GaETC Conference

SESSION 53: It's FREE! Maximize Your Website without Emptying Your Wallet!
Susan Cannon, Fulton County Schools
Kenyan 3-4 Wednesday - 1:45pm - 2:45pm Capacity-20
We all must deal with the limited resources of school systems. In this session, you will
explore FREE online resources that will help make your website more interactive and
interesting. Learn how to get feedback from your stakeholders, create online databases,
build and post online slideshows and movies, and create PDFs without expensive
software. These tools are excellent for a school or teacher website.
Data Collection: General Interest: BYOL

Tool Why use it? Website Drawbacks?

Zoho Creator Get feedback from www.zoho.com

stakeholders,
gather information,
maintain a
database of
responses.

Scribd and iPaper Upload documents http:// Anyone can upload

and embed them in www.scribd.com/ content to this site,
your website, users some content may
wonʼt have to not be appropriate
download any for students.
software. Does not upload
Pages or Numbers
documents (Mac).

Google Calendar You can embed the http://

calendar in your www.google.com/
website and quickly calendar
and easily keep
stakeholders
informed about
school events. Any
staff member can
maintain.
 Tool Why use it? Website Drawbacks?

Slide Create slideshows http:// Free version gives

online and post on www.slide.com/ you music unless
your website. you remember to
specify that you do
not want it.
Anyone can upload
content to this site,
some content may
not be appropriate
for students.

Slideshare Upload existing www.slideshare.net Anyone can upload

Powerpoint content to this site,
presentations to some content may
share with others or not be appropriate
to embed into your for students.
website.

Filezilla QUICKLY upload http://filezilla-

and download files project.org/
to your server.

Primo PDF Convert files ( 330 http://

types including MS www.primopdf.com/
Publisher, Word,
Excell, just about
anything that you
can print) to PDF
using a printer
driver.

Gimp Photoshop, but http://

FREE. Create www.gimp.org/
banners for website
and other publicity.

Super Multimedia player http://

and converter. www.erightsoft.com
Creates .swf files /SUPER.html
from Moviemaker
files, so that they
can be embedded
in your webpage.