Illinois Education Technology Conference

Last week I attended a technology workshop in St. Charles hosted by ICE. ICE stands for Illinois Computing Educators. Membership is open to all Illinois educators, not just technology teachers. The Chicago Public Schools Chapter is “ICE CAP”. The above link will provide you with more information on the organization.

This week’s Wednesday Web focuses on websites that stood out in the workshops I attended. Additionally, my notes are below. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions about any of them.

The Official ICE wiki. This has all the links from the conference and handouts.


Tutor.com
An on-line tutoring program. What made this site significant is that it offers free on-line tutoring services to any military families. If you happen to know of anyone in the military with kids, be sure to direct them to this site.




Skype in the Classroom

If anyone is interested in Skyping with another classroom please take a look at this site. I would be happy to help you get this going.

ShareTabs

Sharetabs is a great organization tool if you have multiple sites to share with someone. Enter the URLs of the sites you would like to share and press “Tabify”. Sharetabs takes all of the sites and creates a screenshot of each site on the homepage (with active links). It then goes on to open each page in its own separate tab for easy access. Weblists is a similar application



Wallwisher

Wallwisher is a notes site. You can create a wall in which your students can leave post its with images, links, or media. The Google Doc here shows some awesome ways to apply this in your classroom.



This is a Google Doc that shows 16 ways to use Wallwisher in your classroom

LiveBinders

LiveBinders is a site similar to Sharetabs and Weblist. You can create online “binders” which are websites that are grouped anyway you desire. They can even be embedded in blogs.



Google Apps

This was a great presentation about the practical use of Google Apps in the classroom. Take a look to get some ideas.