My Tech Reflection

A screencast is a digital video recording that captures actions taking place on a computer desktop. Screencasts, which often contain voice-over narration, are useful for demonstrating how to use specific operating systems, software applications or website features. 
Screencast production requires some kind of video-capture software and a microphone. The software, which can be a desktop client [...]

There are so many tools on the internet to help you  become more productive and innovative as a teacher. Here are ten tools you should know how to use, not only for your own professional teaching development, but which could also assist you in the classroom. Each tutorial has a video that can be downloaded for viewing [...]

Office Live Workspaces
We all have Microsoft Office on our laptops or on computers at home. Files need to be saved to your hard drive, backed up to a USB flash drive or external hard drive whatever application in Office you are using. You may have multiple computers – a laptop for school use, A PC [...]

Blogs in Scholaris
You can set up a blog in Scholaris (Sharepoint)  and link it to a subject site. This is not just for English students; a class blog is useful for any subject.  The problem in using Scholaris as a blogging platform is that it is internal to RSC. Yes, you can access the RSC [...]

Wordle is a free ‘word art’ tool that crunches any chunk of text in the production of a visual representation of the content. The resulting graphic emphasizes the most common words by amplifying their size based on frequency. Originally designed to give pleasure, Wordle is being used in interesting ways to provide compelling summaries of [...]

I often need to show others how to setup a blog, create and edit a WIKI, embed html code, set up and manage Sharepoint sites etc etc. I was going to use Camtasia, even bought a book but it’s too technical, even for me. In my teaching, I often want students to write instructions or [...]