Tips on Hardware, Software, Lessons, and General Computing
Posted in Presentations, Tools on Jul 10th, 2008
Often, when working on presentations, lessons etc.. I need an image from a movie clip, website, or still frame from the screen of my computer. This is something easily done within windows with the Printscreen button. Next time you have something on your screen hit the printscreen button while holding down CTRL and ALT. This will [...]
Posted in Community, Presentations on Jun 3rd, 2008
I have heard, and maybe said before that if you can tell what a presentation is about by only looking at the slides, then it isn’t an effective presentation. After all, if you and the slides are doing the same thing, then one of you is useless. Right? Well, with the content I have been [...]
Posted in MS Office, Presentations, Resources on May 10th, 2008
Often, teachers will use PowerPoint in their lessons and print off the slides for students. PowerPoint has a few good ways of doing such a task, but printing the slides and including the notes is an option that is slightly elusive since it requires the use of Word.
After you have completed your slide show in [...]
Posted in Hardware, Presentations, Productivity, Resources, Tools on Dec 12th, 2007
We’ve covered a few ideas for technology on the cheap before, but this one may take the cake. The article has been posted on a couple of other boards including the classroom 2.0 Ning.
Johnny Chung Lee of Carnegie Mellon University has designed a project for creating an interactive whiteboard out of a Nintendo Wii Remote, [...]
Posted in Presentations, Tools on Nov 26th, 2007
This guide is intended for PC users. Macs typically use a different adapter for video output.
Projectors, when used correctly, can add an edge of interactivity to many lessons. However, there are times when one is not affordable/available. It’s at times like this when it is good to know how to put the TV to use [...]
Posted in MS Office, Presentations on Nov 15th, 2007
This video sums it up all to well.
Posted in Lessons, Presentations, Resources, Web on Nov 8th, 2007
Once a year…1000 remarkable people gather in Monterey, California to exchange something of incalcuable value, their ideas.
This opening line starts off every one of the 18 minute videos that appear on Ted.com. What are they? They are presentations from some of the greatest minds this world has to offer, covering a vast array of [...]
Posted in Presentations on Oct 19th, 2007
Student presentations usually fall into a couple of areas. Either they have way, way too much content-usually stuffed into just a few slides, or they have too little content. Usually, this is because students don’t get a lot of exposure to learning about presentation technique or get to see many quality presenters. Some teachers have [...]
Posted in MS Office, Presentations on Oct 12th, 2007
PowerPoint is an amazing resource to teachers. That is, unless we strip the “power” from it by sticking to the same old bulleted lists. One of the first steps we can take towards our liberation from the boring is by adding multimedia… PowerPoint is a multimedia presentation software, ya know. With this being true, you [...]
Posted in Presentations, Productivity, Resources, Tools on Oct 9th, 2007
Everyone knows technology enhances education. When we use what the students are already immersed in, the results are always mind blowing! Unfortunately, the price tag that comes with it is also mind blowing. Maybe you checked out our earlier post on Donorschoose.org where you can submit a need for your school and have donors contribute [...]