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Materials
· 1 lg. Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) w/projector · Laptops w/Internet connectivity for all participants (including presenter/instructor   · LinQ software on all laptops    · Wireless router    · All free necessary online multimedia software applications are downloaded and installed on all laptops    · Handout hard copy for all participants

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 * Instant Message Application:** Skype

For more information about how social bookmarking sites work, watch this brief video on the Common Craft Show: Social Bookmarking in Plain English. Facebook, Friendster, MySpace, LinkedIn – These sites allow you to join and create your own personal page. You are able to post photos, videos, and comments as well as connect and network with others online. For more information about how social bookmarking sites work, watch this brief video on the Common Craft Show: Social Networking in Plain English. Mind mapping Web sites provide an alternative to proprietary software such as Inspiration® and can be used to create graphic organizers and share them with collaborators. These resources will allow you to collaborate asynchronously or synchronously so groups can meet and construct artifacts despite the distance among group members. Each of these resources works differently and provides different options. Elluminate allows groups of 3 or fewer to use their webinar program free of charge. Dimdim allows groups of 20 or fewer to use their webinar program free of charge. Google is always free but does provide simultaneous conferencing interactivity. Never used a webinar or whiteboard application to collaborate before? Check out these videos discussing the features of Dimdim. You will need to have, at a minimum, a word-processing software such as Microsoft Word. If you do not have productivity software, or if you use a word-processing software that is uncommon, you can download a free suite called OpenOffice that has a very similar layout to Microsoft Office. The software bundle includes a word processor, a spreadsheet application, and a presenter application similar to PowerPoint. For more information about how blogs work, watch this brief video on the Common Craft Show: Blogs in Plain English. In order to stay abreast of any and all updates that your classmates make to their blogs, you will need to first create an account with an RSS aggregator. If you subscribe to all of your classmates’ blogs and any other relevant blogs related to the content covered in this course, your RSS aggregator will automatically update any time a post is made to a blog or Web site to which you subscribed. For more information about how RSS aggregators work, watch this brief video on the Common Craft Show: RSS in Plain English. //Free, Web-Hosted Solutions//: Haiku: haikuls.com; Rcampus: rcampus.com; Edu 2.0: edu20.org //Free Course Management Software:// Moodle: moodle.org Moodle software is free and open source. However, finding a Web site to host your Moodle site is not free. If you have access to a Web site or Web hosting service through a company, university, or Internet service provider, Moodle is an excellent option to build your course. You can also purchase Web space through a variety of vendors for a relatively low fee, which will allow you to install Moodle and host your own site. For more information about how a wiki works, watch this brief video on the Common Craft Show: Wikis in Plain English. Online gradebooks provide a Web-based application to store grades, list assignments, and provide many other features that help Instructors communicate with and manage their student population. These Web sites allow users to upload audio files, presentations, Word documents**,** and spreadsheets, and store them for free. The files can be accessed by anyone with a computer and an Internet connection. Links are provided to embed files for downloading or presentations to be watched on your own Web site or blog. This feature is very helpful for educators who want to compile resources in one central location. youtube.com; video.yahoo.com; video.google.com; teacherspodcast.org These free Web sites allow users to upload video and audio files, and store them for free, and can be accessed by anyone with a computer and an Internet connection. Links to embed the video in user Web sites is one of youtube.com's features that is very helpful for educators who want to provide immediate access to videos or podcasts that they create in their own Web sites. gabcast; Gcast These are quick and easy Web sites that allow you to make podcasts with your phone and upload them. For more information about how a podcast works, watch this brief video on the Common Craft Show: Podcasting in Plain English. Audacity – This free software can be downloaded and used for recording audio on your computer and editing the audio once you have recorded it. AVSVideo; Blender – These Web sites offer open source video and audio editing applications. Jing® – This is a free, intuitive application that allows you to record videos of your desktop up to five minutes long, as well as take screenshots, and instantly save them or upload them to screencast.com for easy sharing. It is an excellent tool that every educational technology professional can use for developing professional screecast demonstrations or to quickly share their desktop while they help a colleague use an application. The videos can be edited in Camtasia, which is not free, and it also has an upgrade you can purchase that allows you to record yourself on a camera during the demonstration. Camtasia Studio 6 – This software allows users to create films of desktop activity and record audio to create demonstrations. It also features extensive editing tools. The software requires the user to purchase a license, but the initial download and trial version is free. CamStudio 2.5 – This software is a free, open-source suite that is very similar to the functions and features of Camtasia Studio. It allows users to capture desktop activity and record audio to make AVI video files that can be streamed or distributed. For a free, short tutorial on how to create a screencast using CamStudio, click on Screencasting How To: CamStudio. Debut Video Capture Software – An easy-to-use video recorder program that captures video files directly on a PC, Debut will record video from any of the following sources: webcam, capture device, or computer screen. This video recording software is provided for free by NCH Software, which offers a suite of other great, free tools for producing multimedia. Adobe Captivate 4 – This software allows users to create podcasts, screencasts, quizzes, and simulations utilizing the powerful and popular programming language ActionScript, available in Adobe Flash, without needing to know how to write in ActionScript code. A trial version can be downloaded for free, but in order to continue using the software, a license must be purchased. Adobe Presenter 7 – Rapidly create Adobe Flash presentations and eLearning courses from PowerPoint. Easily add narration, animations, interactivity, quizzes, and software simulations to eLearning courses. This software requires the purchase of a license. If you are having trouble locating a specific article or Web site because it seems to have been removed from the Internet, this Web site can be an easy solution to finding it. Copy the URL for the site that is missing, and paste it into the Wayback Machine on www.archive.org. It should take you to the site for which you are searching. This helpful tool can help you track down information that is no longer posted on the Internet.
 * Social Bookmarking Sites:** Delicious or Diigo
 * Social Networking Sites:**
 * Mind Mapping Resources:** Spinscape; IHMC Cmap; Webspiration; Bubbl.us;FreeMind
 * Collaboration Resources:** Google Groups; Google Docs; Elluminate; Dimdim 5
 * Productivity Bundle:** OpenOffice Suite
 * Note:** In order to avoid compatibility issues, please save your work as ".doc", ".docx", or ".rtf" files.
 * Blog Sites:** blogger.com; classblogmeister.com; wordpress.com; teachersfirst.com
 * RSS Aggregators:** __bloglines.com__ or feedreader.com or reader.google.com
 * Learner/Course Management Resources:**
 * Wiki Sites:** wikispaces.com; wetpaint.com; pbwiki.com
 * Online Gradebooks:** Engrade; MyGradeBook; SnapGrades; ThinkWave; TeacherEase; TheGradeNetwork
 * Share Space Sites:** slideshare; authorSTREAM
 * Video and Podcasting Resource Sites:**
 * Video/Audio Editing Resources:**
 * Screencasting and Interactive Learning Object Resources:**
 * archive.org**