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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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???