Archive for the Category ◊ Internet ◊

20 Mar 2010 What’s Your Story
Author: Dominic Tremblay |  Category: Information Technology, Internet, Technology  | Leave a Comment

“What’s Your Story” is a website dedicated to Internet Safety. It takes the form of a video context in which student are encourage to upload their own video about being safe and smart online. Although the contest ends on April 30th, 2010, there are many information useful on this website once the contest is over including sample stories and videos from students, a video gallery and tips for kids and families on how to stay safe while surfing on the Internet. It addresses the issues of cyberbullying, sexting, scams and spam. It encourages students to keep a good rep online, to stay clear of unwanted contact, to access content that’s age-appropriate and to keep the cybercriminals out.

26 Oct 2009 Boolify.org
Author: Dominic Tremblay |  Category: Computer Science, Information Technology, Internet  | One Comment

boolifyBoolify.org is a very cool little tool to help your student learn about boolean searches. There are lessons including a YouTube video about boolean operators as well as Microsoft Words documents about Using Basic Boolean Search Operators, Refining search results, Using Advanced Google Features and Evaluating Websites and other information sources. Then the student can use a nice drag and drop interface to create his or her own boolean search using AND, NOT, OR and URL. A great tool for librarians or computer science teachers.

23 Oct 2009 100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School
Author: Dominic Tremblay |  Category: Information Technology, Internet  | One Comment

This website is a nice collection of tips on how to use Google services in a school context. These tips have been compiled by “On-line colleges” and include tips for searching, tips for Gmail, tips for education, tips for Google Docs, tips for Google Mobile, tips for Google book and many Google services and apps. Did you know that you can use Google SketchUp to do 3D design with your students, or blogger to produce your own classroom blog, or Google Notebook to take and organize your notes?

28 Apr 2009 Presentations ETC
Author: Dominic Tremblay |  Category: Computer Science, Information Technology, Internet  | 2 Comments

presentationsAre you getting bored with the few backgrounds and templates that are included with Microsoft PowerPoint or with Apple Keynote? Presentations ETC might just be the website you need to spice up your presentations. This site is totally free for teachers to use and the  license agreement is very friendly. On this website, you will find over 20,000 background to use in your presentation in both 800 x 600 and 1024 x 768 formats. Categories include nature, metal, architecture, stone, texture, technology and urban.

If you prefer to have a full template instead of just a simple bacgkround, you can also find one on this websites. It includes over 30 templates for both PowerPoint for the Mac and Windows. If you are using Apple Keynote, it also includes over 30 templates compatible with Keynote. The website is Produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology (College of Education, University of South Florida)

28 Mar 2009 YouTube Edu
Author: Dominic Tremblay |  Category: Guidance, Internet, Multimedia  | Leave a Comment

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In the past few months, I presented many video sharing website that looked and worked like YouTube, but that were dedicated to education rather than general video. It seems that YouTube has decided to do that by itself by now offering a section on YouTube with videos from colleges and universities called YouTube Edu. The videos are mostly professionally produced and although some are mostly promotional about programs offered at these colleges and universities, some of them have good educational value. Many of these videos could be used in high school as a way for students to explore careers and post-secondary education.

26 Mar 2009 Study Stack
Author: Dominic Tremblay |  Category: Information Technology, Internet, Lesson Planning  | Leave a Comment

study-stack-enToday, this resource is a little treasure for your students who need some help with studying. Both students and teachers can use it. Study Stack is a website that lets you enter data that you need to memorize for a test (or just because you want to remember it). Once the data is entered, you can easily produce flashcards, study stack, study table, matching exercise, hangman game, crossword, word search game, unscramble game, fill in the blank and a bug match game. The best thing is that you can even export the data and games for various portable devices such as the iPhone or the iPod. You can also get embed code of the flashcards to include them on your website. Your Study Stacks are available to other users and you can access the Study Stacks produced by other users. You need to create an account to produce your own data, but the site is compatible with Facebook connect. Students can access your content without creating an account. On the picture to the left, I created a Study Stack about the Canadian provinces capital.

22 May 2007 Cyberwise
Author: Dominic Tremblay |  Category: Information Technology, Internet  | Leave a Comment

Whether you are a parent, a teacher or a social worker, Cyberwise will certainly be a very useful resource if you have children or students using the Internet. Children and teenagers are using the Internet more and more yet, they don’t seem to be aware of the dangers in that world. They are giving out personal information to stranger, something they would never do when they go downtown. The website includes five section: one for children, one for teens, one for parents, one for teachers and one for professionals.

Teens are often more knowledgeable than parents and teachers when it comes to the on-line world. It is necessary for parents and teachers to get to know more the Internet in order to guide children and teens in using the Internet safely. Luring has been a common problem on the Internet, however, recently, cyberbullying has increased in secondary schools. Sometimes, the bullying comes from people they know at school or in their classroom, not from strangers. Teachers need to be aware that some of the bullying in their class may not happen in their classroom or at recess time, but in a virtual world. The website offers many videos that may be used in the classroom to make students think and start discussions.