Miscellaneous Educational Resources 11-26-12

Google+ just released! Our early Thanksgiving present to EDU.

Google+ is now open for K-12 Google Apps. We have enabled it for all teachers here at Norris. (We can enable it for students if staff have a need for their students to use this service, but that will come at a later date for our Norris Google Apps.) I just put together a quick overview in this blog article: http://goo.gl/Vsn7b  We will be putting together a few inservices for this in the next several weeks, so watch your emails! 

Some great websites and tools for education. 

• Free Technology for Teachers: 7 Resources for Developing Typing Skills 
• Z-Type - A Fun Typing Game
• Free Technology for Teachers Two Tools for Reading ePub Files in Your Browser 
• Apple - iTunes U - Learn anything, anywhere, anytime.
• Google Takes You On A Tour Of 100000 Stars -  Home Page  Nice short article about the experiment
• Read & Write - An Accessibility App for Google Docs http://ow.ly/fpQVZ 

IOS apps anyone? Some more great apps for your IOS (iphone/iPad) devices. 

If you have not seen the Nearpod app, now is the time! Check out this nice article: How The Nearpod iPad App Changed An Entire School 

Some Android tools for your Android Phones or Tablets:

• Smart Tools for Your Android Device - Check them out. (Hey I have an iPhone 5, but I still miss many things about my Android device!)
• Jump Desktop: Access your desktop from an Android tablet Free and Paid versions. 

For the more advanced Google users ....  here  is a script to manage student projects in Google Docs. Doctopus. youpd.org/doctopus 

A couple amazing web 2.0 tools you have to check out!!!

I may think I may of saved the best for last in this posting, these are amazing!!!! 

• Remix web content - video, maps, links, text, etc. using PopcornMaker: popcorn.webmaker.org Check out the TED video to watch it work 
• Dynamic,math,paper,graph,interactive,teacher,tools from Illuminations by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics -- Check it out!!! (Does not work from an iPad)