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School / Work Affiliation: Snowflake Unified School District

Blog: http://educationwebcloud.blogspot.com/

Website: http://susd5.org

About Me: I am the education technologist for the Snowflake Schools. I have been teaching for 16 years and this is my 4th as the districts technology trainer.

Brian Weir's Blog

URL Shorteners: Fur.ly opens multiple tabs.

Posted on November 19, 2012 at 5:31pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

fur.ly is a great place/idea for educators who are struggling with students finding the right websites or who are having their students copy long URLs off of the board. This tool will let you have one URL that will open multiple websites at one time.

Create Research Citations with the Citation Wizard

Posted on July 23, 2012 at 5:47pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

Supers simple method of creating bibliographies and works cited citations. Create MLA and APA style citations.

Create a virtual corkboard/presentation using Spaaze

Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:52pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

Spaaze is a website that allows for thesimple creation of a virtual cork board. It is extremely dynamic and easy to use. You can add video, images, files, titles, and notes all in one spot so your students can have easy access to unit material. The canvass size of Spaaze is huge so you can add quite a few units to one canvass.

Create simple data charts using ChartTool

Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:45am 0 Comments 0 Likes

This educational web 2.0 tutorial demonstrates a great online method of taking collected data with your classroom and inputing the information into a chart in just a couple of easy steps. Create cutomized data charts simply.