The Essential Technology Skills for Educators

Internet skills to navigate the World Wide Web and search effectively.

• Search Engines and directories
  
• Effective searching strategies
  
• Search engines ranking factors
  
• RSS
  
• Internet safety
  
• Deep Web Directory
  

Word processing skills to complete written tasks.

• Microsoft Word
  
• Google Docs
  
• Microsoft Excel
  

Database skills to create tables, store, retrieve, and query data.

• Microsoft Access
  
• Database: Zoho Creator -- an online database application for surveys, inventories, and data collection.

Electronic presentation skills to create and give electronic presentations.

• Microsoft PowerPoint
  
• Web site design for teachers
  
• Frontpage
  
• Dreamweaver
  
• iWeb
  
• HTML
  

E-Mail management skills to open, compose, and archive messages, send attachments and create e-mail folder.

• Microsoft Outlook
  
• Gmail
  

Digital Cameras and digital image editing skills to transfer, edit, and print out images.

• Digital Camera
  
• Digital Photography
  
• Adobe Photoshop
  
• iPhoto
  

Digital Video Skills

• iMovie
  
• Adobe Premiere
  
• Final Cut Express
  
• YouTube
  
• Google Video
  
• iDVD
  

Podcasting skills

• Audacity -- Free Audio Editor and Recorder
  
• GarageBand
  

Understanding Social Networking

• General Social Networks: MySpace, Facebook
  
• Photo Social Networks: Flickr, Picasa, BubbleShare
  
• Video Social Networks: YouTube, Google Video, Viddler
  
• Professional Social Networks - Innocentive, LinkedIn
  
• Technology Social Network - digg, techcrunch
  
• Popular eLearning Networks: Moodle, eLearning Guru, NiceNet
  

Wikis

• About wiki
  
• PB Wiki is as "easy as making a peanut butter sandwich."
• Wikispaces has 100,000 free K-12 Plus wikis.
• Schtuff.com has nice features like tagging, custom permissions, and an image gallery.
• Seedwiki has no ads and no limits on the number of wikis or number of pages the users can create.

Blogs

• About blogs
  
• Technorati
  
• Class Blogmeister
  
• Edublogs
  

Computer Network Knowledge to understand how the school network works and access online folders.

• Student file server
  
• Faculty Godzilla
  

File Management & Windows Explorer Skills to manage a computer files.

• Windows Explorer
  
• Finder (Mac)

Downloading and Installing Software and eBooks from the Internet.

• Tucows.com
  
• Download.com
  
• Shareware.com
  
• Microsoft Reader
  
• Adobe Acrobat Reader
  

Blackboard Teaching Skills to create online courses, quizzes, and exams, view students work, create discussions, and evaluate projects.

• Blackboard Tutorials
  

Videoconferencing skills to use a video conferencing classroom and understand the basics of teaching with Video Conferencing.

• WebCam
  
• Video and Audio Equipment for Videoconferencing
  

Computer-Related Storage Devices (CDs, DVDs, USB drives, and external hard drives.)

• iDVD
  
• Easy Media Creator
  
• USB Flash Drives
  
• External hard drive
  

Scanner Knowledge to scan document and save them on the hard drive.

• Scanning Tutorials
  

Multimedia and Website copyright issues.

• Fair use
  

Computer Security

• Ad-Aware - Spyware Removal Software
• Helping you Prevent and Remove Adware, Spyware, Viruses and Other Malware