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Cohort Divine 9

Review of Technology Tools

Learning Circle 1: =** use with our students **= || =** Difficulties we have encountered **= || academic decathlon site || security? take time and skills to build shell, needs certain level of skill || (facebook/linked-in for education) || Bill || web 2.0, familiar format/process. more secure than google docs || teachers can information about subjects and school wide, students can share information || harder to register, needs skill to set up ||
 * =** Tools **= || =** People who want to be in this learning circle **= || =** Advantages of the tool **= || =** How we can **=
 * Wikispaces (wiki) || Ann || Not a static space, constantly updating, whole school involved, distributed authorship, templates,very customizable || connecting women that hope to serve on board,
 * Wikispaces (wiki) || Ann || Not a static space, constantly updating, whole school involved, distributed authorship, templates,very customizable || connecting women that hope to serve on board,
 * Edmodo (community building tool for education-world-wide)
 * Blogging Sites (also webdesign) -- word press, Weeble.com (for portfolios and blogs) || Vicky || Tighter control of information, you can make it personal, save something for posterity,templates || share student work, document journey, portfolio || was difficult to add different types of documents, a bit inflexible ||

Learning Circle 2: Other ideas: To put Jing on personal websites to comment on work and share. Also use on computers or ipads at work for remediation. ||
 * Google Drive || Erik: Access under Google and school email. Problem is may have more than 1 google drive. Takes time to use all the editing and folder tools. ||
 * Etherpad || =Ashley: Etherpad is a application that allows participants to use and open source to view a document online, and edit and or provide feedback on the specific document in a collaborative real-time frame. This application can be utilized during staff development meetings and/ or professional learning community meetings as well. = ||
 * JING || Dawn: Good for hybrid courses to make lessons more interactive. Download the program (easier at home because of work security issues.) When you have the icon, it is easy to use what is on your desktop. Students need the link to see it. Used to put up pictures and discussed them for content. Sometimes the scroll on bottom is hidden, just click. Student feedback was well liked mixing comments with pictures vs just reading or text. Used to grade group papers and put link in feedback for jing. Can use the doc or a powerpoint in Jing. You can make the ppt a presentation up to 5 min.
 * Dropbox || Shelley: Sign up on dropbox.com and share folders with those who you want to have access to your folder. Free, no problems, works like a cloud. Able to access files on any machine. Load your dropbox on both. Useful to work on a large project like a Schoolwide report or to use school data. Place to share pictures for classroom or a group instead of emailing everyone. Concern: if someone deletes it is lost for everyone. May want to put up copies. Also, videos take up a lot of space. If you put something on your desktop, it is no longer in the dropbox. Google drive is similar to dropbox and has more space. No real difference from icloud. ||

Learning Circle 3: (Matt, Charles, and Tiffany) Google Scholar (Charles) is fast and easy way for researchers to look for literature from across numerous sources from one convenient place. You can explore related works such as articles, books, newspapers, abstracts, thesis and online publications with just a click of a button. Google scholar allows you to find relevant research throughout the world in various universities and scholarly institutions. Additionally, it allows assists in creating citations, create a public author profile, and sort by years/dates. Google Scholar is a great tool for doctoral students to look for research to assist with their literature review yay!

Prezi (Matt): As all of you know, prezi.com gives educators a unique way to present ideas and information. There are some great tutorial videos on prezi’s youtube account: []. Prezi allows a user to enter text, pictures, videos (from youtube), diagrams, and even voice overs. If you already have a powerpoint created, you can quite easily convert the powerpoint into a prezi (see the tutorial on youtube account for prezi). One of the unique things we thought about in our learning circle was the possibility of combining prize with a screencast such as Jing or Screencast. This would give administrators the ability to create a prezi presentation that could be posted in a shared drive for the faculty and staff, or students and families.