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Welcome to the TRIO Tech Talk Blog, a source for news and views on Technology in the TRIO Community. Keep up with the latest Tech trends and learn how to to use technology more effectively in your TRIO program. Join us in creating a vibrant discussion in which we all benefit!
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Edmodo provides a FREE, safe and easy way for your students to connect, collaborate, and access information. Unlike facebook, Edmodo uses a secure interface to provide a safe social media environment for students and staff. It also provides a lot of resources and support. Check out the Edmodo Blog for Best Practices and other important tips and print out the User Guide below.
A FREE global community where students, experts, and educators can collaborate on projects as well as find a library of new ideas.
TRIO students must learn 21st Century technology and collaboration skills. With Skype for Education they can connect globally to different cultures, languages, and ideas. They can attend a virtual field trip, or talk with scientists…the possibilities are endless.
With the growth of the use of tablets like the Apple iPad, we have gotten frequent questions about what the best set of basic applications that one might consider that would be either free or affordable for most programs and students. What follows is a brief list of some of the iPad applications that have been used and recommended by others. Any reference to a specific product or service is not an endorsement but rather an example of the kinds of programs that are available for use. A simple $100 budget can provide a lot of functionality for an iPad.
WordPress is a free content management system that can be used to create and manage websites or blogs. This very blog runs on WordPress! You can start a WordPress site either by creating an account and have it hosted at WordPress.com, or by downloading the software through WordPress.org and installing it on your own server.
There is no need to learn web programming languages like HTML or graphic programs like Adobe Photoshop to create a WordPress site because WordPress comes with a great visual editor and has a library of themes to choose from that you can install. Getting a WordPress website or blog up and running is simpler and easier than you may think!
WordPress can also be connected to Twitter and Facebook, so every time you publish a new post, the information will propagate across your social media. Since more and more programs and educational insitution are using social media as a way to distribute information, I have shared with you on how to do this below. Read the rest of this entry »
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This post shows an easy way to create word cloud graphics and screen capture video tutorials. The graphic above is a word cloud generated from topics presented at the CUE (Computer-Using Educators) Conference in California this March. We created it in a few simple steps: Read the rest of this entry »
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