Tech Time has a new name!!!!!! It is now called Tech Talk!!! Our last two meetings of the year will be on the first Monday of May (May 2nd) at Ada Harris in the Computer Lab and the first Monday in June (June 6th) at Cardiff School in the Computer Lab. Both meetings will be from 3:15-3:45ish. Bring any fun end of the year ideas. We are looking forward to seeing you there.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
Tech Notes from March 28th Meeting
The Tech Time meeting was an interesting one. Thanks to everyone for updates on the CUE conference and the following tech ideas:
1. Dropbox - This is a website that you can download and transfer files up to 100 gb (2 gb for the free account), similar to Google Docs. Kim tried it with a rather large avi file and it worked!
2. Discovery Education Streaming - This is not a new site, but Jeff heard about a new way to use it: Gather text from a famous speech and paste it into Wordle. With Wordle, the more often a word is used in a paragraph, the larger the word appears. This allows you and your students to look at which words were used most frequently in a speech such as "I Had a Dream" by Dr. Martin Luther King. You could also paste in student's writing to see which word is being over used.
3. SeaMonkey - This is a browser (like Safari or Firefox) that Jeff uses because it allows him to do minor editing of web pages he's going to print. Ask Jeff, if you have questions. :)
4. Tammy Worcester's Technology Tips for Teachers - This is a website by Tammy Worcester that has great tips for teachers using technology that Jeff saw at CUE. The tips are listed under the "What's New" section. She also has a separate blog page that lists her Favorite FREE Web Tools.
Thanks to Carol Williams for taking our minutes!
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