05+Fifth+Session

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====Today we're going to go with some fun but practical stuff, like how to *ahem* "get" content that is tricky to obtain. To ease our consciences, we're also going to practice a mini-lesson focused on finding resources to help us when we're teaching students about evaluating web content.====

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**Productivity Helpers** MS Office, Fireshot, ZamZar/MediaConvert, Screencast-o-matic

Take a Word document and convert to .pdf format. Why are PDFs handy? Because PDFs retain all the formatting you have on the document. Any recepient will see exactly what you do. PDFs can be opened by just about anyone with Internet access too, so they are a universal file format. Finally, they cannot be easily changed by students (or other people you are sending stuff to). Handy that!

On the other hand, PDFs are unchangeable which is annoying at times. In any case, you may not know that any MS Word document can become a PDF. Here's a quick screencast of how to convert a document into a PDF.

Browser extension are incredibly useful tools. Read what an extensionis. Can you find my edit? We're going to add two extensions to Mozilla Firefox that you will not believe you've been without for all these years!

Are there times when you'd like to capture a webpage (or part of it) and save it as a graphic? Fireshot, an extension for Mozilla Firefox, allows just that. You need it! Install it, right now.

Another extension you need is Download Helper. Install it, right now! This extension lets you capture video directly from the web and save it to your computer.

Need a video file converted? Zamzaris your friend. You simply send them the video, they convert it to a new format for you, then email you a link to download the converted file. For free!

Finally, Jing has a competitor, Screencast-o-matic. Slightly different. People tend to prefer one or the other and since I taught you Jing, I though I'd better introduce Screencast to stay politically neutral.

How to play the video you've found? You might need this flash video player.

Teaching Website Evaluation
Download the website evaluation rubric. Print if you must, but feel free to import this into One Note or just work aloud. You don't have to turn it in. With a partner, go to each of the following websites and complete the evaluation. Make sure you use Whoisto identify the owners of the sites as well.

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