Tech Tools and Tips
May 2014
Portrait and Landscape in Google Docs
1. Open a Google Doc.
2. Click on the File menu and go all the way down to Page Setup.
3. Select Landscape to change the page layout. (You can also change the page color and the size of the margins.)
4. Click the OK button to apply these changes.
Easy and Quick Tools to Survey/Quiz your Students
All of the tools below have a free account for you to use. There are some limitations to these accounts but nothing too extreme. If you have any questions on how to use any of these tools, please feel free to contact me at hannemans@mjsd.k12.wi.us and we can work through them together.
An idea to use this at any level is to create a competition to review content between students and school principals or a district superintendent.
Kahoot
There is an iOs and an Android app for this tool.
Socrative
There is an iOs and an Android app for this tool.
Poll Everywhere
Padlet - Online Bulletin Board
Padlet is a way to create an online bulletin board that teachers and students can post links, videos, images and document files on. The creator of the board can make it public or private. On a public board the creator can specify who can and cannot post. On a private board the creator can make the board be password protected.
Use Padlet to create a bulletin board with your links and videos for a lesson or unit. Students have access to the board to view items you put on it and can even add their own information they locate about the content (if you give them permission to post on the board)
How to use Padlet - http://goo.gl/FGoQLT
Check out the link below to see more ideas of how to use Padlet as an online bulletin board. Tom Barrett’s Interesting Ways series includes a slideshow of 32 ways to use Padlet. You can find that slideshow at http://bitly.com/wallwisher32.
Free and Easy Video Conferencing
There is no login needed and nothing to download. You can video conference with up to 8 different people/groups. What you need is a computer/laptop with a built in web camera or a web camera you plug into your computer.
Step 1 - Create your room by picking a name
Step 2 - Give access to your webcam
Step 3 - Share the link for the room (top left corner of the screen)
Step 4 - Video chat
Sarah (Loughrin) Hanneman
Email: loughrins@mjsd.k12.wi.us
Website: http://www.mjsd.k12.wi.us/teachers/Sarah-Loughrin.aspx
Phone: 920-967-1619
Twitter: @Loughrins