LITE Project - Western School District

Flubaroo - Free script for Grading Google Doc Assignments or Quizzes

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Fudge) — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:58:00 +0000

Flubaroo, is a free tool that you can install to Google spreadsheets and use to score quizzes and assignments created in Google Docs. Check out this link to find out where to download it and the steps you follow to implement it. There is also a great video link at the Flubaroo site that may be of interest. Flubaroo is an excellent resource to use for pre-assessment and formative assessment. Teacher and student gets immediate feedback which can help inform teaching and learning. Flubaroo can be set up to email students their results.

Animated Slideshows

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Fudge) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:44:00 +0000

Interested in spicing up your teacher/student websites/blogs/wiki's? Then, you may want to check out Dianne Krause's page on Animated Slideshows as presented on her "Perk up Your Projects with Web 2.0" Wiki. Here she provides examples and tutorials for Animoto, Fixtime, One True Media, Prezi, Slide, Slideshare, and Voicethread. Also, check out her presentation about Glogster.

Also check out the resource below which I composed using Scoop.it

Flickr picture set - linked to blogger

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Fudge) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:58:00 +0000

In this post I demonstrate how a set of pictures on Flickr, have been linked back to this blog site. Any new pictures added to this set will be automatically updated to this post. Flickr is on on-line photo sharing site and they do offer a free account. You can chose to make your pictures public or private. If pictures are given private permissions you can chose to share them out to family members and friends. In order to post them to a blog site such as Blogger or Edublogs or to a micro blogging site such as Twitter, they will have to be given public permission. With public permissions your pictures are viewable to anyone.

Ember Public, a set on Flickr.

CoveritLive - Great addition to your blog site

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Fudge) — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:38:00 +0000

Click below to see a recording of a live blogging session created by CoveritLive. The basic version of this online program is free. Once a session is set up you copy the embedd code into your blog site and at the assigned date/time students can participate in a live conversation\interaction from your blog site. As a teacher you act as a moderator with the CoveritLive panel open. When students send comments you have a number of options available to you, including the ability to add their comments to your blog. Images, videos, and polls can be shared in this live synchronous session. When the session is ended, it will be saved, and stored on your blog site, as illustrated below.

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Implications for educators: Can be used as a back-channel to discuss videos while they are being displayed. Teacher can have questions prepared in advance and post them while video is in session. Great place to get feedback from students who are often to shy to speak up in class. Students can come back to the blog later and preview the blog recording. Having students use their own mobile devices or using your school's mobile laptop unit (If you have one) in the classroom may help perk up this activity.

Diigo - Excellent Socail Bookmarking tool

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Fudge) — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:18:00 +0000

Over the last year, I have been using Diigo for social bookmarking. This social bookmarking and others like Only2Clicks or Symbaloo help aggregate all of your important web URL's into one online space. Richard Byrne, provides an excellent description of Diigo at Free Technology for Teachers. His site contains a wealth of other valuable technology resources that may interest you. As well, you may want to visit Diane Krause's site for additional help with Diigo.

Check out my own Diigo link below for some of the bookmarks that I have been following, using Diigo. Be sure to check out the list of public folders.

Digital converters

Livebinders collection of interactive websites

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Fudge) — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:17:00 +0000

The livebinder collection below was presented by Janet Cordor and Janet Gore at ISTE 2011 in Philadelphia. This collection is arranged by subject area and offers many wonderful & interactive websites for Digital Age Learner.

Shared LiveBind

They have used livebinder to organize their web resources. You can go to livebinders and sign up for your own account. Using livebinders you and your students can organize & share web resources. An excellent collection for your eToolBox. Symbaloo offers a similar service.

Healthline Body Menu

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Fudge) — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:52:00 +0000

I came across Healthline Body Menu website a few months ago. An excellent resource for teaching human systems in Science. P. E. & Health teachers should also find it to be an invaluable resource.

Click on the link below to see how I have rotated an image of the eye. Essentially, with this site you are provided with a full male/female body image and you get to chose which part you want to 3D view.

See video.

Incidentally, this video was created by a free online screen capture program called Screen-O-Matic. With Screen-O-Matic, you sign up for a free account. When you record a screen collection use the option to save video to your local computer. A 5 minute per video limitation I think. For class use you may consider linking the video to a student/class website/blog. There are others screen capture program such as Jing. Jing is a free downloadable program that you download and install. They have a fee pro account as well. Jing has the upload to Screencast.com option built within the program. Nice!

Alternatively, if the video file is downloaded to your local computer, you can go to Screencast, sign up for a free account, and upload the video to their site. There are other sites that provide this option such as Vimeo. As per below, you can embedd the video link into your site.

Implications for teaching. Students can be assigned to a certain body system, or body part. Instead of writing a report, they could play a 3-D video at this website and use screen capturing software to video/audio record (Screen-O-Matic does provide audio recording capabilities), and share link to their teacher for evaluation as well as have it posted to a class\student website or blog. If you are using Moodle you can set up an assignment activity in Moodle and have students provide a written component as well as having to upload the link to you. If you use the assignment route, the teacher can evaluate and comment online and post a grade which can be viewed by students in the grades component of Moodle. Additionally, you could have class\student websites setup using Google Sites for example, or a Wiki, using Wikispaces and or the Wiki inside Moodle, whereby students could post their work.

Excellent collection of web resources

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Fudge) — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:16:00 +0000

Select the wiki link link below for a fantastic list of web 2.0 resources. This list was shared by Dianne Krause at ISTE 2011 in Philadelphia.

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Testing FotoViewr

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Fudge) — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:32:00 +0000

The photo gallery below was created by FotoViewr from public pics posted to my flickr account. FotoViewr created the 3D effect very easily and quickly. There are 6 themes available for your design. The site generated the embedd code for posting. No need to start a new account, since the program links you to your Flickr pictures via your Flickr username or email. Your Flickr photo streams have to be public in order to utilize this resource.

FotoViewr - Create your 3D photo gallery

Adding an RSS Feed to your Blogger Site

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Fudge) — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:01:00 +0000

Today, I added an RSS feed link to my blog site using feedburner.google.com. I think it works ok. Click on this link to view a video from YouTube on how to complete this process. This link was prepared by SafeShare.TV You can also use another site called ViewPure to give videos without clutter.When you visit the SafeShare.TV site you a screen like below:

ShareShare.TV is a safe way to present YouTube videos to your students. On this site, you copy in the URL of the video that you want to be filtered --free of comments, adds, other video links, or even offensive videos. Once the new URL link is generated you can save/link in to your website, blog, wiki, power point, smart notebook file, etc. Note, you cannot embedd code from SafeSahre.TV to your online sites.