Student Resources

John Green teaches you the history of the world in 42 episodes of Crash Course.

 

 

Thousands of resources are available to you, and it all starts with a simple search.

 

As a student who lives in San Mateo County you have access to the San Mateo County Library’s data base.  If you do not have a library card please visit your local library and get one.  Tierra Linda students can access the data base via the school librarian.

Use Apple T.V. to enhance any presentation.  Mirror your iOS device and be mobile while you present!

PowerPoint is a complete presentation graphics package. It gives you everything you need to produce a professional-looking presentation. PowerPoint offers word processing, outlining, drawing, graphing, and presentation management tools- all designed to be easy to use and learn.

The following gives you a quick overview of what you can do in PowerPoint: 

• When you create a presentation using PowerPoint, the presentation is made up of a series of slides. The slides that you create using PowerPoint can also be presented as overhead transparencies or 35mm slides.
• In addition to slides, you can print audience handouts, outlines, and speaker’s notes.
• You can format all the slides in a presentation using the powerful Slide Master which will be covered in the tutorial.
• You can keep your entire presentation in a single file- all your slides, speaker’s notes, and audience handouts.
• You can import what you have created in other Microsoft products, such as Word and Excel into any of your slides.

iMovie for ISO devices (iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone) is an incredible app to use in the classroom. With an iPad or an even smaller iPod touch or iPhone equipped with iMovie you can put in to students hands a mobile movie studio that a few years ago would have cost hundreds of dollars for the software alone. Students can share/publish finished iMovie projects as movies to your camera roll or as podcasts that are accessible on any number of platform via YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, or through iTunes.

For example in a Social Studies class students could use the iMovie movie presets to create video reports. Inherent in these video productions would be the expectation that students incorporate cross curricular skills to develop scripts to shoot from. Part of good curricular practice for class use of iMove would be that construct story boards that will help guide students during the filming process.

Yeah, using WORDLE can be considered fluff, but try using it to weed out over-used adjectives (or verbs, or any other part of speech for that matter), because it’s fun, it’s quick, and it’s easy.   In addition, you can use WORDLE to compare and contrast the content of speechs and essays while extracting meaning.

Taxedo, similar to WORDLE, allows you to create word clouds with more options for creativity.

Prezi

One of the greatest innovations in education was the blackboard. For the first time in history, teachers could present their lessons visually and engage students to participate in the conversation. The whiteboard has done the same for business—helping us to explore and share ideas more effectively.

Prezi is a virtual whiteboard that transforms presentations from monologues into conversations: enabling people to see, understand, and remember ideas.