Weebly Web Page Maker

My new favorite website maker is Weebly. I will be teaching it to several of my classes.  It is extremely easy to use. Here are a few of the resources to get started using Weebly.

http://help.weebly.com/beginners-guide.html

http://67techcamp.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/4/6/1446140/weebly_intro_class_handout2.pdf

http://www.memphis.edu/lead/hiad/online/pdf/weebly-guide.pdf

Dropbox vs. Evernote

TCEA 2013

Here I am supposedly at my last TCEA conference in Austin. It is such a bittersweet  experience. I love technology. I love learning. I really love this conference.TCEA 2013 has been another educational experience for all that attended. Some of the life changing experiences for me are as follows:

I am now a Tweeter. You can find me at #msds75. Up until this conference I really could not find an educational benefit to it. I just assumed that it was people telling where they were, who they saw, or what they were eating. However, it is so much more. So now I will not only be stalking Facebook occasionally to see what others are doing and thinking, I will now be stalking Twitter for resources. I cannot see me Tweeting too many "Tweets".

I spent 6 hours in Mac Boot Camp to learn even more great features of our Mac computers.

I attended great workshops and presentations by well-known techies like Tammy Worcester, Dr. Howie Diblasi, etc.... I was exposed to many WEB 2.0 sites and  iPad apps.

Things I learned in my four days:

"Tweeter" can be used for educational purposes.
"Pinterest" can be used for educational purposes.
Dropbox and Evernotes are different and  the uses for each.
There is an "App" for everything.
Everything associated with Google is still wonderful.
Macs are still the best computer for me.

So as I say so often, ______ was no disappointment for me. This time it is TCEA 2013. Good Bye, TCEA - I have thoroughly enjoyed attending you the last 15 years.

Top 10 Apps for 2013

This was copied from this website:

http://dragonits.blogspot.com/2013/01/top-10-apps-you-should-know-about-in.html

Top 10 Apps You Should Know About in 2013

Jan 14, 2013 06:00 am | Kristie Johnson

Mobile Learning. Tablets in Education. Project-based Learning. The trend for mobile technology in 2012 started a movement for 2013. Below is a list of ten apps educators, teachers, administrators should consider trying in the year 2013. Each app is labeled with the platform, audience, cost, along with a brief description. Be sure to click on the app icon for more information. 

Spin
Platform: iOS (requires iOS 5.0 or later)
Audience: Anyone who wants to learn collaboratively
Price: FREE
Together Learn app allows online learners to create an online class, pause or fast-forward lectures, skip to another video, write on a digital chalkboard and debate with other users.

Socrative Student Clicker
Platform: Android (requires 2.1 or later); iOS (requires iOS 4.3 or later)
Audience: Students, faculty (6-12; Higher Ed)
Price: FREE
Socrative is a response system that allows teachers to gather student feedback with activities, short answer and mulitple choice quizzes and games. 

Nearpod
Platform: iOS (iPhone, iPod touch and iPad – requires iOS 4.3 or later)
Audience: Teachers and Students
Price: FREE
With Nearpod, teachers can bring the classroom to life with interactive mobile presentations that they create and customize themselves.

Educreations
Platform: iOS (iPad – requires iOS 4.3 or later)
Audience: Teachers and Students
Price: FREE
Educreations enables users to create presentations with interactive text, diagrams, audio and video on the iPad or web.

Explain Everything
Platform: iOS (iPad - requires iOS 4.3 or later)  
Audience: Teachers/Students/Administrators
Price: 2.99
Explain Everything is a design tool that lets you annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations. Click herefor quick overview guide.


ezPDF Reader
Platform: Android (requires 2.1 or later); iOS (requires iOS 4.3 or later)
Audience: Anyone who needs an interactive PDF player
Price: $3.99
ezPDF Reader is the only PDF viewer with the embedded multimedia file playing capability feature. It also supports annotations and PDF form filling.


Remind 101
Platform: Android (requires 2.2 or later); iOS (requires iOS 4.3 or later) 
Audience: Teachers/Administrators
Price: FREE
Remind101 is a safe way for teachers to text message students and keep in touch with parents and for administrators to send bulletins to staff. Remind 101 HelpDesk - click here.

VoiceThread
Platform: iOS (requires iOS 4.2 or later)
Audience: Students/Teachers/Administrators
Price: FREE
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice, text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).

Ask3
Platform: iOS (requires iOS 5.1 or later)
Audience: Teachers and Students
Price: FREE
By recording your voice, drawings, and images, Ask3 helps you create videos that can be shared directly to your class. Students can watch the videos you create using Ask3 and can quickly ask and answer each other's questions. 

Genius Scan 
Platform: Android (requires 2.3 or later); iOS (requires iOS 5.1 or later)
Audience: Anyone
Price: Android ($1.09) Apple (free)
Genius Scan turns your mobile device into a pocket scanner and then share that document as a PDF or JPEG via email. Documents can also be exported to Box, Google Docs, Evernote, or Dropbox.

Credi ts:  Some information for this post came from a n article featured on Edudemic: 20 Apps to Know about in 2013. Click here to read that article.

How to Create a Brochure

Steps to creating a brochure in Microsoft Word:
1. Open Word
2. File > Project Gallery
3. Under Category > choose brochures
4. Click on the template that you wish to use.
5. Replace with your information.

Here is a video to watch:

Starboards and Cows

Oral Tests for Students - Two Methods

Method 1:  Embed oral test on a blog.

Here is a link on how to embed a MP3 on a blog:
http://freecomputech.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to-upload-mp3-songs-to-blogger.html

Here is a sample for a test.


Method 2:  Audio Recorders
Record your test either in Garage Band or on a recorder.
If you use Garage Band, you will share it into iTunes. Make sure that it is a MP3 file.
After it is in iTunes, you will then drag it onto your computer desktop.
Plug in the Audio Recorder to you computer.
Drag your MP3 file into either of the folders labeled A-E on your audio recorder. Just remember which folder you put your file in.
Then drag the icon of the audio recorder to the trash can to eject it.