An App for Teachers to Create Educational Portfolios of Student Work with an iPhone, iPad, or Android Smartphone. 15 Free Tools for Storing and Sharing Files. Six months ago I shared a list of good file sharing tools for teachers and students.
Since then, I've come across some more tools to add to that list. Here is my new list of file sharing tools for students and teachers. Using these tools can help you avoid having an email inbox that is overflowing with file attachments. The tools that I frequently use: I use Google Documents and Google Drive for nearly all of my document storage needs. The other tool that I frequently use for collecting, storing, and sharing files is Dropbox. DROPitTOme is a free service that works with Dropbox to allow people to upload files to your Dropbox account without giving them access to the contents of your Dropbox account. File Dropper is the file sharing tool that I have used longer than any of the tool on this list.
Other file sharing tools that I have tried. File Stork is a tool that works with Dropbox and allows you to collect files in two ways. Go Pileus is a simple free service for quickly sharing files. 10+ Tips and Tools To Keep Teachers Organized. “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” ~ Gustave Flaubert Learning online can be an incredible journey but at some point you may feel overwhelmed with the surplus of information and resources.
You may feel very excited about a resource you come across, but want to access that resource at some other date. Perhaps, you are teaching your students how to research online and they want to bookmark and create notes on websites. Many free webtools exist to help us quickly save, bookmark, categorize, store, and share information. These tools are very advanced and store our information in the cloud. Googlize It! Jump on the bandwagon and get a Google account if you haven’t already. G-mail – Make the switch to g-mail.
Google Drive – If you haven’t already, make the switch from Google Apps to Google Drive. Google Calendar – Create events and send yourself and students reminders. Bookmarklet It! Bookmark It! 7 Great Note-taking Tools for Teachers and Students. This is another post that was prompted by a reader's email.
The email was looking for a list of recommended note-taking tools. I've reviewed a lot of note-taking tools over the last five years, but I have never made a list. So here's my list of seven great note-taking tools for students and teachers. InClass is a free iPhone and iPad app that could be a very useful tool for students carrying those devices. InClass provides students with tools for taking text, audio, and video notes. Color Note is a simple note-taking app that I've been using on all of my Android phones for the last year (yes, it's been a rough year for phones in my life).
Save Meeting is a meeting recording app for iOS and Android devices. Notes.io offers a simple platform for taking and sharing notes. No list of note-taking tools would be complete without mentioning Evernote. Online Booklets. Web -Free Ebook. 20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web is a new free 61 page ebook from Google about browsers and the Internet.
Through the ebook readers will learn about things like plug-ins, malware, phishing scams, HTML and HTML 5, cloud computing, Javascript, and much more. The book includes nice Dr. Seuss-like illustrations and clear explanations. The explanations are put into terms that non-techie people can understand. 20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web can be read online or printed using the print button at the bottom of the site's screen (it's kind of hard to see if you're not looking for it).
Applications for Education For technology integration specialists, 20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web could be a great resources to distribute to teachers you support. Catch - organize ideas. Organize your resources in an online binder - LiveBinders. Popplet - organize projects.