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I found the other day a great tool for creating newsletters for your classrooms or just informational flyers and its free!!!! Love that word free.

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I got to play around with this site and find it very easy to use.  The possibilites are endless, tell me what you are going to use it for.  Drop me a email with any suggestions.

Fried Technology: FriedEnglish: Video Grading using Google Docs and ...

I frequently visit this blog and always find something new.  The author has awesome ideas and puts them to practice.  I hope to use this method in some form or fashion this up and coming year.  Thanks Ms. Mayer for the article..........

Video Grading Click Me!!!!

Fried Technology: FriedEnglish: Video Grading using Google Docs and ...: GRADE or COMMENT on ANYTHING . . . FAST, EASY, BETTER for STUDENTS=Grading FRIED Yesterday I had a great idea that I think is going to...

Posted by Amy J. Mayer

ScienceFix - Videos of Middle School Science Lessons

Great for middle school science teachers...

Youtube and blog of various science experiments.  Visuals are always a bonus if you can add it any lesson.  Let me know what you think of these videos.  I sure wish I had Youtube when I was in school. :)

ScienceFix - Videos of Middle School Science Lessons

History Lesson

If The World Were A Village

Google Search Lesson Plans

Google in Education

Being able to search is a great resource tools when doing all kinds of projects.  Using this web page can help your students become Google search Ninjas whether they are just starting out or advance users.


These lessons are conducted around numerous Common Core and other state standards.  In addition to the standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical subjects. 


These are just a few highlights and you'll find Google Search Education Lessons very helpful.  I have been using Google Search Lesson Plans for a few days and love it.  They are fun and they keep the attention of the students.  These lesson might not be able to accommodate every classroom situation but is a great frame work to get started.  The video below shows the power of it.    

"Google Drive" is Here!

Well its what we have been waiting for or is it?  Google Drive has launched and I'm eager to see how well it works.  If any of you have tried it all ready let me know what you think?


Read..... Info from Google.....

"Just like the Loch Ness Monster, you may have heard the rumors about Google Drive. It turns out, one of the two actually does exist.

Today, we’re introducing Google Drive—a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff. Whether you’re working with a friend on a joint research project, planning a wedding with your fiancé or tracking a budget with roommates, you can do it in Drive. You can upload and access all of your files, including videos, photos, Google Docs, PDFs and beyond. 

With Google Drive, you can:

• Create and collaborate. Google Docs is built right into Google Drive, so you can work with others in real time on documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Once you choose to share content with others, you can add and reply to comments on anything (PDF, image, video file, etc.) and receive notifications when other people comment on shared items.
• Store everything safely and access it anywhere (especially while on the go). All your stuff is just... there. You can access your stuff from anywhere—on the web, in your home, at the office, while running errands and from all of your devices. You can install Drive on your Mac or PC and can download the Drive app to your Android phone or tablet. We’re also working hard on a Drive app for your iOS devices. And regardless of platform, blind users can access Drive with a screen reader.
• Search everything. Search by keyword and filter by file type, owner and more. Drive can even recognize text in scanned documents using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. Let’s say you upload a scanned image of an old newspaper clipping. You can search for a word from the text of the actual article. We also use image recognition so that if you drag and drop photos from your Grand Canyon trip into Drive, you can later search for [grand canyon] and photos of its gorges should pop up. This technology is still in its early stages, and we expect it to get better over time.

You can get started with 5GB of storage for free—that’s enough to store the high-res photos of your trip to the Mt. Everest, scanned copies of your grandparents’ love letters or a career’s worth of business proposals, and still have space for the novel you’re working on. You can choose to upgrade to 25GB for $2.49/month, 100GB for $4.99/month or even 1TB for $49.99/month. When you upgrade to a paid account, your Gmail account storage will also expand to 25GB."

 Reposted for a posted by Sundar Pichai, SVP, Chrome & Apps

Rock Their World

I think everyone, teachers and students are tired of the same old same old when it comes to presentations.  If you haven't tried anything new to grab your students attention you have to try Prezi.  Prezi is an alternative to your plain jane presentations which gives everything a new perspective.

With features like these you can put excitement back into your lessons.

Features: 

I personally use Prezi every chance I get. The learning curve is easy and the feature, pan and zoom lets you put Big or little emphasis on your  topics.  You can even import all different types of media along with its newest feature to import your old powerpoint slides so you don't have to start from scratch.

Speaking of scratch if you don't know were to start there are tons of templates and you can even use already made Prezi's just input your own information.   I can not say enough how awesome I think Prezi is and I hope you check it out and see for your self.

If you have any questions let me know. Enjoy...................

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