Learn more about the Common Core

Learn more about the Common Core - from faculty at Stanford University - for free!  Have you ever wanted to try a MOOC?  Here's your chance to try this Professional Development delivery model that has been written about, talked about, and made available across the world.   https://novoed.com/common-core. If you do register and complete this online course, please share your experiences with us!

Seven Free Tools for the Creation of Podcasts

If  you are going to create with your class by podcasting, we propose some free tools to achieve them.  Podcast are important resources in teaching, learning and displaying mastery of content. Podcasts are very useful tools for children with specific learning disorders.

Here we provide a list of seven programs, to create and distribute podcasts.

Audacity  

 

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MP3 Encoder: LAME 

Once you create your podcast in audacity, you need to convert it to MP3 format before you upload it to the internet. Converting your audio to MP3 makes the file size smaller and easier for others to download and listen to.

LAME is a program that works with Audacity to convert your audio to MP3.

You can download LAME here.

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MP3myMP3

 

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Podbean

  

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Podomatic

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Odigo

 

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Yodio

 Record audio from your phone, add photos and captions. 

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Bring images to life with Thinglink

So many wonderful projects are being made recently using Thinglink.  It is time to showcase some of them here for you.  Perhaps they will spark a creation of your own! They are embeddable and so much fun for students and teachers alike to work on. We appreciate the ability to integrate formal writing and opportunities for further engagement with images and links that are revealed through mouseovers.



Kelsey Vroomunn uses Thinglink in her High School AP European History and French Language Classes and her blog post "Using Thinglink to prepare for the AP Cultural Comparison" exhibits some student samples.



  History project driven by essential question


Here is some help on getting started using this tool yourself, and you can visit this Thinglink toolkit on wikispaces.com

 

Online Workshops Available at the SRI & ETTC!

Check out our online workshops and learn from the comfort of your home or classroom.

At this time, we have five offerings with very competitive pricing.

Online Workshops

Child Abuse/Child Neglect

Copyright and Fair Use in the Classroom Web-based Workshop

iMovie for the Classroom, Web-based Workshop

Windows Movie Maker, Online Course

iMovie for the Classroom, Web-based Workshop

iMovie for the Classroom, Web-based Workshop

Description:

iMovie is the easiest tool to use to create high-quality video projects. This online webinar will cover all of the necessary techniques that you and/or your students will need in order to make impressive video-based projects. In addition to discussing many of the less obvious uses in the classroom, we will go through: Capturing Video, editing video, working with still images, using titles and transitions, adding multiple tracks of audio, recording narrations and even creating animated maps. Once our projects are complete we will explore the many options that are available for sharing our projects including making DVDs. This workshop is a must for anybody who has access to iMovie and has not been using it or has only used it within a limited capacity.

Audience:

Workshop Code: OD14001

Dates:  This is an Online Workshop - What does this mean?

Cost: $29 OR 1 ETTC Hour(s). For info on membership, call the ETTC.

Instructor: Philip Polsinelli

Location: On-line

REGISTER!

Travel Grants enable women to attend Math Research Conferences

Grant Name:
Travel Grants
Funded by:
Association for Women in Mathematics
Description:
The objective of the NSF-AWM Travel Grants program is to enable women to attend research conferences in their fields, thereby providing a valuable opportunity to advance their research activities and their visibility in the research community. By having more women attend such meetings, we also increase the size of the pool from which speakers at subsequent meetings may be drawn and thus address the persistent problem of the absence of women speakers at some research conferences.
Program Areas:
Math, Science/Environmental, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)
Recipients:
Public School, Private School, Higher Education
Proposal Deadline:
10/1/2013
Average amount:
$2,000.00
Telephone:
703-934-0163, ext. 213
Email:
jennifer@awm-math.org
Website:
http://www.awm-math.org/travelgrants.html

Availability:
All States