Trade Session - Resources for use with IWB

This was a trade session by VideoPro so in the first part of the session the presenter showed a number of resources for purchase.

Handheld scanner which can be used to scan student work, book pages etc and then projected - 600dpi image produced. Costs $111

Livescribe - a pen that you write with and it can record sound as well as the image you are writing but has to be used with special paper. Can make a pen story or other recording which can then be played back on the IWB.

Flip cameras - several models one now available in HD with 2 hour recording capability

Free resources on Internet

• http://www.umapper.com/ - a site where you can create games over the top of a map (from Google e.g.)
• http://www.xtranormal.com/ - a site where you can type in a story and make it into a movie. Can use free characters and not publish. Costs money to publish.
• http://www.vuvox.com/ - a site where you can create media using your photographs.
• http://www.jamstudio.com/Studio/index.htm - a site on which you can create and record music. Have to pay if you want to download onto computer or CD.
  

More sites can be found at http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/which is where the above sites were discovered.