Tech Tips

Atomic Learning provides web-based software training via video tutorials for more than 100 applications students and educators use everyday.
- Try their FREE Tutorials @ http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/freetrial
www.gaggle.net Free teacher-controlled student email accounts.
Thinkfinity Free educational resources for everyone--Supported by Georgia Department of Education.

Cyber Security @ Stay Safe Online http://www.staysafeonline.org/basics/educators.html This site provides valuable information on practices to help safeguard students' computers, including K-12 Curricula and educational materials such as the NCSA Cyber Security Assembly Toolkit and other Internet resources.

Net Day "Speak Up Day Survey," facilitated by Project Tomorrow. This online survey address issues about technology, math, science and important workforce skills in the 21st century and is open to all students, teachers, and parents from all over the nation. To register your school for this opportunity, visit http://www.netday.org/speakup/.
OurStory.com allows you to telll a story in a timeline fashion and to capture, share, and perserve life events using words, photos, images, and video. It is somewhat different than a blog or public spaces like myspace. It is geared toward personal use; but its use can be applied for educational purposes as well.
Teaching Students about Plagiarism Using a Webquest:
http://www.webquest.org/questgarden/lessons/01234-050912181016/index.htm
NoteStar is an engaging tool that helps students at all levels to improve their note taking skills. NoteStar is one of many tools offered for FREE by 4teachers.org
Edublogs is a FREE blogging service that includes narrower categories of education-related bloggers. They offer learnerblogs for school students, uniblogs.org for university and college students, and eslblogs for those involved in teaching English as a second language and English as a foreign language.
- Check out PROMOTE Participant, Jim Farmer, Ware County, "Knowlege Farm" blog at http://knowledgefarm.edublogs.org/
DigiTales--the art of telling digital stories.
Microsoft Movie Maker lets you easily create and share movies for free.
Microsoft PhotoStory lets you create slideshows and add animation to your digital photos for free.
http://www.archive.org/index.php The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
Citation Machine or BibMe (MLA, APA creator)
http://freedigitalphotos.net/ Beautiful, real life royalty free stock images. All Images are free but must link back to Freedigitalphotos.net
http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/ This website offers a diverse set of royalty free music that can be used in educational, student and personal, non-profit projects, free of charge.
http://pics4learning.com/ This website is developed by educators to share photos for school use, and you can donate your own photos too.
SchoolTube.com and TeacherTube are educator communities utilizing video.
Kerpoof.com free multimedia software that can be used to create original artwork, animated movies, and stories, among other things.

Reminder: December 5, 2008 ° Project Proposal Deadline

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