WHS Project: Technology

This week, Carolyn will be presenting on how to setup a wiki at the Project Technology workshop Wedneday morning or afternoon. For those of you who don’t know what the difference between a wiki and a blog is, I thought I would explain.
A blog by definition is a web-log: a site where articles are entered [...]

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I wanted to add a tool I have been looking into after our Project Technology stuff. National Geographic Magazine now has free downloadable audio and video files. So students and teachers can visit the African safari or catch the week’s top science and nature news stories.
The free content can be found at Itunes, Yahoo, or [...]

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Nope, this isn’t a typo. There is a place called Froogle (pronounced “frugal”) where you can search for shopping items online as well as create your own personalized shopping list for your family and friends. Using your Personalized Google Account again, you can manage your shopping online.
When you first access Froogle - http://froogle.google.com - it [...]

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I think the hit of today was the lesson on Google Picasa. Picasa is a software application you would need to install on your computer. It does a variety of things and its all free! One thing it does is organize your photos. When you first access it after installing, it pulls all the pictures [...]

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Today I went over how to use Google Earth for travel as well as a classroom tool. Google Earth is a small application you have to download from earth.google.com. It does require you to have Internet access for most of the features so load it on a computer with network access.
This morning we went to the [...]

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Another post from Carolyn’s blog - this one was about using new search engines that are more visual in result posting.
In our Project Technology workshop yesterday, we talked about the trend in search sites that are using “visual” methods for searching.    Ian Jukes talked about how students read screens differently and I think we’ll start [...]

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The two of these sites are great for saving your online “favorites” or “bookmarks”. Google Notebook does require that you sign in and create an account so it can save them in your account. You can create within the Notebook different categories for your sites. If you are planning a research project for your students, [...]

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This is another of Carolyn’s blogs posted on her Not So Distant Blog:
Thanks for the great workshop Joel!   We had several questions about the personalized Google Home page that we talked about a few weeks ago, so I wanted to post some specific instructions.

Go to Google.com.   In the top right corner, you’ll notice a link [...]

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Go to Google.com and to the right of the search box, click on Advanced Tools, then on Books. This new search tools allows you to access the tremendous database that Google has been compiling of books, articles, newspapers, etc. You can search books by keyword, author, title, etc. You can pick a book or play [...]

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Google has a free online collaboration tool called Documents and Spreadsheets - http://docs.google.com that allows users to create online documents or spreadsheets which can be shared and worked on by multiple people at the same time. You can collaborate on the documents, you can upload documents, and you can see the revision history of the [...]

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