3. • Curriculum Director @
Montana Digital Academy
• High School Teacher
• Professional Development Guy
• Doctoral Student @
the University of Montana
• Blogging:
http://www.techsavvyteacher.com
• Shameless Self-Promotion:
http://www.neiffer.com
• Tweeting: @techsavvyteach
5. • Less is more; using a single set of integrated
tools over a diverse set of tools
• Adopt the Foo one step at a time; don’t adopt
everything at once!
• Adopt tools with a purpose, not a tool for
tool’s sake
• Pick one tool today to try; then come back to
the presentation later and try more!
6.
7. Tool Dossier
Google Search
• Google’s core project… and the inspiration
for the popular culture lexicon: “I just
Googled you…”
• Market’s dominate search engine
• The vast majority is simple search
without using the most powerful aspects of
the search engine
22. Tool Dossier
Gmail
• Free
• First email service to provide massive
storage; over 7gb of space for each
account today
• Even better as part of the Google Apps
for your domain
• You can use Gmail as an email client for
other email addresses (link in presentation
notes)
34. Tool Dossier
Google Documents
• Free
• Built around collaboration and public sharing
• New versions rolling out this fall; even
more functional
• For online teachers: Google Documents is a
wonderful content repository!
62. Tool Dossier
Google Voice
• Free service
• Local numbers available across the United
State (although not necessarily in your local
prefix)
• Forward to one or more numbers
• Voicemails sent to email
• Voicemail transcription
• Can be used with some call carriers for
free long distance calling (see presentation
notes)