Technology Ideas

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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Web 2.0 Tools by Category

Categorized Web 2.0 Tools

Amazingly rich site. Breaks down all of the web tools by use/purpose. Very useful link.

Friday, March 26, 2010

Student blog rubrics

Link to several student blog rubrics.

Link to blog rubric

Amazing technology tool

Dial 2 Do is an awesome tool that can do so many great things from your cell phone.

You can:

1. send an email
2. check your email and reply to them
3. Post to your blog
4. Post a message to your Twitter page
5. Hear your Twitter time line
6. Listen to your calendar or make an appointment on your calendar
7. Record a reminder for yourself or listen to your reminders
8.create notes
9.send a text message (I do this and I do not even text or have texting on my phone)
There are other features, these are the ones I use

The tool does cost $3.99 per month or $39.99 per year.

If you are using any of the technology listed above, this is a great tool to compliment the others.

Monday, March 15, 2010

4 cool technology tools

Wallwisher
Cool interactive sticky board where you post sticky notes. Notes can have text, pictures or video.

Wordle
Build creative word clouds. Really a lot of ways to use this.

Prezi
Hello Prezi! Good bye Power Points!

drop.io
Online flash drive, but you can get voice messages as a url link.

Google Docs Tips

Link to Google Docs tips provided by Digital Inspiration.

To Kill a Mocking Bird

Same post as below as featured on another blog. Example included. To Kill a Mocking Bird 21st Century Style

Wordles

Ways to us Wordles in the classroom

Sunday, March 14, 2010

21st Century To KIll a Mocking Bird

This is an amazing project. Megan Palevich from Chester County, Pa developed and shared this 21st century project for To kill a Mocking Bird. This project is so cool I almost wish I was an English teacher! Check it out, you will love it too! My brain is already racing with ideas how to model this for one of my classes. Thank you Megan Palevich!

Thursday, March 11, 2010

12 Resources for Grammar and Punctuation

From the Teacher Reboot Camp blog


http://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/2010/03/09/12-resources-for-grammar-and-punctuation-usage/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TeacherBootCamp+%28TeacherBootCamp%29&utm_content=Twitter