Cool Tools on Institute Day
Driven by NETS-T, Digital Leaders and instructional tech folks have been busy collaborating to prepare sessions designed to help teachers leverage technology to meet district goals and initiatives. Cool Tools will be featured throughout the day. Stay tuned for our wiki, filled with session resources.
Location: Brooks Middle School
Time: 8:00-1:00, no lunch
- Session 1: Keynote, Burke Hatch
- Session 2: Breakout session, 80 minutes
- Session 3: Breakout session, 80 minutes
Stay tuned to your email for more information.
Cool Tools on Institute Day - Nov. 24, 2010
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Registration opens Nov. 14th
Wordle and Current Events
Wordle is a great tool for beginning a discussion about current events. Here is what happened when I wordled election results from the Chicago Tribune, The State Journal-Register, and The Associated Press this morning.
Awesome Highlighter
The name says it all. This cool tool allows anyone to highlight text on any web page, add a sticky note, and share the link. It seems like a very useful and friendly tool for teachers and students.
A bookmarklet can easily be installed to your bookmarks bar as a Firefox add-on to allow for highlighting on the go. If you find something you like when browsing the web, highlight it and get the link with the click of a button.
Try it for yourself by selecting the highlighted text below.
Awesome Highlighter
A bookmarklet can easily be installed to your bookmarks bar as a Firefox add-on to allow for highlighting on the go. If you find something you like when browsing the web, highlight it and get the link with the click of a button.
Try it for yourself by selecting the highlighted text below.
Awesome Highlighter
A Laptop for All Teachers
A laptop for all teachers is certainly a cool tool.
In our school district we have adopted a technology plan and declared our committment to 21st Century Learning. In order to provide every teacher with a cost-efficient laptop, we made the switch from Mac to PC.
Teachers attending Dell Training Sessions throughout the summer were asked What do you like about your new laptop? Here is the response, wordled.
In our school district we have adopted a technology plan and declared our committment to 21st Century Learning. In order to provide every teacher with a cost-efficient laptop, we made the switch from Mac to PC.
Teachers attending Dell Training Sessions throughout the summer were asked What do you like about your new laptop? Here is the response, wordled.
21st Century Learning and VoiceThread
Here is a video snippet of how John McCauley uses VoiceThread as a tool for 21st Century Learning.
More samples of VoiceThread projects in D97 are included in the tabs at the top of this blog.
More samples of VoiceThread projects in D97 are included in the tabs at the top of this blog.
A Glimpse of 21st Century Learning
Here is a snippet of 21st Century Learning, featuring the work of Ashley Kannan, Digital Leader at Julian.
BagTheWeb: Online Bookmarking Tool
CrocoDoc: Collaborative Documents
Crocodoc is a simple, online document sharing tool that provides users with the ability to edit and collaborate on documents without requiring an email address. Stickies and drawing tools are available and they can be applied to several types of files, including PDF files. The ability to password protect an online document is an added bonus that makes this tool potentially useful for teachers, students, and parents.
Upload a document for collaboration, then share the link via email. It's easy and works well when sharing with others outside of Gmail.
-Learn more on my website:
-Try it: Edit CrocoDoc
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