Follow up notes from Blake Faculty Meeting

Thanks for letting us drop some 'tech knowledge' on you at the Faculty meeting this morning.  Please see important follow up information below:

Today's Presentation

Here is the presentation from this morning.  There are active hyperlinks on slide 6 (links to teacher and student created tech presentations that we viewed) and on slide 8 (webtools used by your colleagues in their classes).  All this info is now just 1 click away!

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Other Websites featured at today's meeting

Socrative - Excellent tool to quickly assess students in the class

Tagxedo - Like Wordle, but with many more options to create images for your word clouds

Problem-Attic - Excellent test question bank (Math, English, Science, Social Studies) for making worksheets for your students.  See blog post below for more details.

 

Google Image Search

Sorry we didn't have a chance to show you the Google Image trick, but please try it on your own.  Send me an email if you can figure out the answer to the questions below:

• Who is this?

• When was this person born?
• How old was he when he died?
  
  
  If you need help, here is what to do:
  

  1. Open up a new tab and go to http://images.google.com/
  2. Come back here and drag the image (or copy/paste) into the Google Image site