Hi everyone! Hope you had a fantastic Thanksgiving!! I’m looking forward to sharing a great new site with you as well as a gem I found for those of you who love Firefox Add-Ons and all that they can do! Let’s start with the Firefox Add-On!
Check out Capture Fox at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8090/. This wonderful free add-on makes capturing your screen incredibly easy to use. A small icon will be displayed in the bottom right corner of your screen and with the click of a button, you’ll be capturing your screen! You have options, as well, and you can include sound. For instance, you can choose to capture the whole screen or just the Firefox window. If you do any professional development or teach, this is the tool for you! Add these to your classroom webpages or training pages and you’ll have a much more supportive learning environment that is bound to improve understanding at all levels!!
Thanks to Leidiana for sharing an excellent Math tool, as well. Transtar is a reflections and transformation activity and can be used for free! I’ve used Capture Fox to capture the game in action! 
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Carol Mortensen has nearly twenty-three years of educational experience. She began as a substitute teacher as she worked toward her degree. Upon graduation, Carol began teaching middle school Math and Algebra I and served as the technology liaison for her campus. She served as a teacher for 16 years and was lucky to have taught at Hillcrest Middle School, a 1:1 campus where every student was issued a laptop computer. She also worked as an Instructional Technology Trainer for her district providing training and technology integration support for campus and district staff, faculty and administrators. Currently, Carol enjoys her position as the Campus Technology Integration Specialist for Deer Park High School – South Campus. Before taking this position this year, she served for three years as the Campus Technology Integration Specialist at Fairmont Junior High in Deer Park Independent School District. In this position, Carol provides integration support and training to the students, staff, faculty, and administrators at the campus and district level. In addition, Carol is an online Math instructor for Aventa Learning and K12. The Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) named Carol the Classroom Teacher of the Year for her innovative and creative use of technology to create a 24/7 virtual classroom using her classroom website. Carol has presented at school districts throughout Texas as well as state and local conferences on a variety of technology integration topics. Her article on the use of websites as an instructional tool was recently published in the TechEdge Magazine. In February 2011, her article, Lessons Learning In a 1:1 Classroom, was published by TechEdge. The article was republished in ISTE’s Learning and Leading magazine in August 2011. She was named Fairmont Junior High’s Teacher of the Year for the 2011-2012 school year. Carol is passionate about the positive impact that technology has on student achievement. Her presentations are packed with real-life solutions, quality resources, and humor. She has an ability to connect with her audience and motivate them to take technology integration to a higher quality level.
