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=Helpful Resources for Computer Teachers and Technology Coordinators=

Lesson Plan Software
PlanBook by Hellmansoft Great software to organize lesson plans. You can add links to websites and files so all your handouts, rubrics and resources are attached to the lesson

Software downloads to help create useful skills steps and screencasts:
[|Skitch] by [|Plasq] [|Jing] [|Prezi] PhotoPeach A quick and easy way to create slide shows for posting on the web. Glogster On line posters to foster creativity in any subject Picnik lets you edit all your photos online, from one easy place.

Lesson Plans and Tutorials
Calaxy Free tools for 21Century Classroom Classroom Game Templates Great, Great resource to engage students!! [|Atomic Learning] Free Training from CTAP CyberBee [|Discovery Education] [|Join the C Team] - lessons about copyright and fair use Power to Learn-Internet Smarts lessons and case studies on Internet Safety, Fair Use and Evaluating Sites

Web Hunts
Good guidelines on how to create web quests Cindy O'Hora

Other Technology Coordinator Sites & Resources
EVERYTHING for tech integration [|Diocese of Orange] [|Mrs. Haining's Portaportal] [|St. Greg's Portaportal] Educator PLN BAISNet Patty's links for teachers Stephanie Haining's shared items

Catholic Resources
[|CTN] Resources for Catholic Educators

Citing Sources
Citation Machine OttoBib This handy site is for citing books only Bibomatic Simply enter the ISBN number and the citation is done for you

Cyber Safety
Wired Safety

Helpful Videos & Tools
[|Tooble.TV] [|CommonCraft] [|ClassTools] - create interactive games from templates FREE! WatchKnow- find videos that are age appropriate "http://www.5min.com/ instructional and how-to videos http://academicearth.org Academic Earth Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars http://blip.tv next generation TV network http://www.graspr.com Graspr - The instructional video network http://www.howcast.com/ Howcast- How-to videos "http://www.icue.com iCue - A fun, innovative, learning environment built around video from the NBC News Archives http://www.instructables.com Instructables Make, HowTo and DIY http://www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning iTunes U Faculty are using iTunes U to distribute digital lessons to their students, e.g Stanford, Trinity College Dublin, etc. http://www.mindbites.com/MindBites - Video instructional marketplace and publishing platform (Some free) http://www.monkeysee.com/ MonkeySee HowTo videos http://www.neok12.com/ free educational videos and lessons for K-12 "http://www.sutree.com/ SuTree Learn virtually everything by watching how to videos from all over the web.

http://www.teachertube.com/index.php TeacherTube educational videos http://www.ted.com/TED Technology, Entertainment,

Google Earth Integration Ideas from Google Educators:
http://joewoodonline.pbworks. com/Sharing-Stories-with- Google-Earth

http://realworldmath.org/Real_ World_Math/RealWorldMath.org. html

http://www.freetech4teachers. com/2009/04/nearly-400-google- earth-files-for.html

http://content.yudu.com/ Library/A1l5al/ GoogleEarthAcrossthe/ resources/index.htm

http://googleearthdesign. blogspot.com/2009/02/howto- create-simple-tour.html

Computer Hardware
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Computer Software
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WorldWideWeb
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