Tech Skills for Teachers
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This guide covered important technology skills all educators should have. Links to the items are below.
Basic Skills
- Hooking up to a projector video
- Creating a CSV file: Google | MS Office | OpenOffice
- Resize an image before emailing: Pic Resize
- Get pictures off your digital camera: Snapfish | Eye-Fi
- Make a PowerPoint photo album: Office 2010
- Making a PowerPoint photo album video
- Importing images into Keynote to make a photo album
- Editing video: MovieMaker 2 | iMovie | Premiere Elements 8
- Fix your presentations : 21 quick tips
- Lynell Burmark: Visual Literacy: Learn to See, See to Learn
- Online file storage: DropBox
- Zoom
Standards
ISTE National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS*T) (2008)
Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity
Design and develop digital-learning experiences and assessments
- Use cloud-based bookmarking: Diigo and Pinterest
- Understand where your students are: Survey 1 | Survey 2
- Design a technology-rich inquiry activity: Slideshare | Authentic Learning info
Model digital-age work and learning
- Make a classroom blog: Edublogger
- Make a classroom Web site: Weebly for Education
- Use a survey to collect data: Flisti
- RSS feeds explained video (Wydea)
- Create an interactive ePub: iBooks Author | Demibooks
Model digital-age citizenship and responsibility
- Determine the validity of Web information: Schrock’s eval guides
- Know the rules of fair use: Creative Commons
- Conduct a “live” conference: Skype (Interesting Ways series)
Engage in professional growth and leadership
- Use social networks to built your PLN
- Understand how to manipulate media to persuade: Schrock PSA
- Jeff Menaker’s PSA
- Knowledge of the new literacies: Schrock literacy presentation
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