Posted in Education, Tools To Use on Jul 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Earthquake strongly jolts ‘lucky’ Los Angeles | Reuters
The image above is of a seismograph reading and today there was a magnitude 5.4 earthquake in the Southern California region. I was reading about it this evening online when I came across an article that talked about Twitter being a “news wire.” Hmmm . . .there are [...]
Posted in Education, Tools To Use on Jul 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Google Docs Templates
the googles do it again! some good stuff here. as they say:
share and enjoy!
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fsharpsitrt.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F07%2F16%2Fgoogle-docs-templates%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Google+Docs+Templates’;
addthis_pub = ”;
Posted in AT, Education, Tools To Use on Jun 9th, 2008 No Comments »
While perusing my old hometown newspaper, The Seattle Times, I came across this AP wire story on a web browser developed specifically for children with Autism. Autism is getting more press lately, which is a good thing. I think about it as a new parent and also as a member of our school division’s Assistive [...]
Posted in Tools To Use on Apr 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Easily Summarize A Word 2007 Document :: the How-To Geek
This is one of those to file under ‘helpful.’ We use Office 2007 in my school division and this little trick will certainly come in handy at times.
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fsharpsitrt.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F04%2F02%2Feasily-summarize-a-word-2007-document-the-how-to-geek%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Easily+Summarize+A+Word+2007+Document+%3A%3A+the+How-To+Geek’;
addthis_pub [...]
Posted in Tools To Use, Web 2.0 on Mar 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Official Google Reader Blog: Reader and ARIA: A new way to read
This via my Google Reader today: Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA). Basically it’s a screen reader for Google Reader, which allows vision-impaired folks to have their RSS reading spoken to them aloud via the computer. I haven’t tried it yet, but will do so [...]
Posted in Tools To Use, Web 2.0 on Mar 26th, 2008 No Comments »
The Web’s best free stuff
This came via my del.icio.us account yesterday. Some good stuff is here–today I tried the online word processor known as “Buzzword.” Simple and user friendly. Good collaboration tool! Enjoy . . . .
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fsharpsitrt.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F03%2F26%2Fthe-webs-best-free-stuff%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘The+Web%26%238217%3Bs+best+free+stuff’;
addthis_pub [...]
Posted in Lesson Ideas, Tools To Use on Mar 4th, 2008 No Comments »
G9Chemistry » Biology Voicethreads
The above link takes you to some great examples of student created VoiceThread shows. These are well done, relevant and the students demonstrate their understanding of the concepts that they are trying to convey. Nice!
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fsharpsitrt.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F03%2F04%2Fbiology-voicethreads%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Biology+Voicethreads’;
addthis_pub [...]
Posted in Blogging, Tools To Use on Mar 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Technology Times Blog - Voice Threads
This is a great podcast from John Hendron, over at Goochland County Public Schools. There’s a lot of potential in this tool and John does a great job of explaining it. I can’t wait to introduce this to a few teachers that I know will enjoy working with their students [...]
