Technology Tools in the Classroom Presenter Eli Chmouni

Technology Tools in the Classroom Presenter: Eli Chmouni College: Chandler-Gilbert Community College Department: Science-Engineering

Outline Reasons Interesting tools Open forum

Why bother ? Reason No. 1: Professional Development Reason No. 2: The Power To Engage Reason No 3: Students Use Them Already Reason No. 4: It’s Not Going Away (It Will Only Grow) Reason No. 5: Businesses Want to Hire Workers Who Understand The Internet

Top Tech Learning Tools

A Place to store your bookmarks online, tag them and share them with your colleagues and students Cost: Free Method of use: 1) Install browser add on 2) Log on to your account and add links

A place to host, tag and share videos online Cost : Free Ideas: 1) Host your own channel 2) Let students share a video instead of a presentation 3) Create an online portfolio of projects

Not limited to videos like You. Tube Get access to academic information from different colleges and major universities. Recorded lectures, photos, articles, documents, Power. Points, etc… Cost : Free

Similar Tools WWW. freevideolecture. com (has everything from around the world) http: //academicearth. org/ (top lectures from Yale, MIT, Harvard, etc…)

Most likely all of your students have facebook Create team fan pages/groups Collaboration Communicate progress Communicate results

To create, store and share documents, spreadsheets and presentations online, and where you can work on your own or collaboratively. Cost: Free

Free for students Free for teachers (basic)

A sound editor and recorder suitable for podcasting Cost: Free Must download the software (open source) Perfect for software workshops

A desktop program you can use to instantly capture screenshots and videos-and sthen share them. Cost: Free Download required

An online program that allows you to collect votes from your students via text messeges Cost: Free (basic package) Cool Feature: Ability to install on PPT

PDF Word, Word PDF, Web PDF http: //www. pdfonline. com/pdf-to-wordconverter/ http: //www. pdfonline. com/convert-pdf/ http: //www. web 2 pdfconvert. com/

PDF Creator Allows you to create a PDF from anything. Download the software on your computer and using the print icon you can “print” to a PDF document Cost: Free

PDF Merge/Split www. pdfmerge. com www. pdfsplit. com Free online tool Allows the combination/split of PDF docs

Open Forum/Questions Best of The Free Technology Tools For Teachers Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009