TCSD Tech Dude

Tech stuff

2009-01-23T12:31:00.000-08:00

I love to do the webpage editing. I need to find a few more options for the school district in the form of calendars, news feeds etc... so teachers can add to the website without much hassle. I use Wordpress, Joomla, google calendars need some more ideas.

TIE 2008

2008-04-06T12:00:00.000-07:00

At the first TIE conference session on Web 2.0 tools for the teacher talking about the wiki's, podcasts, blogs etc. Showed the video "Shift Happens"

Back in the Saddle

2008-04-01T11:35:00.000-07:00

I have been blogging at a different site with wordpress. I am glade to be back on blogger.com because it is the original blog site to me. Anyway wordpress offer a great deal of flexability for blogging.

Make timelines

2007-07-13T00:21:00.000-07:00

All you educators that what to make a timeline of event like the history of you favorite cat or dog, or the history of the Mac ect... Check out this site. Xtimeline.com

New Macbook Pro

2007-07-08T01:48:00.000-07:00

I just started using my new Macbook Pro. It is a great machine and the display is brilliant. I have yet to test it this machine to it's full potential. I need to get a copy of photoshop and test it to it's limit. I am still on dial up so the only thing I miss is my internet connection. But I am sharing it from an older machine until I get DSL or Cable.

Leopard Spotted

2007-06-21T17:25:00.000-07:00

Developers attending the World Wide Developers Conference left San Francisco with tomorrow in their hands. A near final version of Mac OS X Leopard. Scheduled to ship this October, the world’s most advanced operating system comes with more than 300 new features designed to make it easier—and more enjoyable—to work and play on your Mac.

Among the innovative features coming to your Mac in Leopard, you’ll enjoy:

•	A new Desktop that features a translucent menu bar and reflective Dock with Stacks, folders that help you keep your desktop clutter-free.
•	A new Finder that makes browsing files as easy as browsing music in iTunes, letting you quickly scan documents in Cover Flow or find them instantly using Spotlight and its new pre-built smart searches.
•	Quick Look, a magical new way to get, well, a quick look at your documents—photos (even RAW images), text files, Keynote presentations, PDFs, Excel files, QuickTime movies, Word files—without opening them.
•	Time Machine, which introduces an entirely new—and effortless—way to maintain an up-to-date copy of everything on your Mac: invoices, music, photos, TV shows, and other documents.
•	Spaces, a great new version of Mail, next-generation video chatting with iChat, and many other new features make their debut in the sixth major release of Mac OS X this October.

Wiki and Blogs for Education

2007-06-04T00:03:00.000-07:00

I recently went to a conference in south dakota called TIE which is a yearly technology workshop. They are starting to embrase the things our kids love to do at sites like bebo, myspace, facebook and other site. These are not new concepts it is just something the kids do now. They nolonger hang out at the arcade they hang out online and type message to each other. The real question is how do we get our teacher, staff, parents and administrator to embrace this way of communicating. I dont have the answer but I know that we can moderate our intranet and setup stuff like wordpress (multiuser) or built in apple server blog software.

I like the Joomla for content managment software with its variety of modules and components.

Summer Starting

2007-05-24T10:47:00.000-07:00

We are out of school here at the Todd County School District. I will be teaching one class called IWeb 6.0 for Beginners. This is apple computers Ilife product which intergrates the Ilife suite into an easy to use website maker. The only draw back it that it does not have an ftp client. So, you need to down load Fetch or Cyberduck and upload the content to the webserver of your choice.

TIE new blog spot

2007-04-17T13:53:00.000-07:00

Tie has three new blogspot at blogger.com

All can be reached from the TIE site

TIE Lead
TIE Tech
TIE Teach

TIE Conference

2007-04-17T11:39:00.000-07:00

Going to attend the TIE conference in Rapid City this year looking forward to the Web 2.0 indepth workshop on Sunday.

EAS 6 - TCSD Powerpoint

2007-02-16T10:34:00.000-08:00

Here is a link to the powerpoint that I used during the Web 2.0 presentation

http://www.corebasis.com/web2/

Tutor room

2007-02-09T13:15:00.005-08:00

Tutorom

Not yet out, but looks like a good design and is set to be released in beta

skrbl (skribble)

2007-02-09T12:51:00.002-08:00

skrbl: easy to share online whiteboard

An online whiteboard cool give it a try

Web desktop

2007-01-31T07:06:00.002-08:00

Desktoptwo

Want to take you desktop with you - this could be the answer

Netvibes - Webportal

2007-01-25T10:55:00.000-08:00

Do you want to have your own personal webportal or share one with your classroom. Sign up at

http://www.netvibes.com/

a great site

YourGMap

2007-01-24T10:00:00.002-08:00

YourGMap

Make a map of your local community or other places

YOURGMAP

2007-01-24T09:57:00.002-08:00

YourGMap - Todd County School District

YourGMap of the Todd County School District including GPS coordinates

Edublog

2007-01-18T11:12:00.002-08:00

edublogs.org - free blogs for education professionals | Free blogs for teachers, librarians, researchers, writers, lecturers and other professionals involved with education

weblog blog for teacher, librarians, or ed professionals also student (see your Internet Access Policy)

Teacher site

2007-01-18T10:54:00.002-08:00

Web 2.0 Tools

weblog, podcast, web 2 tools etc

global campus

2007-01-16T22:31:00.002-08:00

The Global Campus

teaching and learning resource

Online Presentation

2007-01-12T14:25:00.001-08:00

Presentation Creation, Management and Sharing: Empressr by Fusebox

Don't want to carry around a powerpoint try this online presentation site.

Iphone

2007-01-12T08:25:00.002-08:00

Apple - iPhone

A Mac phone I want one

Online Quiz

2007-01-11T13:31:00.002-08:00

Quizlet › The End of Flashcards

Flash cards

2007-01-05T12:10:00.000-08:00

Flash Cards - The Amazing Flash Card Machine

The Amazing Flash Card Machine is an interactive web application that allows the user to create interactive web-based study flash cards. Students! Create flash cards to help you study for your next exam. Make them publicly available, and your classmates can study from the same set. Teachers! Create flash card sets for your students. Assign each set of flash cards their own unique username and password giving your students access without having to register.

Page Flakes

2007-01-05T11:54:00.000-08:00

Pageflakes - The whole Web at your Fingertips!

Personalized webpage!

New to tucows

2007-01-05T11:44:00.000-08:00

Web 2.0 Downloads - Shareware and Freeware Software

Links to different web 2.0 sites

google for educators

2007-01-04T20:41:00.000-08:00

Google For Educators

A site for teachers

MAMP

2007-01-04T16:00:00.000-08:00

MAMP

This stands for Macintosh Apache Mysql and Php for the Mac Osx this is one of the great open source tool that has made dynamic webpages possible.

visual composer

2007-01-04T06:54:00.000-08:00

t.y.p.o.r.g.a.n.i.s.m : Visual Composer

interesting musical composer on the web

Elearning resource

2007-01-03T14:12:00.000-08:00

TerenceOnline: An eLearning Resource CenterA resource center and blog to help you stay informed with what's going on in web 2.0, technology, education, and eLearning pedagogy.

TerenceOnline: An eLearning Resource Center

Hacking Knowledge: Article

2007-01-03T14:11:00.000-08:00

Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and BetterPublished on Thursday 30th of November, 2006knowledgeIf someone granted you one wish, what do you imagine you would want out of life that you haven't gotten yet? For many people, it would be self-improvement and knowledge. New knowledge is the backbone of society's progress. Great thinkers such as Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and others' quests for knowledge have led society to many of the marvels we enjoy today. Your quest for knowledge doesn't have to be as Earth-changing as Einstein's, but it can be an important part of your life, leading to a new job, better pay, a new hobby, or simply knowledge for knowledge's sake — whatever is important to you as an end goal.Life-changing knowledge does typically require advanced learning techniques. In fact, it's been said that the average adult only uses 10% of his/her brain. Imagine what we may be capable of with more advanced learning techniques. Here are 77 tips related to knowledge and learning to help you on your quest. A few are specifically for students in traditional learning institutions; the rest for self-starters, or those learning on their own. Happy learning.

Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better | OEDb

ZOHO productivity tools

2007-01-03T13:27:00.000-08:00

Online Productivity Applications, Web Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Presentations and More

Frapper Map

2007-01-03T12:59:00.000-08:00

To check out frappr.com

Online tips

2007-01-03T08:25:00.000-08:00

Daytipper: Welcome to Daytipper

ONline tips created by users.

Group collaboration

2007-01-03T08:20:00.000-08:00

Grouptivity : Categories : Team Communications

looks like a great tool to collaborate with parents, etc.

Go2Web20.net

2007-01-03T08:05:00.000-08:00

Go2Web20.net - The complete Web 2.0 directory.

This is a great starting point for overall web2.0 applications.

Yahoo's beta web 2.0 site

2007-01-03T07:41:00.000-08:00

My Web BETA - Interesting Today - Yahoo!

Go 2 Web 2.0

2006-12-20T12:00:00.000-08:00

Go2Web20.net - The complete Web 2.0 directory.

This is a great graphical link to Web 2.0 resources

Furl

2006-12-20T11:35:00.000-08:00

LookSmart's Furl - Popular Headlines

Online bookmark and shared bookmark site.

Flock

2006-12-20T09:42:00.000-08:00

Flock is an essential tool in the Web 2.0 world. It is socially interactive with program such as blogger.com, myspace (block by tcsd), flicker, and others

check out http://www.flock.com

1st blog

2006-12-20T09:27:00.000-08:00

Working on a variety of web and technical stuff at the TCSD this is a blog made for the inservice participants at TCSD Feb in service on Web 2.0 information for teachers. I will post a variety of Web 2.0 links here.