Bibliography on Technology training and tools for Teachers and Librarians
TILT: Technology Integrated into Learning and Teachinghttp://www.4j.lane.edu/tilt
Sponsored by the Eugene, Oregan School District. This website has many resources for teachers to use or integrate technology into lessons. This website has several Wikis that contain lessons in many subjects across grade levels. They have Wikis on Smartboard usage and technology tutorials/workshops, and ideas for Googleapps and many other 2.0 technologies and tools.
Teacher Training Videoshttp://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/
This website is created by Russell Stannard who is a professor who specializes in Multimedia and ICT. He has won several national awards for his innovations and website. His website has training videos in Web 2.0 for English language and ESL teachers as well as all teachers. His training videos range in topic from how to build a wiki to mindmaps to moodle to in-depth twitter, and many more. He also offers a website or tool of the month and workshops.
Free Technology for Teachershttp://www.freetech4teachers.com/
This blog is created and maintained by Richard Byrne who is a certified Google instructor and this site has received 3 Edublog awards in 2008-2009. This blog site contains many blogs that have been archived into great subject headings such as: 15 of the most view blogs. And in this blog you can find lists of great 2.0 resources for teachers and librarians such as: a list of 6 websites students can use to create videos and 12 websites students can use to create and post slideshows.
Commoncrafthttp://www.commoncraft.com/
This website is owned by a small company created by a couple based in Seattle and since beginning to create videos in 2007 they have more than 30 videos produced which have been viewed by more than 20 million people worldwide. Their company creates short, simple, and to-the-point tutorials, with a bit of humor mixed in on many topics especially technology, such as on: blogs, social media, podcasting, wikis, and much more. This is a great resource to introduce those teachers who are reluctant to learn and utilize technology in the classroom.
Classroom 2.0 http://www.classroom20.com/
This website is a social network for those interested in integrating 2.0 tools into the classroom. The author of the website, Steve Hargadon, states that it is a great place for ‘beginners’ to be comfortable. This website has received 3 Edublog awards for their social network and webinar series. This website is unique and useful in that they have a separate blog with ongoing conversations for each and every tool that you can imagine. They also have many videos on various uses of various 2.0 tools with case studies as well.
DiBlasihttp://www.drhowie.com/
This website created by Dr. Howie DiBlasi has received the 2009-10 CILC award (Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration). The website has various instructional pages for various tools and many pages/sites contain idea pages – ideas for teachers in using the tool or website -such as: many Google tools; Glogster; etc. He has a great resource under the topic ‘Creativity’ that contains many useful links to critical thinking websites with cool exercises. Critical thinking is one skill students consistently score low on in standardized testing.
Bernie Poole’s Website for Teaching Technologyhttp://www.pitt.edu/~poole/
Bernie Poole taught Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh for 13 years and was awarded the Fullbright Scholarship to teach in India for 6 months. He has online books he has written such as Education of the Information Age which in my humble opinion can be considered the bible on ‘technology and mindtools for teachers’. He also has complete and simple to follow tutorials on how to use Microsoft Office software. His tutorial on Office is for teachers and includes a tutorial on Office 2007 -drawing and diagramming tools- which are great mindtools - semantic and diagramming tools -for increasing the effectiveness of pedagogy.
Doug Johnson is the Director for Media and Technology for Mankota (MN) public schools and he has written several books on the use of technology for student learning in schools. He has a Blue Skunk blog, website and Facebook page. The blog contains hundreds of archived posts on issues of technology and the advocacy of technology. Even though the archives are organized by date he has a search engine in the archive. In his blog he speaks on the philosophy of technology in eductation as well as introducing new 2.0 and technology/hardware tools and he speaks on their usage and effectiveness.
100 Apps for Teachershttp://www.rasmussen.edu/student-life/blogs/main/100-apps-for-teacher
This blog is sponsored by the Rasmussen College. This blog contains short summaries on each of the 50 tools and 50 smartphone applications listed and how they may of be of use for the teacher. They also show a picture of the application with some of the listings. The applications are not only 2.0 apps but iPhone apps as well. They list interesting tools such as Moodle, Mindmoto, ClassMarker –for creating online tests, and ‘Grammar up’ to stimulate students via interesting grammar quizzes, and many more tools as well.
Woopidhttp://www.woopid.com/
Thousands of tutorial videos for free on how to use applications and programs in Mac and PC.
Also some tutorials for websites on the internet such as Google and Facebook. You can also get basic assistance on various hardware such as: iPhone, Blackberry, Xbox 360, etc. If you do not find the tutorial you need on their site you can request a custom tutorial. However it is a dot com and they make money by offering space for advertisers.
Also some tutorials for websites on the internet such as Google and Facebook. You can also get basic assistance on various hardware such as: iPhone, Blackberry, Xbox 360, etc. If you do not find the tutorial you need on their site you can request a custom tutorial. However it is a dot com and they make money by offering space for advertisers.
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