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You Did That with Google?
You did that with Google is a fun and interactive look at the Internet’s most popular search engine. In this one hour video conference educators will get an overview and the educational uses of the many different applications available for free from Google. During this session you will create your own custom search engine, make a website, fly around the world, design 3-D images, develop a photo gallery, start a blog post and share documents and chat as an avatar in a virtual community without having to purchase any software. Does this sound too good to be true?
Google has a fantastic portal for educators that provide them with resources that they can use right away without having to be a tech geek. Most of the programs only require access to the internet to use. These programs provide classroom teachers with the tools needed for student or professional collaboration, increased communication and resources to enhance student learning. Join Nort2h for a closer look at Google and how you can take your curriculum to the next level using these free online resources.
You Search, We Find and Share with Google Research Tools
Do you find the search results from Google overwhelming for you and your students? How long does it take for you to find what you are really looking for, or are you settling for Google’s best guesses? It’s time to make search work for you! Learn tips and tricks on how to take advantage of all of the tools available from Google and ways that they can help you find the content that you are looking for. Learn how Timelines and Wonder Wheel can make sense of search strands. Also, learn how to build your own search engine that only searches the websites you choose. All this and more from Google Research.
The World is only a Mouse Click Away with Google Earth
Want to rule the world? Well you can (at least virtually) with Google Earth. Learn how to use the dynamic virtual globe called Google Earth as a tool to receive and host content, and share it with others. This overview will demonstrate how to use content layers with your students, how they can input content into Google Earth, Mars, the moon and stars, and then share it with others.
Google Docs Rock!
Have you ever wanted to work on a document simultaneously with your peers from anywhere in the world? Ever try building a PowerPoint with three other people? Don’t you wish your documents could be with you wherever you go? With Google Docs this is all possible. Forget flash drives, take it to the cloud and collaborate. Learn how you and your students can increase productivity, save money and use 21st century skills on a daily basis. This program focuses on the collaborative side of Google with Docs and Calendar.
Google Earth Literature Trips and More
Bring literature and geography together with Google Earth and the Literature Trip Project. During this session we will learn how to find existing content designed for your grade level from other educators, ways to search Google Earth KMZ files and how you and your students can create content into Google Earth for projects and reports.
You Too Can Build a Website with Google Sites
Who said web design is difficult or costly? Not with Google! Learn how to build a classroom website and create online learning modules for your projects and instructional units. Now students can create websites instead of writing reports. Google sites are free, easy and require nothing more than your web browser. Don’t forget this is built to work with Google’s massive set of tools. Let’s build a website today!
Digital Storytelling
Building Your Own Art Gallery with Online Photos using Picasa
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Imagine what you can say about your classroom through images hosted online. Want to organize your photos online, upload them into private galleries, add call-outs, captions and more? Google’s Picasa photo editor (free download) and online galleries make editing and hosting photos fun and easy.
Digital Storytelling and Student Presentations from the Cloud - Overview
Digital Storytelling is a powerful tool for students and educators to enhance their curriculum through student-created video stories and digital photography. Using FREE software, teachers and students can create media-rich presentations that can be made into podcasts, shared over your network, emailed or posted to your website.
Digital Storytelling – Photo Stories and Mash-Ups
Want to combine video clips, music tracks and photos to create multimedia digital stories that your students will love to watch and create? Mash-ups are a combination of multimedia files combined into one. Using free resources like Animoto, Shwup, Windows Movie Maker or iMovie, teachers can combine mediums into a fun video clip to be shared with their peers, parents and students.
Digital Storytelling – Animation Animation is only for graphic designers and computer geeks, correct? NO! Using free online tools like Xtranormal, Mee Moov and other sites, you can create simple animations in minutes. Bring your students’ writing to life! Practice interview strategies or script writing with animated characters. Join NORT2H as we explore animation in the K-12 classroom. If you can type you can animate!
Digital Storytelling – Comic Strips and Books
Telling stories with comic strips and comic books is a fun and motivating way for students to express their ideas and story lines. This has now gone to the cloud with web-based comic book creator applications. Build your own comic strips or comic books online for free. It’s a great twist to creative story writing!
Digital Storytelling with the iPad and iPod Touch
There is an app for that; well actually there are several. Learn how students can use the iPod Touch and the iPad to create great digital stories with comics, photo stories and animations from handheld computers. Join NORT2H as we take a closer look at the role handheld-computing plays in digital storytelling.
Tech Apps
Would your students rather eat broccoli than sit through your PowerPoint presentations? When you turn on your projector do you hear groans and sighs? Maybe your presentations need a makeover! Make them interactive with games that make learning fun. Make review and assessment something your students look forward to! During this session NORT2H will not only demonstrate interactive PowerPoints, we will provide you with several games that you can download and start using tomorrow.
You Don’t Have to Use PowerPoint – FREE Presentation Apps
Looking for something other than PowerPoint for your presentations? Don’t have a copy of Microsoft Office at home and need to work on a presentation outside of school? Want your presentations to pop rather than transition from slide to slide to slide to slide? There are other options and they are free. Join us for a look at online presentation tools that can enhance your presentations.
21st Century Classroom
Personal Learning Networks – Build a Network of Peers from Around the World
When you attend a workshop or a conference, networking is often as highly valued as the content presented. Why should your communication end there? Why should your networking be limited to the teachers that were able to attend? Creating a learning network that is designed around your interests is easier than you think. During this session teachers and administrators will learn how to build a learning network of educators and organizations from around the world.
DOCS Teach with the National Archives – Online tools from the National Archives
Ever wanted be like a museum content provider and use their vast resources in your lessons? Now you can with DOCS Teach! This new online program from the National Archives allows classroom teachers to pull resources from the National Archives to use with their lessons. Join the staff from the National Archives in Washington DC as they share this great resource for classroom teachers.
To Thinkfinity and Beyond! – So Many Classroom Resources for Free
Thinkfinity is a FREE web portal for educators aligned to national standards with lessons and materials that teachers can use to enhance their instruction. Thinkfinity is currently working in partnership with the Ohio Resource Center. Using the portal, classroom teachers find school-appropriate websites and save planning time.
Facebook & Twitter – What teachers need to know and can’t ignore
I don’t use social media, why should I care about Facebook or Twitter? Turning the blinders on to social networking and social media doesn’t make it go away. Like it or not, Facebook and other social sites are not going away anytime soon and they can affect you and your students. During this session we will take a closer look at social media and discuss safety tips that our students need when they’re sharing their lives online.
Online Video in the Classroom – Khan Academy, TeacherTube and More
Video from the cloud sounds complicated and unreliable but that’s not the case at all. Video has never been easier to access, or more of a dynamic tool to use with other technologies. Online video comes in many forms and can be linked, streamed, or embedded into other tools. With tools like the Khan Academy, iTunes U and TeacherTube, classroom teachers have great resources just a link away.
Web 2.0
What is the Cloud? – Introduction to Web2.0 & Cloud Computing
Everyone’s talking about getting their technology up or down from the cloud, but what does that mean? Allow us to give you a tour of cloud computing and demonstrate how using remote servers for your applications will make things easier for you and save you money. Earn your wings with the NORT2H staff and start computing from the clouds tomorrow.
Show Me Your Wiki? I Hardly Know You! – Introduction to the World of Wikis
Don’t just write a document, share it! Learn why wikis are one of the hottest trends in K-12 education. During this program, teachers will learn how to create a collaborative learning environment using only their web browsers. Wikis are FREE and as simple as using a word processor to edit. Join NORT2H for a fun look at the Web2.0 tool that educators rave about and students enjoy.
I Am So Blogging This Tonight – How Teachers Use Blogs in the Classroom
Are you blogging??? Well, you should be! Blogging is an excellent way for classroom teachers, coordinators and administrators to share, collaborate and update their students and community. Join us for a closer look at blogs and how they can be a tool for sharing and motivating students or an essential tool for your profession.
E-Bulletin Boards & Online Posters – Creating Interactive Spaces for Your Classroom
Don’t you wish you could have an electronic space online that users could visit and post notes for others to see and even leave comments? Not only can you leave notes, you can add video clips, hyperlinks, audio notes and more! Join us for a look at this newest form of collaborative workspace and how teachers can use this with their students and parents.
Podcasting Is That Easy? – Beginners Guide to Podcasting
Whether you’re looking for ways to share your content or a tool to bring in video or audio into your classroom, podcasting is for you! Join us for a closer look at using iTunes to bring in content, and learn how you can create your own Podcast to share with others for free. Creating podcasts for student projects, sharing best practices or providing your students with additional resources are all possible through podcasting.
What is all the Hype about Skype? – Overview of Online Desktop IVC (IM & H.323)
Video is coming to a desktop near you; are you ready? Skype, ooVoo, camifrog and others, bring chat, videoconferencing and document sharing to your desktop. Did you know that software has been developed to allow you to connect to classroom videoconferencing systems? Join us for a closer look at Desktop IVC and the advantages and disadvantages of these products.
No Google? Let Me Introduce you to my Friend Zoho
Need collaborative tools but can’t or don’t want to use Google? There are other alternatives to Google for collaborative tools. Zoho is a cloud based collaboration portal that provides comparable tools to collaborative tools of Google and have a couple of tricks of their own. Join us for a closer look at Zoho and how this could be a great alternative to Google.
