Free Cloud Applications

 Students learn
 
to apply themselves
 
and broaden their discoveries!
 
 
 

 Tools for your Classroom

Google tools for educators includes three new products, Google News, Google Page Creator and Google Groups.

Be sure to check out some examples of teacher work in the new classroom activities section.

Here are some handy tips posters, which you can print out and hang in your classrooms, computer labs and libraries.

Find Information on how to use Google Apps in the classroom -

http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/lesson_plans.html

 
 
 
Jing is a great ‘quick and dirty’ solution for producing simple video tutorials in a hurry.

Let's imagine that you're correcting a student paper and you note an error. You wish your student was right there so you could just talk briefly to her... but you can't, so you pick up your pen and start to write in the margin. You note her mistake and ask a few probing questions to try and help her for her next version of her draft.

STOP! You can provide meaningful auditory feedback to your student by using Jing desktop video tool. You can record your comments (you will need an external microphone or your computer must have a built in microphone) and upload the video with one click. Your student will get her paper with a url embedded as a comment near the the area that needs attention. Now she can hear your feedback in the context of the problem.

Delicious!

Bookmark any site on the Internet, and get to it from anywhere

Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows you to tag, save, manage and share Web pages all in one place. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet.

Instead of having different bookmarks on every computer, Delicious makes it easy to have a single set of bookmarks kept in sync between all of your computers.  This is especially valueable when you find a website that you wish to share with your classmates!  Even if you're not on a computer you own, you can still get to your bookmarks on the Delicious website.

Share your bookmarks, and get bookmarks in return

If your friends use Delicious, you can send them interesting bookmarks that they can check out the next time they log in. Of course, they can do the same for you. As you explore the site and find interesting users, you can use our Subscriptions and Network features to keep track of the Delicious tags and users you find most interesting.