10 Recently Tagged Sites 10.25.09

Here are 10 sites I recently tagged in delicious that I found while reading my feeds in Google Reader.

1. SignApp Now – Simple Sign Up Sheets:

• Sign app now makes it easy for schools to create online signup sheets. The site is so simple to use; in 3 easy steps teachers can create signup sheets for classroom volunteers, field trips, lunch orders, school duties, committees, and a myriad of other tasks that require a signup.
• Create a sign up sheet by giving the sign up sheet a name, filling in the email address that the signup sheet should be sent to, and your name.
• Sign App Now creates a unique link that can be emailed to everyone that has the option to signup. When parents or other staff members receive the form, they click on the link and fill in their name. That is it!
• An email is sent back to the signup sheet creator with those who have signed up. No more shuffling paper signup sheets around!

2. Is It Safe to Post Children’s Images on Online Photo Sites? – NYTimes.com

3. Conflict History

• Almost every battle ever fought in a Google Map

4. 50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom | Smart Teaching

5. Self-grading multiple-choice tests with Google Docs

6. Word Ahead: Vocabulary Videos

• Create Your Personalized Lists You can create your personalized lists with words of your choice, meeting the academic level of your students.
• Share Your Lists with Your Students
• Embed a Customized Widget in Your Blog or Webpage
• Engage Your Students in the Vocabulary Building Process You can make vocabulary building fun by assigning vocabulary video projects to your students and uploading their work to our website.

7. Langwitches Blog » Setting up and Introducing a Collaborative Student Math Wiki

• Lessons plans for introducing wikis to a math class

8. Introducing Google Docs to the Class | ICT in my Classroom

• Best practices when introducing google docs to your students

9. PrincipalsPage – A Navigational Tool for School Administrators

• Michael Smith, superintendent of Oakland Ill

10. AudienceSounds.com – Virtual Studio Audience Soundboard.

• crowd, woman, man, baby sounds including: clapping, clear throat, laughing, choking, cheering, giggiing, screaming, aaah, shocked, etc.

Office Video Tutorials

The Woopid Video site features free, screencast tutorials on various topics, including Office 2007. The 1-3 minute videos include Beginners Guides and Tips to Word, Powerpoint, and Excel. There are 137 Word videos, 120 Excel videos, and 75 PowerPoint videos.

From the Bundles page can scroll down to the Office section on the right, or use the Search field at the top to locate the tutorials you need.

Other topics include: iTunes, Vista, iPhone, Blackberry, Facebook, Firefox, etc.

Recently Answered Questions 10-13-09

How can I safe guard my privacy on Facebook?

How can I use a copy machine to scan a document and email it to someone?

SISK12: How can I print an individual student progress report that lists all the assignment with scores, as well as the current grade?

SISK12: How can I find if a student has an IEP?

SISK12: How can I access a recently withdrawn student to enter scores for his last assignment?

SISK12: How can I view a student’s attendance history for my class?

SISK12: In my gradebook, how can I view assignments by date, instead of sorted by type?

SISK12: In my gradebook, can I sort students by something other than their last name?

My students completed digital storytelling projects with Windows Movie Maker projects on one computer and then logged in on another to show the movie, but it didn’t work. When we try to play the video, it can’t find any of their media.

First, students need to develop the practice of creating a project folder in which they copy all the source files to be used in the project. They should also save their project file in this folder. Once the project is started, you can not move or rename the source files. The concept of a project folder applies to PowerPoint slideshows and Photostory projects as well.

When using flash drives, if a different drive letter is assigned to the flash drive when plugged into a different computer, WMM may not be able to find the source files. This situation can also occur when a teacher logs in to accesses the student’s folder. The path to that student’s folder is different with a teacher log in, as opposed to when the student logs in. You can usually repair the missing file situation by right clicking on each of the missing files and choosing Browse for Missing File.

It is apparent from your question that the students did not complete the movie maker process, did not produce the movie by completing the 3rd step, “Save to my computer.” Had they done so, this single generated file could have been accessed and played with Window Media Player, regardless of where any source files were stored.

I would like to make an overhead or scan a piece of paper so that I could use it in class.  It is silly to make a copy for each child when I only want to use it for 3 or 4 minutes.  I have a hard copy and I know I could use a document camera, but I want to make it so I could come back to it later on in the week for a minute or two…how could I do this?

You can take a picture of it with the document camera. It will store the image on the camera itself. You will be able to pull the image back up to display in the future. Or….you can scan it on the copy machines in the main office, choosing to email it to yourself. This will arrive as a pdf file. You can then store this on your station and display at any time.

My student has a video on her cell phone that she would like to use in a school project. How can we get the video from the phone to a school station?

Many video sharing sites provide an email address to be used to upload videos. If the student has the ability to send emails from his/her phone, he/she could email this video. Vimeo, for example, provides free accounts and is not blocked by the filter. You could set up a class Vimeo account and share the upload email address with your students.  From the Vimeo site you will be able to download the student’s video onto a station.

My students are attempting to sign up for a Google Docs account, but it is requiring a mobile phone number for verification. Is there another way?

Recently Google Docs added this mobile phone number verification to combat spammers. At this time, the help forums offer not suggestions, but do contain complaints from many teachers. We are currently investigating the possibility of using Google Apps for Educators, which may resolve this issue.