Register now to learn more about how effective Edmodo can be in your classroom! I will be presenting later that day about how Edmodo was used in connection with the Flat Classroom Project, A Week in the Life - I worked w/ 3rd graders on this project. Fun! Collaborative! Engaging!
Lead by Brian Mannix, discussing the future of education. Wednesdays 8pm EST in Google Hangout.
Many for Chrome, but good to try!
Free 236 page guide.
Love this new feature! I can now collect the livebinders others have shared and save to my shelf!
An article I recently read at Teachhub.com begins with, “It’s Google’s world, we’re just teaching in it.” I couldn’t agree more. This article is very useful for incorporating easy, Google technology tips and tricks in the classroom. The categories include:
Search Tricks
Google Specifically…
I saw this post from Kim Caise’s circle of friends and thought I would try it: http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20075805-285/how-to-invite-your-pals-to-google/?tag=cnetRiver
I invited some Flat Classroom Certified teachers through the directions of this post. Will follow up if it does/doesn’t work.
I attended a Simple K12 webinar who had Steven Anderson (@web20classroom) on talking about Twitter. Here are some great resources:
1. Use Tweetdeck (desktop) or Hootsuite (web) to organize the many tweets that come in Twitter. Never go to the Twitter home page again.
2. Follow and tweet with hashtags (#) - good resource: cybraryman.com/edhashtags.html
3. Search phrases hashtags in columns with Tweetdeck or Hootsuite.
4. Make lists to follow groups of people.
5. Use Diigo to save favorites in Twitter.
6. Save important tweets that you can’t read at the time w/ Read It Later: http://readitlaterlist.com
7. Use Evernote to save tweets (use myEN in tweet).
8. The Tweeted Times is a Twitter Newsletter (tweetedtimes.com) - ranks followers
9. Paper.li - use to follow hashtags (paper.li/tag/edchat - example)
10. Flipboard and Zite takes Twitter feeds and puts in magazine format - ipad only.
11. Steve’s Livebinder: http://livebinders.com/play/play34291
Great resources for those just starting out with Google Apps or for those who want to learn more!
Pros - easy and slick - “Circles” is great!
Con - doesn’t integrate with Google Apps for Ed - but I’m sure that’ll change soon!
President Obama will hold a town hall meeting in Twitter on Wednesday, July 6th at 1pm Central time. Follow the hashtag #AskObama. You can also submit your own question using the same hashtage. I posted this question: ”I am a teacher who likes to connect globally. Do you see an expansion of global initiatives with schools in the future? #AskObama ” I don’t think it will be answered, since President will be tweeting about jobs and the economy, I wanted to put it out there. And when I did, a journalist found it and posted it. We’ll see what happens!
