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 [...][...]
Posts Tagged ‘TeacherHax’
May 8th, 2008 - 11:20 pm § in TeacherHax
Use your iPhone to control your computer from across the room? SICK!!!
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 classr[...]
May 7th, 2008 - 8:07 pm § in TeacherHax
Leave a voice message– get an email, text, or blog post!
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), [...][...]
May 7th, 2008 - 6:01 pm § in TeacherHax
Clipping Part II: Clip-to-Blog
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 b[...]
May 7th, 2008 - 5:46 pm § in TeacherHax
Clipping websites is an easy way to save cool pages for your students to browse
I don’t know about you, but I do a lot of web research before presenting students with an idea or subject matter. I have discovered that by using a web clipping tool like Clipmarks or Google Notebook I can save sites for students to browse with just a click of the mouse. See my Google [...][...]
May 7th, 2008 - 4:41 pm § in TeacherHax
Get Gmail quality email & collab tools while keeping your school's domain name
This year, I talked our charter organization’s IT master into switching all our (5) schools and the main office to Google Apps for your Domain. This means that our schools don’t have to maintain their own email servers anymore…. all of the backend is provided by Google, although we[...]
