Voki

Most of you have probably heard of Voki, but I thought I would throw up a post to try to stir up some interest in it.  This is a great alternative presentation and assessment tool.  Students can choose a character and record their voice or type the information in a text field for the character to communicate to the viewer.


http://voki.com/

Made a Wixie Launcher

I made a Wixie launcher.  I will attach it this post.  Feel free to download and use.

Download Here

Organizing Your Google Drive

The following is a screencast from Anson Alexander.  He can show you how to organize your google docs.  One thing that I have noticed happens in our district is shared documents disappear when people drag them into their collections.  Here is a good general rule of thumb, if you need to have a personal copy of a document that has been shared with you, make a copy of it and drag the COPY into your collections.  We have had some issue with shared documents disappearing at workshops because folks drag documents shared with them into their personal collections.  When they do this, the file has disappeared in the past.  Not sure if this is resolved or resolvable, but best not do it just to be safe.

Google Sites for Beginners

Let me start off by saying that this screencast is a bit of a rager, but it is solid.  The screencast will take you through step by step show you how to create a basic google site.  Remember I am only an email away ... rhanrahan@kcsd96.org ... If you have a question or something is not clear, I am happy to screencast your issue for you personally.

Planetarium

Extending a learning target for 3rd grade.  This sky map can be uses as a good inquiry based resource for students to explore stars and our solar system.


Explore the stars and planets!
Planetarium shows you over 1,500 stars - that's every star up to magnitude "+5". These stars are the brightest in the night sky, the ones you can see with your own naked eye on a good dark night away from city lights.
HOW TO USE:
Click and move your mouse to look around the sky. Click again to stop. Point at a star or planet to reveal its name, its constellation, its brightness (magnitude) and how far away it is in light years (LY) or astronomical units (AU). Also listed is the star or planet's Right Ascension (RA) and Declination (Dec) values - handy if you have a telescope!

http://bit.ly/Mobsl2

Sticky Notes in Chrome Browser

This solution will crash proof your sticky notes.  Mac's have stickies, but what if the hard drive fails?  Where are all your sticky note?  Put them on the cloud!

Tired of Post-It notes all over your desk? Have you got stickies cluttering your monitor? Clean it up by keeping them in your browser!

Sticky Notes is a Chrome app that locally stores all your notes in a single tab. It auto saves on every letter, so you don't have to worry about losing something because your computer crashed and you didn't click
Save - it's already done for you!

You can change the color of your notes, change the text color, font, and size, and edit the title, in addition to the notes themselves. You can also change the display: select free-floating or sortable grid view.

Creating a Google Chrome "App"

This might be the craziest way to create a hyperlink you have ever seen, but here it is... fair warning this is for the nerds... big time!