Technology Tips
A forum is an assembly for open discussion on a specified topic.
Forums are a feature available to Edublogs Campus blogs only. The forums functionality allows each blog to have their very own forums – embedded in any page or post.
http://help.edublogs.org/2010/06/17/working-with-forums
Wanting to learn more about all the themes that are available?… go here: http://help.edublogs.org/2010/09/07/overview-of-available-themes/
You can use this program to burn Flip videos to DVD discs(good for assemblies, etc.):
You’ll find this new option during the upload process. Create your free teacher-based account first and you’ll be able to use this new feature.
Transfering a Youtube video to Schooltub
If you have a free account at schooltube, you can “Import a Video” and plug in the URL of the YouTube video and it will pull the video into your account at SchoolTube. There is a slight delay, and if there is a school moderator, that person has to “approve” the video before you can see it.
http://www.zamzar.com??
In the past I was able to copy/paste the YouTube URL from a Google Search into ZamZar and convert it to wmv and download it.
How about building a “word wall” or a word list for a piece of text? It provides a visual analysis of any text that you type or paste into it, and then generates lists of the most useful vocabulary words and shows you how those words are used in context. This website has a free component, a free trial and can be subscription based for all bells and whistles
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/vocabgrabber/
Kid Videos
A website that allows you to save video from youtube and other sites.
Instructions:
Go to YouTube and open the video that you want
Copy the URL
Go to
Paste the URL of your video into the prompt box and click “Download”
Choose the format that you want (flv or mp4) and right click the link to save
SMART Technologies has by far some of the best resources right on their own sites. For any of you that have SMART Boards in your schools, here are some great links. SMART just debuted a new Lesson Activity Tookit 2.0. If you don’t’ have Notebook version 10, you won’t have this. This is in addition to the Gallery Essentials that many teachers already use. A video that explains the Lesson Activity Toolkit 2.0 perfectly is here. http://downloads01.smarttech.com/media/trainingcenter/flash/tutorials/6_thelessonacttoolkit/lessonacttoolkit.htm It is only 5 minutes long. I showed this at a training and it quickly explained the toolkit to teachers and got them interested in using it.
http://exchange.smarttech.com/index.html
student safe engine
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/
Librarian of the Internet
I haven’t tried this yet…
http://keepvid.com/
Also, here’s the SchoolTube “how-to” from an email Jeri circulated from a forward from Pat Drago a while ago…this was also in a Knowledge Quest article…
http://aaamath.com/
http://www.renlearn.com/mf/
Web-based Graphic Organizers – an alternative to software-based Inspiration:
Copying a Video from Youtube onto Flash Drive
There is actually a website that you can use. It’s a lot easier. Print off these directions and leave them by your home computer… I’ve used this site a million times but still need the directions 
Here’s the scoop:
*after finding your YouTube video at home, copy the URL address (at the top, or under the SHARE option at the bottom of the video)
*go to …. http://zamzar.com
*there is a place for you to paste the URL…
*choose the format WMV
*enter your school email account
*When you get to school the next day you can download the video to the Teacher Drive or to your computer.
CAUTION: This only works if you download the video onto your school computer within 24 hours of using ZAMZAR… after 24 hours it clears itself, so don’t email yourself on a Friday or Saturday. Wait until Sunday to use zamzar.
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