This is cool: http://www.labnol.org/internet/import-html-in-google-docs/28125/
More great ideas here: http://www.labnol.org/
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Thursday, July 25, 2013
TweetDeck App for monitoring your Twitter PLN
This is a great Chrome Web Store App for monitoring, searching and interacting with multiple Twitter streams simultaneously. Click here or on the image below to add it or read about it in the play store.
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Explore Google+ through Prezi
Click on the image below to view the steps to create your G+ account, learn some basics about Circles and Communities and explore links to additional helpful resources… in other words, get a preview of the future of communication and collaboration in our district! (to view full screen, click ‘Start Prezi’ and then click the expand icon in the bottom-right corner of the image below!)
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Try Gmail’s canned responses for repetitive emails
If you need to send a group of emails with some similar chunks of information, try using canned responses (click on the canned responses link at the following location): https://sites.google.com/a/googleapps.com/google-apps-learning-center-v4/gmailvids
You might find lots of other useful tips and tutorials at the Google Apps Learning Center: https://sites.google.com/a/googleapps.com/google-apps-learning-center-v4/
Consider creating a Google Plus Public Community for your campus!
Your administrators, staff and teachers (who are members) can post categorized announcements and information for the community and visitors with G+ accounts can reshare that information with their contacts, post comments, etc. A couple of important notes: 1) only those invited as members can post to the community, 2) members designated as moderators _(administrators, dept heads, key personnel)_ can delete posts, and add or remove members and 3) anyone who leaves spam/inappropriate comments/etc., can be blocked or banned from the community. Notifications which will allow you to track activity on your community can be switched on or off.
Here's a post with some guidelines on how to interact well on G+ for those who are interested: https://plus.google.com/u/0/114101867437445899106/posts/1icNHDWubsY
...and here's a link to our community (screenshot below): https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116556079683728364143
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Post calendar events to Twitter automatically
More and more students and their families are dependent upon mobile devices as their primary means of staying informed, so why not post your teacher calendar events or your campus public calendar events to Twitter automatically where they can follow you using Twitter Fast Follow (http://goo.gl/ZnaiV) and stay informed without needing an account of any kind? In the example image below, you can see that I've added a test post to our campus public calendar and used the ifttt service to post it automatically to my 'work' Twitter account 15min ahead of the event time. Pretty cool... and ifttt works with a large selection of other services via easily customizable 'recipes'. To get started, view the info at this 'about' link (http://goo.gl/xmS3o) and/or this search link (http://goo.gl/FKoK4)
2012-13 Topics Archives
For additional tech topics, links and activities, please browse http://308today.blogspot.com/
The following links lead to bookmarks on a single large public GDoc which might take a few moments to load… sorry for the delay!
Table of contents
- This free floorplanner lets your students (or you) design their own spaces and view them in 2D or 3D
- Review the 7th Grade Computer Literacy class
- Keyboard Shortcuts for unusual symbols in any text editor
- Keyboard Shortcuts Help Popup in Google Spreadsheets
- Try this GDraw Tic-Tac-Toe create, share and play activity
- Teach your students how to share work from their Drive folders
- How to find the coordinates of a point on Google Maps
- Try 3D Sketch
- Use Screencast-o-matic to record an animated gif file
- Try WolframAlpha with step-by-step solutions to problems
- Campus Communities are here (Private Social Networking for your staffs)
- Create a Prezi to explain a process
- How to create and use a multi-function calculator using Google Spreadsheets
- How to add animations to a Google Presentation
- How to embed a feedback form on your Blog or Site
- Have students create collaborative games and activities in Google Drawings
- Google Presentations Demo
- Intro to Google Drawings
- Add content to your Gmail Signature Line
- Student Ideas for using word clouds in core classes (or at home)
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