Google Calendar

Once you have had a chance to explore Google Calendar please take a few moments to share your thoughts about it. In addition, share at least three ways you could use it as a teacher.

QR Codes

QR Codes are everywhere! Now that you know what they are, how to make them, and how to share them please share some ideas about how you might use them as a teacher. How will you use them to share your professional information with colleagues? What are some ways that you could use them with your students?

Google Alerts and Reader

Google Alerts and Reader are two applications that are are not used by educators and students nearly as much as they should be. Now that you are familiar with both of them how can you see yourself using them? How can you use Google Reader to organize the flow of information on the web? What are some ways that you can use Google Alerts? Do you think you will use either of these applications now that you know about them?

Evernote

Evernote is one of those tools that it might take a while to completely figure out. I know many educators who say if they could only keep one web tool to use it would be Evernote. What are your thoughts about this tool now that you have taken some time to explore it? How could you use it to get organized?

Diigo

It has happened to all of us. We are at home and find a great website so we add it to our favorites. But when we go to retrieve it in the future we are on a different computer. Arrgh! Enter Diigo. This application allows us to store our bookmarks in the cloud so they are always accessible no matter where we are or what computer we are using. Diigo can allow us to do so much more than simply store and share our bookmarks, but since we only had a couple of hours to devote to this fantastic tool that was the focus of the activity.

Now that you have had the chance to explore Diigo take a few minutes to share what you think about it. How do you see yourself using it in the future? What are some ideas you have for how you could use it to help get yourself organized and to possibly share resources with your colleagues?

Gmail

If you are like most teachers your experience with email has been limited to Outlook and possibly Yahoo or Hotmail. After getting up close and personal with Gmail do you think it has any advantages over the email provider you are currently using? What are some features that Gmail has that make it very different from other email? In your opinion, what is the BEST feature that Gmail offers?

Skype

Skype is one of the fastest and easiest tools you can use to help bring the outside world into your classroom. What are some ways you could use Skype in your classroom? Prior to taking this class had you considered using videoconferencing to bring in experts or connect your class to another one? Besides breaking down the walls of your classroom, what are some of the other benefits to using Skype?

If you want to connect with the other participants in this class please share your Skype name in your comment on this post. My name is beth.still. Please feel free to add me as a contact.