Inspiration is a wonderful tool to have students map out ideas, stories, events, etc. The downside is that Inspiration software is tied to a computer that it is loaded on and students cannot continue their work at home, and it is nearly impossible to work on it as a team. This week’s WWW are online [...]
I was reading a colleagues blog recently and her post was about focusing on just one thing and learning it. This made me reflect on my “one thing” this year – the incorporation of wikis into the school. During the October 8th Staff Development day I introduced wikis to campus. The basic idea was to have [...]
It is that time of the year, when we all need to take a mental break from time to time. Here are a list of sites that can help take your mind off of the testing season and onto something completely different. Digg.com http://digg.com/ - Digg.com is a collection of web sites/stories/postings that other people have found [...]
Google is a powerful search engine and can do so much more than just return websites that have the info you are looking for. I thought I would find a few of those tricks and pass them along. 8 Google Search Tricks: 1. Specialized Information Searches: Definitions: You can get a word defined in by using [...]
Need Pictures: Comp Flight – http://compfight.com/ What is it? Searches Flickr for photos for the term you give it. The results are returned on one page in thumbnail form instead of a list of images that you have to page through in Flickr. Hold your mouse over an image and you can see the image [...]
Guest Blogger: Marlin Parrack Alongside auditory and tactile/kinesthetic, visual learning styles are well represented among a majority of learners. Most students respond well to and are engaged by moving visual images. One way to reach this audience is through the use of web-based videos from a variety of sources, including the popular site YouTube. In [...]
This is the first installment in what I hope to be a weekly series of cool websites to check out. I stumbled across this link today and I am totally hooked as to what it could do for teachers! http://drop.io - Want a way for students to turn in files to you online? Maybe a place where [...]
So now that you have seen how to create a presentation, the question remains, “What type of presentations should I make?” Here are some ideas and examples taken from teachers on campus: Quizzes or Tests- While I never recommend running a test or quiz completely on TurningPoints, it is a good way to gather information [...]
Welcome to the new home of Robin’s Technology Tips. I am still playing with the settings of WordPress and learning about themes, plugins, etc, so expect to see some changes along the way. One thing I have found over the last week is that web and blog hosting is doable, it just take a bit [...]