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What are you doing this summer?
…try adoption Taking some time off this summer? Take a week or two to relax and get recoup some of your energy, be sure to reflect and then adopt. Not a child (but if that’s what you plan to do … Continue reading
Posted in Helpful Tips
Tagged apps, educational apps, free tech for teachers, helpful apps in classroom
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Online presentations – REDEMPTION!
On the right track! Back in January I explained my woes I had with Google Presentations (apart of Google Docs) and how horrible it went due to all the technical difficulties. Read the post and the comments here. At that … Continue reading
Posted in Helpful Tips, Opinion
Tagged ed tech, free tech for teachers, google docs, online collaboration, presentations, Prezi, zoho
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Tiki-Toki – The review
For all of our devoted readers out there, you may notice that Tiki-Toki was not originally part of our timeline review extravaganza, but they reached out to us through Twitter and asked if we could review them. I am glad … Continue reading
Posted in Helpful Tips, Opinion, Review, Tech Integration, tutorial
Tagged ed tech, free tech for teachers, history, interactive timeline, social studies, tiki-toki, timeline
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Posterous.com – A quick how to
I’m going to take a tiny break in my timeline extravaganza to quickly add a how to guide for Posterous.com. This blogging platform is pretty sweet and perfect for the casual blogger who cares not for widgets and the like. … Continue reading
Posted in Helpful Tips, social network, Tech Integration, tutorial
Tagged blog, ed tech, education, free tech for teachers, posterous.com
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Dipity – The review
In the words of Gru “Now that’s what I’m talkin a-bout.” This is easily one of the best timeline creators out there. While there are a few areas I’m iffy on, I can fully recommend this website to create timelines … Continue reading
Posted in Helpful Tips, Opinion, Review, Tech Integration
Tagged Dipity, free tech for teachers, opinion, patrick, technology in the classroom, timeline
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timetoast – The review!
Our reviews of timelines continue with timetoast! timetoast.com is nice. Not great, but nice. After working with xTimeline.com timetoast was a nice change of pace to see a timeline that actually looks like a timeline. It’s easy to use, like … Continue reading
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Tagged ed tech, free tech for teachers, helpful apps in classroom, reviews, timeline, timetoast
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A changing of the guard
Way back in October I wrote a post about OpenOffice.org and how it is pretty awesome. Well bitter sweet news has befallen us. Oracle bought Sun in 2010 and took over the OpenOffice.org project. This week they have decided to … Continue reading
HootCourse – YES
Hopefully you’ve read my post on what HootCourse is, if not click here. My colleague and I Omar have discussed HootCourse and are torn on the matter. Omar doesn’t feel that HootCourse has any functional place in the classroom. You … Continue reading
HootCourse – Twitter for the classroom – THE VIDEO!
What can I say, Omar and I are on a HootCourse kick. This is a quick video about how to get started with HootCourse. Later this week Omar and I are going to duke it out over what we think … Continue reading
Posted in Helpful Tips, Review, Tech Integration, tutorial, Video
Tagged apps, free tech for teachers, helpful apps in classroom, hootcourse, patrick, Social Networking, twitter
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Hootcourse – Twitter educationalized
That is definitely not a real word. Anyway, in this post I am going to share with you the online service HootCourse.com. This uses Twitter as a means to create a back channel chat, but it has some nice features … Continue reading
