[Nesabes] 3 good sites where teachers can learn tech skills

[Ball, Patrice]

This article is from Free Technology for Teachers - Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Three Good Sites Where Teachers Can Learn Tech Skills<http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/09/three-good-sites-where-teachers-can.html>

One of the obstacles that some teachers face when trying to use technology in their classrooms for the first time is lack of comfort and or confidence with technology. That's where folks like me can be helpful<http://www.freetech4teachers.com/p/work-with-me.html> in getting teachers started on the path to comfort and confidence with technology tools to use in their classrooms. While it's great to be able to get some one-on-one attention, a person new to using technology in the classroom often needs some handy digital or print resources to consult when an expert isn't available. For those times here are three good places to look.

[cid:image001.png at 01CC784F.AD81DBA0]<http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TkhlSyyP58U/TIBBt8Rj1-I/AAAAAAAAHSw/ciHwAcBuAMc/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-09-01+at+1.17.13+PM.png>Think Tutorial<http://thinktutorial.com/> is a site providing free, easy to follow tutorials on a variety of web services and software. On Think Tutorial<http://thinktutorial.com/> you will find tutorials for taking advantage of the many features of popular email services like Gmail, Apple Mail, Hotmail, and Yahoo mail. You will also find tutorials for using iWork and Word. Want to learn how to use LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook? Think Tutorial has you covered there too. Need to know how to alter settings in your favorite web browser? Think Tutorial has tutorials for that too.

[cid:image002.png at 01CC784F.AD81DBA0]<http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TkhlSyyP58U/TE2HGp-5eII/AAAAAAAAHC4/eGBluFvkNrU/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-07-26+at+8.59.11+AM.png>Learn It In 5<http://www.learnitin5.com/> is a relatively a site authored by Mark Barnes<http://twitter.com/#%21/markbarnes19> that features short how-to videos for teachers. The videos are intended to help teachers quickly learn how to use some of the the web tools are essential to being a successful user of classroom technology. The videos cover tools like Skype<http://skype.com/>, Diigo<http://diigo.com/>, VoiceThread<http://voicethread.com/>, and more. The latest video from Learn It In 5 is embedded below.


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If printable guides are more your speed, Make Use Of<http://www.makeuseof.com/> offers dozens of free downloadable ebooks<http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/download> and cheat sheets<http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/downloads> for a wide variety of software and web applications. You will find guides for making the most out of your iPad, guides for learning the ins and outs of computer hardware, and much much more. The cheat sheets are handy reference guides for shortcuts on Windows and Mac computers as well as on a handful of commonly used web tools.

One last resource that I have to point out is my own collection of helpful Google tools tutorials<http://www.freetech4teachers.com/p/google-tools-tutorials.html>. You'll find more than thirty tutorials on that page<http://www.freetech4teachers.com/p/google-tools-tutorials.html>. Some of the tutorials were created by me and others were not.


Patty Ball, Reg. Technology Coordinator
NorthEast SABES c/o NECC
360 Merrimack St., bldg K 4th Flr
Lawrence, MA 01843
978-659-1277

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