Technology Your Programming Partner
and Organizational Pal
Jodi Allison Mishkin-Michaelson
Temple Beth Torah, Melville New York
Jericho Union Free School District
I) Calendaring
1. Google Calendar www.google.com/calendar
2. Google Calendar to Excel http://www.gcal2excel.com/
II) Keeping in touch
1. Text 41411 www.textmarks.com
2. Mail Chimp www.mailchimp.com
3. Phone Messages www.dialmycalls.com
4. OOVOO http://www.oovoo.com/home.aspx
5. Skype http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/homepage
6. Twitter www.twitter.com
7. Facebook http://www.facebook.com/
i) Creating a Group
ii) Ask a Question
iii) Create Event
iv) Adding an Avatar (more to follow)
8. e-mailing
III) Advertising Tools & Sign Up
1. Temple Youth Group Website
2. Blogging www.blogspot.com
3. Wikispaces http://www.wikispaces.com
4. Poll Every Where http://www.polleverywhere.com/
5. Google Forms https://docs.google.com/
6. Voki www.voki.com
7. Read The Words http://www.readthewords.com/
8. Aviary www.aviary.com
9. Toondoo www.toondoo.com
IV) Shared Documents
1. Open Office http://www.openoffice.org/
2. Dropbox http://www.dropbox.com/
3. Google Docs https://docs.google.com/
4. Windows Sky Drive www.home.live.com
5. Webspiration http://www.mywebspiration.com/
6. Bubble.Us https://bubbl.us/
Trouble Shooting Trick: When someone sends you a file you can not read (i.e. a pages file to a windows computer….upload the file to google doc to read it with ease!
V) Presentation Media
1. Wordle www.wordle.net
2. Glockster www.glogster.com
3. PowerPoint (Games) http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/PPT-games/
4. Prezi http://Prezi.com
5. Save Youtube http://saveyoutube.com/
VI) Miscellaneous Cool Tools
1. Tinyurl www.tinyurl.com
2. ehow www.ehow.com
3. jing www.techsmith.com
4. e-Toys http://www.squeakland.org
5. Timeliner http://www.timerime.com/
6. Google Scribe http://scribe.googlelabs.com/
7. Spoken Text.net (converts files to mp3) http://spokentext.net/ or http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Other-Office-Tools/DSpeech.shtml
8. Visual Thesaurus http://www.visualthesaurus.com/index.jsp
VII) MUVE
1. Alice www.alice.org
2. Second Life http://secondlife.com/
3. PitriWorld http://pitriworld.com/
VIII) Issue Based Gaming
1. Ayiti
2. Katrina
3. Peacemaker
4. Do I have a right?
5. A Force More Powerful
6. Food Force
7. Layoff
8. Oiligarchy
9. The Redinstricting Game
10. Electrocity
11. September 12th
12. Hush
13. Airport Security
14. The McDonald’s Game
15. Games For Change
IX) Game Design Tools
1. Grow-a-game cards www.valuesatplay.org
2. Scratch www.scratch.mit.edu
3. Gamestar Mechanic www.gamestarmechanic.com
4. PBS Fidget http://bpskids.org/designsquad/games/fidgit/
5. Yoyou Games Game Maker www.youyougames.com/gamemaker
6. Sploder game creator www.sploder.com
7. Grow A Game http://tinyurl.com/tiltfactorsgrowagame.com
8. Game Salad http://gamesalad.com/
