http://skypeanauthor.wikifoundry.com/
English Folk, check out the website and if you see an author that your students would be interested in talking to, let me know and we can use an IPAD to SKYPE with him and her. How awesome would it be to get his or her perspective on the book you are reading.
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Sign up Genius
http://www.signupgenius.com/
Great and easy way to coordinate volunteers for field trips, PTO functions and more.
You probably had a million emails sent back and forth trying to figure out who was going to bring what, and who was even going to attend. Then you get those last minute calls from people who forgot what they were bringing or didn’t know what to bring.
Sign up Genius allows you to create an easy sign up form, whether you are holding office hours as teacher, or you are planning a volunteer event.
If you are organizing an event, and you have an upcoming event with volunteers, then make your life easier by creating an easy sign up form. You will have the ability to input what types of volunteer positions are available, and send it out to your volunteer list. They will be able to sign up for the position they desire, and you will have the information organized in one place.
Kaizena
Kaizena is a fantastic tool for adding voice comments to Google Documents and Google Presentations. The latest update to Kaizena streamlines feedback notifications.
Kaizena https://kaizena.com/
Kaizena https://kaizena.com/
Too Long to Read
Too long didn't read? Let TLDR shorten it.
TLDR (Too Long Didn't Read) Plugin is a free extension that creates a summary of any web article without leaving the original page.
Did you ever give students a reading assignment that they didn't read? Have you ever wanted to read a particular article, but it was way too long? If there is not enough time in the day, you hate reading, or you just want a more efficient way of browsing the web, the Too Long Didn't Read (TLDR) may be for you.What is it?TLDR is a free plugin you can install on your browser to condense long articles into a brief synopsis. Once the plugin is installed, you can visit any webpage you would like. Click on the TLDR icon and you will receive several different options to view your selected article.
- Summary - provides a brief summary of the article, so you can decide whether or not to read it or not!
- Short, medium, or long summaries of the article. Think of these as the Cliff Notes version.
- The original article with all of the junk filtered out.
Turn Off the Lights™
https://www.turnoffthelights.com/
Fade out the ads on your You Tube videos by adding this extension to your Chrome Browswer
Turn Off the Lights is a browser extension that lets users obscure everything on their screen except the Flash or HTML5 video they're watching, minimizing distractions and making for a more pleasant viewing experience for the users. A lamp icon is displayed in the browser menu bar or in the omnibox, and users click on the gray lamp icon to make the area surrounding the video fade. Clicking outside the video restores the rest of the screen. Users can adjust the opacity of the screen blocking and select a color other than black if desired.
Fade out the ads on your You Tube videos by adding this extension to your Chrome Browswer
Turn Off the Lights is a browser extension that lets users obscure everything on their screen except the Flash or HTML5 video they're watching, minimizing distractions and making for a more pleasant viewing experience for the users. A lamp icon is displayed in the browser menu bar or in the omnibox, and users click on the gray lamp icon to make the area surrounding the video fade. Clicking outside the video restores the rest of the screen. Users can adjust the opacity of the screen blocking and select a color other than black if desired.
Create new Documents for Google Drive from your browser bar
Create new Documents for Google Drive from your browser bar.
Add a simple menu to your browser bar to quickly create new Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Forms, and Drawings for Google Drive. https://github.com/dmihal/Google-Docs-Quick-Create
Guerrilla Mail
Guerrilla Mail - Disposable Temporary E-Mail Address Avoid spam and stay safe - use a disposable email address! Keeping your real inbox safe and clean
Great
for signing up for stuff and not filling up your mailbox with subscriptions.
Decide Already
https://decidealready.com/
DecideAlready leverages the web to make it simple for organizations and groups to come to a decision about anything in a timely manner.
Privnote
https://privnote.com/
Want to be a secret agent... or just act like one :) Privnot will self-destruct once read...
Want to be a secret agent... or just act like one :) Privnot will self-destruct once read...
About Privnote
Have you ever wanted to send confidential information within your work environment, to family or friends, but were afraid to do so over the internet, because some malicious hacker could be spying on you?
Privnote is a free web based service that allows you to send top secret notes over the internet. It's fast, easy, and requires no password or user registration at all.
Just write your note, and you'll get a link. Then you copy and paste that link into an email (or instant message) that you send to the person who you want to read the note. When that person clicks the link for the first time, they will see the note in their browser and the note will automatically self-destruct; which means no one (even that very same person) can read the note again. The link won't work anymore.
You can optionally choose to be notified when your note is read by leaving your email and a reference for the note.
Concerned about privacy:
How the notes and its contents are processed
The link is generated in the user's browser and at no time is sent as such to Privnote. The link is thus in the sender's (and later possibly in the recipient's) hands only. Therefore, there is no way to recover a note if a Privnote user losses the link.
Since only the link binds the decryption key to the note's content and since Privnote does not have the link, at no time is any note held in any readable format state at Privnote. This assures that nobody (including Privnote's administrators) can read a note.
When a note is retrieved, its data is completely removed from Privnote, which implies there is absolutely no way to recover it again.
When a note is not retrieved after 30 days, Privnote removes it permanently, just as if it were read.
Privnote sysadmin team will do as much as possible to protect the site against unauthorized access, modification or destruction of the data. But, even if someone or something could manage to gain access to the database, they would be unable to read the notes since their contents are encrypted and can't be decrypted without the links which Privnote never has a hold of.
Countable.us
https://www.countable.us/
Countable provides a short summary of current legislation and makes it easy for your students to follow what is going on in congress. View active bills and vote yea or nah!! This website/App Makes it possible for you and your students to send messages to your area's representatives. Countable also keeps track of how the lawmakers vote and then informs you how your representatives’ votes stack up to your own, generating “compatibility rankings.” I love this idea for Civics and Economics classes. You will need to sign up and create an account.
Countable provides a short summary of current legislation and makes it easy for your students to follow what is going on in congress. View active bills and vote yea or nah!! This website/App Makes it possible for you and your students to send messages to your area's representatives. Countable also keeps track of how the lawmakers vote and then informs you how your representatives’ votes stack up to your own, generating “compatibility rankings.” I love this idea for Civics and Economics classes. You will need to sign up and create an account.
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
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