How much time do you spend grading quizzes and tests? Many teachers spend class time giving quizzes and then spend even more time outside of class grading them all. Moodle’s quiz system can save you from all of this.
Moodle quizzes make it easy to use educationally sound assessment strategies that would be too difficult to [...]
Moodle Quiz – A versatile tool for evaluating students
Google Docs Upgrades to Google Drive
Google Docs is now known as Google Drive and gives you a single place to store, access, create, edit, and share documents, files, and folders of all types.
Google Docs is the web-based editors to create, edit, and share Google documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, and forms. These will all continue to work as they always have.
The [...]
APT PLUS’s Digital Media Library
APT Plus has a new feature that could help schools that want some resources such as Kahn Academy but can’t get to them because of content filters. While the site doesn’t have all videos from sources like Kahn at this time, it does have some good resources. it’s a work in progress and new resources [...]
Discovery Education is Back!
Great news! Baldwin County has purchased a new subscription to Discovery Education. With this new subscription we will have more resources than ever before. Currently we are working on getting the final pieces in place for the new features but the video streaming part the district had a few years ago is back and ready to [...]
Overwhelmed with Resources: How to Make It All Work Together
With the growing availability of digital resources it’s easy to get overwhelmed and not know where to start when planning a lesson. And if you’re overwhelmed it’s also likely that your students can be overwhelmed by all of the available resources, too.
Teachers now have access to Discovery Streaming, istation, YouTube, icurio (high school only), digital textbooks, [...]
Downloading YouTube Videos for Classroom Use
UPDATED 10/4/2012
Computers on the admin side of the BCBE network (teacher computers) can now access YouTube.com to view videos. Student computers do not have access to YouTube.com at any time.
There are many instructional videos on YouTube. Teachers can download the videos to use them in class.
The use of videos from YouTube must follow the BCBE [...]
eLearning Alabama Announces Summer Online Offerings
eLearning Alabama has announced its summer offerings. If you’re a teacher who enjoys online learning or would like to give it a try these classes are the best place to start. With new technology initiatives like the Digital Renaissance just around the corner for most high school teachers some of the sessions, especially the ones [...]
Exploring Mount Vernon Virtual Field Trip Added to APT Plus
In February, Alabama Public Television partnered with the Mount Vernon Estate to create a virtual field trip for students in Alabama. As a service for teachers, APT has uploaded the video to the APT Plus website and it’s free for all Alabama teachers to show in their classrooms. The field trip is designed for grades [...]
PicMonkey: Online Photo Editor
PicMonkey is an easy to use online photo editing site that allows you to resize, recolor, adjust lighting, add stamps, add borders, add text, fix red-eye, etc.
Unlike many interactive sites, PicMonkey does not require students to register or login to use the service. They can simply drag an image file into the window to [...]
Summer Technology PD
This summer IT Services will offer a variety of technology professional development opportunities for teachers of all grade levels. In addition to GRITC, our two day summer technology conference, we’ll be offering the following training sessions:
Introduction to iPads in the Classroom
K-12 Teachers and Administrators will be introduced to iPads, their basic functions, and discussion of [...]