Cloud Computing


 

 

 

 

Welcome to the Cloud Computing support page. 

 

Use this space to ask questions, offer support, and share your best practices for all things in the Cloud.

 


Click here to view Instructional How-To Videos for various web-based instructional technology applications.

 

Helpful Docs:

Excellent rubric for assessing student contributions to wikis: wikirubric.pdf

Glogster Tutorial (student-created and shared)

How To Use Wall Wisher (student-created and shared)

How To Use Prezi (a little outdated since the site has had several make-overs, but still useful)

Prezi Tutorial (student-created and shared)

Technology for Teachers (descriptions and links to a variety of Web 2.0 tools)

20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web from the Google Chrome Team

Quick Wiki Guide from The Whiteboard Blog

 

Web 2.0 Lesson Ideas:

Amazing Web 2.0 Projects Book

Super Book of Web Tools for Educators

Making Videos on the Web

Twelve Essentials for Technology Integration

77 Things for Teachers to Try This Summer from the Technology Resource Teachers Blog

Blooms Taxonomy of Web 2.0 (the Digital Peacock)


 

 

Blabberize

Blabberize is a service that allows you to create your own talking picture, basically a moving mouth on a still image.

 

Delicious

Delicious is a Social Bookmarking service, which means you can save all your bookmarks online, share them with other people, and see what other people are bookmarking.

 

Flickr

Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community.

Glogster EDU

Glogster empowers educators and students with the technology to create GLOGS--online multimedia posters--with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments, and more.

 

Lino

Lino is a web-based sticky note service that provides its registered users with virtual stickies operable on a web browser along with “canvas”. 

 

PBworks


PBworks hosts over 300,000 educational workspaces, and has helped transform teaching and learning for millions of students, parents and teachers.

Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue.

 

Prezi

 

Prezi is a web-based visualization and storytelling tool without slides.

 

 

Voki

 

 

Voki enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character.

 

 

Wallwisher

 

Wallwisher is an Internet application that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. A wall is basically the 'web page' where people actually post messages.

 


Helpful Videos:

 

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Video Tutorials from Rob Leo's on-line course:  To The Cloud


Helpful Presentations:

 

Blogging:  A Quick Guide from Think Bank

Blogging in Schools
View more presentations from Danny Nicholson

 

Web 2.0 Tools for the Classroom from Think Bank

Some Web 2.0 Tools for the classroom
View more presentations from Danny Nicholson

 

Podcasting in the Classroom from Think Bank

Podcasting
View more presentations from Danny Nicholson

 

Using Emergent Technologies in your Teaching from Think Bank

New Technologies in the Classroom
View more presentations from Danny Nicholson