Sunday, January 31, 2010
Prezi....A New and Fabulous Presentation Web2.0 Application
www.Prezi.com has a NEW way of creating presentations that is very cool! They offer a free education version. Take a look at a presentation that is featured on their site on Google Search. A new look....and a great eye catching presentation for the classroom when starting a research project or sharing search options.
Read It Later: Save Your One Read Wonders
Read It Later: Save Your One Read Wonders
Do you find websites you just do NOT have time to read at that moment? Later, you can not remember exactly what site it was? Read It Later offers you an option to save the site to your browser or phone.
Great productivity tool!
Beyond Current Horizons from the UK
This was put together by Beyond Current Horizons and is really good. Doug Brashaw posted this and now I must take a look at all the options on the site to learn about their findings.
Action! Get the Cameras Rolling with Digital Storytelling
Action! Get the Cameras Rolling with Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling presents an opportunity for students to be creative, learn about historic documentation and more!
These are great links and information.
Google Presentations offers an opportunity to create stories with different endings in a collaborative environment.
This is a template you can try. Google Docs>Create New>From Template Search Copy of Template Digital Collaborative Story Creation
This is a fun writing exercise and it is truly amazing to see the different endings for each story. Middle School students really seem to enjoy this.
Google Features That Make Teachers' Lives Easier Part 2 - Wonder Wheel and Timeline
Google Features That Make Teachers' Lives Easier Part 2 - Wonder Wheel and Timeline
This blog is from someone that was a Technology Resource Teacher and due to cuts went back to the classroom. Instead of whining...she reinvented the classroom!! You rock girl!! The tool she presents here is one of my favorites for students, especially students that may be overwhelmed by all the words on a a Google Search! Wonder Wheel is visual and it simplifies the search for all ages.
The Timeline disappear as an option a few months ago, but due to popular demand it was returned. I love the timeline for statistics and for history.
Making Teachers Nerdy.....in my opinion is Making Classrooms Super Learning Environments!
Googlz Today | NewsCred - Create and Discover Newspapers About the Things You Love
Googlz Today | NewsCred - Create and Discover Newspapers About the Things You Love
News created daily on selected topics :
Google
Technology in the classroom
Web 2.o
and more....
Saturday, January 30, 2010
CC & OER 2010 - Creative Commons
CC & OER 2010 - Creative Commons
Understand Creative Commons? Want to keep up with what is happening there? This site will keep you up to date!
Free Technology for Teachers: MOOM - Museum of Online Museums
Free Technology for Teachers: MOOM - Museum of Online Museums
Love museums??? Try these online museums!! Great virtual fieldtrips!
Breaking News English - 1,000 Ideas & Activities For Language Teachers
Breaking News English - 1,000 Ideas & Activities For Language Teachers
Wow..take a look at the sample! If the book is as good it would be worth buying!
Friday, January 29, 2010
Free Technology for Teachers: How to Publish a Quiz Using Google Docs
Larry from the blog Freetech4teachers is correct-Using Google Forms for a Quiz is easy and productive!
I have used this template for a while and it works great. Instructions are included on a separate tab!
Using Google Forms for a Quiz works great and gives great instant feedback. I have a template shared on Google with the instructions. I make a short url (TinyURL.com) and provide it in the class for the quiz . If you are giving the same in several classes, I copy the original, mix up or change a few questions.
Thank you again for such a great and informative site!
Link to Google Template
Template Self Graded Test NO Waiting SSB
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Free Technology for Teachers: Create an RSS Feed for Any Website
Free Technology for Teachers: Create an RSS Feed for Any Website
Another one of my favorite blogs has made a very valuable tool for adding feeds to your Google Reader! This week Google announced you can now add any URL to your Google Reader, but this site demonstrates the steps for new users!! Way to go!!
Chow Chat - Family Dinner Conversation Starter
Chow Chat - Family Dinner Conversation Starter
If you believe the family that eats together ....stays together...take a peek at this!! There is an APP for everything!
Save paper & ink printing only what you want � PrintWhatYouLike.com
Save paper & ink printing only what you want � PrintWhatYouLike.com
The Tech Chick's are rockin' tonight and they are GREEN!! A great tip for printing what you want from a website and NO MORE!! Save paper!!
It has a button to add it to your tool bar and I used it with my Do6PDF (free PDF printer www.dopdf.com) and it worked GREAT!!
Create free online surveys and polls with PollDaddy.com - Use our award winning survey software to conduct your research.
Create free online surveys and polls with PollDaddy.com - Use our award winning survey software to conduct your research.
I think all the folks I have emailed sites to in the past because I could not bear to let them go without sharing them will be glad I have this blog! This one came from TechChicks! I love my Google forms and survey tools, but we can all learn new tricks....even some of us older Tech Chicks, like me!
Photos: Auschwitz After 65 Years - Photo Essays - TIME
Photos: Auschwitz After 65 Years - Photo Essays - TIME
Got this from Larry Feralazzo (one of my hero's) . All of you that know me have heard me tell about living in The Netherlands and following in person Anne Frank's path before and after "The Hiding Place". Thank you Larry!
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Welcome to CARE - Computers Are Really Easy
Having a blog is not something I have done in the past. I do send many emails with information to people that I find interesting, however, I have been inspired by several people that I follow on their blogs!!
Tom Barrett and Larry Ferrazio have been great resources for many topics!!
I will be developing this blog based on what I have learned about Google as a Google Application Specialist in a local public school system.
I hope you will check back often!! I am just getting started but I hope to add post and items quickly!
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