Tips on Hardware, Software, Lessons, and General Computing
Posted in MS Office, Productivity, Tools on Jan 21st, 2008
Generally, most teachers will have everything that comes via email go right into their inbox folder, which isn’t the best idea when it comes to organization. It would be like having a giant box and having all of your paperwork tossed into it without paperclips, folders, etc… It doesn’t have to be this way with [...]
Posted in Productivity, Resources, Tools on Jan 5th, 2008
Managing a class of students in a computer lab or a classroom with multiple student computers can often be a hassle. Anytime students have the option of choosing between a computer screen and the teacher, they will often choose the computer. Needless to say, you will have a rogue student playing solitaire, visiting other websites, [...]
Posted in MS Office, Productivity, Resources, Tools on Dec 30th, 2007
Tests that are included with textbooks or other teacher resources can be hit or miss, and often, creating your own tests and quizzes is the best way to accurately assess your students knowledge on a subject. But, it can take a while to go about formatting a test from scratch using word processing applications. [...]
Posted in Literature, Productivity, Resources, Student Tech, Tools, Web on Dec 19th, 2007
We’ve covered several different ways to generate bibliographies, but Bill over at bloggingonthebay.org has pointed out a useful tool, The Citation Machine. The concept of this web resource is that it gives you the fields to fill in about your source and it generates a citation for you. Handy. Check out Bill’s article here.
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 Hardware, Productivity, Resources, Tools on Dec 7th, 2007
It’s true that a computer can have a huge positive impact on the classroom, but sometimes these machines misbehave. One crashed computer can mean months(often years) of hard work are gone forever.
Scenario: You arrive at school ready to take on the day. You go to turn on the computer and get a strange error message [...]
Posted in MS Office, Productivity, Resources, Student Tech, Tools on Dec 4th, 2007
Ever had that student that constantly turns in their work done on a program that you don’t have(ahem, Word Perfect)? Or perhaps you needed to do some work for school but the schools computer uses a program that you don’t have at home? Usually, the solution for this involves finding a program to convert it [...]
Posted in Productivity, Resources, Tools on Nov 27th, 2007
Ever noticed how there is never a printer available when you need one. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to que a document from your home computer to print on your school printer when you arrive in the morning without having to worry about flash drives, disks, etc…? Or how about the student whose [...]
Posted in Productivity on Oct 26th, 2007
We have already covered how you can replace your pricey install of MS Office with OpenOffice.org’s amazing office suite, but there is more than one player in this game. Imagine not only having a quality office suite for free, but having the versatility to use it just about anywhere without having to carry around your [...]
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 [...]