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Cool Tools 2
Carol McQuiggan & Kristin Bittner
Faculty Center for Teaching & Instructional Technology
Penn State Harrisburg
Faculty/Staff Workshop, November 12, 2009
Objectives
 Increase awareness of new technology tools
 Locate resources to learn/do more
 Open a dialogue with colleagues about emerging
technologies and their implications
Agenda
 What is it?
 How does it work?
 How is it being used?
 Show me!
 Learn more
 Go to www.slideshare.net
 In the Search field type Cool Tools 2 and then click
the Search button
 Select Cool Tools 2
 Click the Download button located at the top of the
Cool Tools 2 presentation
 Open it and start the slideshow to follow along
Slideshare – What is it?
 A presentation sharing website where users can
upload, view, and share presentation files
 PowerPoint
 Word
 Adobe PDF
 OpenOffice
 Share publicly or privately
 Create slidecasts by syncing audio with your slides
Slideshare – How does it work?
Slideshare – How is it being
used?
 To share presentations
 To store presentations online
 To aggregate presentations (tagged by conference,
etc.)
 Search sloancaln
 Search educause09
 To embed slideshows into your blog/website
 To eliminate the need for paper handouts
Slideshare – Show me!
 www.slideshare.net
Slideshare – Learn more
 Take a Slideshare tour
http://www.slideshare.net/tour
 Go to creativecommons.org
Creative Commons – What is it?
 An alternative to traditional copyright
 Allows copyright owners to determine which rights
they want to retain and which they want to release –
not all-or-nothing
 All licenses require attribution
 Goal is to increase access to and share intellectual
property
Creative Commons – How does it
work?
 Website explains license choices and provides tool
 HTML code provided to add to web page, includes
CC logo
 License options:
 Attribution
 No Derivatives
 NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
 Share Alike
Creative Commons – How is it being
used?
 To promote climate of openness and sharing
 To increase opportunities for collaborative work
 Learning material repositories
 MIT’s OpenCourseWare
 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license
 May copy and distribute work and make derivative
works as long as it includes attribution, is not for
commercial purposes, and assigns same license
 Connexions – only requires proper attribution
 Other content directories for photos, music, art,
videos, etc.
Creative Commons – Show me!
 To choose a license
 Go to creativecommons.org
 Select “License”
 Walk through selection tool
 To find licensed works you can share, remix, or
reuse
 Go to search.creativecommons.org/
 Using Mozilla Firefox, use dropdown to search for
CC
 Using Google’s Advanced Search -> Usage rights
Creative Commons – Learn more
 Creative Commons Wiki -
wiki.creativecommons.org/
 Educause’s 7 Things You Should Know About
Creative Commons
http://www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKn
owAboutCreat/156826
 Additional Educause resources on Creative
Commons (publications, podcasts, blogs)
http://www.educause.edu/Resources/Browse/Creati
veCommons/30636
 Go to docs.google.com
Google Docs – What is it?
 A free, Web-based word processor, presentation,
spreadsheet, and form application
 Document changes are saved automatically
 Access from anywhere you have an Internet
connection
 Collaborate with multiple people on the same
document – no need to email revisions back and
forth
Google Docs – How does it work?
- Google Docs Dashboard
Google Docs – How is it being used?
 Work collaboratively online on team projects,
papers, presentations (manage revisions)
 Peer review
 Create surveys or polls
 Import PowerPoint presentations or create new
ones
 Publish to an online audience or directly to your
blog
Google Docs – Show me!
 docs.google.com
Google Docs – Learn more
 Educause’s 7 Things You Should Know About
Google Apps
http://www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKn
owAboutGoogl/162758
 Google Docs in Plain English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA
 Google Docs for Educators
http://www.google.com/educators/p_docs.html
Review
 Slideshare
 Creative Commons
 Google Docs
 Go to www.flickr.com
Flickr – What is it?
 Photo-sharing website where you can upload and
tag photos
 Browse/find photos
 Add comments and annotations to photos
 Create photo sets and collections
 Create groups
Flickr – How does it work?
 Free accounts – can upload 2 videos and 100MB of
photos each calendar month; displays 200 most recents
photos
 Pro accounts – Unlimited photo and video uploads
 Registered accounts - Upload photos, assign tags,
make photos public or private, select copyright, and
more
 Create groups
 Constantly changing collection of photos
Flickr – How is it being used?
 In Penn State Harrisburg’s AM ST 105 online
course, students share photos of a commercial
version of a formerly hand-made object and add a
commentary
 They also post a photo and/or recipe of traditional
food they would contribute to a virtual “pot luck”
supper, with explanations of its significance in their
traditional experience
Flickr Group
Annotation
& Comments
Flickr – Show me!
 www.flickr.com
Flickr – Learn more
 Educause’s 7 Things You Should Know About Flickr
http://www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKn
owAboutFlick/162592
 FAQ on Free account vs. Pro account
http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/#65
 Go to voicethread.com
VoiceThread – What is it?
 A collaborative multimedia slideshow that holds
images, documents, and videos
 Allows people to leave comments using voice, text,
audio, or video
VoiceThread – How does it work?
 Create account
 Create:
 1. Upload
 2. Comment
 3. Share
VoiceThread – How is it being used?
 6th grade Language Arts
 Digital Storytelling
http://voicethread.com/share/46225/ and
http://voicethread.com/share/124281/
 Hear and practice foreign language pronunciation
 Provide critiques in creative arts classes
 PSU Roman Archaeology Course
VoiceThread – Show me!
 voicethread.com
VoiceThread – Learn more
 Educause’s 7 Things You Should Know About
VoiceThread
http://www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKn
owAboutVoice/173329
 Voicethread 4 Education wiki
http://voicethread4education.wikispaces.com/
 VoiceThread Tutorials http://voicethread.com/#c28
 Ideas for using VoiceThread
http://voicethread.com/library/
That’s all 5 Cool Tools!
 Slideshare
 Creative Commons
 Google Docs
 Flickr
 Voicethread
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Questions?
 Thanks for your time!!
 Upcoming Faculty Center event :
 Talking about Teaching, Friday, December 4th,
2:00-3:00, W205 Olmsted
 Remember lynda.com technology training available
at its.psu.edu/training/lynda