Grab Attention in Your IWB Presentations with Fun Fonts

Enjoy creating glitter fonts that move and sparkle. Click on the title of this post to link to the website that let's you do this for FREE!!

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http://www.familylobby.com/create-glitter-text-graphics.asp#

Useful Ways to Involve Mobile Devices in the Classroom

Here is a great way to involve all those cell phones floating around in your class! Click the title of this post to link to a great article on using texting features for instructional benefit.

Feel free to share your thoughts on this topic by commenting to this post. Feedback is welcome!

Lewis County Central Elementary - Beginner Group Survey

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Lewis County Central Elementary School - Advanced User Group

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Blabberize!

Now that I have your attention with that title, let me share with you a fun new Web 2.0 tool that I have discovered while at ISTE. www.blabberize.com is a site where you can upload an image and then turn it into a "talking head" of sorts. For example, if you wanted to pull in a picture of Abraham Lincoln and then have him "speak" to the kids about his assasination, you could use this website to create that animation. The site will allow you to record your voice and then it attaches that sound to the image and the "mouth" of your image moves along with the text you recorded! How cool is that? Play around with it and I will post specific instructions on how to use it once I am back from the conference.

Stay tuned for more new tips and tools as I continue my ISTE 2010 journey.

ISTE 2010!

I have arrived in the mile-high city and am looking forward to an incredible conference. I hope to keep you updated throughout the week and post great new resources, tools, tips, and other great info I discover while here. Stay tuned! If you have specific questions or interests regarding the conference, please comment to this post and I will be sure to get back to you. You can check out www.iste.org for more information or for organizational membership. Hope everyone is enjoying a great summer. ~ Tiffaney

How to Create and Use Blogs in the Classroom

Discover how easy it is to create your own blog for use in the classroom.

Cool graphics for free!

Here is another great Web 2.0 tool. Visit cooltext.com for a free graphics resource site.

Interact with Your Audience!

Wondering how I got that Wiki question in my previous blog post? Want to create instant interaction with your audience? Then visit this awesome FREE site:

www.polleverywhere.com

Here you can create your own instant polls. Depending on how you set up your poll, your audience can respond by sending text messages through their phones, or by sending an email. It's a great way to gain instant feedback and a better understanding of the dynamics of any audience.

Try it out and let me know the different ways you incorporate this Web 2.0 tool in your classroom!

Wiki Wiki What?

Create interactive meetings at Poll Everywhere

KEDC/KPC Booth at KySTE

Check out our booth at KySTE!  Our camping theme secured many compliments and an excited winner at the end of the conference who got to take all those camping goodies home.  Congrats to Lewis County for winning those great door prizes. 

 

 

 

Great KySTE Conference!

I just returned from the state KySTE conference in Louisville, KY. It was great to see so many colleagues and I look forward to sharing new resources and technology ideas with you. Stay tuned for an updated list of free web resources you can immediately use in your classrooms.

Technology Training in NYC

I will be in NYC for training from Monday Feb 8th - Thursday Feb 11th (IF I can get out of here after the snow!). Have you been to NYC before? If so, post your favorite thing to do while in the city that never sleeps.......

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