IRACDA confrense:
-author of "Tools for Teaching" recommended this u-tube video:

Conferencing and Collaborating

Video Conferences:

-ooVoo allows for multiple people to video conferences (up to 3 people)...FREE, supports both windows and mac

-iChat only works on Mac and 1:1 only but still really great 

-Adobe connect is for lots of people (need a server) but ECID supports it.

Additional List of Topics (for future sections):

****WHAT HAVE WE DONE WITH WHAT WE LEARNED****

-Copyright

-Google Earth

-Data Display-- make it more dynamic

-Diigo (mark up a blog)

-Ning (create community)

         *Classroom 2.0 (the future of teaching or using technology in teaching)

-Building Digital Timelines

-Blackboard plagiarism tool

-Zotero (biography tool with Firefox plug in) similar to EndNote but may allow for sharing of references between sciences; don't need a license and can go between different computers

-Del.icio.us (allows for online bookmarking tool; Firefox has a plug in tool)

-Google Scholar

-Hardware

        *Apple is coming out with a tablet end of June

        *Make sure to use educational discount

-Effectively using Powerpoint

Students and Technology

Great U-tube videos about students and technology:

-Web 1.0 = few people make content, many people look at it

-Web 2.0 = many people make it, and many people view it (bloggs, wiki, facebook, ect); we can all be publishers

A vision of students today:

Web 2.0 The Machine is Us/ing Us:

Creating different kinds of podcasts

Overall tips- STORYBOARD before you start using the technology it saves TONS of time 

Audio only podcasts- Audacity using a microphone like a Snowflack ($40- only good for one direction or just one person, small) or Snowball ($80- good for multiple people conversations/unidirectional, large)

Audacity is much easier to edit audio files, so can also use it to record audio for the enhanced podcast (can drag and drop these files into variety of different of the below types of programs)

Normalize 

Enhanced podcasts- Powerpoint slides (export slides as jpegs- they almost need to be in iPhoto to import into GarageBand) and GarageBand

Export to disk AAC (for audio will play in iTunes), pictures are compressed automatically = file type m4a

Video podcasts- Can use GarageBand to re-narrate videos

Uses screen recorders so you can use a tablet to write on powerpoint slides

Camtasia (only available for windows only until maybe this summer) 

OR

 for now iShowU or SNAPZ Pro ($60-$70- he will recommend which to get later); iMovie for editing

Adventures in ECID

Emory Center for Instructional Development

Things we have talked about:

• Web page development with Dreamweaver (making an E-portfolio)
• Adding pictures, utube videos, and links to webpage
• Editing photos using Fireworks
• Making cool reflection images in Fireworks
• Ideal photo size for optimal website loading
• Blogging as an educational tool

Things we want to talk about in the future:

• Copyright and fair use of web sources and tools
• Archiving and commenting on digital journals and papers for research (make it searchable)
• Aiding collaboration through internet commenting