1. GREEN AND FREE RESOURCES
GOING PAPERLESS
JEANNINE ORTIZ
Using School
Web Lockers
School WebLockers is a Convenient
teacher productivity tool that has
been around for a few years. Within
your SWL account you have unlimited
file storage that you can access from
any computer with an internet
connection. It also uses digital drop
boxes to connect you and your
students so that work can be handed
out and collected effortlessly and
paper-free. You can even collect a
paper, mark up the electronic copy,
and send it back with changes or
corrections. Your students will love it,
and they’ll find that they don’t need
any excuses; their work is organized!
Organizing Your Account
ACCESSING YOUR SWL ACCOUNT
First you’ll want to decide how you this process. Every document is
The site that we use is unique to Half
would like to organize your files. If time stamped to help you stay
Hollow Hills and houses all of our
you teach different levels/subjects, organized. Finally, SWL allows you
documents on its own server. To
then this makes sense for you. If to give/collect assignments to all of
access: hhh.schoolweblockers.com
it’s different units, schools, novels, your students at once. Each class
For your username, use your first
etc. that you’re uploading, create you teach is already organized by
initial and last name. Your password
folders to reflect this. Upload as period, and assignments are also
is your initials + 0 + local staff id #
you would an email attachment, time stamped to keep them
which can be found on your Infinite
except SWL allows multiple, org`anized.
Campus’s “MY Data” page.
simultaneous uploads to expedite
LOGIN: Use your first initial and last PAPERS GOT YOU STRESSED? WIth MORE FREE TIME It seems we always fill
name. Password is initials + 0 + just a few tools you can eliminate piles of up our free time with more work, but now
local staff id # --Found on Infinite papers that need filing and organizing. maybe you can get out and do the things you
love to do knowing your work is organized.
Campus’s “MY Data” page. SWL can be accessed from any computer
2. Many tools can be
used to publish
student work. Students are always looking for chances
Here are just a few to interact socially with peers. Having a
place where students can read, discuss
Blogger.com and make comments on each other’s
••• work makes blogging so powerful.
Blogger is the number one blog site
in the world. There are many blog
sites to choose from, and some are
more geared to education, but
blogger has the easiest set up I
know, is free for all users (including
the domain), and, best of all, it’s part
of the Google megasuite of products
and services we are going to explore.
Blogger is easy to set up and easy to
What is it? post. Each class can quickly develop
Blogger is a tool that makes it easy its own blog personality in a closed,
to instantly publish weblogs or safe, educational environment.
“blogs”-simple web pages, often
made up of short, informal, and
frequently updated posts. Blogger
makes it easy to create blogs, post motivation . Teachers have used If you need help and would like to see
text and pictures, and start blogger for more than just publishing an instructional video to help you set
generating feedback. It’s the perfect journals. Use it for projects, it up, click here to watch. Remember,
place to display student work in an interviews, story journals, when you set up a blog for the first
environment that serves as an c o l l a b o r a t i ve w o r k , e ve n b o o k time, take your time with each step to
extension of your classroom. You reviews. There’s no end to the kinds ensure you’ve done it correctly. My
make the rules, set the tone, and lead of posts you may wish to assign to blogs are always set up so that only
students in assignments that used to your students. For students, the best authors of the blog can view, post and
be written for your eyes only. Enjoy part is sharing posts with the class make comments on the blog. You can
the impact publishing can have on and getting feedback from their peers. add parents as readers if you wish,
your students’ writing and It’s easy to start your own blogspot. but don’t allow others to comment.
A GREAT PLACE TO PUBLISH FOR EMBED CODES
“Using Issuu.com gives my class blog a “I use wobook.com to publish student
much more professional look. I’m work. I love the way the page looks
amazed at how my students‘ work embedded in my class blog. It really
becomes even more powerful, and how gives student work an air of
much harder they’re willing to work. ” authenticity when published this way.
3. Google Docs is the easiest way
to get students to collaborate.
GOOGLE
Documents and
spreadsheets
Drawings
Forms
videos
Sites
Blogs
Surveys
Presentations
GOOGLE DOCS ALLOWS STUDENTS TO WORK FROM
Reader HOME OR ANYWHERE TO EDIT AND COLLABORATE NUMBERS
Documents don’t need to be started as a Google Doc to
You Choose who can view
become a Google Doc. You can upload existing files from
and who can edit. Sed neque lacus,
most formats like Word, Excel, PDF etc. . and instantly
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turn them into editable, collaborative works in progress.
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You can gather data and information from
students by making a Form in Google Docs.
Poll Results
Did you know you can make a free,
How do You feel ab
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bonus it drops all your results into a
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Love it and Use it!
spreadsheet where you can slice/dice/
38%
analyze/chart/graph or whatever.
Can’t wait to try it!
34%
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play with them and create a professional
Google Scares me
survey in minutes. It can then be linked
4%
to or embedded in a website to promote
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