Technology Tips for Administrators

Technology Tips for Administrators

T. D’Amico

By the end of the day:• Narrow my searches• Google everything• Know where to go for help• Have an updated signature

and resume in FirstClass• Login and search the OERB• Create Tag Clouds• Convert YouTube Videos• Use Twitter• Use Social Networking• And much more…

Agenda

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

http://www.ita.ottawacatholicschools.ca/

Recommended Site

These resources will soon be moved into the new BlackBoard training area

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Watch video tutorials for topics including:

• FirstClass• eSIS• Mark Scan• Blogs and Wikis• OERB

Your Turn…• Visit the IT tutorial page

• Watch the OERB tutorial

• Visit the OERB site

• Explore the resources Think about how these resources could help a new teacher or a veteran teacher

• Do you have a resume and signature line in First Class? If not – watch the video and then create them.

http://www.ita.ottawacatholicschools.ca/

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

Recommended Site

Free resources on this site with permission to freely copy and distribute!

Extension activity – Explore each of theseresources in more detail at a later date.

Resources

We will use two of these Google guides today

Do you search

effectively?

Google Search – Tips and Tricks

• Page 2

• Demonstration of:

Related SearchWonder WheelTimelineAdvanced search and file type (not in this guide)

• Your turn – Try these

Google Search – Tips and Tricks

• Quotes for exact terms Use of +, -, ~, AND, OR

Sample refined searches and use of Google: “St. Pius” +OttawaSenators -parliament -US -U.S."Ottawa Catholic School Board" AND "St. Matthew" OR "St. Peter“"Toronto Hotel" ~cheap“Dell computer" $200...$800define:pretentiousweather Ottawa, Ontario100 kg in pounds40 km in milestime Vancouver

Visit the following site to find quick search tricks within Google:

http://www.google.com/help/features.html

Google Extras – Tips and Tricks

Page 3

Demonstration of:

Google BooksGoogle ScholarGoogle News(http://news.google.ca/ )Google Fast Flip http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/ Google Alerts (not in this guide) http://www.google.com/alerts

• Your turn – Try them all

Google Extras – Tips and Tricks

Page 2

Demonstration of:

Custom Search EngineGoogle Bookmarks

http://www.google.com/cse/

http://www.google.com/bookmarks

Google Sites – Tips and Tricks

Page 16

Demonstration of:

Google Sites

http://sites.google.com/

http://sites.google.com/support/

Google Calendar – Tips and Tricks

Page 29

Demonstration of:

Google Calendar

http://www.google.com/calendar/

http://www.google.com/support/calendar/

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

http://www.ocsb.ca/

Google Apps

Last year we had a successful pilot of Google Apps

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This year all staff and all students will have a Google Apps account for optional use.

You need an account before you can take advantage of the Google Apps features such as online forms and document collaboration.

Google Docs – Tips and Tricks

Demonstration:

Create a documentShare a documentCreate a survey

• Your turn

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

http://www.googlelabs.com/

Google Labs

These people never sleep!

Check out the many “cool” Google tools available for free!

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Look at some of these Google tools in the lab!

• Image Swirl• Google Squared• Google News Timeline

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

BlackBoard Implementation

Sept. – Jan.

Development of content and framework for BlackBoard

Principal/VP training by Jan.

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BlackBoard Learn will become our Board Portal for next year (Sept. 2011).

Teachers who have been using BlackBoard for courses will continue this year with the new version

Principals/VPs will have a template available for Feb. of this year for initial content development

http://sandbox.blackboard.ocsb.local

Start using Twitter with your teachers, parents, and colleagues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnzv-tVwQBY&feature=related

Using Twitter in a School

Your Turn…

• Visit the Twitter site

• Sign-up for an account

• Set-up your profile

• Search for people to follow

• Send a “tweet”

http://twitter.com/

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

http://diy.despair.com/

Recommended Site

Create your own motivational posters for staff and students

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Upload your own photos and add your own caption to make motivational posters (free download) or to order merchandise.

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

http://diy.despair.com/

Sample Poster

Created in under 30 seconds – for free!

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp

Recommended Site

Generate newspaper clips for staff meetings and other discussion topics

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http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

http://www.canada411.ca/

Recommended Site

Use reverse lookup to find name and address of someone who called but did not leave a message

Use reverse address to find the names/numbers of everyone living on a particular street

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http://www.wordle.net/

Cloud Creators

Wordle

Create graphic “Clouds” in less than 30 seconds – for free!

Easily create clouds for free download from this site using text you upload, or text you paste, or from a website URL/

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http://www.wordle.net/create

This sample was generated from Mashable RSS

http://mashable.com/

http://tagcrowd.com/

Cloud Creators

Tag Crowd

Create graphic “Clouds” in less than 30 seconds – for free!

Easily create clouds for free download from this site using text you upload, or text you paste, or from the URL of any website/

http://tagcrowd.com/

This sample was generated from our Board website URL

http://www.ottawacatholicschools.ca

Your Turn…

• Visit TagCrowd

• Create a Cloud of your school website

• Visit Wordle

• Select and copy text from any site or from any document and paste it into Wordle

http://tagcrowd.com/ http://www.wordle.net/create

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http://www.safeshare.tv/

Capture YouTube Videos

Free site that will allow you to indicate how much of a YouTube video to capture

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http://www.safeshare.tv/v/SKhmFSV-XB0

Your Turn…

• Visit YouTube and search for a Nightmare Boss video

• Copy the video URL

• Visit SafeShare.tv

• Create a URL link to the YouTube Video

• Copy and paste the new URL into a web browser to view the video outside of YouTube

http://www.safeshare.tv/

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

http://www.evernote.com/about/home.php

Evernote

Free application to synchronize files and more to all of your devices

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNE0R3rEe5Q

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

http://www.diigo.com/

Diigo

Social Bookmarking – group resources and networks

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http://www.diigo.com/learn_more

Optional educator accounts allow for the creation of secure class/student accounts as well.Search groups such as Web 2.0, SmartBoards, etc.

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

http://www.commoncraft.com/

Recommended Site

Common Craft provides quick simple explanations on most topics

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Watch video tutorials for topics including:

• Social Media in plain English• Podcasting in plain English• Cloud computing in plain English• RSS in plain English

Wikipedia in plain English

http://www.commoncraft.com/wikipedia-video

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

http://www.howcast.com/

Recommended Site

Howcast provides quick explanations on most topics

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Watch video tutorials for topics including:

• Popular software applications• Hardware questions• Computer tips and tricks• Converting files, Skype, and much more

How to connect a USB device

http://www.howcast.com/videos/368126-How-To-Use-a-USB-Port

http://sss.ottawacatholicschools.ca/stustatsheet/sss.html

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

http://sss.ottawacatholicschools.ca/stustatsheet/sss.html

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ETIs will provide in-service on the Status SheetStatus Sheet for

grades K-8

Principals can see PM benchmarks for classes or grades

http://sss.ottawacatholicschools.ca/stustatsheet/sss.html

Your Turn…

• Visit either CommonCraft or HowCast

• Copy the video URL

• Visit SafeShare.tv

• Create a URL link to the YouTube Video

• Copy and paste the new URL into a web browser to view the video outside of YouTube

http://www.commoncraft.com/

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

Consider purchasing a

docking station, wireless

keyboard and wireless mouse

to use with your laptop

With a docking station and a wireless mouse and keyboard your laptop can function like a desktop at the office and a laptop when you need portability.

A docking station eliminates the need to reconnect power, printer cables, network cables, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUUecthuAj0

Docking station

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http://www.freetech4teachers.com/Dual Display

with your laptop

With a dual display you can have one image on your laptop and an extended image or different program running on your monitor. Above I have my calendar open on one screen, and the presentation on another.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C0AZZ92J-4

Extended desktop display

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http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

http://www.apple.com/education/why-apple/

iPods in School

Will your school embrace Smart Phones?

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http://www.openculture.com/2009/02/the_top_educational_iphone_apps.html

http://www.touchmyapps.com/

http://www.freeappalert.com/

http://www.iste.org/Consider a school membership in ISTE

http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETSDownload or order copies of the National Educational Technology Standards

T. D’Amico

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