Tech Chick Tips

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Our reflections on NECC 2009. This was originally well over an hour but we were nice and edited out a lot of the silly bits. Don't worry, we still get a little punchy. Our NEXT podcast promises to be full of meat - not just potatoes. Unless you're a vegetarian...

If you're not interested in the iPhone... best to not bother listening. We're iPhone fangirls, afterall. This is all things iPhone 3.0 software and iPhone 3GS

Lucky us! Will Richardson came to Killeen to present to a group of teachers and admin. The topic was "From Information Literacy to Information Leadership." It was a great session that was uStreamed (link to follow on our web site at http://techchicktips.net) for at least part. Of course Murphy's Law rules supreme and our network went down in the building for a great portion of the presentation. We had the opportunity to interview Will Richardson as he was a captive audience on the way back to the airport to return home. We used Anna's iPhone with a Thumbtack mic. Not sure what was causing the strange thuunnnngg sounds throughout, but for the most part, it was pretty good for being in a car and through a phone. http://weblogg-ed.com/ http://twitter.com http://networksummercamp.ning.com/

Just a short hello after purchasing the new iPhone 3GS! Hopefully we'll have a real podcast tomorrow and have a more thorough review.

Resources 10 Microsoft Word Tricks Every Teacher Should Know (http://mrssmoke.onsugar.com/3033315) - via @brasst, a short list of great productivity shortcuts you might not know about 26 Twitter Clients for Mac (http://www.mintblogger.com/2009/04/micro-blogging-26-twitter-desktop.html) - Short review of different Twitter clients Twitter Resources (http://sportsmediachallenge.com/) - From Sports Media Challenge (scroll down and to the right for PDF documents on Twitter Best Practices and Twitter 101) Compfight(http://compfight.com) - Find images for comps, inspiration or research. A Flickr search tool PBWiki (http://pbwiki.com/content/newnameFAQ) - they're changing their name! Free eBook (http://shop.ascd.org/productdisplay.cfm?productid=109103E4) - Engaging the Whole Child: Reflections on Best Practices in Learning, Teaching, and Leadership MapAList (http://mapalist.com/) - Create maps using location data in a Google Spreadsheet ReadItLater (http://readitlaterlist.com)

Resources * Philosophy for Children (http://www.mtholyoke.edu/omc/kidsphil/stories.html) — Philosophical questions for students based on children’s books. Each book has a link to the philosophical issues covered in the book and another link with discussion questions. Great way to do HOT with younger students! * HippoCampus (http://www.hippocampus.org/) — (from the site) HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge. * Google Earth 5 (beta release) (http://earth.google.com/) * Historical imagery from around the globe * Ocean floor and surface data from marine experts * Simplified touring with audio and voice recording * Mars included; still missing Moon * Cool Math (http://www.coolmath.com/) — Lots of math resources–LOTS! * BibMe (http://www.bibme.org/) — (from site) Free

In this episode of Tech Chick Tips… We're back from Canada and the Teacher2Teacher conference. Love our new friends! We blabber on a bit so if you're not interested in Canada, fast forward to about 11:42 :) Resources: LookyBook (http://lookybook.com) - We say farewell! PageKeeper (http://pagekeeper.teachingmatters.org) - quickly and easily create a webpage of links to share with your students and parents. Free with no advertising! Best example of its use: DJBecker’s Page (http://pagekeeper.teachingmatters.org/link/851/list) DrivingKids (http://drivingkids.com) - Here’s a first - we talk about something we pointedly do not recommend. Listen to the podcast to find out why! Well, okay - it’s because the navigation is clunky, the games aren’t easily discernible to ability level and the chat has very little protection for kids SmartPhone Filters (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/iwonder_surf_lets_parents_lock_down_kids_iphones.php) - discussion of filtering on smartphones for students/kids and a link to

Science Buddies http://www.sciencebuddies.org/ CL1P.net - The Internet Clipboard http://cl1p.net/ Classical Comics http://www.classicalcomics.com/index.html DOGONews http://www.dogonews.com EcoKids http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/index.cfm MacHeist http://www.macheist.com/ Today's Meet http://todaysmeet.com/ Visual Representation of Bloom's http://visualblooms.wikispaces.com/ Faves Kindle for iPhone http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200298480 http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=302584613&mt=8 TED http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=298728479&mt=8

Resources * Jeopardy Labs - Allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world. * TikaTok - Imagine a story, create a book. (we forgot to tell you that you can send in your students' work and they'll scan it for you!) * Kinetic City - Amazing collection of games, science experiments, and projects. Beat the bugs and set things right. * JayCut - Online video editing. * Edmodo - Edmodo is a private microblogging platform that teachers and students can use to send notes, links, files, alerts, assignments, and events to each other. * All About Explorers - All About Explorers was developed by a group of teachers as a means of teaching students about the Internet. Because we wanted to make a point about finding useless information even in a site which looked at first to be fairly well put together, all of the Explorer biographies here are fictional. While many of the facts are true or based on truth, man

TCEA, langwitches, yearling, pln stages, itweet, brainyflix, world math day contest, google contest, collaborative rss, mac apps, edutagger, phonevite, twitter stories, ihandy, cute math

Lit2Go, TimeRime, KidsWeatherReport, Simply Box, Route 21, 21st Century Literacy Activities, The Common Craft Show, 25 Ways to Make A Difference

Another mobile-cast on the way back from Tech Forum 2008. Old friends, new faces, great sessions, awesome resources!

Ed Tech Clearinghouse, Oovoo, Twiddla, BetaVote, Neave, Pumpkin Seeds, Classroom Braids, Redefining Rigor, NECC 2009, K-12 Online, Tech Forum, Election Ideas

On the road again! Another mobile podcast. Helen's fault we haven't podcast. On the road again! Anna has a broadband card! TinyURL DOES save your URLs forever, but MooURL is still cuter! And customizable. So there! Shout out to Region VIII in Mount Pleasant! Hi Melodie! Visit us at NECC! Make us a t-shirt! Check out Steven Katz' Teach with Video book! WordWorld on PBS is SOOoOoOoOO cute! Spin & Spell is great for early literacy! Take a look at LookyBook! I learn technology from iLearnTechnology! Old news now, but we finally have Google Docs offline! Get the skinny on a zip code with ZipSkinny! If only I could see that web page, I know I'd recognize it! SearchMe!

On a bit of a Twitter soapbox and then some links on creating long portraits, an online kids' art museum, and an alternate and cute URL shorting service

Google going offline, JotForm, Twitter network building with Packs and Twubble, Timeline apps, Flickr search Jing and search engines

Short and sweet. Thanks to our Twitter network MyTweetMap, Teach Strong, Be Funky, Electronic Student Portfolios, and Diigo

It's been a while, but we're back! Links to VoiceThread for Education, Kerpoof, Poll Everywhere, Gigapan, and more. Also thanks to two students who lent their voice for teacher learning.

Reflections on TCEA keynotes of David Pogue and Marco Torres and a few bonus links. Enhanced so keep an eye out for links and images!