Hi!
I started doing 2O minute technology trainings with the staff at my school, but I am looking for other ideas. So far I have had sessions on Flickr and Audacity. Anyone have any ideas of what you do with your staff or would love to get a training on if you could?
Yes, I like Glogster too! I did a PD session on it and there was mixed feelings, but our Civics teachers will be using it soon. I'm very excited. I would like to hear more how you are spelling with Flickr.
Amy, maybe you can help me with this question. I have my own glogster account, but on Friday I checked out the EDU zone to use with students this week. I got another account under this and created the student accounts, but I'm not sure how to give access to the students. I see the student profiles under my profile, but how do they get to it? Do I have to give them my log in? Thanks!
You could introduce PLNs using twitter, social bookmarking with Delicious, collaborative documents with Wikispaces, and you could have a discussion about the new fair use guidelines and offer the Wikimedia Commons content available for use in the classroom.
You could look at the K12online conference sessions too. They are all 20 minutes long this year. Lots of topics to chose from and you don't have to do any work - just push play ;-)
I have just what you are looking for. I am leading my teachers through a course on Web2.0 applications. Take a look at my weekly tasks, as well as, the optional tasks (listed on the "Stretch" page)
I did a 25 minute session after school today with teachers on using your cellphone to podcast using Gcast's free service. You can read more about it on Alan November's blog and he's included a nice guide in a pdf format as well. http://novemberlearning.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=v...
Try Animoto.com. This site is easy to use. It allows the user to upload photos, choose background music and then animoto creates an online video for you. You can email it, send it to YouTube, burn to CD or add to your blog. Great applications for student mini projects. The have an educators' account too which gives you full range of use for free for a year. You can teach it to the staff in under 20 minutes.