EDTC 5410 NOTES


EDTC 5410
- Taught by Mike Kratzer
NOTE TO SELF
Use Google spreadsheet for the purpose of having parents sign in at "meet the teacher night". I'm always cursing myself for not gathering this information when it is most convenient at the beginning of the school year.
SEARCHING 101 As for the research portion of the Google search, type in a search-topic and press the "I'm feeling Lucky" button to find the best site. If that doesn't meet your needs, try the options area on the left of your screen. Start by clicking on wonder-wheel to see a web of related sites to the search that you've typed. This is especially helpful for student who are having trouble finding the exact phrasing that they need for a good search. The next item to try under options is the timeline. The timeline will give a list of frequently searched sites during specific dates. Ask students to analyze the information and try and figure why certain days had more searches for the topic than other dates. Ask about what was going on in history at the time. ADVANCED SEARCHING Why search with the extention .edu? Typically this site is a higher education site and might be considered a more reliable source. Teachers can use this to search material for their own knowledge. TRANSLATION Try this with a web page. Click on language tools and then put the url into the translate a web page. This would be helpful when you have a student or parent that wants to use a site in the native language, but can't because of the language barrier. I could have used this for a student who read fluently in Arabic but wasn't able to keep up with the other kids. She has subsequently move to an ELL school and I can share this with her teacher.
SEARCH WINDOW TIPS AND TRICKS
calculator- type the problem in the window and it calculates
conversions- type in X feet in a yard and it converts
define:_______ for the definition
IMAGES
Life photo archive
Search tip - Add "source:life" to any Google image search and search only the LIFE photo archive. For example: computer source:life
Image size matters!
-too big will bog down your presentation due to loading time (give students and acceptable range of ___K to work within)
-you also want to use the full sized image and not the thumbnail
Safety First
-change the search safety to strict, moderate, etc. before searching
Options include:
size, icon, exact size face clip art line drawing black and white, color
Google Swirl
-look in labs to find
_i.e. search Picasso and related images will appear
Advance image search
-find images that are licensed for reuse if you want to include them in a project that will end up on the internet
(Students must always site the image...even if it's just for practice)
-post the newly created PPT to Slideshare
-a place to license content for reuse
-full of fair use images
YouTube video "A Shared Culture" explains cc
cc mixture- shared music
click on search and then advanced search to find creative commons images
MORE in Google
Google scholar- teacher research
Blog Search- i.e ed tech
Google Reader- related articles
Trends- data (presents a comparison graph on how many searches there were on the terms (i.e. Obama)
Knol- google's version of wikipedia (students can create/ add to it. i.e. create and article about your school)
Google news- news stories related to a topic
Google Lab
In Quotes- to compare quotes by different politicians on the the same topic. fast flip- search a topic and be able to scroll through and look at the results in pages Google squared- this posts the results of a search in spreadsheet form. Many of the descriptions come from reputable sites like Wikipedia. You can customize the results and add a column. The results can also be exported to a spreadsheet. Google news timeline- add your query and the results come out in a timeline format. It is interesting to view the news during election times. (i.e. another topic of study could be ecosystems- see the results about current events related to your search)





EDTC 5410
- Taught by Mike Kratzer

IMAGES
-use creative commons or try advanced search in Google images or FLCKR

Student Project
- students choose 5 images from Google, creative commons, or FLCKR. The images are chose either to tell a story or to illustrate a concept. Pictures are posted into a blog post. A short description of the story or concept is included.
-when choosing a picture, the picture should be clicked on to get the full image and then drug onto the desktop. Don't forget to site the picture with the url or by hyperlinking it to the url.

Google Photos
-Picasa is available through Google for posting photos publicly. There is a game called "where in the world?" that can be fun to use with students. Some pictures might be a little sketchy for younger kids.

Google Books
Start by clicking on what preview you want from your search. You can get a limited preview or a full preview of certain books. Create your own bookshelf. You can even add a book by ISBN-10 number (copy it to the library, click add ISBN, paster and click add book)
To share...copy the url
Idea- use Google books for student booktalks or for use with a video trailer
Note-epub book can be downloaded
Shelfari is another online resource for collecting books.

Project-
Tell students to pick a theme and choose a minimum of 5 books for their bookshelf. Have them practice adding the books to their shelf. (http://books.google.com)

Google Videos
note- Google owns You-tube (other videos are also "housed" there)

Project-
Have students find an educational video in Google video, You-tube, Teacher-tube
(i.e.-The Wrapping Mathematician)
note to self- Webster U students can get Discovery Streaming videos for free using their student i.d.

Try using web cams to view things in other countries (virtual field-trips)

I-Google
- fun way for students to create a personalized, yet useful, desktop

TIP-Use You-tube downloader to download videos

Custom Search Engine
- this is a way to control the websites that students use.
Click on more within Google, then click even more, then click custom search
Next- click new search engine, name, desciption, choose only the websites you want and supply the list.
Project-
Have students collaborate to create a topic specific list of good sites for the custom search engine.

Google Docs
Just like WORD without all the bells and whistles
Choose from -Create new or From template

Project-
Become a web 2.0 expert
Search one of the following tools and walk the class through the tool and how it can be used in an educational manner

LIST
wikispaces (can make accounts for your students)
glogster (edu.glogster.com)
sketchup
google sites (create a website, cross betw a wiki and a website)
voicethread
blabberize (upload a picture and draw a mouth and record speaking)
delicious
animoto (make vidoes on line)
- upload 10 photos and get free music. Makes video for you.
word analysis
-wordle.net
-tagcrowd
Mixbook
-create photobooks online
xtimeline
-creates a timeline
toondoo
-create comic strips
evernote
-store everything online 9catch all for organizing info)
Prezi
-new way to do a presentation
-free form presentation tool









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