FREE Adobe K-12 Creative Suite 6 Summer Virtual Workshop Series

Join Adobe & Education Service Center 2 for a series of free CS6 summer workshops to prepare you for the new school year. You can attend any or all of the workshops and receive a professional development credit for each hour attended. Attend all eight workshops and enter to win a one-year CS6 Cloud Membership.  Chris Harris and Ric Gonzalez will take you through a tour of the new CS6 features in each product and get you started on the path to success. If you attend the ACA Certification workshop, you will receive a free ACA Certification voucher from Certiport. Click for the dates and registration links.

Voicethread

Voicethread is a wonderful way to have your students produce book trailers, brief narratives of projects, descriptions of field trips, etc.  It's easy to use.  Here's a how to voicethread video.  Register (it's free) at the voicethread site.

Voicethread is very easy to use.  It took me about five minutes to put one together; check it out.

Southwest Vita-Learn now has a wiki

Stay up to date even if you can't make the meetings. 

At the March meeting one of the discussions was about using voicethread.  check out the Kindergarten and 2nd grade examples of using voicethread.  There is also a one minute file on using voicethread.  (Many of our VT colleagues use the free version.)

Google Earth Gallery

There's something here for everyone and they're all free! These are just a just a few of the files available; world chlorophyll concentration, Rumsey historical maps, real time earthquakes, world oil consumption, NASA photos from space, infant mortality rates, Somalia refugee migration, and Google Earth animals (unbelievable satellite photos of migrating whales, giraffes, etc.).  There are also links to download the latest Google Earth program.

Creating subordinate folders within your Google Docs or Google Drive

Haven’t heard of Google Drive?  Your Google Docs area will eventually be upgraded to Google Drive.  Drive is free…it allows for storage of more types of files and moves up your storage capacity from 2gb to 5gb.

If you have a lot of files in your Docs or Drive area, it might make sense to develop a few subordinate folders.  You can always do a search for a particular document but it might be easier if you had a folder labeled math, science, or assessments.  I have two handouts, one for Google Docs and the second for Google Drive.  As always, if the  printed directions leave you wanting…send me an email and I’ll stop by.