Carl Perkins Career Prep Council

Once a year Career Technical Education (CTE) teachers in the district are asked to present their programs to an advisory board. This is Lancaster High School's Media Arts Pathway and the Districts Arts, Media and Entertainment presentation to that board.

Web 2.0 Furlough Day presentation @ AVROP

Wednesday March 30th, 2011 I offered a presentation on Web 2.0 including collaborative technologies such as Google Docs, Sharing Calendars, Sharing Bookmarks, LucidChart, Dabble Board, RSS feeds and readers, PodCasting/Vidcastings, Wiki's and Blogs. Here is a copy of the presentation and some additional reading materials on Wiki's in Education.

PDF Version of the Web_2.0 Presentation: Web_2.pdf

PDF of Additional Wiki Support: Web_2.0_Support_Packet.pdf

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60 Second Commercial for Photoshop Express

also posted at http://web.me.com/crafts6100/FullSail/Commercial_Photoshop_Express.html

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Awesome tool, thanks for sharing. In the past in my computer multimedia classes I have always tried to create a mental timeline and scaffold that timeline with events I think they should know from history. I would like to use this tool in the future to have create a tangible/observable timeline with not only the cross curricular historical events but perhaps memorable events from their personal lives, or the lives of people who mean something to them.

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Lucidchart.com – We learned about two tools last month lucidchart and dabbleboard that allow participants to collectively work on graphic organizers. The primary function is for flow charts but also lends itself to diagrams and organizational tables. We learned two months ago about an intelligence that specializes in visual understanding and literacy. These two, online and free, web applications were built to communicate information for a visual learner as well as allowing a visual learner to communicate what they have learned. Our school used to purchase licensing for a program called Inspiration, which starts with a single license at $59. The problem is not every computer needs it and not every teacher used it. Another solution would be to allow students to use LucidChart, which they can do from the schools computer lab or a computer connected to the internet outside school. This is of course also the web applications drawback, you need access to the internet which is only becoming more and more prolific every day and therefore less and less of an issue. These applications may be of use to those who like the picture but are looking for a 21^st Century solution.

Image from Flickr Creative Commons

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Slideshare.net – Is used to share presentations created in Powerpoint, Acrobat Presentations and Word Documents. It can be an interface for your audience to view your presentations or a hosting place where you can embed shows into your site or blog. Content can also be linked to from social networks such as linked in or facebook. Presentations you share can be public or restricted based upon several variables.

Much like any site open to the public some presentations are better that others. The first show I viewed had no audio and consisted of about 35 slides that contained text and pictures to teach the audience a process. The next two were essentially slideshows of pictures set to music. The first was Hawaii wallpapers for computers and the images were stunning but no information was provided as to whether the person who posted them was the photographer or simply assembled the show from found images. The second of these was more interested because while it was still just pictures set to music you are informed that it is an artists portfolio of work and they composed the music as well which made it a much stronger presentation for me. After viewing two more that I thought were very informative and possible useful to colleagues, I used the embedded share feature to email the colleagues links to the show so that they could evaluate for themselves whether they could use it.