This document provides an agenda and overview of topics for an education technology session, including Pinterest, DropBox, QR codes, Symbaloo, Glogster, Vimeo, the flipped classroom model, and tools for creating word clouds and animations from text like Voki. Specific resources like blogs, examples, and websites are referenced for further information on each topic.

1. EDU614 Session 6

2. Agenda
• Pinterest
• DropBox
• Board Maker CD - are yours.
• A few how to videos - no official assignment
• Final Project questions? Feel free to email me
• Could a few people present on June 5?
• Nathan Seavey - Technology in a low tech
environment

3. Pinterest
• An online visual bookmarking tool called a
board
• Pins
• can add descriptions
• A blog post: Pinterest for Educators
• includes description of what it is
• links to several educator boards
• 16 ways Educators use Pinterest

4. More on pinterest
• Pinterest - teaching
• a board dedicated for teaching
• And of course... Cybraryman’s page on
pinterest

5. QR codes
• What are those squares of black & white?
• How would I use them?
• Go to this glog to learn
• Hover over text to see link
• The Periodic Table using QR codes
• A Live Binder on QR codes
• All the tabs are links
• 20 Interesting Ways to Use QR Codes to Support Learning

6. DropBox
• Dropbox
• Free online storage of documents
• Simple to use
• Syncs wherever you work

7. Symbaloo
• Another visual tool
• links to other sites
• Symbaloo
• a blog post: the fun continues
• An elementary math example
• Middle & High School math
A symbaloo example mix with links

8. Glogster
• My students favorite!
• Interactive poster
• can link documents or webpages
• can be embedded into wiki or blog
• Examples
• UDL toolkit
• Mine

9. Vimeo
• Easy to use video sharing website
• Vodcasting
• Great for flipped classroom

10. The Flipped Classroom
• lectures/ instruction on video
• “work” in class with support
• Flipped Classroom network
• A three part article by “inventors”

11. Word Clouds
• Analyze writing pieces
• Fun display
• Wordle
• simple

12. More Word Clouds
• Tagxedo
• a little fancier
• A blog post about 9 more word cloud
generators
• Try a few!

13. Animation from words
• voki
• text to audio
• voki for education