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Create A Voki
Posted on September 10, 2010 by JR
Site: http://www.voki.com/ Voki is a fun and versatile website that allows you to create a talking cartoon. You can choose from a variety of historical and fantastical avatars, and add voice to it. You can use your own voice or have the computer speak out text that you type in.For a limited time the voki [...]
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Another EtherPad Replacement
Posted on April 28, 2010 by JR
As you may know, the popular collaboration tool Etherpad was recently bought out and dissolved. The code, however, was made available so that others could create similar services. I recently discussed TypeWithMe and now there is another service called Titan Pad. http://titanpad.com/ In the URL bar of your web browser type http://titanpad.com/xxx where xxx=what you [...]
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Google Drawing. How Cool Is That?
Posted on April 13, 2010 by JR
I’m not sure how long it has been available, but I just noticed that one of the options on Google Docs is a draw document. I could see this coming in very handy for Tablet PC users who want to collaborate on sketches or diagrams with multiple users at once. At a glance the draw [...]
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One EtherPad Replacement
Posted on March 8, 2010 by JR
Source: Jane’s eLearning Pick of the Day Site: TypeWith.Me There is a super simple and ultra functional website called Etherpad. Etherpad allows you to create a document that multiple people can edit at once. It can be handy for collaboration with other teachers, creating a super-simple wiki page and a few dozen other uses. There [...]
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JCPS Teachers Using Twitter; C-J Article
Posted on March 8, 2010 by JR
C-J Article Check out the Courier-Journal article about JCPS teachers using twitter to increase school to home communication.
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The Book Fair Diner Animoto
Posted on February 24, 2010 by JR
Check out the awesome animoto video created by Leah Slucher, RP Librarian. Animoto is a free site which allows you to create video slide shows using digital images that you upload. You can select from their music collection or upload your own, and the site does the mixing of transitions and effects for you. If [...]
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Kerpoof! for Pre-Writing
Posted on February 22, 2010 by JR
http://www.kerpoof.com Kerpoof Screencast – Renny from TNLI 21c on Vimeo. I spent the day with the awesome Roosevelt-Perry teachers working with the kid-friendly multi-media generator Kerpoof! The video embedded above gives a really nice overview of the main features. I added that the .pdf files linked in the “For Teachers” section at he bottom of [...]
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twitter unblocked for teachers. great. what’s twitter?
Posted on February 18, 2010 by JR
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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A-Z Cool Tools
Posted on December 22, 2009 by JR
I have notice in the usage stats that there are a lot more readers of TabletTalk than there were when I finished the A-Z Cool Tools List, so I thought I would point this out to you. If you look on the right side of the TabletTalk main page, I have some additional collections of [...]
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