Tips on Hardware, Software, Lessons, and General Computing
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 Blogging on Oct 25th, 2007
Blogging isn’t a new phenomenon for students, but student blogging is indeed a new, and sometimes scary, phenomenon to schools. Especially those schools that aren’t used to student published webpages. A suggestion might be to set up a student’s first classroom blog to have limited access. Here is the recommendation.
Posted in Web on Oct 22nd, 2007
Students can find out which Presidential candidate they most relate to thanks to Minnesota Public Radio’s quiz. The results page lists who they match the best with and includes which subjects they both agree or disagree on. Take it a step further and check out the cumulative results for all quiz takers. Sounds like [...]
Posted in Tools on Oct 21st, 2007
We’ve covered a couple of options for making the process of filling out a bibliography easier, Easybib and Ottobib. Both of these have some excellent features such as a wide range of media types, ISBN search, etc… These services are great for students needing to do bibliographies quickly and in the proper format. But if [...]
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 [...]
A co-teacher of mine emailed today about in interesting service today provided by Izzit.org They offer a free service for teachers wanting to cover current events in their classroom. Each day they post an important article from newspapers and magazines ranging from USA Today to the Wall Street Journal. Each article contains great key questions [...]
Posted in Site News on Oct 15th, 2007
Blog Carnivals are mega posts featuring hand picked blog articles from around the globe relating to a certain topic. The latest carnival featuring blog posts from many Educational Technology bloggers is out. You can find it here.
Classroom 2.0 isn’t a program or at least any one program. It’s a mindset, a style, a way of encountering the learner, and the learner encountering back. The classroom 1.0 model has teachers in the place of authority-not a bad place to be. The students enter the classroom, receive the knowledge, and then spit it [...]
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 Lessons, Student Tech, Tools on Oct 10th, 2007
Students are always trying to pull out their portable game systems and get a few last minutes of gaming in. With their portability it’s easy to just slip it out of their pocket and get right to it. For a lot of us it’s becoming a problem in our classes. Their eyes are glued to [...]