AAIM+2012+Conference+Notes

Below are some websites that I thought you mind find useful in your classroom. I have them broken down by areas of our curriculum…. PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES
 * Twitter - create your own account and then follow the movers and shakers in education
 * o http://twitter.com/uniqsuseq (Susan Gilley)
 * Delicious – social bookmarking
 * o @http://delicious.com/sgilley

WORLD BOOK DISCOVER - www.worldbookonline.com – this will replace Britannica that we are currently using. Logins for the rest of the school year and summer are: User ID: americas (stays the same) Password: rabbit (Good April 3-May 7) whale (good May 8-June 4) sheep (good June 5- July 2) camel (good July 3- August 6)

ALL AREAS OF CURRICULUM – Everyone might find these useful!!
 * o Don’t forget our databases!!
 * o @http://www.teachparentstech.org/ - learn the basics to using the computer
 * o https://freeresourcesforteachers.wikispaces.com/ - don’t forget that this resource is available - broken down by areas of the curriculum and beyond
 * o www.weebly.com – free website creator – easy to use
 * o www.sgilley.com – lots of great ideas to incorporate technology into your lessons and to get technology into your students hands
 * o www.audioboo.com – a mobile and web platform that allows you to easily record and share audio
 * o www.remind101.com – free and easy to use way to send text messages to parents and students without you know their number or them knowing your cell number
 * o www.4teachers.org – this site has been around for a long time – many great resources to help incorporate technology into your classroom
 * o www.pics4learning.com - a safe, free image library for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos and images for classrooms, multimedia projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other project in an educational setting.
 * o @http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/?campaign=DE&CFID=671559&CFTOKEN=13718957 – Kathy Shrock’s Guide for Educators – looking for something? You might find it here!!
 * o www.customguide.com – This site has training videos (for a fee) but it also has FREE quick reference guides for Microsoft Office products and Apple products. Check it out!!
 * o www.edmodo.com – social networking site for teachers and their students
 * o www.thinkfinity.org – tons of great resources. Partnered with ReadWriteThink and National Geographic Education plus numerous other places. Hundreds of lesson plans!!
 * o ALL THINGS GOOGLE –
 * o Special commands – samples:
 * § 1. weather San Francisco
 * § 2. time London
 * § 3. 5*9+(sqrt 10)^3=
 * § 4. earthquakes hati (spelled wrong intentionally)
 * § 5. population texas
 * § 6//. fast food 78633//
 * § 7. //pizza 86301//
 * § 8. 150 GBP in USD 200 euros in USD (monetary conversion)
 * § 9. define bewildered
 * o @http://www.slideshare.net/iglassbox/google-a-to-z - Google A to Z
 * o www.google.com/edu/
 * o www.google.com/books?hl=en
 * o www.googlelittrips.org
 * o www.google.com/shopping
 * o www.scholar.google.com
 * o www.translate.google.com
 * o www.googleartproject.com
 * Kathy Shrock's Blooming Taxonomy

MATH SCIENCE SOCIAL SCIENCE OTHER LANGUAGE ARTS
 * o www.tinkercad.com – create 3D images easily – prepare for you and your students to get lost playing with this
 * o www.chartgo.com – create charts and graphs very simply – just fill in the information
 * o @http://www.bls.gov/ooh/ - Occupational Outlook Handbook

iPad APPS iPad ACCESSORIES iPad SITES
 * Flipboard – magazines – current and past issues
 * dragon dictation
 * documents to go (costs)
 * Cloud On
 * Arkansas iTunes – you really need to check out this site and the iPad app – great resource!!
 * G Whiz
 * Khan Academy – hundreds (thousands?) of videos
 * Picture Me
 * Read Me
 * Kobo
 * Evernote
 * Neu Antotate – allows you to write on PDF files
 * PDF Expert – allows you to write on PDF files
 * Score Keeper – keeps stats for sporting events
 * o Belkin Rock Star ($18) – connects 5 devices
 * o VGA Connector – ($30)
 * o Apple Camera Connector Kit ($25) transfer pictures to SD Card – comes with Apple USB Connector
 * o Apple TV – allows
 * o www.ipadswow.com – The purpose of this website is to share information concerning iPads in Education with other educators.

VARIOUS COOL TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU MAY WANT TO CHECK OUT
 * o Mifi Cards – connects to a cellular phone and acts as a wireless hot spot for up to five devices
 * o @https://join.me/ - Get everybody on the same page, when they're not in the same room, instantly. Review documents and designs. Train staff. Demo products or just show off. **join.me ** is a ridiculously simple screen sharing tool for meetings on the fly. Education possibilities??
 * o @http://italc.sourceforge.net/ - iTALC is a powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways. In contrast to widely used commercial equivalent software, iTALC is free!!
 * o @http://ansonalex.com/ - technology blog