Tool 4 of 11

Google Docs have been an enormous help on campus, still slightly underused.  It really makes getting real time information easy.  I would like to see people use it for school wide awards.

Tool 3 of 11

I found this video useful to increase students' awareness about various issues in school and the community, it makes it fun and interesting.  Having students participate or even develop their own video on lessons for the week will increase retainment of information.

I found that if you increase the value of a product or source or as a teacher/students uses information for the "greater good" of society, copyright law does not apply. The needs of teacher and students are held higher than that of the "Big Business". Therefore,  music, websites, video is just under Fair use practices.  Although there are limitations such as materials to be sold to schools, however the use of the materials is limited such as if the material will be used public display, sale, and copy. There are other limitations as well but I found these most useful.

Dropbox is useful to keep files centrally located and have the available to share with students.




This video is a good introduction to PSA or persuasive messages.

Tool 2 of 11

The online community is an excellent way for professionals and students to share ideas. Building a community like this allows cohorts to comment on ideas that sometime's are not necessarily shared in face-to-face in small groups or one-on -one.  I like the ability to look at other counterparts, whom I don't regularly get to see or work with during the school year and see what they are doing. The only challenge I could see is getting immediate feedback that is often warranted in some instances.

Youtube.com has a vast amount of videos that I plan to use as support in my classroom.

Tool #1

Yes you are AWESOME Too!!!