Download Creating Online Communications for Students and Families

Creating Online
Communications
for Students and Families
1) Please log in to your computers. In this lab,
you must enter “princeton\” before your
username.
----For example, mine is: princeton\msand .
2) Please check your email from me.
Topics in this presentation
• Progressbook, Viking Mail, Edmodo,
Weebly , QR Code Generator
• Free online images and videos
• Free software training through Atomic
Learning to build your technology skills
• Free Princeton logos and artwork that you can
upload to your own online sites
What are your goals for using
online communications?
• Introduce yourself as a professional and
provide contact information
• Post class and school information (syllabus,
assignments, schedule, special events)
• Link to additional content area or
technology resources
• Post exemplary student work
**Please follow the link in the email that I
sent you to complete a one-question survey.
**FORUM
Web-based
Resources
to Organize
your
information
Progressbook
Vikingmail
Edmodo
Weebly
Web address (Hold the CTRL
key and select one of these links
with your mouse.)
http://www.princetonscho
ols.net/
http://www.princetonsch
ools.net/
www.edmodo.com
http://education.weeb
ly.com/edfeatures.php
Cost to Educator
Free
Free
Free
-Free and Pro
Versions available
-extra cost to publish
your site
Post text
X
X
X
X
Post files and images
X
X
X
X
X
X
Post Video
Blog
X (Blogger)
X
Chat
X
X
Builds forms, polls,
questionnaires
X
X
Interactive calendar option
X
X (post due dates)
X
Provides test making software
Provides a gradebook
X
X
X
Easily arrange layout of each
webpage/ easy to organize info
Allows grouping of members
X
X
X
X
Possible for a teacher to track
traffic of site visits
Image editor
X
Tech Support
X
X
X
X
X
X
Progressbook- on the gradebook page
under “Post Homepage”
• Advantages:
• Similar to tools you will
find on Microsoft Word
• Post Text
• Post (1) image
• Provides a grade book
• Help is available at the
top right of the screen
• Disadvantages:
• Only one picture per
page
• Cannot insert clip art,
video or audio
• Only several fonts to use
• Cannot link to another
Progressbook page
Viking Mail
http://www.princetonschools.net/
• Advantages:
• Email/Gmail:
– chat
• Calendar
– You can give others permission to schedule your
calendar
– Mobile notifications
– On the left> go to my calendar>settings>labs for new
opportunities
• Documents
– Text/Word--- With Google Cloud Connect 
– Presentation/PowerPoint
– Spreadsheet/Excel
– Drawing/Paint
– Form (poll/questionnaire)
• (Web) Sites
– Post text
– Post files and images
• Google Groups
– Discussions online or in email
• Tech Support
– Docs-https://docs.google.com/support/
– Mail-https://mail.google.com/support/
– Siteshttps://support.google.com/sites/bin/answer.py?answ
er=153055
Vikingmail
• Disadvantages:
• No video upload enabled at school
• If you build a site here and then leave the district, you
cannot save your completed project to take with you.
• Sometimes Google Docs has complications
– Documents will not upload
– Have trouble sharing documents
-It’s possible Viking Mail works better with a Google
Chrome browser (free download)
• Advantages:
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Edmodo
www.edmodo.com
Post text/comments, files, images, Video
Chat
Builds forms, polls, questionnaires
Provides test making software
Provides a gradebook (can be exported to Progressbook)
Easily arrange easy to organize information into the library
Allows grouping of members
Possible for a teacher to track traffic of site visits
• Tech Support
• As a teacher, you can join professional communities based
on topics that you choose
• Disadvantages:
• The library can be difficult to reorganize
once documents are added
• Requires some monitoring unless you limit
students’ permissions to “read-only”
http://education.weebly.com/ed-features.php
Advantages
• Free for Educators
• Post text (titles, paragraphs, entire documents)
• Post links to files and images
• Post Video – can be viewed online
• Blog
• Chat/Forum
• Builds forms, polls, questionnaires
• Provides test making software
• Provides a gradebook
• Easily arrange layout of each webpage/ easy to organize info
• Allows grouping of members
• Possible for a teacher to track traffic of site visits
• Image editor
• Tech Support
• Disadvantages:
• Weebly Pro
$2.50-$3.33/month for access to:
-video, embedded documents, audio
• Register the domain/publish your site online
$40-$50/year
QR Code Generator
QR codes are similar to the UPC codes on packaging.
They can help your student access any web links with their
smartphones.
One example of a free QR generator:
http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
Free online
images and
videos
1.Stock Images/Clip Art
2. Tools to create/edit images
www.Freefoto.com
http://www.melissasand.com/create-artonline.html
www.Picasa.com
www.Stockvault.net
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/
http://free-clipart.net/
http://www.free-graphics.com/clipart/
http://www.gifs.net/gif/
http://www.amazing-animations.com/
3. Video Capture
These products will
capture a short video
of whatever it is that
you are
demonstrating on the
screen:
- Jing (Free and Pro versions)
http://www.techsmith.com/ji
ng.html
- www.camstudio.org
Click here to
see a new
library of free
PHS Photos!
Thanks to
Lonnie D!!
File types to use online
• Graphics- .jpeg, .png, .gif
• Audio– .wav (higher quality-uncompressed)
– .mp3 (lower quality)
• Video– .swf (Flash)
– .mpg
– .wmv (Windows)
***Be sure to use the smallest file size possible if
you are concerned with how quickly a web page is
loading.
1 bit = 1024 kbs
1024 kbs = 1 mb
1024 mbs = 1 gb
www.atomiclearning.com
This is a free resource for our staff
that has a variety of lessons to help
us learn to use new technology.
• Tim Dugan is the contact person for this resource.
• Username and Password:
princetoncityschools
Free Images to
Copy and Paste
Basic Design Guidelines for the Web
1. Make the MAIN IDEA of your page a focal
point.
-Bigger, different color, larger size, place a
frame around it
2. Only use 2 different fonts per page.
3. Try to repeat 3 or 4 main colors throughout
your project.
4. Allow for extra space if you don’t want the
viewer to miss an important item.
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
-165 Mortal Sins That Will Send Your Site to Web
Design Hell
- Web Design Checklist 2: 83 Potential Mortal Sins