TIE 2007 Session 4110 – Web Based Applications for the Classroom June 23, 2007
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Session 4110 – Web Based Applications for the Classroom – Jon Pierce – 6/22/07
Jon is a technology specialist for Challenge School in Cherry Creek.
Started with 37 signals and Basecamp – used for project management. Campfire is used for private chatting and file transfer. There is a free section. Opens up in a dashboard that provides an overview of activity in the project, messages, to-do lists, milestones, writeboards, and chat. Highrise is new. Backcamp is like Basecamp.
Moved on to Googledocs and spreadsheets and Goolge Pack. Used it for script writing for school news. Google Pack collects some of their featured applications like Picasa and Google Earth. I need to follow-up with Page Creator.
Hot Potatoes. Six applications. Makes quizzes and tests with multiple choice, short answer, crossword, match and order, and more. Tests are available for printing, hosting on a web server, or hosted.
CutePDF is a free Windows pdf creator. PDF Viewer 2 was released out of beta and is open source.
Portaportal is a web-based bookmarking. http://guest.portaportal.com/tieco is the site set up for the class. Layout is similar to other starter pages, but Jon makes great use of organizing the links he’s collected into categories. Portaportal also has a dashboard if you log in with a free account. Portaportal also lets you switch between accounts. Avoid ABC order because it is very difficult to undo. http://guest.portaportal.com/challengeschool is the Portaportal for his school.
Awardspace.com, http://www.awardspace.com/ is a free host without ads. Very nice.
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