ILC - Work Smarter Not Harder with FREE Online Resources

Work Smarter Not Harder with FREE Online Resources

Stephanie Schuyler

Website with handout

2:30pm-3:30pm Thursday, Oct 16th, 2008

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  Music
  




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  www.freeplaymusic.com - Copyright free music
  


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  Pandora.com
  




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  Google Advanced Search
  




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  can search for power points
  




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  (Make sure its not student generated!)
  


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  should preview before you use it
  




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  good to look for flash! Find videos! Games!
  



• Jefferson County has lots of power point presentations
• Includes lots of power point games too! Can download and replace with you own stuff
• ThinkFinity has partnered with lots of websites - great portal for educators, parents, students, and afterschool programs
• have lesson plans, interactive websites, primary resources, worksheets, etc
• IKnowThat.com has a lot of free educational games!
• Punctuation Paintball
• Leon's Math Dojo
• Quizzes are here also! Can play alone, with others, with computer, get to pick a character!
• Wet Paint Wiki
• has templates already for educators
• calendars
  
• has widgets
  
• good for peer revision
• options to set permission levels - not open to public unless you want
• has discussion forum to encourage collaboration
• photo gallery, can see members
  
• Gaggle.net
• sign up for 30 email address - greenstudent1, greenstudent2, etc so its anonymous
• (can call to increase space if needed)
• Is a little bit free, http://www.gaggle.net/erate_470.html for discount
• encourages collaboration!
• all teachers have access to all emails, even deleted emails! keeps students responsible
• homework drop boxes - good for things that are completion grades - done or not.
• has blogs, message boards to reflect on books
• TeacherTube (but I like downloading from youtube better)
  
• flip.com for flipcams that are digital video recorder
• good to upload videos you made
• embeddable code to put in your blog or website
• Add resources to Stephanie's blog!
• GREAT for making tutorials, Jing Project 
• Smarttech.com - if anyone in the district has a key you can use it
• can find lessons in Educator Resources
• Find Stephanie on Delicious!
• HotChalk, like Moodle
• Starfall for beginning readers
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