Tech. Tuesday- Feb. 7

Hello all!  There are always so many things I want to share with you that I don't know where to start with each post.

I'll start with a shout out to Jen Wright!  I am so excited that she was looking for a way to do online portfolios with her students and she is considering using VoiceThread for that project (see previous post)!  Hopefully, she will allow me to share some of her students' work with you soon!  Stay tuned!

Smart Pen
Many of you took advantage of the opportunity to see Patty Carleton demonstrate her Smart Pen earlier this year.  It was so timely to be able to see this handy little tool as those of us who are curious about the "Flipped Classroom" were looking for tools to assist with preparing our recorded lessons.  If you didn't get to see it, basically the pen (and its companion paper) records everything you say, hear and write.  It saves it to an audio PDF file that can then be shared via email, online or "the cloud."  Below, you will see a sample of the Audio PDF file that Malcolm Mousseau created for his French class.  He was able to play this over the SmartBoard and then send the file to the students for their study purposes.  (Please note, the ghost writing can be turned off or on).

If you would like to read more about the Smart Pen (by Livescribe), click on this link: http://www.livescribe.com/en-ca/

Block Posters:
Of you have ever wanted to enlarge an image and have it print over multiple pages so that it could be displayed in a larger-than-life fashion, then you will love Block Posters.  As simply as 1,2,3...you can upload your image, determine how wide you want it to be and then download the enlarged PDF file for printing.  Here's the link:  http://www.blockposters.com/

Moodle: Lockdown Browser
It is no secret that we have a few avid "Moodlers" on our staff.  What you may not know is that at least one of our Moodlers has found a way to do assessments with his students through Moodle with the added assurance that they cannot access the internet to find the answers.  Andy Moore has been doing this using the Lockdown Browser add-on.  Now when he gives an evaluation, his students use a laptop that already has the Lockdown Browser loaded.  Students access their Moodle class after opening the Lockdown Browser, and voila!...safe online testing!

If you are interested in learning about something particular or if you would like to share an innovation that you are using, please let me know!