Great web tools, free apps, tech tips and even 1/2 price Pizza in this Issue! My miscellaneous Educational Resources 1-16-13

Some great web sites and web tools for your classrooms: 

eQuizShow Online Templates - Great site for making a fun class project or review! http://equizshow.com/  Here's a first grade grammar one

150 Best Browser Extensions & Web Apps Of 2012 - Some of these are making my list!

The most comprehensive collection of Web 2.0 tools organized and categorized web20guru.wikispaces.com/Web+2.0+Resour…

The 20 Best Education Apps And Web Tools Of The Year ow.ly/gsYOd

Google Docs - Tools, tips, and more

Keyboard shortcuts can save you TONS of time in Google Docs. Watch this video to see a few of my favorites. - bit.ly/VNUnDB

Send To Google Docs – Convert HTML To PDF & Save It In A Single Click [Chrome] 

Want to automate some things in Google Docs for collecting assignments and setting up folders for your class?  Try Doctopus for Managing Google Documents 

Tip: Be on the lookout for the Google Apps Great Plains summit info coming soon!!!!! Free registration opportunities for Norris Staff! 

IOS (iPad/iPhone) apps:

A very nicely organized app collection to support #CBLearn appitic.com/index.php/cbl/…

A nice utility type app to save a web page to PDF on your iPad. Has dropbox and email support too. FREE for a limited time!   InstaWeb: Web to PDF Converter (In my tests it works pretty well for most sites.) 

Need a motivational video for your teacher in-service?

Here is one for the admins, tech coordinators, and staff developers.  Five-Minute Film Festival: Best Kickoff Videos.  These are great intro videos for your staff developments or in-service sessions! 

eBooks, iBooks, and more

5 Sources Of Open-Source Textbooks 

Learn iBook Author - short video tutorial: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

 Notescraper: Exporting Kindle notes and highlights bit.ly/ZMqvup

Free Photo book and 1/2 off Papa John's Pizza too!

 @WeAreTeachers Lunch Break Deal Alert: FREE Photo Book offer from My Publisher. bit.ly/X8bQna

Papa John's Coupon Code | 50% Off Large Pizzas 

How does Erskine find out about these things???  Twitter!  These were on a couple education feeds from @WeAreTeachers  If you are not using Twitter, you are missing out.  There is everything from kindergarten to social studies for groups, hash-tags and people to follow. 

Kyle Steinkuhler @KSteink will be doing a session on Twitter Monday during our in-service.  Look for the details coming out soon!  Speaking of Kyle... here is a nice one right from his Twitter feed: Super collection of historical maps!!:bigmapblog.com/tag/american-w…

New to Twitter, this will explain a few of the basics. The Beginner's Guide to Twitter.