Last updated: 8/15/2006
Graphics, Sounds and Web Design Help
- Good Backgrounds
http://boogiejack.com - More Good Backgrounds
http://www.backgroundcity.com/ - Free Graphics Archive
http://www.ausmall.com.au/freegraf/freegrfa.htm - Large list of links to free graphics
http://www.freegraphics.org/ - One of the original graphic and banner generators
http://flamingtext.com/ - Another logo generator
http://www.cooltext.com/ - Bells and Whistles
http://www.bellsnwhistles.com/ - Good, free, original instrumental music to download.
Use this for digital video, digital story telling, and other media
projects.
http://freeplaymusic.com/ - Free Kids Music. A collection of free children's music you could use
in any media projects.
http://freekidsmusic.com/ - MIDI converter. This software will convert MIDI files to .WAV and
.MP3 so that you can use them in digital video or other media projects.
It is a trial version and can be used for only 30 conversions.
http://www.download.com/Ease-MIDI-Converter/3000-2140_4-10404245.html?tag=lst-0-2
Tools and Such
- Search Engines
http://google.com
http://yahoo.com - Build a Rubric
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php - Using Excel in the classroom
http://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/kadkins/spreadsheet.htm - Check out hoaxes, urban legends, unlikely
sounding emails
http://snopes.com
http://www.breakthechain.org - How to make a claymation movie
http://www.sfsu.edu/~teachers/workshops/clayanimation/index.html - Claymation made easy
http://education.wichita.edu/claymation/default.html - Adobe Acrobat Reader
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Curriculum and Technology Standards
- SC Curriculum Standards
http://www.sde.state.sc.us/offices/cso/ - SC Business Ed. Curriculum Standards
http://www.myscschools.com/offices/cate/competencies/BusMktgComTech.htm - Special Education Standards: The Council For Exceptional Children
(NOTE: These are teacher standards and covered in Special Education
classes. Special Education students are to work from SC Curriculum
Standards).
http://www.cec.sped.org/ps/ - ISTE NETS-T
http://cnets.iste.org/pdf/page09.pdf - ISTE NETS-S
http://cnets.iste.org/students/ - ISTE NETS-A
http://cnets.iste.org/tssa/pdf/tssa.pdf
PowerPoint Presentations can be found on your instructor's course schedule.
Reusable Learning Objects
(Check your instructor's schedule for when these are used in your class):
Papers and Readings
- What is Educational Technology?
- Developing the Digital Mind
- Participatory, Active Learning: Historical Antecedents
- Examples of Digital Learning Activities
- Problem based learning
- What is a rubric?
- Understanding Rubrics
- Multiple Intelligences
Podcasts and Vodcasts
How to handouts
-
Working in the ACC
Labs.
This is a handout developed to help you manage your accounts at Winthrop. -
Student Account
Information
This is information about your student computer account, including how to access your Z: drive from the labs and your dorm room and how to do various things in your student email account (send attachments, change your password, create a signature, etc.). - How to Forward Your Winthrop Email
If you don't use your Winthrop Email as your primary email account, you can set it up to automatically forward to the email address you do use (ex. yahoo, AOL). - How to Map the Network Drive
- A disturbing, but completely false image. It is also a good example of digital photoediting.
- Learn and Live Video Viewing Guide and UDL Article Homework
- Learn and Live Video Activity
- How to Complete the Digital Camera Assignment. How to Use PowerPoint Handout.
- Creating Graphs in Excel , The Data Prediction Sheet
- Creating a Database in MS Works, Answer Sheet
- How to map the network drive
- Front Page Cheat Sheet
- Putting Your PowerPoint Presentations Online (PDF File)
- Internet Search Tools-Quick Reference Guide from UCF's Instructional Technology Resource Center
- Advanced Search Activity (Word)
- Posting your Movie to your website
- Digital Story Telling
