ICE Conference

Approximately 10 days ago I attended the Illinois Technology Conference sponsered by Illinois Technology Educators. I came back with some great information for teachers. Here are some interesting sites that I discovered. I hope they help you.

Atomic Learning is a great place to get tutorials on all types of software for Mac and PC. There are also lesson plans. Look at the lesson accelerators. All tutorials are in Quicktime. I have used this site many times when I'm having trouble using a program. I have also used some of these tutorials with students. They are very helpful. Here's a temporary membership for the rest of the month. USERNAME=iltce07 PASSWORD=atomic
atomiclearning

I found an outstanding site for creating certificates, trading cards or adding frames to photos. This can be a handy tool if you have photos of your students and want to create something special. Check out the motivator and the movie poster. You upload a picture(not hard) add what you want the poster to say, then when it's created save it to your desktop by right clicking (save to desktop) and print it out!
Flickr toys

Have you ever needed a particular picture for a project or student? Try Pics 4 Learning. It's a library of usable pictures royalty free and searchable by subject. This was created by educators.
pics4learning

Another great site for managing classrooms online is Moodle. You can create tests, review written work, manage classroom grades in other words completely manage your class on the computer. Look into it.
Moodle