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Judith Sotir, Waubonsee College AELC Manager: I've been working with Blogs since 2003, and migrated to Wikis and Podcasts a little later. The AELC was created by the Illinois Community College Board as a Center of Excellence model program in the early 90's (we were known as the ITD Center back then), and the goal has always been to be at the forefront of educational technology and to openly share that knowledge. It's been an interesting journey, and I still manage to get excited when I find those diamonds in the Web. This Blog is dedicated to the teaching professionals who have the inclination but not the time to sort out the good from the not as good. I welcome comments and ideas from the Blogosphere.

*NEW* Reading for Adult Learners : Sat. Sept. 15th, 12-1 PM and Thursday, Sept. 27th 5-6 PM
*NEW* ABE/GED Math Tools, Websites and Lesson Plans: Wednesday, Sept. 26th 5-6 PM
Searching for Success: Friday, Sept. 28th, 12-1 PM
Deciphering the Maze of Educational Websites: Sat. Sept. 22nd, 12-1 PM

The workshops listed will be offered throughout the school year, and all will be held in the AELC, Room 312, Aurora Campus. See this Blog or look for sign up sheets in your department for additional dates. Starter Hotlists for the Math, Reading and Websites workshops are listed below.

Outside Groups

Nov. 8: NIU at WCC: 5-8 PM: Trends in Educational Technology
Weigel 204 (Limited to Dr. R. Orem's class only) Hotlist for highlighted Websites is listed below as Hotlist for NIU and Wheaton College: ESL Technology Websites.

Dec. 18: Harper College: AELC Overview

Jan. 31: Moraine Valley CC: AELC Overview

Feb. 21: WCC Tutor Workshop: AELC and Computer Websites

Feb. 22: Wheaton College at WCC 9:30-11:30 AM Starting a Revolution: New Educational Technology Trends AELC AC 312 (Limited to Dr. A. Seaman's class only) Hotlist for highlighted Websites is listed below as: Hotlist for NIU and Wheaton College: ESL Technology Websites.

Apr. 14: Moraine Valley CC: AELC Overview 10-11 AM AELC
April 4, 18 and 25, May 2: Dunham Academy at WCC (room TBA) (Limited to Dunham Academy only)
Group 1: Search Engine Stategies (4/4) New Tech Trends (4/18)
Group 2: Search Engine Stategies (4/25) New Tech Trends (5/2)

Sept 11: Maria Fisher's Lev 10: Blog Workshop, AELC

Sept 26: Assessment Staff Meeting: AELC Overview, Blogs and Wikis: AELC

Nov. 11: Maria Fisher's Lev 10: Blog Workshop, AELC

Feb 20: Alan Seaman's TESOL class, AELC, 9-11:30

Mar 3, 20: Search Workshops, Dunham Academy, AELC: 2 groups, 12:30 -1:30 and 1:30 -2:30, both dates

Apr 27: Exploring Web 2.0, CTLT, 3:30-5 PM, COL 115

June 29 & 30: Exploring Web 2.0, Blogs and Wikis, Cowherd MS

Mar 26, 2010: Personal Branding in the Digital Age, Dunham Academy

April 9, 2010: Social Networking for Business, Dunham Academy

April 17, 2010: Top Tech Tools for the Non-Techie: 'Celebrating Volunteers' workshop topic

Advanced Survey...a free, basic, online survey creation tool


Assign-A-Day...a free, online calendaring site that can be used to post school, activity, or class calendars


ePrintableCalendars...easy-to-print out caldendars by month or year, in various sizes


Exercises, Quizzes, Tests...hundreds of links to online exercises, quizzes, and test makers as well as as well as a subject-arranged list of links to assessment tools


Game-O-Matic...a suite of wizards to create simple Web-based activities for language learning and practice


Icing on the Cake: Online Tools for Teaching and Learning...a collection of many online tools for teaching and learning


Teacher Tools...an extensive overview with support materials to help teachers better use the "typical" classroom technology toolset


Nicenet's Internet Classroom Assistant...a free, well-done, Web-based classroom environment giving teachers and students a secure forum to collaborate and share ideas


Puzzlemaker...create word searches, cryptograms, math squares, and other types of puzzles to use with your lessons


QuizCenter...this site allows you create and correct online quizzes without requiring any knowledge of HTML and automatically posts them on a server so they may be used by students


Zoomerang...a online survey creator that allows 20 questions and 100 responses for free



Web 2.0 Tools

Following is a list of no-cost Web 2.0 sites that are available for teachers to evaluate. Many of these tools are on the open Internet, so look at them carefully before using with your students! Be sure to check out myShedding Light on Web 2.0page listed below with links to over 50 tools for teachers and learners.


Aggregator: Bloglines...a great aggregator for skimming the titles of blog posts from many different blogs


Aggregator: NetVibes...an easy-to-use Web-based aggregator which allows you to collect all of your RSS feed on a single Web page


Aggregator: Pageflakes...a Web-based aggregator that allows you to create a page for you and a page for students, and includes "flakes" to add in, such as a calculator


Blog: Blogger...one of the best online blog-creation sites; easy to use, privacy features now built-in, and it works well


Blog: Class Blogmeister...a blog site set up specifically for educators and students with many privacy controls built-in


Blog: edublogs...free blog-hosting site for educators and students of all ages


Database: Zoho Creator...an online database application that can be used for surveys, inventories, data collection, and much more


Podcast: Podcasting Tools...a well-done overview of the process of creating a podcast


Podcast: VoiceThread...online voice recording that you can attach to pictures and store online


Shedding Light on Web 2.0...my presentation support site with links to information and Web 2.0 tools


Social Networking: del.icio.us...save your bookmarks online, share with viewers, and search, via tags, others' links


Social Networking: diigo...save your bookmarks online and easy organize and share them with others


Social Networking: Flickr...a social networking site for photographs; a great source of material for students to access


Social Networking: FURL...an online Web page storage site which allows users to save their personal favorite sites in an online archive and also search, via tags, the archives of others


Social Networking: twitter.com...an application allowing you to instantly post and receive short messages called "tweets"


Social Networking: Ning.com...a site which allows you to create your own social network; consider using a private social network with your students


Synchronous Collaborative Environments: WiZiQ...a "a virtual classroom application that is fully equipped with 2-way audio, text chat, whiteboard, PowerPoint and PDF document sharing capabilities"


Synchronous Collaborative Environments: Yugma...a "free web collaboration service that enables people to instantly connect over the internet to communicate and share content and ideas using any application or software"


Wiki: jottit...an easy-to-use wiki site that allows you to create a classroom wiki that is only accessible to students who have the password and students do not need an email address to sign-up


Wiki: Wikispaces...create a public, online wiki for free; great for class collaboration


Wiki: Writeboard...a place to create shareable, Web-based text documents


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