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If you want to streamline and improve your school-to-home communication, consider using the free Google Voice service. Google Voice offers many features that appeal to teachers, and taking advantage of even a few of them might increase the contact between you and the parents of your students. Use Google Voice to give a [...]
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http://obama-weather.com/ What more could you ask for when you talk about the weather at Morning Meeting? How about the President modeling what to wear for each day? At Obama-Weather you get a five day forecast with the high, low and degree of sunshine or cloudiness. Just for fun you can also see what Bruce Lee, [...]
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How to send free texts over e-mail – CNN.com. Interesting article on how to send text messages for free. I don’t text a great deal but it seems like it is fairly easy way to avoid charges. I thought the second to last paragraph was especially interesting to teachers. Do you send text messages to [...]
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“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.” -Maya Angelou There is a certain quality of the human voice that simply can’t be expressed in text. You can use sideways smiley faces, underline words and add abbreviations like LOL all [...]
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Source: FreeTech4Teachers Site: Barnes and Noble As you wind down the school year here is one way you can try to motivate your students to read for pleasure over the summer. Barnes and Noble is running a Summer Reading Program. I glanced at the Parent, Educator and Student resources and they are all pretty simple [...]
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C-J Article Check out the Courier-Journal article about JCPS teachers using twitter to increase school to home communication.
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I’m happy to report that JCPS and CES are experimenting with opening up certain previously blocked web sites and services for teacher use. The micro-blogging platform twitter is one site you have probably heard a lot about and likely not known how it could help you as a teacher. 1. Check out this blog post [...]
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I did not used to recommend that people use Google Sites for their class website. I found the templates to be on the boring side, it was more difficult to use than other tools such as Weebly and I didn’t like how the URL was so long once the site was published. Two of the [...]
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I just read on ‘Free Technology For Teachers‘ that Weebly now has a service called ‘Weebly For Education.’ Weebly was already a very good choice for teacher web pages, so what is the big deal? For starters, if you register on the education site, you can build (and manage) student accounts as well. So now [...]
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http://wallwisher.com This is sort of a repeat, but I think WallWisher gets lost in the shuffle sometimes. I needed a quick, easy to use visually appealing message board the other day for a class I am taking and I even almost forgot about this cool tool. Create an account, choose a color scheme and name [...]
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