Tech+Tips

== =Hot topics:=
 * Flipped Classroom: with a video explanation to teach you and resources to help you

=**Help me! (Troubleshooting Technical Difficulties)**=
 * "Searching for display" (on your Smartboard screen when toggling between Elmo and monitors)
 * When sending information about your computer to the ET ...

=**Resrouces for everyone (alphabetically):**=
 * Aspen
 * using Aspen to email students,
 * creating a shortcut to Aspen on your desktop
 * switching to Google Chrome
 * Cloud Computing:
 * Evernote
 * Dropbox : Store up to 2Gb of data in the "cloud" and forget about your USB pen drive.
 * Google Drive
 * Easybib: " The **Free** Automatic Bibliography and Citation Maker: Save time by creating a Works Cited page instantly in MLA, APA, or Chicago"
 * eBooks Gutenberg and eBooks sites are great resources
 * Exam View :
 * Flashcards(digital versions...think of Academic Vocabulary)
 * Flipped Classroom: with a video explanation to teach you and resources to help you :)
 * Gaggle : Cloud Storage and helping students with their account
 * Google Apps: []
 * Glogster: //(a collaborative online learning platform for teachers and students to express their creativity, knowledge, ideas and skills in the classroom)//
 * Graphing: build your own graphs
 * Internet Explorer (exporting favorites to a new computer)
 * Internet for Classrooms
 * Interactive websites for most grades and subjects: jackpot!
 * Outlook
 * Calendar: reserve a computer lab
 * Autoreply (Out of Office) Message
 * Outlook (Student) Distribution List


 * Podcasting with
 * Audacity(already on your computer),
 * Garageband (if you own a Mac, we'll set up a time where I can show you some tips and tricks)
 * Voki
 * Publishing Web 2.0 style: 9 different ways to celebrate student work!
 * Rubistar
 * Screencast O-Matic: online screen recorder for one-click recording from your browser on Windows or Mac with no install for FREE.
 * Show MeiPad application ShowMe allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online
 * Video
 * how to embed video in: Weebly, PowerPoint, Smartboard Notebook, blogs, etc.
 * Animoto: Make and Share Beautiful Videos Online
 * Animoto tips: tips from a teacher
 * Video for instruction:
 * Khan Academy: //[|www.khanacademy.org/]//
 * TED-Ed- [|http://ed.ted.com],
 * NBC Learn- [|http://www.nbclearn.com],
 * Science 360 - [|http://www.science360.gov],
 * TED - [|http://www.ted.com],
 * You Tube Edu - [],
 * PBS- [],
 * Neo K12 - []
 * Teacher's Domain: []
 * Voicethread//(a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments)media type="custom" key="19255172"//


 * Website development for teachers:
 * Weebly (watch video below...drag and drop, great looking websites, user friendly)

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 * Wiki: what you are using right NOW to view this! See any practical applications in your classroom? Maybe use it with writing process, group work, collaboration, etc.
 * Windows 7
 * Word Clouds
 * Wordle
 * Tagxedo: “tag cloud with styles”
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=Resrouces By department... =
 * English/ Language Arts: **
 * Paper Rater: //free online grammar checker, proofreader, and more//(amazing for students in an English class)
 * Teaching Books: //Discover online multimedia resources. Bring books and authors to life.If you read fiction and nonfiction books in any discipline or setting, TeachingBooks.net's database of instructional materials will enliven your K–12 reading and library activities.//Username and password needed (check email, or ask an ET)
 * Visuwords : online graphical dictionary
 * Physics:**
 * Amusement Park Physics : //the forces behind the fun// (website)
 * History:**
 * Smithsonian Source : resrources for teaching American History
 * Math:**
 * TI Navigator: math, calculators, Smartboard
 * Interactive Math Resources "The Teacher's Guide: Interactive Math Resources --for the Smartboard, various levels
 * Music**
 * Smartboard music theory
 * Social Studies**
 * Ways To Teach About Geography: NYT blog post
 * Science (General)**
 * How We Hear
 * Neo K12 - []
 * Science 360 - [|http://www.science360.gov]
 * STEM - DoDDS : This is the link to the DoDDS-E STEMposium website. This site will be updated with photos, videos and news as events occur. Everyone has an opportunity to Blog and get the live video stream for key events.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">PHET: interactive simulations ( Shows simulations complete with lessons submitted from other teachers)