Technology tools for productivity and sanity…five minutes at a time

The Presentation | The Dump | For Your Sanity

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The Presentation Glogster

SlideShare

Diigo

Death by Powerpoint

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Glogster The internet posterboard

Embed photos, videos and music

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SlideShare Sharing your presentation

Syncing your voice with the slide…easy Webinars!

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Diigo Collecting your sources

Annotations within web pages

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DEATH by PowerPoint The less on your slides the more people have to listen

to you.

Have personal “speaker” notes for each slide

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The Dump Google Docs (Forms, too!)

Qwiki

Free Rice

Khan Academy

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Google Docs Share and collaborate on documents

Distribute informal quizzes and surveys using the “Forms” tool

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Qwiki Brief introduction to a topic

Ties in media, in a ready-made presentation

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Free Rice Basic skills can test and limber

Adaptive test to challenge all skill levels

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Khan Academy No need to reinvent the wheel

Empower students to find helpful resources

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For Your Sanity Google Calendar

Dropbox

YouTube

Keyboard Shortcuts

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Google Calendar Sync across computers and mobile devices

Embed in web pages

Include appointment slots to schedule

Print out pages to anticipate being “unplugged”

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Dropbox Connecting all of the computers in the internet

An omnipresent, automatic USB drive (with only one version of each file across all devices)

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YouTube The How-To Haven!

Learn how to do anything, with complete power to repeat and rewind

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Keyboard Shortcuts Don’t get caught in the mousetrap!

Look for the keyboard shortcuts that will help you the most

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