21st Century Skills
 
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Welcome to the GCEDC presents: Creating Digital Content!

Below you will find the presentation that Garth and I will use to lead our discussion concerning students creating digital content. 

While we will only discuss Wikipedia book creator and Wikispaces, on the last slide are a few other free, digital content creation alternatives. 

Links visited in this workshop: 
1.  WikiBOOK  Use Print/export, pick book and go.
2.  InstaGrok, It really Rocks.  
3.  Student Created Online book:  

Tutorials: How to make a wiki in wikispaces.   How to use creative commons


On a side note: Some fun digital content. Some readings you might want to view first with links to cool stuff: 
How do we Motivate middle school students? Part one
Mosaickr.com
Wallwisher: Free online collaboration tool
Cartoon Yourself, one time before 2010 ends...
Prezi to replace PowerPoint?
Voki and an 11 year old
Answergarden
Links to other sites to view and our build at: 
http://www.xtranormal.com/
http://goanimate.com/
http://answergarden.ch/

 
 
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Welcome GCEDC members to the March13th seminar concerning Cloud Computing.   Cloud computing can save districts money, time and effort.  Mike and I will present this from a teachers point of view and explain why Cloud Computing is a great thing for teachers.  

Always have your stuff when you need it with @Dropbox. 2GB account is free! http://db.tt/Ytsngyx

November 13, 2012 GCEDC Presentation 

 
 
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Welcome GCEDC members to the November 15th seminar concerning GoogleDocs and other valuable Web 2.0 tools to help enrich your teaching and inspire your students' learning.  Below this post is a survey created using GoogleDocs.  Please take a moment to answer each question.  Garth and I will show you just how easy it is to organize a survey/test and manage the answers/information collected from this type of interactive document.  You will also notice that we have include several Web 2.0 tools that we use in our 7th grade world history classroom to engage and inspire students to master curriculum and harness their creative-thinking potential. 
All of the tools below are FREE and linked to the homepage for each product.  After we discuss some of these tools we will give everyone a chance to look deeper at one, or a few of them.

Web 2.0 FREE tools:
Communication
    Skype
    Twitter
    Diigo
Blogs
    Weebly
    Wikispaces
    Blogger
Concept Mapping
    Bubbl.us
    Personal Brain
    Webspiration
Visualizers
    Voki
    GoAnimate
    Xtranormal
Word Clouds
    Wordle
    Tagxedo