More Free Tools (and one not so free, but really cool)!

I just got home from class  and am relaxing on the deck (enough said, but if this blog starts to wander, you may know why).  Anyway, I wanted to share a couple of tools I learned about this weekend. 

We are working with Weebly to create our own website in which we are working through a case study applying several models we are working with.  I've been brutally honest about my tech abilities from the beginning, never in my life did I think I would be creating a web site.  Honestly, this program is SLICK and FREE!  Two of our requirements, right?  From a learning perspective, it's a really interesting way to process and play around with the content we are learning.  From a tech perspective, it's a really nice, easy to use program.  It would be fine to use with all levels of technological ability.  Just remember to advise folks to do their content work in Word, save it and copy over.  Enough said.

Here's a site for free PowerPoint games.  We used a few of them and they really are quite good.
Easy to use and engaging.  Give it a look and think about how it might enhance your next presentation.  I'm going to share it with our leaders as they are currently in the process of designing their fall planning meetings.  Maybe a little bit of fun in this challenging economic environment might just free up some creative thinking.

Oh and by the way, we got to play around with the iPad to conduct some research on a few exercises we were doing.  First of all, what a cool tool.  Secondly, what a great way to bring technology into the classroom, just bring the whole darn mobile device in and let people play around with it.  It was interesting to watch it unfold from the perspective of our emerging technologies class.  We had the entire spectrum of expereince levels represented in the class.  It was amazing to watch those more expereinced help those less experienced.  At the end, everyone loved them!  Note to self, hands on learning is not over rated.

Just a couple of ways that we might be able to enhance the learner's experience!