Nothing keeps up class morale than silly games. Usually, I do these at the beginning of the year to help get to know the kids, but I’ve recently learned how valuable it can be to play a silly game when deadlines are coming and grades are due. 15 minutes of silliness can go a long way towards getting your students… Read more →
This looks like a cool tool to help you facilitate group work. It’s free, it works on any platform, and it can really help your class projects stay organized and working together. clipped from lifehacker.com Windows/Mac/Linux (Adobe Air): Klok, a free time and project-tracking app for the Adobe Air platform, is a great time-tracking solution for multi-platform users, as well… Read more →
TouchPad Pro turns your jailbroken iPhone into a wireless remote control for your computer, allowing you to mouse, type, and control presentations from anywhere in your classroom, wirelessly. I’m sure there are as many ways to use this as there are teachers. I have used it to advance my classroom presentations, as well as to update my online gradebook from… Read more →
Image via Wikipedia How many times have students tried to get out of writing a paper with the excuse “but I don’t have Microsoft Word!” Now, you can direct them to OpenOffice.org to get a free, legal replacement for M$ Office. It slices, it dices, it can save in .doc format, as well as PDF and its native .odt file…. Read more →
We’ve all been there: you wake up in the morning and realize “there’s no WAY I can go in to school today!” So you call the substitute and hope that your students don’t have a totally unproductive day without you.
A few years ago, one of my college buddies from back home told me to start a MySpace page, so I did. Before the weekend was over, three of my students had found it and linked me as their friend. Before the end of the year, I had over 90 friends– most under 16 years old. The same thing happened… Read more →
I first became interested in open source software while working at an underfunded little charter startup in the central valley of California. We had an aging computer lab that didn’t have any modern software because the school couldn’t afford to pay for the licensing fees. After having to pay licenses for a copy of M$ Word for EACH COMPUTER, I… Read more →
I use iGoogle (formerly known as Google personalized home) as a way of seeing all of my important information in one place. I have little widgets for my email, to do list, docs, calendar, RSS reader, and my favorite blog headlines. You can customize it so that all of the most important information TO YOU can be right at your… Read more →
If you prefer to think out loud, Jott might be your thing. After signing up with Jott, you can call their toll free number and just talk. Jott will transcribe your thoughts and send them back in any number of ways! I like that I can send Jotts to my to Do List (at RemembertheMilk.com), my email, my blogs, or… Read more →
If you like the idea of clipping but your blog is where you want all your students to visit, you can use Clipmarks’ Clip-to-Blog feature, where you can quickly and easily show them the relevant information and comment on it! This is so meta… clipped from teacherhax.wordpress.com Posted by farmerfresh in cool apps, teacherhax. add a comment , edit post… Read more →
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