Tapestry Conference
Useful Links For Shoestring Budgets
Online Quizzes and Gradebooks:
Using Integrade to Send Progress Reports
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Online Quizzes and Gradebooks:
- Mygradebook.com (guest passwords: future/12345 or granite/12345)
- http://www.mygradebook.com/
- yearly cost ~$40, secure
- UPDATE: Unfortunately, as of July 31, 2013, MyGradeBook will be closing. I have been using the Quizlab portion of this site for 11 of the 12 years they have been online and I'm quite distressed that this valuable learning tool will disappear. I am currently exploring affordable options and would welcome any suggestions. (10/10/11) - Moodle (Demo Site)
- http://demo.moodle.net/
- free, complete course management platform, complex, requires local IT support
- UPDATE: Blackboard is offering free individual teacher sites. NO IT support needed.
For more info visit http://www.coursesites.com/webapps/Bb-sites-course-creation-BBLEARN/pages/index.html.
- Weebly Webs (sample - SCT11 Weebly Web)
- http://www.weebly.com/
- free, educator options, easy to use - Google Websites (sample - SCT11 Google Web)
- sites.google.com/
- free, many options, not particularly user friendly - not drag and drop - Google Chrome (sample - try connecting to bcesis)
- www.google.com/chrome
- no frills, fewer web editing issues and conflicts with bcesis, weebly + google docs
- GROUP - Google Docs
(sample SCT11 Workspace and PPP and Online)
- docs.google.com/
- presentations, forms, word processing
- supports multiple users - INDIVIDUAL - Weebly Webs
(sample http://sct11zero.weebly.com/ or http://sct11one.weebly.com/)
- activated through the teacher account websites created by students are password protected (for sample webs above use "explode")
- students use http://students.weebly.com plus their username and password to edit
- Downloading and Saving Videos From YouTube
- Go to http://keepvid.com/
- copy/paste url then use "Save Target As" when results are listed - Portable Apps
- Operate your thumb drive or portable hard drive independent from your old computer system. - VLC Portable
- handles most video formats
- full version VLC not recommended by presenter
(it may make itself the default player and conflict with other codecs)
Using Integrade to Send Progress Reports
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Science Dept. Website: http://bssscience.weebly.com/
Belmont Secondary Website: http://belmont.sd62.bc.ca/