Technology Tips and Tricks – Ed. Dept Workshop Sept. 18, 2009

 

Helen's Favorite Tech Tools:

 

Google Apps

1. Google search:
1. Google: http://www.google.com/
2. Images: http://images.google.com/
3. Videos: http://video.google.com/
4. Maps: http://video.google.com/
5. News: http://news.google.com/
6. Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/
2. Gmail: http://mail.google.com/mail/
3. Google Docs: http://docs.google.com
4. Google Site: http://sites.google.com/
5. Picasa: http://picasaweb.google.com/
6. You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/
7. Google Reader: http://www.google.com/reader
8. iGoogle: http://www.google.com/ig

 

Wikis

• Wikispaces: http://www.wikispaces.com/
• See Wikispaces guidelines
  

 

Concept mapping:

• Bubble.us: http://bubbl.us
• Webspiration: http://mywebspiration.com/

 

Screen capture:

• Jing: http://www.jingproject.com/

 

Social Networking:

• Skype: http://skype.com/helloagain.html
• see Skype guidelines: http://www.d.umn.edu/~hrallis/guides/videoconferencing/skype.html
  

• My all time favorite app… Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/login.php