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Course Outline for Tools of the Trade

Units may be given over a series of sessions or during the course of 1-2 days. Most courses can be trimmed to 7 hours and expanded to 12 hours. This is a proposed schedule for a 1 day (7 hour) course. [|Aniboom] -watch or create animated cartoons using the online "shapeshifter" tool. [|Animoto] -create high production value motion graphics synchronized to every beat of your music. [|Audacity] - create and edit audio files [|Author Stream] -share PowerPoint presentations and slide shows online. The software also allows you to podcast over your presentation. [|Blogger] -a free weblog publishing tool from Google, for sharing text, photos and video. [|Chatzy] -create your own free private chat room and invite people by email. [|Delicious] -the world's leading social bookmarking service. [|Elluminate] - distance learning sotware with chat, video, whiteboard and desktop sharing [|Flock] -a free social web browser. [|Glogster] -use it to poster yourself. [|Jing Project] -use it to capture anything you see on your computer screen and share it instantly...as an image or short movie. [|Ning] -an online service to create, customize, and share a social network. [|Pageflakes] -the easiest way to read, see, discover and share your favorite things on the web. [|Pixton] -fast easy way to create comics about class content. [|Sketch Swap] -draw cartoons, art, brainstorms, anything. [|Teacher Tube] -provides an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos. [|Twitter] -a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time. [|UStream.tv] - a place to chat and broadcast yourself live. [|VoiceThread] - a tool to ransform media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting. [|Webware] -Keep in touch with the latests social media applications. Wikispaces - is a fast and easy way to share class content between users. [|Zotero] - is a powerful, easy-to-use research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources and then share the results of your research. [|WizIQ] //-// offers free online e-teaching and e-learning using web conferencing with document and whiteboard sharing, teacher resumes and presentation sharing.
 * **Time Schedule** || **Unit** || Online Resources ||
 * 8 - 8:15 am || Introductions, Course Registration (online) || - [] ||
 * 8:15 - 9 am || Tools of the Trade (presentation) || - http://thenetworkedlearner.wikispaces.com/Presentation+Tools+of+the+Trade ||
 * 9 - 10 am || TBA by School (hands on) ||  ||
 * 10 - 10:15 am || Break ||  ||
 * 10:15 - 11:30 am || TBA by School (hands on) ||  ||
 * 11:30 - 12:45 am || TBA by School (hands on) ||  ||
 * 12:45 - 1:15 pm || Lunch ||  ||
 * 1:15 - 2:30 pm || TBA by School (hands on) ||  ||
 * 2:30 - 3:45 pm || TBA by School (hands on) ||  ||
 * 3:45 - 4 pm || Course Evaluations || - http://thenetworkedlearner.wikispaces.com/Courses ||
 * Tools:** (other tools may be added to the curriculum)