Monday, December 7, 2009

No Budget Woes: Free Digital Tools for Staff Development

Four corners activity

Four questions posted, as a group we walked around and provided answers to the following questions.

How is your district saving money during tight money economy?
How does your organization collaborate and communicate with others?
How do you collect data about staff development?
How does your organization engage every educator in effective professional learning everyday?


http://www.dimdim.com/ web conferencing that works for free


Build your own video hosting for staff development with http://clip-bucket.com/

Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools have developed a video resource using clip bucket to share PD videos. They hired two teachers to do the editing, they wanted to be sure the person doing the editing understood pedagogy. District has videographer but he does not have edu background.

http://www.polleverywhere.com/ Great polling.

www.jingproject.com to use the video (a swf file) you must change it so use www.zamzar.com


Poll Everywhere www.polleverywhere.com They have a free account and you can download the result slide and include it in a PowerPoint or Keynote. If you use short answer it is a great method to brainstorm with your class.

When generating a word cloud with Wordle.net use the ~ to put a space between words that you want to stay together but have a space between them.

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