Apps and more Apps...

  

  

   

Wow! What a great week of exploration. Tons of online tools to explore; some I was familiar with others I had heard of but never used and others I had never even heard of… 

My favorites..

Googledocs I use all the time, both to access my stuff from everywhere and also to collaborate with others on documents. Currently I am using it to write a grant. I am working with an English and Art teacher and we don’t need to set aside time to meet. We each are able to work whenever we have free time. One application that I had been on but did not have my own account was Flickr. I have looked at my friends photos and the Library of Congress’s collections. Creating an login was easy as was uploading photos and tagging them. Especially since when I went to create a login I discovered I already had one! After thinking about it I remembered  I had uploaded photos from my daughters 5th birthday party one time when I had a full memory card, someone else’s laptop and nowhere to save them. So I guess there is another use for the site...
Using this site with Big Huge Labs and the possibilities are nearly endless. You can create magazine covers and billboards plus neat things like a Rubic’s cube with your photos. Check out my new flickr set of photos from Martha’s Vineyard ...
Survey Monkey has so many uses…to survey faculty about new classes to offer or professional development options…By students to create surveys for everything from assignments to Senior Superlatives. A really interesting video creation site, Animoto can be used to create book trailers or to highlight a student club or collaborative lesson between the librarian and a history teacher. A teacher and I recently had history students create videos for each of the Constitutional amendments. Rollyo is a tool I have not used before but can see I will. I can use it to create custom search engines for the different topics my students research. Last but not least Zamzar is a site I use all the time, with all the different files that students bring in I am constantly converting something...