FCCPS_EdTech

"Education 2.0: Social networking for your class Diipo connects you the teacher with your students by making it easy to communicate with your class. Diipo also connects you with other educators and your class with other classes. Featuring an easy-to-use and familiar user-interface similar to Facebook and Twitter, Diipo helps students stay connected and engaged."

"With WeVideo, you simply upload your video clips and photos, create your storylines, and edit them in the cloud. Oh, that "cloud thing", it means the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product. For you that means there's no software to download. All video story creation takes place in the browser on your smartphone, tablet, or computer."

"webdoc enables you to mix the web to create interactive posts on-the-fly and start rich social conversation."

Turn your iPad into your personal interactive whiteboard! ShowMe allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. It's a radically intuitive app that anyone will find extremely easy to use, regardless of age or background. To see examples of smart, entertaining, fun, and inspirational ShowMe's that other people have made, check out ShowMe.com.

"Comic Life, the award winning photo comic creation software, has been redesigned for the iPad. It's the funnest, easiest and fastest way ever to create photo comics on a mobile device. Your comics come to life with our integrated reader on the brilliant iPad display. It's simple to get started with full page templates and panel layouts. Bring in photos from Photobooth or your library and use our powerful editing and design tools to get exactly the look you want. "

Reminder Guru is a free service that you can use to have reminders sent to you through email, text message, or phone call. Creating reminders in Reminder Guru is very quick and easy. After you have registered on the service, simply fill in the reminder form with a message for yourself, choose a reminder date, then specify how you want the reminder delivered to you. If there are tasks that you need to be reminded of daily, weekly, or monthly, you can set reminders to automatically repeat at the same time every day or week.

The Internet is full of free and open educational resources, from courses to academic journals, and with so many education providers getting in on the movement to offer free educational content online, there's likely to be even more in the future. Yale, Stanford, MIT, and Berkeley are just a few of the high-profile universities that share some of their best courses with the world for the low, low price of zero dollars. While there are a lot of great resources out there, there are some online education resources that truly stand out as inspiring, for their vast collections, unique perks, and incredibly supportive organizations. We've picked out 15 open education resources that we find to be the most impressive and inspiring out there, and we encourage you to take advantage of what they have to offer.

How to create a QR Code

Best QR Code creation site. Allows for download and embed for FREE.

Great list of QR Scanner Apps for all Smartphones.

This Module will review creating, sharing, and editing the  different types of documents available in Google Docs.

Slides are the medium that most people default to when they need to give a presentation in person or over the web. When used correctly, slides are useful in helping you convey a message. The problem with most slide presentations is that there needs to be a speaker's voice attached to them to make them meaningful. Hello Slide is a tool that you can use to add voice narration to slides that you display online.

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Educreations transforms your iPad into a recordable whiteboard that captures your voice and handwriting to produce amazing video lessons that you can share online. It's as simple as touching, tapping and talking.

The Flipped Classroom is gaining steam in schools across the world. Flipped classes focus on student interaction and engagement in class and a major component is the technology that can be used to create, deliver, and collaborate. Richard has posted on many of these tools, so I'll be sharing how I use a combination of tools in a typical unit.

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iPad storyteller Joe Sabia introduces us to Lothar Meggendorfer, who created a bold technology for storytelling: the pop-up book. Sabia shows how new technology has always helped us tell our own stories, from the walls of caves to his own onstage iPad.

Column Five created this infographic to examine the Pinterest addiction that seems to be spreading like a zombie apocalypse virus. Proof? Pinterest users spend an average 98 minutes on site per month, third only to Tumblr (2.5 hours) and Facebook (7 hours). Antidote? None.

Want to listen to your website visitors, customers or readers? Set up a voicemail widget on your website or add the voicemail application to your Facebook page This allows your customers and visitors to leave voice messages right from a browser. No phone calls are required!