I recently came across a great PDF publication titled, A Parent’s Guide to Facebook found on this site-http://www.connectsafely.org/Safety-Advice-Articles/facebook-for-parents.html It goes over all those things I wish I could tell parents and much more! A great resource to add to your own website, share with your Home & School group or post to your school’s Facebook [...]
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From: Teachers Love SMART Boards I received this email today. I am just looking into this, but thought I would share. For those with Interactive white boards, the Teachers Love SMART Boards site is a wealth of information. The link below may not work so here is the site: http://www.watchknow.org/ SMART Boards and WatchKnow [...]
Diipo.com is a social networking site that is reported to combine the networking of Twitter with the media-sharing of Facebook and the document-sharing of Google Docs. It’s still in beta testing. It’s just for students and teachers. I’m intrigued… Read the article on Edudemic
I have always wanted a quick and easy solution for making screen recordings to create quick instructional videos for my teachers. I’ve tried some freeware here and there, but I have never been too happy with the results. I’m kind of a miser when it comes to this kind of stuff too, so I’ve never [...]
A colleague shared a website with me today about writing progressive stories online using Wikispaces. This integrates technology into a writing curriculum and brings global collaboration to our students in grades K-8. Check it out today!! Participants need to have both a Wikispaces and a Voicethread account. Registration is open only through March 11 (sorry [...]
Great web based bookmarking resources: delicious.com livebinder.com – A way to gather bookmarks in a visual notebook style – extensive Resource library – FREE – can post public or keep private.
Lynn came across a Fair Use website that has some pretty good ideas plus some good links for copyright free images if you want to share it with the group. The Fair Use Test is particularly useful! Do you have more sites that you use to teach about copyright laws and fair use? Please leave [...]
We were talking at our meeting today about free file sync programs for schools where they are not yet using Google Apps but want an online option for students to save files and be able to access them from home. Two programs were discussed: SugarSync Dropbox Both of these programs allow users a good amount [...]
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