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EdTech Moment 55: OSAlt.com
October 07, 2013

Last week we took a look at an open-source alternative to Microsoft office called Open Office, but then I realized that we haven't talked about what open-source software is. Today we're going to talk about open source software and take a look at a websit

Episode 54: Open Office
October 01, 2013

Welcome back to EdTech Moment.  Microsoft Office has been the standard tool for office productivity, but today we will look at a free, open source alternative called Open Office.  This office suite can be downloaded for free for either Mac or Windows f...

Episode 53: Air Parrot
September 22, 2013

Greeting and welcome back to EdTech Moment. Today is the first in a series looking at the Apple TV in the classroom, and today we're going to look at a tool that you can use to share your laptop screen whether it's a Mac or a Windows PC on your Apple T...

Episode 52: Grand Perspective
September 09, 2013

Grand Perspective is a utility that gives you a graphical view of the files on your computer so that you can easily find and delete large files that are taking up too much space on your hard drive.

Episode 51: Nearpod
March 07, 2013

Nearpod is a free app that allows you to share a presentation in real time on student devices. When you swipe to to the next slide, student devices automatically switch to the next slide. Use Nearpod to collect student data--students can draw over an imag

Episode 50: Embedding Google Presentations – Part 2
March 05, 2013

In today's episode we continue looking at how to embed Google Presentations, but this time using the iFrame embed code rather than just using the Google Sites integration. - As with before we want to start with the presentation already uploaded to yo...

Episode 49: Embedding Google Presentations
February 28, 2013

Welcome back to Edtech Moment.   I this episode we look at how to embed Google Presentations into you Google Sites. - We start by getting our presentations into your Google Drive. You can either create your presentation in your drive,

Episode 48: Embedding Google Forms – Part 2
February 21, 2013

A couple episodes ago I showed how simple it was to embed your Google forms into your Google site because the two tools work so well together.  But not everyone uses the Google Sites for their class website.  Can you still embed your Google Forms?

Episode 47: EasyBib.com
February 13, 2013

Easybib.com is a great site for teaching your students to create MLA citiations. Just copy and paste the URL of the site that you want to reference and EasyBib will search the site and collect the information that it needs to create the citation. Any info

Episode 46: Embedding Google Forms
February 12, 2013

Welcome back to Edtech Moment.  In this episode we will pick up where we left off last time and look at how to embed Google Forms into your Google Site. This can be a great way to get feedback from your students.