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From one of my favorite education blogs:  Free Technology for Teachers

From French Culture (French Embassy – Cultural Services)

The French Embassy in partnership with the American Association of Teachers of French, host a series of school contests to celebrate Eiffel Tower’s 120th anniversary. All tri-state students from grade K to 12 are eligible to participate. 50 winners will be chosen and great prizes will be offered: the first super-winner will win a trip to Paris! And the following 4 winners will receive a scholarship valued at $500 each.

Scenario:

• You’ve assigned kids to create a presentation using PowerPoint or other technology.
• You have asked them to write an essay and turn it in to you for grading.
• Students have created a video or a photography project and want to share it with the class.

How to you collect these projects?

You have students turn in the papers or bring their digital presentations on flash drives, of course.

So – what happens next?

• You drown in papers to bring back and forth from school
• For digital presentations, you have to monkey around loading files from each person’s flash drive.

Is there a better way?

Of course.   Create a form on your website that will allow students to upload their files directly to you.  They will not be visible to others – but can be opened easily from a single web page during class.

Other advantages?

• You can use MS Word’s “comments” feature to add your comments/corrections/grade in red text directly into the paper.
• Although you will have to print the papers to return them to the students,  your typed comments will be easier for them to read.  You can even have a list of frequent comments to copy & paste from.
• You will be preparing students for college where many professors require students to upload their assignments to them.

Won’t it be a hassle getting students to do this?

If you refuse to take paper submissions, students will soon get used to the process.  Even if a student has no computer at home – they can upload files in seconds from one of the school computers.

How hard is it to create such a form?

Come on into the library and we should be able to get it set up in minutes.  To see the form I have set up for students to send me files – go to my Document Submission Form.

From ResourceShelf….

Here are a bunch of  posts (10 in all) that might be of interest to you and/or those you  work with:

1. Harry Ransom Center Introduces Edgar Allan Poe Digital Collection

2. Tag cloud of Obama’s back-to-school speech

3. Information Visualization: Introducing News Dots, The Six Degrees of News

4. Updated Site: Energy Kids Have a New Place to Play and Learn

5. Collection of Black Memorabilia was Librarian?s Lifelong Passion

6. Listen Online: British Library Adds Over 2,000 Hours of Recordings

7.  Now Online: Summer 2009 issue of the Teaching with Primary Sources
(TPS) Quarterly

8.  Cool! Listen Online: Online Database: Learn About and Search the
Western Soundscape Archive

9. Internet addiction center opens in US

10. Fast Facts for Grandparent’s Day (September 13, 2009)

I hope some of these 10 items are of interest to you.

cheers,
gary

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Gary D. Price, MLIS
Librarian
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