This was a harder one to complete because so many of the options were blocked at school for one reason or another. For an example, Scribd. was blocked for "pornography". I looked at it at home to see what it was all about and found it to be a great site for downloading books or at the very least, reading an excerpt from a book.
I am very familiar with all the Google options and daily I tell the students to use Google Docs if they have an email for the username. Using Docs will save them from remembering to bring a flashdrive. We do have a problem at school with Docs because the server is old and whatever Docs runs we can't do powerpoints. Working in the word documents is fine.
For Cool Tools #7 I chose to learn more about two bulletin board sites, Pinterest and Stixy. Both options open up another way for the students to present their projects to the class. So far Pinterest is available at school. I don't know about Stixy since I accessed that at the house. During the work week I will try to access it at work to see if it's available. My concern is if the tech dept. finds out about these bulletin board sites they may pull them believing they are just another social network.
If Stixy is available at school, I may work with the art dept. One of the teachers has a project where the students have to research a photographer. This bulletin board site would be a great place to organize the photographs.
Terrific, sounds like you explored a good bunch of tools. Crazy that google docs brings down your access to powerpoint. Computers are baffling sometimes. Great idea to work with the art dept with the bulletin board tools. Let us know how that works out.
ReplyDeleteActually the site I shared with the art dept. this morning was something I saw on FB, I think. Someone suggested Virtual Museum.org. What a great site. I shared it with not just the art dept. but with the entire faculty. One of the spec. ed. teachers is excited about trying it with his students.
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