Skyline High School
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Gapminder:
YouTube:Passwords and downloading
Need to find the YouTube password? Better yet,
want to download a YouTube video to show in class
without inturruption?
Check out how to here.
Finding your files:
If you find yourself
on a computer and
you cannot seem to locate your folder (it doesn’t
show up when you click on
My Computer),
do this: 1)
Click on My Computer from the Start Menu and if your folder or server 02
doesn’t show up
2) In the address box at the top of the
My Computer
dialogue box type this:
\\shssvr02
3) And
then you’ll see the staff folder and you can find your
name in there.
You all know you can see your
students’ current teachers by looking at their
Schedule or
Gradebook via
Family Access/Skyward.
But have you ever
wanted to communicate with your current students’ former teachers to
troubleshoot a concern?
With a click, you can see who their past teachers
were - while this may not be as useful for underclassmen
as their former teachers are not here, you could easily
contact them via email if there is a need. To find their
teachers, click on
Educational History in the left column when you are
in a student’s profile in Family Access. Then, to find a name of a teacher, click on the underlined
class code (forth column from the left).
You can
see a visual here.
To access
your Skyline email from home: type
in this URL (the pretend name here is Robert Smith, you
would put your own name:):
http://mailsvr.issaquah.wednet.edu/exchange/SmithR
then a dialog box will pop-up, here you sign in like you
would on any school computer.
To access your files on Skyline’s
server from home: follow the
directions from the
district T-Home page
on the intranet. First you need to follow the
directions to
install (on
Windows XP) or
set up (on
Windows 7) the VPN on your computer, then you
connect to the VPN
from home.
Create an audio
message for your students or air a student
presentation/performance/radio show (ie:
make a podcast
that you can easily put on your web page).
Using
AudioBoo you
can easily do this with an inexpensive microphone, an
iPhone or Andriod.
You can watch the short video intro on the home
page – but just looking at the
show you around button
is all you need to get started.
Here is a podcast
(click on the play button that will appear within a few
seconds on this page) that took 15 minutes and that
included reading through the site, signing up for an
account, and then chasing down a few fellow teachers to
answer a question.
P.S. - if
you don’t have a webpage, I could create a page/place on
the library web site and you could send the file and I
could post it there so others can hear it – and P.P.S.,
I could do that for any files/links if you want to share
them with your students and you don’t have a web page
yet (just give me appropriate lead time).
Fast Stone Capture:
“Run” this program
(you are actually downloading it, click on “Run”, then
“Next”, “I Agree”, “Install”, then “Finish”). A
web page will open after that, ignore this page, but
also, you will see a small action box with icons, this
is the program (you can exit it with the X in the corner
– then find the program again on your desktop).
This tool allows you to essentially capture anything you
see on your screen – small, big, whatever – and turn it
into a picture.
Here is a very
quick attempt to show you what it can do. I used
the dotted-line rectangle (you outline the section you
want captured then release and it takes you to the
saving window) in the small Faststone box and the star
(which allows you to create a shape – then double click
to capture). When you do save, unless you are
familiar with the different picture types, save as a
“JPEG”.
Try it.
Try this
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TrackStar – it is
like a guided web quest.
The program allows you to give different
directions at the top of the page for each website you
send a student to.
The list of sites with the heading you give it
stays on the left column… while it takes time to create,
you can really guide a student to valid sites.
There are also a plethora of “Tracks” already
made (check them out on the TrackStar link above under
the heading “See All Top Tracks”) and you can edit any
of them to your liking.
Please try this one
created for our staff.
Fun Ideas:
Comix (simple
but could get a point across, in any language) and
Toonlet (many
more features though you/students would need to create
an account);
Motivator
(you’re bound to find something to do with this);
Wordle is just
fun (and maybe useful for some, you may have seen it
used on some of your favorite sites);
Bomomo (not
sure it’s practical for anything, but it’s cool); and
Let Me Google That For
You (can be helpful in demonstrating to
students how to refine their searches on the web, choose
better words/expand/eliminate words, etc. – probably
just a one time use…).
Try this free ‘fancy’ beyond-powerpoint
online presentation maker at
www.Prezi.com.
Make a movie in 10 minutes with
Windows Movie Maker (via the
“Start” menu, “All Programs” then on the list
alphabetically). Take pictures or take images and video from the web, import
them , import music, drag the images/music and place
them in the order you want, play with the effects,
transitions, and add titles
finish/finalize the movie. The program
isn’t very fancy but it’s fairly intuitive and you can
make a kind of slick show in minutes – you could even
photograph (screen captures could work) equations, steps
to an assignment, or the solving of a problem and set it
to music and add interesting effects and turn it into a
show!
A few free website makers/hosters:
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