Agenda+September+2009

** MICE Agenda September 19. 2009 **

=Good News= Please take 30 seconds to share some Good News from your campus or personal life.

=Sharing= Mary Konczal - VoiceThread Glynis Watkins - Blogs Jessie McKinely - Updated information about Voki Rita Atchison - TeacherWeb page

=//Websites to check out.//=

=Kerpoof= From the website...Kerpoof's multimedia software is used by kids worldwide to create original artwork, animated movies, stories, greeting cards and more. The site is meant to be fun, but we're serious about its educational value. Elementary and middle school teachers can use Kerpoof in many ways to enhance classroom activities while meeting a range of educational standards.


 * Lesson Plans -** Looking for a fresh way to approach sequencing? Art history? The life cycle of a butterfly? Download free lesson plans for a variety of disciplines, from math and science to social studies and foreign languages.
 * Teacher Accounts -** Kerpoof offers educators the ability to register students and arrange them into classes. Students may chat with each other, post creations on a class message board (moderated by you), and collaborate on a project in real-time from different computers.
 * Classroom Ideas -** Visit this page for broad Kerpoof brainstorms that you can mold into your own lesson plans.
 * Educational Standards -** We've cross-referenced Kerpoof activities with the state and national standards they can be used to meet.
 * Newsletter -** Kerpoof publishes a free electronic newsletter that highlights new features, lesson "

=ManyEyes=

= = From the website... Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to "democratize" visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis.

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media type="custom" key="4379229" Embedding a video from TeacherTube into a Wiki 1. Find video 2. Look for Embeddable Player to the right of the video 3. Copy the entire code 4. On Wiki click Edit 5. In editing toolbar click on the icon that looks like a little TV 6. Click on Video on the left side of the window 7. Choose TeacherTube 8. Paste code in box and then click on save

Embed movie clips into Smart Notebook
 * 1) in address of youtube video at kiss before youtube - []......
 * 2) Click on go (or green arrow)
 * 3) Scroll down in next window and click on Run
 * 4) Save the video
 * 5) You can save to desktop and drag into Smart Notebook file, or, Insert>Flash Video File

=**Notes/Minutes**=
 * Upcoming ideas:**
 * One day workshop in November...we have 10 spots reserved, can purchase more.
 * Release time for us to visit other classrooms? Include administrators...time for debriefing.
 * Book study? possibility this year...thumbs up or thumbs down?

=Sharing= From Becky: TeacherWeb Tip Sheet
 * 1) Mary K. revisited voicethread...can be used as a less labor-intensive substitute for podcasting. Students created imaginary animal reports. Mary will post the scoring rubric to the wiki. Did you know you can upload a powerpoint to voicethread? Then it can be saved and uploaded in its own (separate) voicethread. That way work can't be totally lost if someone hits "delete thread."
 * 2) Rita's webpage...she creates docs in Publisher...save them as a .jpg and then imports them as a picture to the teacherweb site.Emails the newsletters to parents. Includes quotes from parents and students on homepage. Links to Treasures unit support site (reading.)
 * 3) Leah shared website...include table of contents...this site best viewed with 1024 x 768 resolution...and a copyright protection statement. These are ideas from the rubric that AzTEA used to use for giving their website awards.
 * Leah's website
 * for embedding slide shows of students or student work try using Slide
 * include a page for state standards at @http://www.ade.state.az.us/standards/contentstandards.asp
 * 1) Glynis showed her blog...a showcase for her kids to view their work from home...animations and converted powerpoints that her students created. The ppt did not upload with the sound/animation. So we're not having to print everything the kids publish. We think parents can print their kids' stuff from the blog.
 * 2) **po664madz** code for teacherweb (payment acct) If anyone wants a 2nd page, need to get permission from Kim. She has to continuously delete "dead" accounts so we don't go over our paid alottment.
 * 3) Jesse shared voki...can type in several languages and it will read it aloud. You can make changes in your voki and link it to your wiki (may need to refresh to see changes.) this is easier than trying to save changes to your wiki. If you haven't upgraded to an account on voki, make sure you do so that you can update posted vokis on your wiki or blog from voki....Also use Alta Vista Babel Fish for your translations.....
 * 4) Kim shared wordle.net (don't go into the gallery...too much freedom of speech) can't save...need to do a screen shot...and kerpoof

Create a Creature materials from Mary Konczal