Welcome to the PHA Technology Integration Wiki!

Here's a place where we can share some of the electronic resources we've found.

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Productivity tools and sites

Google Reader

I've started playing around with Goolge Reader, which is an RSS aggregator. If you sometimes go to the Boston Globe or NY Times home page, you can think of Google Reader as your customized newspaper home page. You can pick and choose what type of things you want to see, including news on almost anything, updates to blogs that interest you, or even podcasts - anything that has an RSS feed. Check it out!

I went one (or three) steps further, and now I have the results of Google Reader downloading to my Palm Treo! I found two tools, SunriseXP and Plucker, which together bring the content down from the Web, save it in a format that I can use on the Palm, and then let me read the content on my phone. I don't love the small screen, but it's a good way to screen articles that I might want to read on line later. It's also handy for the train or whenever I have a few minutes of downtime, and because I download it over my home DSL connection instead of using a wireless web connection on my phone, it's free! MWW

The Awesome Highlighter

When you want to send a webpage to someone and want them to pay particular attention to certain parts of the page, you can highlight it and then send the new highlighted link. I thought it was VERY cool!! Check it out. Click here for an article which gives a brief description of the tool. MK

Technical tools/sites

     Here are several documents explaining how to use the Turning Technologies response devices (AKA clickers)

          New Users in TurningPoint 4.2

          8 Steps for TP Office 2003

          8 Steps for TP Anywhere for PC 

Computer Science tools/sites

Discovery Education

Main Site

Here’s a link to MANY webinars being offered through Discovery Education.  I believe they’re only for unitedstreaming subscribers, so I wouldn’t suggest putting it out to all the techies that you’re connected with…although it’s a wonderful opportunity to learn! PM

 Typing

I got an email from folks at Discovery Education today and it had a link to a fun typing game.  Although it states in the blog that it’s not necessarily appropriate for kids, it was fun to try! Click here. PM

Library tools/sites

Mary can put the source-tracking site here

Subject-area tools/sites

 - include the subject area and grade level/range in the title of the post

Professional Development

Tech Pilots: Teaching with LCD Projectors

Here are some useful documents

     How do I connect my laptop to a projector.doc 

     How do I clean my computer screen.doc

     Using VLC to play movies on a computer.doc

     Cool Timer features.doc

     Presenter Mouse, the important pages(pdf)

     Presentation Handouts from 01-20-09 (pdf)

Fun Stuff

Other?