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=**ISTE 2010 Resources**=

On Saturday I attended Edubloggercon and one of the activities was a Smackdown. People took turns going to the front of the room to share tips, ideas and resources. Thanks to Michael Walker for taking the time to put together this information.

http://edinatech.blogspot.com/2010/06/iste-2010-edubloggercon-session-4.html

[|ISTE 2010: Edubloggercon Session 4-Web 2.0 Smackdown!]
This session after lunch gave people the opportunity to quickly share new tools. They had 2 minutes to share their idea or tool and then someone else stepped in. Many educators presented, but then the vendors showed up to start sharing their products. I struggle with this, as I would prefer to hear from educators rather than commercials. It seemed that the educators did a pretty good job of keeping to the 2 minute limit. The vendors...not so much! Surprise! [|Storybird] -Combines Google Search with Wolfram Alpha [|QR bar codes]-A way to quickly generate them for use in the school or classroom. [|G-mail Labs]-Lisa Thurmann shared how it can be used to enhance your G-mail experience .[|Mashpedia]- A real-time Multi-media Social Encyclopedia .[|Paper.li]-Create a newspaper with a Twitter stream or a hashtag. See more cool things [|here] ![|Shareaholic] -Scott McLeod shared this as a way to easily share articles and resources .[|Readability]-McLeod shared this tool for increasing font size quickly and easily with a bookmarklet application similar to Diigolet. [|Instapaper]-McLeod shared this for getting content [|SMART Exchange]- A great resource for Smart Board lessons, and [|Notebook Express] a Web based stripped down SMART Notebook app that allows you to create and share SmartNotebook lessons via the Web for **free**! [|YoLink]-A free downloadable browser plug-in. Allows you to see abstracts of links on a Web page-Nice for research and 21st Century Skills! [|Sweet Search]-Search Engine for Students-Google based engine that searches 35,000 evaluated sites of "credible" resources. Combined with YoLink provides a nice tool. Browse the results of a search for specific terms .[|Metamark.net]-URL shortener [|LongURL.org]-Get what the shortened URL points to [|Letmegooglethatforyou.com] -For those with colleagues (**//or PLN members//**) who don't want to bother searching themselves! [|Readitlater] -When you access a link, you can add it to Readitlater and then go back to review. **For Mac users only,** [|Edmodo.com] -Social Networking tool for teachers and students, includes an iPhone App. New features include URL inclusion, co-teaching, and subgroups. Might be worth looking at for creating student profile pages, or for special projects where you want the students to assume roles. [|Let Them Sing It For You]- A site that allows you to type in any phrase and hear it sung by famous artists, though mostly one word or syllable at a time. Here's a sample.[|Bingle.nu]-Allows you to search Bing and Google at the same time. [|GoogleSquared]-Anything with categories can be searched and a grid with results appears .[|Beth Burke] shared a [|Wordle] trick by putting a ~ between each word of the sentence. Then the phrase or sentence stays together. [|Steve Hargadon], our illustrious organizer very diplomatically pointed out the need to explore rules regarding vendors presenting/advertizing at the smackdown. Good learning moment for all!
 * Mark Wagoner shared [|Jumpcut]
 * , a tool that allows you to keep up to 40 clippings and then retrieve them in order to past how you want
 * [|Textexpander]
 * -Allows you to type a short phrase and it will expand it for you.

[|Edmodo.com]-Social Networking tool for teachers and students, includes an iPhone App. New features include URL inclusion, co-teaching, and subgroups. Might be worth looking at for creating student profile pages, or for special projects where you want the students to assume roles.
 * For Mac users only,**
 * Mark Wagoner shared [|Jumpcut], a tool that allows you to keep up to 40 clippings and then retrieve them in order to past how you want
 * [|Textexpander]-Allows you to type a short phrase and it will expand it for you.

Afternoon session at Edubloggercon with Kevin Honeycutt
 * Social Lubricants - Kevin Honeycut**
 * Singsnap.com...virtual karaoke
 * twitter with sticky notes on a bulletin board...tactile twitter....a way to start teaching kids about social networking and netiquette

Zooburst http://alpha.zooburst.com media type="custom" key="6506963" ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that is designed to let anyone easily create their own customized 3D pop-up books.