Tech Chick Tips

Tips and tricks for teaching 21st century students using 21st century skills from two Texas educators obsessed with anything digital! RSS Subscribe to RSS

Episode 43

Shout Outs:

  • Greg Smith from Round Rock, TX, for promoting our podcast in his district. We love to hear from our listeners.

Google Docs & Spreadsheets
http://lifehacker.com/374302/google-docs-offline-access-rollout-starting-today

It’s going offline! Yay! It wasn’t an April Fool’s Joke! We don’t have it yet but we’re sure looking forward to it!

JotForm
http://jotform.com/
Create forms with drag and drop. Publish to spreadsheet. Share data. Free account only allows 100 submissions a month. $9 a month will get you unlimited plus a little more.

Education Packs on Twitter
http://twitterpacks.pbwiki.com/Education+Pack
A PB wiki site for building your Twitter network. We’ve linked straight to the Education pack but you can add yourself anywhere. And find other Twitterers with commons interests

Twubble
http://www.crazybob.org/twubble/
Loads up people you follow and then lists people THEY follow telling you how many of the people you follow follow them but you don’t follow. Do you follow?

Mnemograph: Web Based Timeline (thanks to tbarrett’s del.icio.us share)
http://mnemograph.com
A web-based timeline software application for creating, and sharing history and planning diagrams. Beautiful displays. Easy way to pull in Flickr images and Wikipedia history.

XTimeLine
http://www.xtimeline.com
Another web based timeline. Already has many historical timelines to view. Have to have a (free) account but you can add editors to the same timeline.

CompFight
http://compfight.com/
An advanced Flickr search. Turn safe search on/off. Creative Commons. Get all thumbnails on one page with a hover over for the size of the original images.

Jing Project
http://jingproject.com/
Capture video, images and allows you to publish on their site or locally. Embed link, email. All free.

Start Your Search Engines
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6545435.htm
April feature article we wrote on search engines.

 
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Apr 17, 2008 - 04:04:41

Hi!
I like your blog and would like to invite you, to join http://teachersplanet.ning.com

It is an online community for teachers of all levels and curriculum areas.Your visit to the network will provide an opportunity for you to share your expertise with our teachers.At teachers planet you can start your own groups, start/participate in a discussion/ forum, add videos, music, RSS feeds, start blogs and do many more things.

Thank you for your time and consideration

Apr 17, 2008 - 09:04:52
Robin said:

I am one of Greg’s friends that is now a fan of your show. Thanks for sharing the websites! I have passed on the timeline and compflight sites to my teachers and have several of them interested in trying them out.

I also used the Twubble site and expanded my twitter network to some very interesting folks. Keep up the good work!

Apr 29, 2008 - 04:04:45
Helen said:

Thanks for the feedback, Robin! Glad to have you as a listener! :-)