I've bought my domain and had it forwarded here.
JeffDare.com - kinda snappy, huh?
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Gen-Ee-OUS
Made a great trip to google docs to save myself a lot of time this fall when, hopefully, I'll be wanting a lot of contact information from students. In the past, I've just had students write down their info on papers and had to do manual data entry. Rather, my better half has done the data entry.
The information will populate in the spreadsheet automatically, which I'll be able to access anywhere (even from my phone). It is seriously sweet when I can load up this spreadsheet, hit a student's number, and dial that person right away.
So now, I can just give students a ten-minute filling-out-a-contact-info-form assignment that they complete on the internet. No data entry, no trying to read chicken-scratch, no sorting pieces of paper, no wasting trees. Google Docs adds a time-stamp to each submission, so I'll know whether students completed the assignment on time. The results are sortable and searchable, so I can pull up all the students in a certain class, or search for a particular student.
Combine this with the upcoming Google Voice, and I can even give kids a number to reach me on my cell, or send a text message with driving directions to my madrigal group.
But as we all know, data entry bites the big one, especially with students who can't write their name clearly, let alone their email address. So now, I've created a simple web form with the Forms option in Google Docs' Spreadsheet which will ask students for their addresses, phones, and emails, etc.
The information will populate in the spreadsheet automatically, which I'll be able to access anywhere (even from my phone). It is seriously sweet when I can load up this spreadsheet, hit a student's number, and dial that person right away.
So now, I can just give students a ten-minute filling-out-a-contact-info-form assignment that they complete on the internet. No data entry, no trying to read chicken-scratch, no sorting pieces of paper, no wasting trees. Google Docs adds a time-stamp to each submission, so I'll know whether students completed the assignment on time. The results are sortable and searchable, so I can pull up all the students in a certain class, or search for a particular student.
Combine this with the upcoming Google Voice, and I can even give kids a number to reach me on my cell, or send a text message with driving directions to my madrigal group.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
iPhone app
Found a cool one!
It's a photo scavenger hunt game. You go around looking for the items named in the program - say, a wooden spoon. You take a picture of a wooden spoon with the phone's camera, and then other people evaluate your picture.
You earn points for other people rating your pictures as correct, or rating other people's finds. New hunt items are updated every day. Kinda neat!
http://photo-scavenger-hunt.com/
It's a photo scavenger hunt game. You go around looking for the items named in the program - say, a wooden spoon. You take a picture of a wooden spoon with the phone's camera, and then other people evaluate your picture.
You earn points for other people rating your pictures as correct, or rating other people's finds. New hunt items are updated every day. Kinda neat!
http://photo-scavenger-hunt.com/
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Here's what I want
I want an iPhone app where I can take a picture of a text URL, and it'll load that website up in Safari.
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