 2012 - 100 Great Tools For Transforming And Flipping Instruction

Learn about 100 great free and low-cost online tools, software and web sites that can get you started flipping your classroom instruction and extending your professional development training to help your students and teachers take learning beyond the classroom walls and raise achievement levels.

 

TIES 2012 Conference Wiki - http://wiki.ties.k12.mn.us/TIES2012_100+Great+Tools+for+Transforming+and+Flipping+Instruction

IRA Presentation - Creative Ways To Publish Student Writing

2012 International Reading Association Conference Presentation 

Giving Students A Global Voice And Connecting One Student To Another With Web 2.0 Tools: Creative and Collaborative Choices For Publishing Student Writing and Creating Authentic Online Reading Sources 

Creative and Collaborative Choices For Publishing Student Writing

Learn how classroom teachers can collaborate with online resources allowing students to share writing with partner schools, get feedback from online buddies, and create literacy materials for others while focusing on improving student writing and reading.
 

Wikis

Wikispaces classroom examples
PBWorks classroom examples
Wet Paint classroom examples

 

Book Publishing

RealeWriter

http://www.realewriter.com/

UDL Book Builder

http://bookbuilder.cast.org/

 

GarageBand Podcasts

Video Creation

xtranormal

http://www.xtranormal.com/

Ben Franklin
by: cturnbull

Google Apps

 

Blogs

 

Comic Life

http://plasq.com/products/comiclife/mac

 

CNN Student News

Looking for a great daily source of student-friendly, engaging news videos? Check out CNN Student News for free daily video broadcasts of current news designed to engage students.

What is CNN Student News?
CNN Student News is a free ten-minute daily news program produced for middle and high school students Monday through Friday.

How can you get the content automatically?
You can subscribe to CNN Student News through iTunes and download the daily podcast automatically each time that you open iTunes when connected to the internet by following the steps in the embedded video below.

Creative Ways To Publish Student Writing

How can you take the writing that students are doing in their writers' notebooks and publish it in ways that will motivate students to keep writing and share their writing with the global community.

Webpage
Urban Planet
Google Sites


RealeWriter
Free mini book creation software
Can do page, text, and picture formatting
Program does page layout for you

Blabberize
Upload a photo, outline the mouth, and copy in text, and create an talking photo.

Creating Radio Shows
Have students write stories first and then create all the sound effects with common objects and record with GarageBand or Audacity.

Wikis
Free online webpages that allow you to set up who has viewing and editing rights

VoiceThread
Create slideshows that allow you and others to annotate photos and add audio comments
Explantion

TIES 2010: Engage Me - Transforming Pedagogy With Technology

Image

Links for copyright-friendly music

Creative Commons - Jamendo tab http://search.creativecommons.org/#
Shambles: Sound Effects and Music http://www.shambles.net/pages/school/SoundE/
Educational CyberPlayGround: Get Music Downloads http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/FREE.html
Open Source Audio http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio
Incompetech Royalty Free Music http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/
Mutopia (public domain sheet music) http://www.ibiblio.org/mutopia/
Opsound Copyright friendly sound
Find Sounds http://www.findsounds.com/
FreePlay Music (check for licensing) http://www.freeplaymusic.com/
Partners in Rhyme: Free Sound Effects http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.shtml
Partners in Rhyme: Free Music Loops http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/free.html
Partners in Rhyme: Free Midi Files http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/midi/index.shtml
Partners in Rhyme: Free Weather Sound Effects http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/soundfx/Weather.shtml
Soundzabound Music Library http://www.soundzabound.com/mambo/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
ccMixter http://ccmixter.org/
Classic Cat (classical music) http://www.classiccat.net/#black
WavList.com http://new.wavlist.com/
Singing Fish Audio and Video Search http://search.singingfish.com/sfw/home.jsp

ISTE 2010 - Creative and Collaborative Choices for Publishing Student Writing

Learn how classroom teachers can collaborate with online resources allowing students to share writing with partner schools, get feedback from online buddies, and create literacy materials for others while focusing on improving student writing and reading.

GarageBand
Gatorcast

Old-Fashioned Radio Show

RealeWriter
Student book publishing made easy
RealeWriter website
RealeBooks library

XtraNormal
www.xtranormal.com
Text to Video Converter
MakeMovies



Websites
Publishing for a real-world, public audience makes a difference to students.

GoogleSites

Video Creation
iMovie
Windows Movie Maker
Photo Story
PowerPoint
Keynote

Comic Life
Comic book creation software
Interfaces with iLife to tap into your own photo library or import photos

Wikis
Collaborative webpage
Apple Leopard Server Software (OS 10.5 and 10.6)
Wikispaces - free account
PB Works - free account
Wet Paint - free account

Use usernames and passwords to limit access for student protection.

Wikispaces classroom examples
PBWorks classroom examples
Wet Paint classroom examples

VoiceThread
VoiceThread for K-12
Make photos interactive
Annotate
Leave comments
Tap into higher level thinking skills by providing evidence/support for your opinion

Blabberize
Upload a photo and make it talk!
Online Blabberize tool

UDL Book Builder
Book creation template