ATC Workshop

Carolyn PoeChair, Computer Information Technology

Lone Star College - Montgomery

Take out your cell phone and hold them up …◦ Now let’s talk about them …

Cell Phones

State of Texas allows only 6 drops from Freshman to Senior year in college

Get a plan, work your plan

Why is this important?

Workforce vs. Academic courses

Six Drop Rule

FERPA◦ Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act ◦ Federal Law

No information can be given out about the student without the students permission – PERIOD.

I do not care if they are only 16 or 17 years old and the parent is paying for it.

Drop Date

Syllabus is a contract ◦ If you do not accept late work, put it in the syllabus◦ If the final is mandatory, put it in the syllabus◦ If Cheating is not allowed, put it in the syllabus◦ If the college offers an LMS, use it! (i.e. Blackboard, Angel, Moodle).

Important Need to Know Stuff

The following slides will present sites that may be helpful in your classroom.

For the most part, all or free and free is good.

The more you can engage your students in “their world” the more they will learn.

Free Sites

Posterous: Shared Documents

https://posterous.com/

Posterous is a web publishing agent that ties some of the best elements of

innovation into one site.

Evri: Discovery Engine

http://www.evri.com/

Evri is another entry into the ‘semantic search’ space and has recently opened up a

beta site with the slogan Search less, understand more.

Xtranormal: Movie Making

http://www.xtranormal.com/

Xtranormal is a website where users may use cartoons to make movies of their taste. They may publish their movies.

Then, other users may watch the movies.

SHARING A WORLD OF INFORMATION

Google Wonder Wheel: Finding your topic

http://www.googlewonderwheel.com/

Google Wonder Wheel is a new great feature from Google which allows you to see

relevant search results to your query in a unique semantically relevant and 

graphically design way.

DIGITAL RESEARCH

Google Timeline: Defining your Research Topichttp://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/

Google news timeline is a web application that organizes search results

chronologically. It allows users to view news and other data sources on a browsable,

graphical timeline.

DIGITAL RESEARCH

Wordle: Word clouds

http://www.wordle.net/

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” fromtext that you provide. The clouds give greater

prominence to words that appear more frequently

in the source text.

THE WORLD AT OUR FINGERTIPS IN WEB 2.0

Ustream.TV: Live streaming video

http://www.ustream.tv/

Ustream is a website which consists of network of diverse channels providing a

platform for lifecasting and live video streaming of events online.

THE WORLD AT OUR FINGERTIPS IN WEB 2.0

ToonDoo: Creating comics

http://www.toondoo.com/

ToonDoo is a cool, comic-creating tool that allows you to create your own cool comic

strips with just a few drag 'n drops 'n mouse clicks!

THE WORLD AT OUR FINGERTIPS IN WEB 2.0

Yola: Build a web site

http://www.yola.com/

Yola is the website builder and hosting service that helps small businesses stand

out on the web.

Web Design and Graphics

ColorHunter: Find Color Palettes

http://www.colorhunter.com/

Color Hunter is a place to find and make color palettes created from images.

Web Design and Graphics

SumoPaint: Online image editing

http://www.sumopaint.com/home/

SUMO Paint is a free image editing software that gives you the opportunity to create and

edit images online

Web Design and Graphics

PollEverywhere: Audience Response System

http://www.polleverywhere.com/

Audience response system that uses mobile phones, twitter, and the web.

Get Info Anywhere at Anytime

Zamzar: File Conversion

http://www.zamzar.com/

Zamzar is a web application to convert files. It allows user to convert files without

downloading a software tool.

Get Info Anywhere at Anytime

Slideshare: ◦Upload and share presentations

http://www.slideshare.net/

A place where people can share documents, presentations, and information Powerpoints.

Get Info Anywhere at Anytime

Duolingo: Language Translation

http://duolingo.com/

Duolingo is a translation and language acquisition website that allows you to

learn a new language.

Get Info Anywhere at Anytime

Google Translate: Web Page Translator

http://translate.google.com/#

Free Online web page translator service.

What’s New in Google Tools

Google Latitude

https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=friendview&passive=1209600&continue=http://www.google.com/latitude&followup=http://www.google.com/latitude

Google Latitude is a location-aware mobile app developed by Google. Latitude allows a mobile phone user to allow certain people

to track their location.

What’s New in Google Tools

ooVoo: Video Chat and Conferencing

http://www.oovoo.com/home.aspx

ooVoo is an audio and video instant messaging client for Windows. Calls can be

recorded in real time.

Video Chatting and Communication

www.skype.com

video talk for free students use to complete homework

Skype

http://www.googleartproject.com/ ◦ Virtual

www.livebinder.comA WORLD of information on any subject!

www.wolframalpha.comThe best database search engine there.

www.easybib.comStudents need to learn how to make a biblography

www.eyejot.comVideo mail

Really Great FREE Websites

http://www.internet4classrooms.com◦ helps you use the internet effectively

www.tokbox.com◦ video chat

www.kidsknowit.com

www.webreference.com◦ Web Reference and Design tutorials

http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm ◦ Create learning materials with Merlot

www.vlingo.com ◦ turn words into action

Free great websites for classroom use

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY

A little fun stuff about computers:◦ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk

DID YOU KNOW …

www.youtube.com

◦ A WORLD of information: Illustrator: http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFXJY0a8NiU AutoCAD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhcILzESEfQ Animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJptQLeWQuU Word

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw-qwzvi26Q Web Programming

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfMssdDscFA

YouTube

Computer Concepts◦ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56molY4L2OE

How to cut an avocado◦ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxQwLpIqIPs

Repair Sprinkler System◦ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1yDXoFdB3E

In other words, if it interest you and you wish to learn something, it is free and on the web.

JAWS (Job Access With Speech) Screen Reader:  Students who are blind can use any computer to access the internet to find information.  The screen reader will read all information on the screen.

 Artbeyondsight. (2009, Feb 5). JAWS Screen Reader-Hear an Example.  retrieved from http://youtube.com/watch?v=IK97XMibEws

Jaws

United Streaming Discovery Education): Students can view educational videos with closed captioning.

Closed Caption (click)

United Streaming Discovery Education

  Kurzweil 3000 (Text to Speech) :Students with

a hearing impairment will have the specified text read aloud.  This program will also highlight the text and allow for note taking.  The program offers a Picture Dictionary to enable the student to connect a picture to a specific word.  The clip of the program spans from 1:31- 4:08.

sfsu4access. (2010, Aug 26.) Adaptive Software Demo: ZoomText, JAWs, and Dragon.  Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YpNrOkW0Mw&feature=related

Hearing Impared

Edmodo is a free, secure, social learning platform for teachers, students, schools and districts.

Edmodo provides teachers and students with a secure and easy way to post classroom materials, share links and videos, and access homework, grades and school notices.  Teachers and students can store and share all forms of digital content – blogs, links, pictures, video, documents, presentations, and more. There are also special institutional features for schools and districts that can be accessed for free by administrators

Edmotowww.edmoto.com

Sign up as an instructor so students can make longer presentations.

Use PowerPoint to jpg to Animoto Create Presentation in Animoto Learn how to use:

◦ www.youtube.com search for Animoto

Animotohttp://animoto.com/

Learn how to use a wiki◦ www.youtube.com search for “create wiki”

Create for free @◦ http://www.wikispaces.com/

◦ Blogger: www.blogger.com How To:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXiJ6jY3qB4

Wiki or Blog

Augmentation is conventionally in real-time and in semantic context with environmental elements, such as sports scores on TV during a match. With the help of advanced AR technology (e.g. adding computer vision and object recognition) the information about the surrounding real world of the user becomes interactive and digitally manipulable. Artificial information about the environment and its objects can be overlaid on the real world.

Augmented Reality

www.chacha.com ◦ Students use for answers to EVERYTHING

Cha ChaWhat are people asking