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=Welcome to Davis Techie! =

== On this site, you will find information about the resources available at Davis as well as Web 2.0 tools to help you integrate technology into your classroom. Scroll down to locate the topic(s) of interest. ==

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Web 2.0 Novice
 Available Online Tools and How We Can Use Them

[|Brainpop]    Provides animated, curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages students. Activities and quizzes included. The username is davisacad and the password is student.

[|Enchanted Learning] Provides templates that cover a wide range of subjects. Designed for younger students. The username is davis2 and the password is daughter44.

[|Netrekker] Use this trusted search engine for schools, which provides access to screened and relevant K-12 online resources.

 [|EbscoHost] Provides access to educational databases and encyclopedias online. User can search educational magazines for useful articles, get biographical information, and locate factual information on a wide range of subjects.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Galileo] Georgia’s Online Library with access to hundreds of databases that cover a wide array of subjects.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Delicious] A social bookmarking tool that allows you to save your favorite websites and access them online from anywhere at anytime. Watch this video for a great explanation about how to get started using Delicious right away.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Discovery Education] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Educational videos from Georgia Public Broadcasting. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px; msofareastfontfamily: Calibrimso-ansi-language;">Each teacher must create their own personal username and password using a passcode assigned to Davis. First time users, go to new user box on log-in page; input the passcode of 872c-8855. Click Go; you will be prompted to create your own username and password to log onto the site. Complete the profile section. Please be sure to write down your username and password so that you remember it for the next time you wish to access the site. Forgot your user name? Follow the prompts for return users who’ve forgotten name/password.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Teachingbooks.net] A subscription-only website filled with hundreds of author, book and subject specific guides and activities.

<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Tumblebooks] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Online picture books that are read outloud with accompanying activities. The username is davis and the password is books.

<span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Library Catalogs [|Lower School] or [|Middle School] Davis Academy library catalogs describing books and videos within our media centers.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Click [|Technology Vocabulary.docx] for a useful vocabulary sheet that will help you familarize yourself with technology terminology.

If you are interested in collaborating with your peers on this wiki, you may watch a video to learn how to log in and edit this page.

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Web 2.0 Diva/Divo-In-Training
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Blogging <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Uses: Blogs can be used for student’s to use as an online journal, creative writing assignments, book reports, newsletters, center activities and more.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Examples of ways that blogs can be used: [] The blog of a technology guru that has interesting commentary.

[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Mrs. Brown's fourth grade boys book club blog where comments can be made as stories are read.

[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">​Ms. Levin's amazing third grade class blog. Check it out!

[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">This one includes lessons that students can do on the smartboard. Great for encouraging fun academic activities that can continue beyond the classroom.

[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">An example of a homeroom teacher's classroom blog that also links to some other useful sites.

[] A blog that contains helpful ways that to integrate technology into the classroom.

[]<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> A blog that lists ways to include smartboard activities in the classroom.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 160%;">Animoto <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Animoto automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips and music. Fast, free and shockingly easy. You will need to user your Davis email address and create a password for access to the more flexible version of animoto. For a quick glimpse of what Animoto can do, watch Mrs. Brown's video of the 4th grade boys book club last year. Animoto is a creative way to do book report projects or teach webetiquette.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">media type="custom" key="5163009" Classroom 2.0 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">An online community of educators incorporating Web 2.0 tools into their classrooms. Includes free online webinars. Very similar model to facebook but focuses solely on technology and education. This is an excellent resource that is an extension of everything on this wiki. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msoansilanguage: EN; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Delicious <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">A social bookmarking site that allows you to bookmark your favorite sites and access them online from any computer. By tagging your bookmarks or “labeling” them, you can make them searchable when you are seeking a website by topic that you have saved in the past. Click here to watch a video from CommonCraft that will help you get going on Delicious right away.

**<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Web 2.0 Connisseur **
<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msoansilanguage: EN; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;"> <span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">Wikis <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">A website that allows users to create and edit information. It is great for collaborating online. You are reading this information on a wiki. By signing up at wikispaces (for free!) you can create your own wiki. Watch this video created by CommonCraft to understand how wikis work.

<span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">Podcasts <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">A podcast is an audiofile published to the web and an RSS feed that allows users to subscribe to the podcast using an RSS reader or Podcaster. How to create a podcast: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%; msoansilanguage: ENmsoansilanguage;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msoansilanguage: EN; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msolist: Ignore;">1. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Go to mypodcast. com and sign in for free <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 2. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; msoansilanguage: ENmsoansilanguage;">Plug a microphone into your pc (microphones are available for checkout at both media centers) <span style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msoansilanguage: EN; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msolist: Ignore;"> 3. Once you finish recording, hit stop 4. Select the publish button at the bottom of your recording and voila, you now have your very own podcast What is a podcast good for?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Here is a sample podcast from CommonCraft on what else?! Podcasting! []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Recording an assignment for students to access anytime, anywhere
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Giving instructions or lesson plans, which can then be broadcast on the Smartboard
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Sharing and narrating photos from your travels
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Explaining a complex topic

<span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 160%;">RSS Feeds <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">RSS Feeds allow you to subscribe to websites so that new information posted on these sites are sent directly to a "reader" that you can access for quick highlights on topics that interest you. For another great video on RSS Feeds from CommonCraft, click here. A reader that folks commonly use is Google Reader.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Voicethread <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">The Davis Academy subscribes to voicethread. Simply log in as dfrank@davisacademy.org (username) and principal (password) to start recording audio while sharing videos, documents or images. Click here for an example of a great project done by Mrs. Amram's first grade class using Voicethread.

<span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Social Networks Social networks or nings are platforms that allow you to create networks that you can use for social and/or professional purposes. Examples of these include facebook, classroom 2.0, and Smartboard Revolution. For our purposes, we will focus on Classroom 2.0 and Smartboard Revolution: Classroom 2.0 An online community of educators sharing how to incorporate Web 2.0 tools into their classrooms. It includes free online webinars. It is a very similar model to facebook or linked in but focuses solely on technology and education. This is an excellent extension to all that is on this wiki. Many of the smarty pants around here use this as their "source" for good information that they share with the rest of the faculty. You must create a username and password (but it's free!) to join the Classroom 2.0 community. Smartboard Revolution This is a place where Smartboard-using educators can share tips, lessons, and ideas to customize and enhance their classsroom. By joining this ning, you will be able to create your own profile that allows you to collaborate with other educators using Smartboards. It's free to join as well.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Screencasts This is one of the coolest Web 2.0 tools out there. Screencasts allow you to capture website images from your computer while you narrate. Essentially, you are creating a video made up of webpages. This is an excellent tool to walk someone through how to do something on the computer. See below for a superb example: media type="custom" key="5122641"

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 160%;">Smartboard-Related Points of Interest: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Regardless of whether you are a novice, a diva in training or a connisseur of Web. 2.0 tools, we encourage you to collaborate with others on this wiki. Therefore, in order to add to this wiki, which, again, we would love for you to do in the spirit of collaboration, you must create a username and password and register with wikispaces. It's free! Here's how: Simply go to wikispaces.com, type in a username and password, then search for davistechie to locate our wiki. Once found, click on the davistechie link and select edit this page from the top right hand corner. You can now contribute to our wiki! For help, ask Stacy Brown, Dara Amram or a wiki-loving colleague. For all of you visual learners out there, click here for a video instruction about how to edit this Davis wiki.