Saint Joseph Academy Technology Resource Blog

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Internet Safety Videos

Secure Passwords in Plain English VIDEO

Phishing Scams in Plain English VIDEO

from the In Plain English Video people @ Commoncraft.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Internet Safety and Social Networking

Parents Guide to MySpace Safety from About.com

Growing Up Online from Frontline. This program has a lot of buzz around it. Some one should evaluate

Materials from Kidsmart / Childnet includes leaflets handouts, powerpoint presentations also

Facebook 101 -- A blog post with multiple resources about Facebook or a 15 minute powerpoint presentation for parents about Facebook

Facebook for Parents -- from the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford

NetCeterra -- Free 55 page booklet for parents about how to talk to your kids about online safety. All ages.

From chuh school district

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Friday, January 21, 2011

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Edublog Nominees

Great Resource Sites / Blogs that you can search for inspiration:
http://edublogawards.com/2010awards/best-resource-sharing-blog-2010/

Blogs nominated in alphabetical order!

wiki

Wiki nominated in alphabetical order!

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Open Textbook Resources

http://collegeopentextbooks.org/open-textbook-content-/open-textbooks-by-subject.html

http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/

Monday, November 22, 2010

http://www.exploratree.org.uk/

http://www.exploratree.org.uk/

Exploratree is a web based hub for concept mapping, anticipatory sets and graphic organization.

It is a free, web based, interactive, collaborative resource.

All you need to do is sign in and use it. (you can use it without signing in but it won't allow you to save your work)

You can invite students or other teachers to log in and use it as well.

This site is designed with the Smart Board user in mind.

It is a great tool to get your kids out of their seats and up using the INTERACTIVE whiteboards in each of your classrooms.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

What does your PLE look like?

http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams

Today's Meet

http://todaysmeet.com/

http://backnoise.com

Online, collaborative, post channel to share ideas chronologically.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

ClustrMaps Hit Counter

This is a cool and easy way to see who visits your site.

http://www.clustrmaps.com/index.htm

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Survey Tools

http://www.surveymonkey.com/
http://polldaddy.com/
http://www.polleverywhere.com
http://www.kwiksurveys.com/
http://www.response-o-matic.com/index.html
http://wiffiti.com/

Here are nine tools that you can use to put a survey or poll on your class blog. From: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/07/nine-survey-tools-for-teachers-and.html

Using Yarp you can create a simple one question survey or one line event invitation. To create a Yarp survey select "survey" on the homepage, type a question, then select your answer format. All answer formats present only two options along the lines of "true or false" or "yes or no." Yarp invitations use the same format styles as Yarp surveys.

Vorbeo is a free service for creating polls for your blog or website. To use Vorbeo just type your question, enter your answer choices, select a background color, and specify the width of your polling widget. Then copy the embed code provided by Vorbeo and paste it into the html editor of your blog or website.

Urtak is a free and simple polling service that can be used on any blog or website. The polls you create can have multiple questions, but they must be "yes or no" questions. But Urtak isn't that limited because visitors to your poll also have the option of writing in their own questions. You can get started using Urtak in seconds by registering with your Twitter or Facebook account. You can also use your email address to create an account with Urtak. Urtak polls can be embedded into your blog or you can direct people to your poll by sharing the unique url Urtak assigns to your poll.

Buzz Dash is a free polling service that allows anyone to create a poll to use on any blog or website. There are a lot of survey and polling widgets that you can use on your blog (in fact, Blogger has one built-in), but what I like about Buzz Dash is that your poll results instantly update whenever someone votes. The update happens without the need to refresh your page in order to see the new poll results.

Obsurvey gives you the flexibility to create multiple choice surveys or open-ended surveys. Setting up a survey with Obsurvey is an easy process. To set up a survey simply select your question format and then edit the questions and answer choices using the text editor. The video here shows you how to set-up Obsurvey.

Fluid Surveys is a good tool for quickly creating surveys that offer multiple response formats. Many free survey programs only allow one type of response format, multiple choice or text. Fluid Surveys allows you to combine both formats in one survey. The drag and drop interface is so easy to use that you can build a survey in less than a minute. Watch the video here to see how easy it is to use Fluid Surveys.

Stellar Survey offers free surveys that teachers and school administrators can use to get feedback about courses and instructors. Users can select from a predefined template and questions or create a survey from scratch. The free, basic account only allows 50 responses per survey so it is not ideal for large classes, but for most teachers 50 responses will adequate.

No list of survey tools would be complete without mentioning the following two very popular services.

Polldaddy is one of the most recognized platforms for online polling. The free Polldaddy plan allows you to create polls or surveys containing up to ten questions. Poll/ survey results are displayed in real-time.

Poll Everywhere is a poll/ survey service that allows you to collect responses via text messaging. Post your question(s) on your unique Poll Everywhere survey and the audience can voice their opinion(s) using their cell phones. Survey results are available instantly. The free plan allows you to collect responses from up to thirty respondents.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Movie Fun 2.oh...

http://www.xtranormal.com/

http://animoto.com/

http://www.gizmoz.com/newsite/presite/home.jsp

Graphic Organizers

Thanks to Kathy Schrock for compiling theses resources.http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/index.html

Monday, October 25, 2010

Top Webucation Sites You Can't Live Without

http://topwebucationsites.blogspot.com/

Monday, October 4, 2010

OnLine PowerPoint Alternatives

zoho show
empressr
prezi
sliderocket
ajaxpresents
brinkpad.com
prezentit.com
authorstream
imageloop
myplick
slideshare
spresent
vcasmo

Monday, September 13, 2010

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Google for Educators
Rubistar or iRubric
Graphic Organizers, 58 Organizers in pdf , EdHelper Collection of Organizers, Many printable Graphic Organizers
Easy TestMaker
PuzzleMaker
Citation Machine
NoodleTools
Free Video Sources (in addition to Infohio & United Streaming): TeacherTube, SchoolTube, EncycloMedia
Del.icio.us Online bookmarking of favorites
Webquests Find and/or create webquests for use with your students
FREE Clipart/Photo Resources: Pics4 Learning Stock Photo Exchange, Microsoft Clip Art Gallery (Free to RLS because we have a Microsoft Office license), Educational Clip Art,
Audacity Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Download of software required.
Primo PDF Requires a download of software, but provides a resource to create free PDF documents.
Random Number generator will randomly generate a number from 1-30.
Fun Timer Timer allows teacher to set time length and music to play.
Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers in PDF format copyright_chart.pdf
Zamzar - Document converter. Zamzar is dedicated to helping you transform your songs, videos, images and documents into different formats.
4Kids and 4Teachers --2 New sites with many resources for students AND teachers. Check them out!
http://www.classtools.net/ Create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog or website or use them with your SmartBoard!
Free-Reading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy (K-3). Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. Free-Reading contains a 40-week scope and sequence of primarily phonological awareness and phonics activities that can support and supplement a typical kindergarten or first grade “core” or “basal” program.
Edu 2.0 Allows you to teach a class online or use the 10,00+ resources available.
http://wwitv.com/portal.htm Provides a portal to Live TV Webcasts from countries around the world.
http://www.smithclass.org/ Tech ideas for a 21st century classroom integrating technology into the curriculum.
Internet4Classrooms A resouce for teachers who wants to find great skill reinforcing online activities.
Blog to Primary Sources This blog will offer you quick access to primary source documents and websites. There is no better way to inspire critical thinking in your students.
Webspiration Online version of Inspiration that is currently free to use by signing up for it. (Still in Beta form)

PHOTO EDITING SITES

http://fotoflexer.com/ Free online digital editing tool that allows the user to do basic touchup, add special effects, use layers, distort your photos, decorate with text boxes and more. If you use the free registration, you may also store your photos online in an album.
http://www.flauntr.com/ Another free online digital editing tool. Does the basics but does not have a layering tool at this time. Has some great special effects and will create online slideshows to share with other viewers. Will take photos and create Mobile wallpaper for over 250 models. Must sign up/register for free to use.
http://picmarkr.com/ PicMarkr lets you to add custom watermarks (image or text) to your images online and free.
It is useful when you need to protect your copyrights or if you want to add comments to your photos.
http://www.roundpic.com/ Create rounded corners on your digital pictures for free online. No registration required.
https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html Includes a photo organizer, unlimited undo and good tools for the basics, but lacks some standard features such as text insertion.

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