WHS Project: Technology

In February, we shared how to use Pageflakes, which is a tool to get your blogs or website news to come to you.
Create a site on Page flakes.  It will display the name you enter in, so select carefully.
PageFlakes uses the RSS feeds to send the page to you.  For example, if you want to [...]

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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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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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