Howdy - I'm Clint and I am the Technology Integration Specialist for SEDC, Southwest Educational Development Center in the beautiful SW corner of Utah. Welcome to my posterous site.
Any training I do, any resource that I need to share, or anything that I stumble across that is just plain cool I'll share here. Check out the Tags below to quickly get to a topic, or do a Search for what you can remember from a training of mine.
Today we'll spend some time getting reacquainted with your SMARTBoard or Interactive White Board (IWB). The goal of today is to make this as much of a hands-on experience as it can be for you all. PLEASE don't hesitate to ask any questions you have or that pop up during the training.
See the attached SMART Demo Notebook File, along with a PDF version of the same document.
We'll also take a little time to introduce you to your new computers - you have both a new operating system AND a brand new version of Microsoft Office that you may have never seen before. I don't have a lot of experience with either Windows 7 or with Office 2010, but thankfully I know where to find EXCELLENT quick-guides for these new tools.
I can't re-post them here, but all of the quick guides that I'll share with you today came from Custom Guides Quick References. You can follow that link and after a quick registration gain access to the following guides, along with almost any other software or operating quick guides you can think of - both on the Mac and PC:
More on Prezi Meeting. They have kept it very simple and straight forward. When in Prezi editing mode, just click Meeting --> Invite, and you are presented with a link that you can share with your collaborators.
You can also create a shared Presentation link that you can send out to view a Prezi on separate machines anywhere in the world together. The only thing about this that I don't really like is that the Presentation link expires after only 10 minutes... I guess this is for security, or that they don't want people randomly joining in a Prezi a year after the fact, but it would be nice to have a permanent presentation link to post to a web site for training purposes.
I liked Prezi before, but this is fantastic. I love showing teachers and students the collaborative power of using Google Presentations. This takes that collaboration to another level.
Animoto videos/presentations are created in 3 easy steps:
Upload pictures, add text, and arrange them in the order you want.
Pick your music - upload your own or choose from their many options.
Select your animation theme, and let the site do the rest.
All of the hard part - putting in the motion, transitions, music and effects, are done automagically by the site. Don't like the results? You can remix it as many times as needed. You can also go back and edit the project to add to it or correct mistakes once it's produced.
Here's an example that I created in about 10 minutes - National and State Parks in Maui
