CTAP Siskiyou Web 2.0

More on ShowMeApp, including videos by Richard Bynre.

This app gives the ability to turn your iPad into a personal IWB! Allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. You can also drop images from your photo library and write on/around them. To see examples, go to ShowMeApp.com. Makes me wish I had an iPad2 to try it out :) 

The ultimate freeware encryption program, TrueCrypt is loaded with powerful features that users concerned with protecting data from prying eyes will find robust and comprehensive.Some use this with Dropbox to protect certain files or all their files.

Easy way to connect an iPad to a SMART board, giving the iPad lots of possibilities for education and mobile cmputing.

Enter the Group is a new free service offering collaborative project management for groups. Enter the Group features a calendar, messaging, and file sharing for your group members. If you want to keep your project just between friends, you can create a private group. If you want the whole world to see your project, you can make a public group. Users can also login using FB login/passwords.  I'm interested in checking out the possibility of virtual classrooms and using it to manage PBL projects. This might be a good tool for SISUHSD's emphasis on PBL. 

Anyone interested in Chromebooks might want to take the 60 minutes to get a nice overview of Chromebooks in education. Presented by Google and includes sharing by a teacher who piloted them in his classroom.

Great resource for U.S. History teachers and a place to collaborate with other history teachers

 A safe way for teachers to text msg. students and stay in touch with parents - FREE. A quick tool for teachers to use. 

OpenDNS Home: Our classic service with customizable filtering and security. Blocks access to adult websites. Free.

Several different ways of embedding videos in Google Sites

Over 50 conversion choices - to PDF and from PDF to other formats online FREE

1st Google Education On Air conference with many educators presenting on a wide variety of topics. The video recordings of the sessions are found by clicking on each link. Most presenters have additional links to resources and you can add them to your Google+ connections.

Some cool tools to edit video online - some will allow downloading in different formats after the editing is completed. This makes it easy then to upload into Prezis, Schooltube, or Google Docs, and then share the videos.

When TED launched its educational website for younger students last week, I think teachers everywhere realised they had to up their game. The 3-10 minute videos are designed to encourage curiosity and show how the world works using compelling animation and the audible explanations of a gifted teacher.  Even if you're not in high school, the videos are sometimes fascinating, sometimes kinda strange, but generally very cool. Here are some of the best videos that are designed to amaze and challenge your brain.

Have you given up Outlook and now miss sending Word docs as attachments? Here is some freeware that allows you to do that - AFFIXA. Here are some instructions and a link to the free download. When you send to email, it will put your Word doc in your Gmail "drafts" folder. 

Some great ways for students to create and publish presentations online. Some allow you to embed video in them, as well.

Wesley Fryer presents a great tutorial with screenshots.

Good look at the pros and cons of Cloud storage and 15 free tools to give any teacher more than enough storage. Many of these tools allow you to access files on computers and mobile devices that sync with each other, so you have the same version on every device. I have almost all of my files in cloud storage. My favs are Google Docs, Dropbox, Box, and Sugar Sync. I'm going to try another - Docuter (http://www.docuter.com/) that has 25GB of free storage.

This is a helpful, easy to read guide with videos on Evernote, a tool for teachers and students to bookmark, record voicemails, take text and voice notes, upload pictures, docs, PDFs and files, and capture images and information on the web as well as as a software download on your computer or as a plugin for your browser and also as an application for your mobile device. My goal this summer is to begin to maximize the my use of the tool, as I love being able to use it on my computers and mobile devices.

Snaggy is a web-based tool for drawing on, annotating, and sharing screen captures. To draw or write on your screen capture just paste your screen capture image into Snaggy. Snaggy offers tools for highlighting a section of your screen capture, typing on it, and drawing free-hand on your image. You can also use Snaggy to crop your image. When you're ready to share your screen capture, Snaggy assigns is a custom url that you can Tweet, email, or post anywhere you like. Snaggy lets you save your edited screen captures to your computer too.