Technology
Integration
at Harwood
Our Commitment:
Our Technology Department is committed to helping students and teachers use educational technology in order to support continued and onging learning.
Teachers already use Skype to connect with other classrooms around the globe, bring in guest speakers without asking them to travel, and take virtual field trips. Now, Skype is making it easier for them to do so.
The company launched Skype in the Classroom, a dedicated teacher network, on Tuesday. Using the platform, teachers can create profiles that describe their classes and teaching interests. They can also search a directory of teachers from all over the world by student age range, language and subject.
Since the beta version launched in December, about 4,000 teachers have signed up. Many of them have used the network to coordinate Skype projects with other schools....
Learn how to replicate a rubirc on Google Forms, save it as a Google Template, and use it over and over again for peer assessment. The beauty of this set-up is the rich data that the student being assessed automatically receives after the particular performance.
Imagine your hard drive just crashed or your laptop was stolen. Do you have all of your important files backed up somewhere? If not, then Dropbox is a must have. Dropbox allows you to simultaneously save your documents, images, music, and video files to your computer's hard drive AND to the cloud. If your hard drive crashes or your laptop is stolen, then all of your important files will be there in the cloud waiting for you. Dropbox also allows you to share your files, large and small, with anybody via the web. Click 'Read More' to see a tutorial on how to set up this effective and FREE tool!
Interested in 8 free web-based tools you and your students can use without having to remember a single new username or password. Then check out this amazing resource - Youtube Create!
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