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Software. Twitter. Yugma. Sticky. Visualcv. Plugjam. Groundswell. Acapela box : type your text messages, turn them into text-to-speech, listen to them, download them and use them wherever you want! The Best Ways For Students (And Anyone Else!) To Create Online Content Easily, Quickly. I sometimes get a little annoyed by education bloggers who gripe about teachers who won’t embrace technology. For people who are that concerned about it, they might want to consider the old community organizing adage of leading with ears instead of mouths — identify teacher self-interests through listening and relationship-building, and afterwards help them see how using technology can help them get what they want — if it can.

In my nineteen year community organizing career prior to becoming a public school teacher, one tool we used to encourage people to do something they had never done before — participate in public life — was develop what we called “fixed-fights.” These were small-scale actions where new volunteer leaders had an almost guaranteed chance of success. These victories would help them develop self-confidence and a belief that it was worth continuing on the road to greater risks. It’s really not that big of a deal to me if my colleagues use a lot of technology. Screenpresso - Home. Remember The Milk: Online to do list and task management. Online Productivity Applications, Web Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Presentations and More.