get wired: technology tools for writers

Jane Blystone, Ph. D., Mercyhurst College, Erie, PAjblystone@mercyhurst.edu

Use the tools your students already know and use

SmartBoardiPodElmoThe Flip

Animoto.com or onetruemedia.comhttp://www.nicenet.orgScrapblog.comPrezi.commywebspiration.comShelfari.com

Google DocsiTunesPodcastingBlogs

Use technology to save the planet and save your sanity.

THE WORLD OF TEACHING CHANGESWITH ONLINE TOOLS

Streaming video YouTube Google Video TeacherTube SchoolTube

Teleconferencing tools Skype Elluminate

MORE TOOLS

Online work tools Wikis GoogleApps

MORE TOOLSOnline work tools

NiceNet Blogs Twitter

Other tools• Animoto Flickr GarageBand Glogster iTunes Puzzlemaker Surveymonkey Wordle Zoomerang

MORE TOOLS

Teacher toolsKeep your favorite bookmarks forever

Online grade books

Kindle – wireless reader

CLASSROOM TECHNOLOGY

Document Cameras

Mini High Definition Video Cameras

Palm PilotBlackberryCell Phone

iPods

WHY?

A Vision of 21st Century Learners

How?

Google Tools

What do students say about being WIRED for writing! Skype Session with students from

Saegertown Area High School.