AISC Tech Tools & Tips

Internet Safety & other Digitial Citizenship Resources organized by grade levels

Let's maybe use this is the Tech Orientation for HS

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The printable templates from Make Beliefs Comix could be excellent resources to use as creative writing prompts. You could have students start a simple story by using the templates then expand the story into a longer narrative.

fatURL to bundle a few websites together

Real world scenarios for students to role play and discuss to develop skills in digital citizenship.

New! Vision, version 8 supports any web-based smart device including iPads, Androids, Chromebooks, Macs, PCs. What it does: Demo from the teacher's PC to iPads and any smart device with a browser.  Why it's awesome: Connect Share the teacher's PC screen with one student or the whole class.  Engage Every student gets a front row seat to your demo to increase retention.  Annotate Show highlights and draw on student screens from your PC demo. BYOD Share your screen with any device, any student, and it works across sub-nets.

With the Save to Google Drive Chrome Extension you can save these files like you normally would, but to your Drive instead. That way you can access them from any device, anywhere with an internet connection.

Google Reader alternative

create surveys, collect data and make smarter decisions 

Lots of drill activities for K-8 students....and also High School ES: students

Though might change a few things, I like this list and we can pull from this when defining our PD for the year.

What not to do when designing the courses...

Good to take membership?

wireWax is a service that takes the concept of YouTube annotations and makes it much better. On wireWax you can build interactive tags into your videos. Each tag that you add to your video have another video from YouTube or Vimeo or an image from Facebook, Flickr, or Instagram. A tag can also include an audio track from SoundCloud or a reference article from Qwiki.

This sounds really interesting. So much more for kids to do!