TICAL - Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership

TICAL is a statewide educational technology service provided by Santa Cruz County Office of Education with funding from the California Department of Education.

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Free Online Tools:

The following free online tools were previously featured.

BatchGEO

Batchgeo is a mapping tool that allows you to simply copy and paste data from a spreadsheet into their web-based system to generate an interactive map. Create a public map for your school community displaying location of public libraries or create a private map showing you the location of your students who participate in the free and reduced lunch program to help analyze trends.

See examples of BatchGEO maps for the CA TICAL Cadre and the AR TICAL Cadre.

Digital Story Software

This digital story was created using Animoto, a free online tool that generates short videos that look professionally produced. Simply upload photos and/or videos, add text, and music to create your own digital story. Highlight promising classroom projects, spotlight student engagement, or reflect upon the year! Share Animoto and other content creation tools with your teachers for student-centered projects.

Find more references on Web 2.0 tools.

Social Publishing Platforms

Scribd and Issuu are two sites which provide social publishing platforms. They allow you to upload and immediately share documents over the web, customize the document display, and embed the output directly in your school or district Web site.

Take a look (below) at California's Free Digital Textbook Initiative Report, about open-source textbooks that meet the California content standards (or download the pdf from the CLRN Web site).

Free Digital Textbook Initiative Report

Social publishing platforms allow you to browse the document directly within the Web site without ever downloading it!

Put a fresh look on student handbooks, board minutes, acceptable use policies (AUPs), and much more. Try it out by signing-up for the one of these free services!

Find more resources on digital textbooks here.

Word Clouds

Want to see a visual representation of the words and phrases your school site or district is using the most? Create a word cloud.

The word clouds above were created from the TICAL home page, TICAL's blog, audio podcasts, and video podcasts.

Join us in the TICAL Community to make and share your own word cloud.

Learn more about word clouds at wikipedia, with some interesting references.

Disclaimer - TICAL has listed private consultants and vendors on this web site as resources for educational administrators. By including these private consultants and vendors, TICAL makes no endorsement of them or the services or products they offer. Nor, by this listing, is TICAL making any statement about other private consultants and vendors that are not listed. Any person, organization, or entity choosing to use one of the private consultants and vendors listed on this site, should exercise due diligence prior to entering into a contract. This web site may from time to time be linked to third party web sites. Such links do not constitute an endorsement of such third party web sites, nor is TICAL responsible for any viruses, content, or disputes resulting from access to such third party sites.

Today's date and time: February 9, 2012, 6:16 pm PDT
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