Coach Davis’s Computer Literacy Class

This is the PowerPoint that I presented on Screencasting yesterday at the Midsouth Technology Conference.

Screencasting

Google For Educators has many exciting tools for educators.  In particular, my class this week  got a lot out of the google searches handout under the posters section.  They learned a lot of ways to narrow down their searches.

01 Wannabe (Instrumental)–brian

http://mashable.com/2009/07/24/education-social-media/

This article came across as one of the most popular on delicious tonight, and I thought it was interesting.  I am intrigued by auditing some courses from MIT for free, and also would love to teach some online classes some day via all the web tools we learned this week at tech camp.

coach-davis-podcast

Today, we have worked on a plethora of new items.  The first is Animoto.  Animoto allows you to upload still photos, and to pick a royalty free song.  It will then create a custom movie slideshow of your images.  The video of my lunch was created in about five minutes using Animoto.  Educators get a free account, and you can even order a dvd of your slideshow for a small fee.

We also learned about wikis, which is a new interest for me.  I am looking forward to using wikis at my school so that we can make professional learning communities move more efficiently.  Hickory Ridge teachers watch out!  A wiki is in the works!

We also have added our bitstrips avatars to our blogs, and commented on other people’s blogs.  

This is my photos that I took to practice photography during day 2 of tech camp.  During day 3, we used animoto to turn these photos into a video slideshow as seen above.