Month: October 2010
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Formative Classroom Assessment Techniques
Here you can access, view, and even download the presentation on Classroom Assessment Techniques for Beaver High School today. The site is best viewed with Firefox or Safari. I’ve also included a PDF of the presentation outline that I gave out as …
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How Do YOU Celebrate Halloween? PowerPoint for Milford Elementary
Here’s the files, images, and information that we’ll use today to learn how to create a PowerPoint presentation about how YOU celebrate Halloween. We’ll start off with an empty template file, and work our way up to the completed project, found her…
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Presenting from iPads, Phones, or Web-based Slides – Poll Everywhere’s Posterous
via blog.polleverywhere.com Great perspective and some really valuable information about using the iPad for presentations. To get the most out of it, take a look at the PDF version with his presenters notes. I’m glad that he highlighted the awesom…
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iVoted – Alternative to Poll Everywhere, or worse?
Why use iVoted? Realtime Polling Easy to use Multiple Ways to Answer Simple to Manage User Friendly via ivoted.com UPDATE: Please take a look at the comments below before you decide whether or not to try iVoted. This looks very similar to Poll Eve…
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…And The Cell Phone Companies Are Making 10 Cents On Every One!
via s3.amazonaws.com Two numbers jump out at me – the almost 30% of teens creating over 100 text messages per day, and the 34% of 65+’ers sleeping with their phones – and they are the only sub-group below 50% that do!
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Unleash the iPad on Verizon Wireless?
via verizonwireless.com iPad & MiFi bundled together from Verizon. I’m not sure if this is a great deal or not, but is it a harbinger of things to come???
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Getting Rid of Bad Cookies on the Mac
I will try to refrain from making the obvious joke about there not being any such thing as a ‘bad’ cookie, but I had a teacher ask me the other day how to get rid of her daughters email login information on her work computer – every time she wante…
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Free Books, Free Books, Free Books!
More and more, the World is going digital. This is especially true with the most ‘analog’ of technologies – the Book, invented over 500 years ago. The Google Books Library Project has been stealing the headlines lately, with a modest approach. “Ou…
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Classroom Grant Opportunity
I came across Donors Choose this morning, a site that is facilitating donations for mini classroom grants. It works on an interesting point system – when you get a grant you ‘spend’ points but then can earn them back by doing some simple follow-up…
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GPS & Google Earth Put To USE!
Thanks for inviting me to come to Lake Powell School today to work with you all on GPS and Google Earth. Here’s a few resources we may need, or that you can refer back to after our time together today: GPS & Geocaching in ANY Classroom Presentatio…