Google Docs Viewer Rocks!

Google Docs Viewer is very useful for displaying any doc, pdf, tiff or presentation files that are saved online.

You don't have to worry about loading your files onto any third party server and although it is a basic version, no bells and whistles, it does the job that it is meant to do very well.

You can move forwards and backwards through the document, zoom in and out and show one page or four pages at a time. You can also choose a full screen mode where you can then select to download the file.

And, of course, you can also embed the viewer. Here is a little introduction to Google Docs in the classroom!

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Free Online CPD Coming Soon!!

K12 Online Conference 2010 - 11th October Spread the word (replace the " with angle brackets): "embed align="middle" allowscriptaccess="always" height="110" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" src="http://www.inchicorecollege.ie/images/countd-k12.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="120">"/embed"

The K-12 Online Conference 2010, now in its 5th year, is an online, annual professional development conference offering "opportunities for educators around the globe to share innovative ways web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning".

The theme this year is "Cultivate the Future!" and the learning will begin with the pre-conference keynote, by Dean Shareski, during the week of October 11, 2010.

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The 2010 CRSTE Global Symposium - 16th October Spread the word (replace the " with angle brackets): "embed align="middle" allowscriptaccess="always" height="185" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" src="http://www.inchicorecollege.ie/images/countd-crste.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="150">>"/embed"

The 2010 CRSTE Global Symposium is a completely free, completely online high-quality professional development event for all educators, around the world, from preschool through higher education.

CRSTE is offering an alternative to the traditional model of professional development believing that "the concept of professional development offerings as formal, face-to-face, one-size-fits-all events is an industrial-aged notion that does not match the realities of the twenty-first century".

Indeed, the 2010 CRSTE Global Symposium follows on from the successful 2-week online CyberConference held in February this year, which attracted "2,372 attendees from forty states and six continents".

You can start preparing for the Symposium by checking out the four asynchronous sessions, which will be available throughout the conference:

• CRSTE Teacher Tools Wiki with Allison Kipta
• Twenty-first Century: A New Dawn with Harry Tetteh
• How to Lead as an Agent of Change: 21st Century Skills in Motion with Christina Parsons Bentheim
• iPod Project Lessons Learned with Chris O’Neal

You can also check out the full catalogue right here:

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iApps for Education

I came across this useful list of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch Apps for Education from Jim Farmer's blog.

The list is created and published by Eric Sailers and is broken down into useful categories including Communication, Organization, Reading , Writing, Math, Music, Song, Art, Game and Accessibility.

Very useful list if you are lucky enough to be using this technology in your classroom and a great incentive to start using it if you are not!

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Free Online Training for Language Teachers

Jürgen Wagner, from the E-Learning department of the Landesinstitut für Pädagogik und Medien [LPM] in Saarbrücken, Germany is hosting a series of free webinars for language teachers during September.

To participate simply send an email to Jurgen, in advance of the webinar, using the following address: JWagner*AT*lpm.uni-sb.de

Webinar 1: How to use Spotlight Magazine in the EFL classroom
by Inez Sharp, editor-in-chief of Spotlight-magazine, München

• Date: Thursday 9th September 2010
• Time: 5pm - 6.30pm (GMT)
• Details: http://lpmfs.lpm.uni-sb.de/el/spotlight.htm
• Venue: http://breeze.lpm.uni-sb.de/inezsharp

 Update - 8/10/2010 Webinar postponed. To be rescheduled

Webinar 2: Google Docs in the Foreign Language Classroom
by Patricia Donaghy, Inchicore College of Further Education in Dublin, Ireland

• Date: Thursday 23rd September 2010
• Time: 5.30pm - 7.00pm (GMT)
• Details: http://lpmfs.lpm.uni-sb.de/el/googledocs.htm
• Venue: http://breeze.lpm.uni-sb.de/googledocs

This is my webinar and it is aimed at teachers who have not used google docs before. During the webinar participants will have an opportunity to experience working on shared documents.

 Update - 8/10/2010 Webinar recording.





Webinar 3: A first hand guided tour of the BBC's and British Council's joint website http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/
by Rob Lewis, TeachingEnglish website manager, Warszaw

• Date: Thursday 30th September 2010
• Time: 5.30pm - 7.00pm (GMT)
• Details: http://lpmfs.lpm.uni-sb.de/el/bbcbritishcouncil.htm
• Venue: http://breeze.lpm.uni-sb.de/teachingenglish

 Update - 8/10/2010 Webinar recording.

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