10 Things to do in the Cloud

Randy Schultz California State University Bakersfield

1.

Doodlewww.doodle.com

Schedule Meetings

•Like PLCs

•Send a set of days to participants via email

•They show their free times

•Sample

2.

JingJingproject

Capture and Share

•Capture image or movement

•share via a link

•sample

3.

SlideBoomwww.slideboom.com

Post PPTs to the Web

•Post to the web

•Converts PowerPoint to a web based app

•Creates an embed link (important later)

•sample

4.

Preziwww.prezi.com

Beyond PowerPoint

• Create astonishing presentations live and on the web

• Online tool

• Free to educators

• Sample

5.

Voice Threadwww.voicethread.com

Collaborative Presentations

• A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.

6.

Diigowww.diigo.com

Organize the Internet

•More than Social Bookmarking

•Short video

•Demonstration

•Plus: Diigo has teacher support

7.

YouTube/Viemowww.youtube.com www.viemo.com

Places to Post and Collect Videos

•Not school friendly

•Way around / copyright issues

•Requires home access

•Sometimes you can get a video unblocked

•Alternate site: TeacherTube

8.

Evernotewww.evernote.com

Remember Everything

•Build “Notebooks” of documents / files

•Multiple devices

•Collaborative

•Sample

9.

Google Docswww.docs.google.com

Lots to Do

•Documents

•Spreadsheets

•Presentations

•Surveys (forms)

•other things

•Survey (http://tinyurl.com/458qcc9)

10.

Dropboxwww.dropbox.com

Store and Share

•Easy way to share files of all sorts

•Great backup

•The one I use the most

•www.dropbox.com

•Public File (http://db.tt/pJ34YJv)

additional places• Skype

• flickr

• myfitnesspal

• Google Earth

• Twitter

• Kindle

• Pandora

• Jamando

• RunKeeper

• yousendit

• buzzword

• photobucket

Thank you!

•http://rschultz.pbworks.com

•http://public.iwork.com/document/?a=p1426355049&d=Cue_2011.key