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Tammy's Tech Tips and Tricks
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Random name picker: input vocabulary words, one student clicks the button, gets a word, and then uses yes or no questions to get the other student to guess the word, you could put in math facts or problems

Worksheetworks.com: helpful work sheets that are customizable that come out to you in PDF you can even make labels, math problems – horizontal or vertical, It is beta version and free now.

http://fur.ly/ Shorten multiple URLs into one

Weblist – You do need an account, but not students. Enter the URLs of the website you want your students to visit. This whole list ends up being a short address. They also see a small screen of each website. When they go to a website there are forward/back buttons to move through the sites you have chosen.

QR Codes: can be scanned by phones, computers, and other mobile devices. and read. They take you to places online. Billboard: QR codes that lead you to a site to download Sidoku games or free books.

How to create QR Codes: Go to Kaywa website to generate codes You can also go to Goo.gl, get a shortened address from Google, paste that shortened URL into the address bar and add just .qr This will generate a QR Code What for: Create QR codes that lead Lead to information about me on my business card
 * See Tammy Tip 96 for ideas about using QR codes**

My Avatar Editor – no login required – You can save Avatars and load them back in. Use the avatars to: Create and print and write poems poems about themselves All About Mii

Students write a new character and write a story about that character, or write a detailed description or create avatar from description

Use these to discuss genetics in Science

If you export them as a PNG then you don’t have a background and can place the avatar on a background and add a speech bubble. Blank Keynote slide with photo, add avatar, add info or speech bubble, in the blood stream, on the moon

Create historic figure, place on appropriate background, record their voices being the character.

Drawing programs: Imagination Cubed – there is a replay button so they can watch themselves redraw There is a send button. They can email the file without their own email. If they have an email address they can draw together Students draw an insect and label it.

Odo Sketch

Slow – thin line Fast – fat line If you click a sample picture you can see how it was created A good way to learn about the composition of artwork

Put in the chords you want played, then put in instruments you want to play the chords C Aminor F C
 * JamStudio** for music creation

Can loop, and add more instruments playing the same music.

You can choose a favorite artist and make a song in their style. If you want to save songs and keep working on them then you have to create a free account. To gain free access through a grant for educators fill out grant. Write a rap about something in social studies

 **Copy Paste Character**  Easy-to-get icons and special text characters [] Just click on a character and you see yellow. Then go wherever you need it and paste it in. These are text characters, not pictures and will resize with text.

 **WolframAlpha**  Computational Knowledge Engine [] Search engine that brings back answers, not links, it will do complex math, 2x+10=30 it will show a graph, solution, if you put in Chicago it will return infor about Chicago, if you put in Chicago and Illinois it will compare those two, If you put in a date it will tell things happened on that day, there are examples

Evernote.com Set up an account, Evernote saves and synchronizes stuff for you to your phone. Download it to your computers and it synchronizes things between computers. If you do a screen capture on your computer of say a map or phone number, it will sync this to my phone.

It moves info back and forth very quickly. Devices sync quickly.

You can audio notes too. You can go to any computer in the world, go to Evernote, and all of your things will be there.

You can also share things with others on Evernote

It also does OCR It can find a word from a handwritten list and highlight it.

DropBox: Syncronize files, access from any machine in the world