Month: June 2010
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Digital Photography: Basics & Beyond
Here’s the agenda for our session, along with the videos, links, and resources that we’ll need for the day. Agenda: Welcome & Introductions 9:00 – 9:15 AM How to Choose the Right Camera 9:15 – 9:30 AM Photo Pre-Test 9:30 – 9:45 AM Show-N-Tell & Ph…
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Optical character recognition (OCR) in Google Docs
via googledocs.blogspot.com I was just working with a teacher yesterday who had a huge binder full of documents that she no longer had on her computer because of a hard drive crash. I knew that OCR could help, but didn’t have any resource to point…
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Ten Tips to Better Video
Ten Tips to Better Videoby Robin LissFrom camcorderinfo.comSo, you want to make your videos better, but you don’t want to read every article on the camcorderinfo.com website. Well, improving your videos really isn’t that hard, and if you follow ju…
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Google Voice for Everyone – Finally!
via googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com I’ve been using this service for a while now, and I absolutely love it. I would highly recommend that you check it out, sign up, and spend a little time getting it customized. It’s basically voice mail on steroids,…
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Getting started guide – Google Calendar Help
Google Calendar Help can be found here, along with other topics on the page. Hopefully this guide to Google Calendars will be a great resource for you as you begin to use Calendars with your school email account. Be sure to check out the additiona…
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EduDemic ?? Every Teacher???s Must-Have Guide To Facebook
via edudemic.com Some good information here on how to harness the power of Facebook with your students. I’d lobby for teachers setting up Fan pages before they set up a second account, but either would be an appropriate use of the site to effectiv…
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Google Wave – Wave in the Classroom
via poojasrinivas.com I’m keeping my eye on Wave to see if it could be a useful tool in the classroom. Is it something that ‘regular’ teachers can figure out and find of benefit???
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GPS in the Classroom for Washington Co. School District, June 1-2, 2010
Here’s the links and resources you’ll need during our 2 days together of getting to know how to use a GPS to find locations, mark locations of your own, and integrating this technology to collect relevant data & create custom maps with your classe…