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ShinySearch

04 Feb

Students enjoy personalizing everything from their notebooks, lockers, to their clothes and hair styles.  Bring that love of personalization into the computer lab with a personalized search desktop.  A student only needs to login to ShinySearch by selecting a style/interest category and typing his/her name.   ShinySearch then produces the Google search page into a customed-designed seach page for the student.  Students can use ShinySearch at home, and once customized by their interests and name, save the site as a homepage.  As a homepage, ShinySearch provides additional features with a quick link to email accounts, social networking sites, news, and more resource sites.  Guaranteed a few adults might like this as a homepage as well.

 
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Posted by on February 4, 2012 in Classroom Technology, Computers in the Classroom, Google Tools, Technology Integration, Web 2.0 Tools

 

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Zoomerang

25 Oct
As an online survey app, the FREE, basic subscription offers
  • Unlimited number of surveys, with up to 12 questions and 100 responses each
  • Access to over 100 survey templates
Once a survey has been created, bookmark it for students on their computers, email the survey to interested parties, post on Facebook, Twitter…just too many options for sharing.
Use surveys and polls
  • to engage students in their opinions about favorite movies, books, cartoon characters
  • to collect feedback on a school activity or event
  • to sample students’ knowledge of a topic
  • to poll opinions about political events, issues, candidates then compare with the local, state, and national outcomes
And don’t overlook the many times a poll/survey can benefit the professional educator.
  • to determine workshop topics
  • to identify the success of parent conferences
  • to poll for suggested academic or building policy changes
  • and, of course, to “vote” for the day of the staff holiday parties!
 
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Posted by on October 25, 2011 in Classroom Technology, Computers in the Classroom, Google Tools, Technology Integration, Web 2.0 Tools

 

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Blogger (a Google application)

19 Apr

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If it’s worth discussing, sharing or understanding, it’s worth blogging!  Personally or professionally, blogging is an indispensable tool.  With so many schools utilizing Google Apps in Education, Blogger is an option to be explored.

In a recent graduate class for teachers, Blogger was used as a supplemental resource page for questions that arose in the online course.  Here’s a screen capture of some of the postings for the class participants.

Teachers in the course created blogs to:

  • Provide a list of sing-a-long books for students and their parents
  • Develop a resource for class materials and discussions that would promote communication outside of the Accounting classroom
  • Create a dual resource of library and technology information and issues to address the dual responsibilities of her profession

Are YOU blogging?  Please share your blog URLs, thoughts, experiences in the comment section below.

 
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Posted by on April 19, 2011 in Classroom Technology, Computers in the Classroom, Google Tools, Web 2.0 Tools

 
 
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