Free Tutorials for MS Office, OpenOffice and GoogleDocs inpictures

Thanks to inpictures, these tutorials are available for free to educators:

The company creates illustration-based computer tutorials that are free for any teacher or student to use. Around the Corner readers might appreciate knowing about them.
The tutorials are available at www.inpics.net. They were developed through a research study funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education.
We've recently created many new tutorials, several on Google Drive applications. Considering the rapid adoption of Google Apps in schools, this might be of interest to readers of your blog. 

That aside, you may want to check these tutorials out. Although MS Office and OpenOffice tutorials are available, you can also find some for:

Google Drive Apps

Google DocsGoogle SheetsGoogle Slides

Excellent Google Drive Resources for Teachers - GAFE

This is a  list of excellent resources to help teachers make the best of Google Drive in their classrooms. I firmly believe that Google Drive is one of the elemental web tools with huge educational potential that every teacher should be able to tap into.The resources in this link cover many of the "hidden" features of the Google Drive.

For more GAFE help go to  https://support.google.com/ and click on the item you would like more information on.

Share My Lesson -- Free K-12 Lessons by Teachers for Teachers

Share My Lesson,  the space for educators to share free K-12 learning materials, including activities, worksheets and lesson plans. Discover how you can upload or download resources on a number of subjects for students at any grade. Share my Lesson has over 300,797 free teaching resources for you to use in your classroom and school today.

There is also a Teacher Common Core  Care Package of supplies to support you through the end of the school year. In each package, you'll find direct links to the Common Core State Standards for both math and ELA by grade. Additionally, they have a collection of favorite classroom resources and categorized them by grade as well. This Care Package makes it simple and easy to find what you need most.

Microsoft Educator Network - Updated

Re)Introducing the Microsoft Educator Network

The Partners in Learning Network has given itself a facelift and changed its name to Microsoft Educator Network. The site remains the Microsoft hub for discussions among teachers, sharing of best practices and teacher resources. A new page for professional development courses and seminars makes it easy for teachers to identify which courses they want to explore in depth.

How to Make Flipped Learning Work in Education

Check out this article from Educator's Resource Center.

How to Make Flipped Learning Work

• Don’t make these mistakes with flipped learning

• 10 must-watch videos for flipped learning

• With flipped learning, how to make sure students are doing the work

• Try these free resources for the flipped classroom

• Teachers: Involve parents in the flipped classroom, too

• The truth about flipped learning

• How to implement the ‘flipped classroom’

Additional Resources

Seven Registration-Free Drawing Tools for Students

Drawing tools that do not require students to register in order to create and download drawings.

1. Sketch Toy. Students do not have to register to use Sketch Toy and they can download all of their drawings to use in other projects.  
2. Aww App is a super simple browser-based application for creating drawings. To get started just go to AwwApp.com and click on "start drawing."
3. ABCya Animate is a fun tool from ABCya (disclosure, an advertiser here). ABCya Animate allows students to create animated GIFs containing up to 100 frames
4. Sketchpad is a free, feature-rich, online drawing tablet that offers users the ability to quickly create drawings.
5. Art Pad and Sketch Pad (different from the Sketch Pad above) are both blank slate drawing utilities. Art Pad and Sketch Pad allow users to select from a variety of drawing tools and painting tools.
6. Crayola's online drawing canvas provides students with a blank canvas on which they can draw using virtual markers, crayons, pencils, and paints. Drawings cannot be saved online, but they can be printed. 
7. Bomomo Users select a drawing utility then the Bomomo program begins randomly drawing. Users can determine where the drawing starts with their computer's mouse. Users can also select general shapes and patterns to be drawn.

 reblogged from http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/03/ by Richard Byrne

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