Tech Tools and Tips
March 2014
Building Group Email Lists
Netflix - Not in the Classroom
This means you can not use Netflix in your classroom. Netflix is blocked in our district.
There are other tools you can use! Check out this list!
BrainPop, BrainPop Jr, BrainPop EspaƱol
YouTube -
If you use YouTube there are several ways to show the video clip without all the junk around the video.
Interactive Posters - Buncee
Buncee allows you to create an account with your MJSD Google email address. The free account allows you to create presentations that are 2 slides, gives you 500MB of storage and you can save your finished product as a jpeg file.
Add a background, images which hyperlinks, videos from YouTube, provided audio clips, text, drawings and stickers/stamps.
Record your Lessons and Voice Easily
To start this program, go to the Start menu in the bottom left corner and in the search box type recorder. Select the video camera icon that comes up called Recorder. The recorder controls will launch in the top left corner of your screen.
Press the Red Record button to being recording your actions and words. Press the Blue Stop or Pause button to end or pause the recording.
The file will save with the date you recorded on as a Windows Media Video File (.wmv). These files can be attached to emails or posted on Moodle, Edmodo or on your district provided website.
Finding Recorder in the Start Menu
SMART Recorder Controls
Shorten your Long URL with Google Shortener
If you are logged into your Google email in another tab, you will automatically be logged into Google URL Shortener. If not, log in. Benefits of being logged in is that you can look back on all the URLs you have shortened, see their shortened URL to share again, see the date you shortened it, see the number of clicks the URL received, and even get a QR code to use for that URL.
To use Google URL Shortener it is as simple as 1 - 2 - 3!
Sarah Loughrin
Past Tech Newsletters
November 2013Email: loughrins@mjsd.k12.wi.us
Website: http://www.mjsd.k12.wi.us/teachers/Sarah-Loughrin.aspx
Phone: 920-967-1619
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