MERLOT Teacher Education Editorial Board

Teacher Education Favorites: Tried and Proved, Part Deux

What’s your role?

• Faculty – College of Education

• Faculty – Arts & Sciences

• Faculty – Other Disciplines

• Technology Coordinator/ IT

• Administrator

• Education, K-12

• Other

Web 2.0

• Have no clue….

• Have heard of it

• Have used it occasionally

• Use it regularly for personal use and planning only

• I use it in my courses with students as well as for personal use

Characteristics of good learning objects:

– Applicability– Ease of Use– Multiple Uses– Good Pedagogy– Engaging

Teacher Ed Board

• Each of us selected websites that we’ve recently reviewed and USED in our own classrooms

• You’ll find the list of sites at TWINE

Have you used screencapture software for images or video?

• No

• Yes – images only

• Yes – images and desktop video

• What is screencapture software?

Jing

• http://jingproject.com

After you capture--Share via Screencast

Example from my desktop

http://www.screencast.com/users/crisg

Jing

History Wired• http://historywired.si.edu/

Cool Tools for Schools

• http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/

Scratch

• http://scratch.mit.edu/

• Do you ever wish you had easy access to a free design tool?

• Yes

• No

Gliffy

• http://gliffy.com

Does your University support..

• PCs only

• Macs only

• Both PC and Mac

• Have you ever received files that are in a format you cannot open on your computer?

• Yes

• No

Zamzar

• www.zamzar.com

Inanimate Alice• http://www.inanimatealice.com

• Do you ever run across a couple of students in your class who need a quick tutorial on vocabulary to get them up to speed?

• Yes

• No

• Do you have a candidate in your program who is especially talented in a specific area who might be able to create tutorials?

• Yes

• No

Quizlet

• http://quizlet.com

Twine

• http://twine.com

Our Teacher Ed Twine

• What would you like to add to our Twine?

• http://tinyurl.com/merlotteacherfavs