Notes+&+Websites

Marc Prensky is an internationally acclaimed thought leader, speaker, writer, consultant, and game designer in the critical areas of education and learning. He is the author of Digital Game-Based Learning (McGraw-Hill, 2001), founder and CEO of Games2train, a game-based learning company, and founder of The Digital Multiplier, an organization dedicated to eliminating the digital divide in learning worldwide. He is also the creator of the sites < www.SocialImpactGames.com >, < www.DoDGameCommunity.com > and < www.GamesParentsTeachers.com >. Marc holds an MBA from Harvard and a Masters in Teaching from Yale.More of his writings can be found at < www.marcprensky.com/writing/default.asp >. Contact Marc at marc@games2train.com.
 * google sfu dialogue central to find the Moodle
 * tadalist [make your own To Do list]
 * Index of Learning Styles [an online questionaire] (Felder)

Powerpoint [save your presentation as .ppsx to present directly to an audience and save on the desktop] [you can also save it as a JPEG for presenting on computers without Powerpoint] note: Presenter View only comes up when using a projector [when putting video onto Powerpoint use Keepvid as MP4. (this can be transfered to a school computer via a Flash Drive) Handbrake [will take out just the movie on a DVD] (These movies can be edited with an online program) Quiettube [a site you can use to load Youtube videos for presenting to a class without all the extraneous crap] Kickutube [a quick way to download Youtube videos onto your computer] Museumbox www.museumbox.e2bn.org [for collecting and presenting material] Prezi [multimedia presentations] Tinyurl.com [to make small web addresses] TED talks [Sugata Mitra, 'Hole in the Wall' talk, __, Light wifi circuit] Wordle [to make a word collage that reflects the use frequency of words in a passage] 1and1 [web-hosting site, domain name] godaddy [ditto] dreamweaver [for website design] Mind meister [for creating mind maps] The Flat Classroom [a collaborative project for breaking down the walls of the classroom]
 * 1) Technically funny/Don Macmillan [on using Power Point]
 * 2) One Ronnie [utube video on the blackberry]
 * 3) Democratic Education [democraticeducation.org]
 * 4) Font Conference