AISC Tech Tools & Tips

Blogging -- or Web logging -- most often is thought of as an activity for high school students. Did you know, however, that students as young as kindergarten now blog on a daily basis in a variety of exciting ways?

Certainty about authority and credibility is one of the prices we pay for the freedom of democratized publishing.

Blogging is such powerful learning material and students should blog.

In the digital age, kids need to have an understanding of what it means to be a responsible digital citizen.

I definitely think middle school students should be blogging, as well as elementary and high school students. There are several reasons for this.

A simple, kid-friendly blooging tool for kids of all ages. Uses the wordpress API to put only the most important modules in front of kids.

A very simple blogging tool that extends the concept of microbloging to include more multimedia.  No classroom accounts.

"Parent Media and Technology Education Program"

Good websites for Educators

Welcome to Course Builder! Course Builder is our experimental first step in the world of online education. It packages the software and technology we used to build our Power Searching with Google online course. We hope you will use it to create your own online courses, whether they're for 10 students or 100,000 students. You might want to create anything from an entire high school or university offering to a short how-to course on your favorite topic. Course Builder contains software and instructions for presenting your course material, which can include lessons, student activities, and assessments. It also contains instructions for using other Google products to create a course community and to evaluate the effectiveness of your course. To use Course Builder, you should have some technical skills at the level of a web master. In particular, you should have some familiarity with HTML and JavaScript.

Google Takeout is a tool that lets you quickly and easily download data that you created in (or imported into) a number of Google products. It provides the data in a variety of open, portable formats so that you can easily import the data into other internet services.

No need to have additional plug ins. Office10 can do it...

When we receive an email, we'll strip out all attachments and upload them to your Google account. Your emails and attachments are deleted from the server immediately after processing.

Ever wish you could email files to your Dropbox? Yeah, me too. So I wrote an application to do just that! It's free, fast, secure and super simple too. All you have to do is connect with Dropbox, get your unique email address, and start sending files! After a few minutes they will automatically appear in your "Attachments" folder.