Category: Useful Tools

Aviary – Free online graphics editing

Post author By Michel
Post date February 23, 2009
Categories In Classroom Tools, ETEC 533, Online Tools, Teaching, Technology, Useful Tools
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A common problem for teachers and professionals on the go is having the software you need when you need it. As the Internet gets speedier and programmers get more creative we are beginning to see software move into the “cloud” of computers and servers. Cloudware is one of many terms used to describe software that […]

Print What You like

Post author By Michel
Post date February 11, 2009
Categories In Classroom Tools, Online Tools, Teaching, Technology, Useful Tools
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This website allows you to select exactly what you want to print by simply pasting the URL and electing the areas.Â Here is a video of it in action: This is an especially handy digital tool for those having students do research and seeing that they are printing way too much.Â Ideally any notes could […]

Google Earth 5.0

Post author By Michel
Post date February 10, 2009
Categories In Classroom Tools, ETEC 533, MET, Teaching, Technology, Useful Tools
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Google Earth 5.0 was released last week and I have been meaning to post about it for some time now.Â A new feature added to Google’s already acclaimed software is the ability to step forward and backward through all available satellite imagery with a feature called “Historical Data”.Â This relates to research in my ETEC […]

Interview Reflection

Post author By Michel
Post date February 2, 2009
Categories In ETEC 533, Teaching, Technology, Useful Tools
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It has been a few days since I conducted and analyzed an interview with a former teaching colleague J.P. as part of my ETEC 533 coursework (you can see that interview analysis here). As a continuation of that work my class has been discussing and reflecting upon the issue of educational technology, how our views […]

Geek.Menu for your USB

Post author By Michel
Post date January 12, 2009
Categories In Classroom Tools, Technology, Useful Tools
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For those out there that haven’t heard of Portableapps.com you should probably check it out. Â These small portable versions of popular applications for productivity (Openoffice.org, Gimp), internet (Firefox, Thunderbird) and many other uses are great to have on the go along with your files. Now there is even a built in menu to keep the […]