TOC: Technologies, tools and applications

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Assistive Technologies

• Definition and overview
• Web Accessibility Initiative

Blindness

• Blindness
• Screen Readers
• Refreshable Braille Displays
• Braille Embossers
• Scanners with Optical Character Recognition
• Screen Magnifiers

Deafness

• Deafness
  • Screen Magnifiers

Motor diabilities

• Motor Disabilities
  • Mouth Stick
  • Head Wand
  • Single-switch Access
  • Sip and Puff Switch
  • Oversized Trackball Mouse
  • Adaptive Keyboard
  • Eye-tracking

Cognitive and learning disabilities

• Voice Recognition
• Cognitive and Learning Disabilities
  • Clinical Cognitive Disabilities
  • Functional Cognitive Disabilities
  • Common Software Programs for People with Learning Disabilities
• Technology: Exploring the use of adaptive technologies in the Online Environment

Computer hardware and management

• The Perfect School Computer

e-Learning and Web-Based Training

• Lightning Learning - but is Rapid e-Learning any Good?
• Rich, Interactive and Painless-authoring
• Web-Based Training – Electronic Page Turners or Effective Learning Tools?
• Engaging online with Elluminate E-live improves student success
• Virtual Classrooms: Engaging and Retaining Learners in Distance Education

Open source software

• Brief Introduction to Linux
• Open source CMS test site (try before you install)
• Glossary
• Adopting open source learning environments

Social networking software

• Connecting People, Not Systems
• Connecting People, Issues and Directions
• Social Bookmarking Tools
• Social network software
• Social Presence
• eLGG: it's a social thing

Blogs and blogging

Introduction and overview

• HowTo: create and use a knowledgeGarden blog
• Educational Blogs

Blogs worth looking at

• Published Educational Blogs

Ways to use blogs in education

• Blogging to Track Homework?
• Blogging to encourage a Community Of Practice
• Blogs as portfolio's?
• Blogging as personal journal?
• Implementing ICT tools in a Middle School Classroom
• Video Blogging

Specific blogging software and tools

• Blogger?
• Bliki?
• WordPress :: educational applications

Micro-blogging

• Twitter

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Browsers

Specific browser tools

• Browser toolbars?
• ieSpell
• Firefox browser and extensions
• SpellBound Spellchecker for FireFox

Compatibility

• Using CSS for page layout

Mobile devices

• MLearning

iPods, Education and You

Content Management Systems (CMS)

• CMS introduction and overview

Specific CMS systems

• SharePoint technologies

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Display and interaction devices

• Tablet PCs in the Classroom - An Emerging Learning Technology
• Electronic ink
• Electronic White Boards in Your Classroom
• KeePad - your key to feedback in class
• good Power point presentation tips
• Learning with IWBs in the Early Years
• Curriculum Delivery Tools

E-portfolios

• e-portfolios
• eLGG: it's a social thing
• Mahara: open source ePortfolios

Learning Management Systems

• LMS introduction
• Comparisons of different LMSs
• Ways to use
  • Creating content for your LMS-in-house or buy?
  • mySF: making the LMS

Specific learning management systems

Moodle

• Moodle
• Moodle from Theory to Practice
• Moodling Explorers

Other systems

• Sakai
• WebCT
• Blackboard
• SharePoint technologies
• (WebCT Semester 4 English)
• SharePoint for a Collaborative Environment

Articles

• The design of a distributed learning system to support a transnational learning centre network

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Content capture, editing and authoring

• Ways to use
• Styles of authoring

Creating and using machinima

Screen capture software

• SnagIt

Screen recording software

• Camtasia
• Macromedia Captivate (now Adobe Captivate)
• screencasting? - a look at various technologies

Rapid content creation tools

• Cool Factor - Articulate Presenter
• Lightning Learning - but is Rapid e-Learning any Good?
• Rich, Interactive and Painless-authoring
• Raptivity

• Evaluating multimedia references and resources

Authoring and integrating tools

• Macromedia Breeze

Audio editors

• Audacity
• Melody Assistant?
• GarageBand?
• WavePad http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/masters.html

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Screen images and screen movies

• Capturing screen images
• Software for capturing screen movies
• Creating a screen movie

Image editors

• Paintshop
• Photoshop?
• Fireworks
• Freehand?
• Illustrator?

Video editors

• iMovie?
• Windows Movie Maker
• Premiere?

Animation

• WebPainter?

Augumented reality

• Augmented Reality

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Podcasts

Introduction and overview to podcasts

• Creating podcasts: The Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs
• Podcasting
• how to create and use podcasts
• Finding podcasts you can use
• Ways to use
  • Creating Podcasts as a learning tool?
  • Podcasts that are worth listening to?

Specific podcast software

• Podcast receiver (or catcher) software
• Podcast producing and publishing
• Easy Podcasting Sites
• Audio recording software
  • Audacity
• Audio manipulation software
  • Amazing Slow Downer
• Podcasts in education
  • The Podcast and the Pedagogy

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RSS (Real Simple Syndication)

(also called an Aggregator or news reader)

• Introduction to RSS
• Ways to use RSS in education

Specific RSS software and tools

• Specific RSS software and tools
• Bloglines?
• RSS feeds

Search, Retrieval and Organisational Technologies

• OneNote
• MindTools

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Sensor technology

• what is this

• applications
  • sensors in the science classroom

Communications tools

Synchronous Communication (chat or conference) tools

• Wimba classroom, Wimba voice tools and Wimba Pronto
• Ways to use
  • example of way to manage and structure a chat session
  • Implementing ICT tools in a Middle School Classroom
  • connecting incompatible VoIP systems
  • Unwanted visitors to Skypecasts
  • Electronic communication in mathematics

Specific messaging and VoIp systems

• Instant messenging and VoIP systems
  • PalTalk
  • Skype
  • Gizmo
  • gTalk
  • MSN Messenger
  • Yahoo Messenger
  • WebCT chat?

• experimental chat system

Screen and Application sharing applications

• Free Screen and application sharing applications
• VNC remote access and control software to remotely control computers
• Using the Elluminate conferencing system

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Asychronous communication tools

Discussion forums

• Discussion Boards for Collaborative Problem Solving
• Discussion Board: Strategies and Tips
• Implementing ICT tools in a Middle School Classroom

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HTML and web pages

Web publishing Specialist areas

• Web.Pub. Standards
• Web.Pub. Assistive technologies
• Web.Pub. Navigation and orientation
• Web.Pub. Page layout
• Web.Pub. Use of media including text
• Tutorials?
• Web Standards
• CSS and cross browser issues?
• Reference sites
• Sticky or slippery web sites

HTML editors

• HTML editors
  • free HTML editors
  • Dreamweaver
  • Golive?
  • Microsoft FrontPage? or FrontPage?
  • BBEdit
• tools to add to your site

Web hosting, publishing and servers

• free web hosting and servers
• paid web hosting and servers
• Specific packages

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Web 2.0 applications

• Active Learning and Web2.0
• Flickr?
• Google Earth
• Backpack

Wikis

• Introduction to wikis

Ways to use wikis

• Educational use of wikis?
• Reading a wiki-Wikipedia
• Reflection on using a wiki vs other tools
• Comparing wiki-writing to one-writing
• Using Wikis in an IT ServiceDesk
• CurrWikilum

Considerations in setting up a wiki

• Wiki-suggested ways to best introduce
• Establishing your own wiki
• Roadmapping a wiki
• Encouraging collaboration in a wiki?
• Wiki: conventions
• WikiGnomes
• Demonstrating or documenting your activity within a wiki

Application of wikis

• Communities of practice
• Case study: nurturing a community of Accounting academics
• Using Wikipedia for Research at the Secondary Level
• Shifting students' perceptions of knowledge through using a wiki
• Wikis in education

Issues to consider

• 7 reasons to avoid wikis and what you can say to counter them?
• Accuracy and reliability in a wiki
• WikiWhys
• Do we need to weed out underdeveloped pages?

Specific Wiki software

• MediaWiki
• Teams LX

TikiWiki

• Start here: orientation, registration, setup, and creating pages
• explore knowledgeGarden
• TikiWiki: Q and A on doing things?
• TikiWiki: +ve and -ve features and reactions?
• TikiWiki modifications and issues
• TikiWiki ((sandbox) allowing you to experiment
• Tikiwiki problems and bugs

Free wikis hosting

• pbwiki
• wetpaint
• Netcipia

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Management and organisational change

• Connecting People, not Systems
• Connecting People, Issues and Directions
• Restructuring an IT Department
• Distance Learning

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Specific Hardware

• 100 Dollar Laptop?
• iPod?
• Personal Digital Assistant-PDA

Tools

• online and productivity tools that work

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Groupware

• Using Groupware to Interest Teachers in ICT

Technology Problems

• Spimming & Splogging

Website Optimization & Performance Tools

• Bobby Online

This free service will allows testing of web pages and help expose and repair barriers to accessibility and encourage compliance with existing accessibility guidelines, such as Section 508 and the W3C's Wed Content Accessibility Guidelines

• Website Optimization

Free Website Performance Tool and Web Page Speed Analysis

• Cynthia Says

The Cynthia Says is a web content accessibility validation solution, it is designed to identify errors in the web content related to Section 508 standards and/or the WCAG guidelines.

• Web Accessibility Versatile Evaluator (WAVE)

WAVE is website accessibility verifier and is very informative in relation to accessibility alerts according to W3C guidelines.

• A-Prompt

A-Prompt is a free accessibility verifier (produced by University of Toronto)

HTML and CSS Validators
http://validator.w3.org
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator

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