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**"Dialogue is a primary process through which we construct knowledge"**
This workshop has two parts: 1) a "pot-pourri" of FREE online resources that can be used in the classroom. The best way to learn about an online resource is to take the time to explore. All the websites I am showing you today are listed on this wiki. They can also be access through the googlesite for our Touchstones for Learning - PD Day 2010 at [] Have fun with the sites. I hope that you will find they are useful for your teaching! 2) As I have recently attended the TechTrain 2010 Conference at the International School of Bangkok and the Technology Conference at UWC last fall, I have familiarized myself with google docs, wikis, blogs, and google classroom sites. I will provide a brief overview of how to use theses resources and also some time to play around with them. I will also show you how to use digital storytelling in the classroom. This is a lot of information to cover in one hour so this workshop will be an overview and an introduction. All of these resources, including some tutorials are available for you to explore further once you leave this workshop. Please do not hesitate to contact me at any time if you have any questions. I hope you enjoy this workshop! Beatrice Chartrand bchartrand@cis.edu.sg

http://www.diigo.comthis is a site where you create an account and you can save your bookmarks, to be accessed online (not saved on an individual computer)

PART 1 - a) My favourite internet sites for teaching

[] Our school has a subscription to this site

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/ Our school has a subscription to this site

http://www.pppst.com/ this site has many FREE powerpoint presentations

http://www.caledon.library.on.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=62&Itemid=95 Caledon Library's online resources include "Tumblebooks" read alouds. You have to scroll down to Tumblebooks these are books that can be read and listened to online for FREE (In English and French)

[|www.quia.com] this is a subscription site - you can subscribe and ask the school to pay you back (comes out of your budget) this site is great for review games for any subject! you can also create your own games

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ unfortunately the videos are no longer available to watch on this site :( but there are many online activities that are good resources for teachers and students in any subject area

[] I use this website for French

www.youtube.com www.teachertube.com youtube has many videos that can be used to supplement your teaching teacher tube is a censored version of youtube for educational purposes create an account and you can save your favourite videos

http://www.slideshare.net/ Upload and share your PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios on SlideShare. Share publicly or privately.

b) FREE online tutorials

http://snipurl.com/stevemorgan This website is a good tutorial for Google Docs

There are online tutorials available on the web for pretty much anything!

PART 2 - Google Sites/Blogs/Wikis

Here I can show you some of the basics of creating your own class site.

PART 3 - Digital Storytelling

http://techtrain2010.wikispaces.com/Links This is the website for the TechTrain 2010 conference I recently attended. The school is the International School of Bangkok and this school is doing great things with technology. On the links page you can access the teachers and students websites and blogs. You can also access many resources for Digital Storytelling. Scroll down the page and take a look!

Microsoft Photo Story - a program that should be downloaded on your school computer

Photo Peach - it is a free online application []

[|http://voicethread.com] - this is a free online application Voice Thread

How to access "child friendly" safe pictures on the web: many of us would simply use "google images." [|www.creativecommons.org] you can search for images and give credit to the person who uploaded the image on the web through flickr.com by right clicking on the image and opening it in a new tab - here you will find the source and you can use it to cite in your work (ie. in a voice thread or digital storytelling project) a) the attribution, the link with the flickr.com - this link gives credit to the creator/owner of this picture for example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/powi/3968884602/ this link is for the computer b) click on all sizes, choose the quality/size of your image - click on "copy image url" this is the address to bring your picture into voicethread paste url and import

http://globaleducation.ning.com/ this website is an online community where you can go to "discussions" "forums" and search a particular topic. You can access discussions and communicate with teachers in your subject. You can learn about new resources and get inspired with new ideas.

http://www.learncentral.org/

www.flatclassrooms.com/