What We're Doing

•  Alice Hall in the High School Science Dept has started recording her smart board presentations with audio! Here is a sample from one of her classes on teacher tube. Redox Reactions. Get with her to see how it's done!

• Bill Young at the High School did a photostory for his online Master's degree class. He used all free software from the list below. This is a great tool to enhance writing skills since the students must write a story out before they can put photos and music with it. It requires them to think about structure and content. They must PLAN it all out! A Tide of Memories

Joey Recommends:

•  Presentations ETC

   

• Spanish Language Encyclopedia

  Encyclopaedia Britannica has changed partners in Spanish language encyclopedia. Here's what Janet Rodriguez from ESC 20 says "The Enciclopedia Universal en Español  is being replaced with Planeta Saber, the online version of the popular Gran Enciclopedia Planeta, the most comprehensive encyclopedia in the Spanish language. It includes over 144,000 encyclopedia articles, 10,000 maps, photos, and media pieces, and 8,000 Internet links. Special features include a visual navigator, interactive atlas, and multi-language dictionary.

   

  Younger users will continue to enjoy Enciclopedia Juvenil, also part of Britannica’s Spanish Reference Center. Enciclopedia Juvenil includes an encyclopedia, dictionary, videos, and classroom learning activities for users in the Kindergarten through 8th grade range.

   

• Atomic Learning - www.atomiclearning.com

            username:  wyliehs

            password:  See your librarian or email Joey Light or Bill Young

   

• GALE - http://access.gale.com/esc14

   

            Select Wylie ISD -

            Select appropriate campus

   

• Poetry for Students - http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/tlc149125150

   

            Password - See your librarian or email Joey light or Bill Young

            Scan down and click on Gale Virtual Reference Library - Literature - View Publications

   

• EBSCO - K-12 TexShare- http://web.esc20.net/k12databases

   

            Click on - Access K-12 - EBSCO

            Click on EBSCO

            ID # - Wylie

            Password - See your librarian or email Joey Light or Bill Young

   

Cool Free Software!

Software

Download YouTube (and other) Videos - Cool if you want to show something educational and can't access YouTube or any other Tubes in school. 

http://savetube.com/ - Another site to download YouTube videos.=

Must have player for YouTube downloads (flv files).

Freeware Alternatives to Commercial Software

Tutorials and Curriculum Resources

Wavepad tutorial

Great photos: http://www.sxc.hu

A new kind of copyright and beginning site for copyright safe "stuff":  http://www.creativecommons.org

Software Help Resources: This page has a bunch of resources that you may find useful. From video to audio editing to webpage development. I hope you like it.

All my tutorials - licensed under Creative Commons 3.0 attribution license. You can use any of them, modify them and share them as well.

Free and Safe Music

Lots of folks have been asking where to get copyright safe music and I highly encourage you to learn about Creative Commons.  Two of my favorite sites for music are CC Mixter and Free Sound Project (thanks to those folks for wild sound effects). While I do like to use some commercial music for personal stuff - I really am gravitating over to the Creative Commons music. Take a look and see what you can find.