Go Digital!

Session 44

Tammy Worchester, ESSDACK

Salon 3 Wednesday 1:45 - 2:45 Capacity: 260

Blogging, podcasting, digital forms, shared calendars . . . it sounds overwhelming, doesn’t it? In this session, the presenter will show you how easy it is to go digital in your classroom. Using some fabulous free Web tools, you will be able to share student successes, communicate with parents, gather feedback, organize events and more -- all in just a few minutes per week!

STRAND: Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment AUDIENCE: Instructional PK-12 TYPE: Featured Speaker http://www.tammyworcester.com - for presentation handouts and other great information GaETC Handouts Blogger - www.blogger.com owned by google FREE, you only need to have Google account New tools and additions that make it easy to create classroom webpages I use this to create ALL my blogs and it is GREAT! You are looking at it right now :-) Email/Mobile - NEW setting which allows you to send posts to your blog via email. Others can also post via email and you can moderate the posts/drafts NEW - Adding static pages to your blog - From the Dashboard click EDIT PAGES. You can add up to TEN static pages and they will show as tabs on the homepage/main blog page. LOVE THIS!!!!! NEW - Google Docs can be linked through HTML to your blog. Then when the document is changed it will automatically on the blog. Vocaroo - http://vocaroo.com/ gives you an HTML code line for sounds/recordings to be added to blogs, webpages or emails Justin TV - http://www.justin.tv/ Adds video through your mobile phone to the website. Then gives you HTML code to be added to the blog