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Episode 45 - In the Can!
Helen’s fault we haven’t podcast. On the road again! Anna has a broadband card! TinyURL DOES save your URLs forever, but MooURL is still cuter! And customizable. So there! Shout out to Region VIII in Mount Pleasant! Hi Melodie! Visit us at NECC! Make us a t-shirt! Check out Steven Katz’ Teach with Video book! WordWorld on PBS is SOOoOoOoOO cute! Spin & Spell is great for early literacy! Take a look at LookyBook! I learn technology from iLearnTechnology! Old news now, but we finally have Google Docs offline! Get the skinny on a zip code with ZipSkinny! If only I could see that web page, I know I’d recognize it! SearchMe!
Life Happens
We’re not neglecting you, our adoring listeners. We’re just mega swamped with end of year stuff - and we bet you are too. Bet you don’t even have TIME to listen to a new podcast! But stay subscribed because we’re going to be posting soon…. ish.
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.
Episode 36–another podcast produced in the cold…
Episode 36
Shout-Outs
Happy Holidays to all of our listeners! We can’t tell you how blessed we’ve been by the many extended friends that we have met through this podcast and our online networks. We hope that each of you had a warm, restful, and magical Christmas, and we hope that you have a new year that brings you and your loved ones much happiness and many, many blessings!
Resources
SpellingCity
http://spellingcity.com/
SpellingCity makes practicing for spelling tests fun. Print out spelling games - unscramble, wordsearch. save spelling lists. practice - listen to words, hear it in a sentence.
Scrapblog
http://scrapblog.com/
Free online tool to create multimedia scrapblogs (think scrapbook with multimedia!). Scrapblogs can be published online as well as made into books and DVDs (books and DVD option coming soon).
xml online games (have to play the demos)
http://www.xmleducation.co.uk/
- Word Magnets — http://www.xmleducation.co.uk/magnets.html
- Word Finder — http://www.xmleducation.co.uk/wordFinder.html
Zoho Suite of Online Tools
http://www.zoho.com/
- http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/07/zoho-vs-google-docs.html (for notes on comparing the two)
- http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-faceoff/zoho-suite-vs-google-docs-315256.php (another comparison)
Online Stopwatch
http://online-stopwatch.com/
Pretty self-explanatory…free online stopwatch…can act as a stopwatch or count down.
Poll Everywhere
http://polleverywhere.com/
Create polls that can be used just about anywhere–participants can vote online, via SMS, and via PowerPoint. Only problem is you only get 100 free votes. So email and ask for them to offer free educator accounts or plan on using all 38 of your email accounts if you like the service! *Standard text messaging rates apply.
Vote in our online poll about how soon you will break your New Year’s resolutions. You can vote online or send a text message to 41411 with “CAST 11##” for one of the following choices:
- CAST 1191 — I’m in it for the long haul
- CAST 1190 — By the end of the first month
- CAST 1189 — 14 days or less (maybe even the first week!)
- CAST 1188 — Resolution? Resolution-Schmezosolution!
Try clicking here to see the results.
Royalty Free Podcast Promo Soundpack 1.0
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/royaltyfreepodcastpromosoundpack.html
Free sound pack from BeatSuite provides podcasters with essential audio files for use in their podcasts with loops and stings.
*BeatSuite has other packs available for purchase that you might want to look into!
Episode 35 is alive and well!
I should have posted when I uploaded, but it is done - the corrected podcast is up.
