Welcome to my technology page for Holt Public Schools. To find my other website that is for the schools and the public please follow this link – www.mrsfreedstechnology.weebly.com
Otherwise, look at the tabs at the top of the page and choose your grade. If you are looking for Study Island here is that link – 
To get to Mr. Green’s math site go to http://web.mac.com/holtmath/Site/Holt_Math.html
MACUL Information
Check out these great new sites that we learned about at the last MACUL conference.
WEBSITES – Free and easy to websites to make
CLASSROOM VIDEOS – Please preview all videos before showing
BLOGGING IN THE CLASSROOM
PODCASTING IN THE CLASSROOM
We saw a lot of great uses for this podcasting idea. One of the sites even allows for live podcasting. Something as simple as lecturing to your students and having yourself also on your screen can just increase that engagement for the students that much more. They also used it when student were doing group projects that they needed to present. The students would record their presentation and show it to the class. Very cool ideas.
BOOKMARKING – Bookmarks you can reach from any computer!
www.google.com (go to their bookmarks section)
TIMELINE GENERATORS – Great for social studies, interactive with text, video, and sounds.
www.animoto.com This is similar to powerpoint presentation but 1000% better! There is a fee if you want a clip over three minutes however but the fee is very minimal and you can then keep the video you made. I think it was $3 for a 12 minute video.
COMIC STRIPS
www.surveymonkey.com I have personally tried surveymonkey and it is great! Again, there is a fee if you want to poll more than 100 people I think. Under 100 is free.
SOCIAL NETWORK – PRIVATE – Like Facebook but just for your class. Students can chat, blog, get assignments, etc. Wonderful site.
PHOTO EDITOR – Like Photoshop Elements
This online photo editor is free. There are some premium options of course but you don’t need them to get done what you usually want to do to your photos like red eye, crop, color correct, etc. There are even creative buttons to do crazy things to your photos that kids love playing with.
www.paint.net (free download)
PERSONAL AVATAR!
Create your own avatar for a teaching moment or for your website.