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Technology Integration Day
If you'd like to 'backchannel,' go here: http://todaysmeet.com/winchester

Visualization

 * Collecting data with a Google Form
 * See the live results in spreadsheet view here
 * Create a word wall easily with Tagxedo or Wordle
 * Lots of cool ideas for using Tagxedo
 * Word walls in the classroom
 * Check this out, especially if you're already familiar with word visuals - "Text is Beautiful"

Mapping

 * Survey - @http://tinyurl.com/winchzip
 * Making a Map from Google Spreadsheets
 * Overview of Custom Google Maps
 * YouTube Tutorial

Google Drive

 * Demo of Google Drive
 * Google Drive help
 * Explore Winchester's Google Apps
 * 100 Important Google Drive Tips for Teachers and Students

Data Collection

 * Let's take a survey
 * See the results here
 * Create your own (go to your main Winchester Google Apps login page)
 * Step-by-step instructions on creating google forms
 * Take the longer survey URL and make it shorter and easier to share by using a URL shortener service
 * More cool ways to use Google Forms

Collaboration

 * Use Google Drive to create a shared document - share it with your peers who aren't here, or just create one for you and your colleagues to keep notes throughout the day!
 * Task: Take a moment to decide on how to keep and collaborate on notes today
 * Jointly edit a document with a colleague who's here with you?
 * Make the document fully public (it becomes a live webpage) and just send the public link to colleagues who aren't here?
 * Short video demonstrating live Google Doc collaboration

**Emerging Tech Talk**
 * Google Glass
 * Interesting article here
 * Others?

Productivity (Curation/Social Bookmarking)

 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Discussion: How do you organize your classroom collection of Internet favorites/bookmarks?
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">What exactly is "curating?"
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Diigo is one of the top choices for middle/high classrooms
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Teacher creates one account
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Use tags/keywords to categorize bookmarks by grade or subject
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students/Parents can always easily get to your entire collection of shared bookmarks
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">LiveBinders is just what it sounds like - a virtual binder-like collection of your bookmarks
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Sample LiveBinder of AP Government resources
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">You might also like EduClipper - which is like a Pinterest for the classroom
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Choose one of the above (or an alternate, if you prefer) and let's begin a collection

WebQuests 2.0

 * BlendSpace - create highly-engaging and focused web tours, learning centers, multimedia homework assignments, etc.
 * Sign up for teacher account, students sign up (no email required) using your Teacher code
 * Sample BlendSpace on PhotoSynthesis
 * Sample BlendSpace on Google Drive for Teachers

Student Creation and Publishing

 * Present.me - narrated power points on the web (nice example here)
 * Present.me (be sure to sign up for the education version)
 * Prezi
 * If you're already familiar with Prezi, and you want to explore __on your own__, then check out Canva or Easel.ly
 * BitStrips comic creator for schools (the regular/personal BitStrips is free, but the school subscription with "added features" is not free)
 * Animoto (be sure and sign up for a teacher account for additional features)
 * Classroom examples
 * [|Secondary government Animoto example]

QR Codes

 * Download an app to scan codes - there are tons of free ones for android, iPhone, and windows phones. (Quick Scan is a good one)
 * Look around the room - there are several QR Codes posted. Scan them and see what happens.
 * Create a traditional QR Code
 * Create an audio QR Code
 * Create all sorts of cool QR Codes
 * QR Codes from A to Z
 * Here's the QR Code for this page

Brainstorm/ Mindmap / Infographic

 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Bubble.us, mind42.com, or exploratree.org.uk (have a better one? please share with group)

General BYOD Resources

 * Socrative (quick quizzes, tests, exit tickets, check for understanding - using any smart mobile device - works well even if one student forgot his/her device, since devices can be shared)
 * Demo: go to m.socrative.com on any mobile device and enter classroom code 601845
 * Poll Everywhere (also quick quizzes, respond on the fly - the Poll Everywhere app is more visual, less specific to classrooms)
 * Demo poll here
 * If you're going to create a new account, be sure to sign up for the K12 version.
 * Edmodo or Schoology (sort of a safe Twitter/LMS for the classroom)
 * List of BYOD (laptop) resources
 * Nice info graphic comparing various mobile/BYOD tools/resources
 * More quick BYOD resources for various instructional purposes

More Google Apps in Education Resources

 * Ways to start using Google Apps in the Classroom
 * In-Depth Google Apps Online Training
 * Are you already a knowledgeable Google Apps user? Check out these intermediate and advanced Google Apps tips.

Other Fun Tools:
If you're one who likes to skip ahead, check these cool tools below. Please be willing to spend time learning enough about one or two of them to share when we return from lunch or toward the end of the day.
 * Fakebook - let students create biographies of famous characters or people or events
 * TimelineJS or TimeToast - highly-engaging timelines
 * Google Keep
 * Cool Social Studies Tech Ideas
 * Mosey
 * RealtimeBoard
 * Buncee
 * [|Sketchlot]
 * [|UTellStory]

** Twitter for Teachers **

 * Follow these hashtags

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Digital Textbooks

 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Virginia's Pilot - http://www.lwbva.org
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Other Resources - http://chris.wikispaces.com/digitaltextbooks

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