Tips on Hardware, Software, Lessons, and General Computing
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 MS Office on Dec 21st, 2007
This guide is one for the beginners. However, it will make a nice reference to those that rarely use labels. If you’re like me, you only use them often enough to be able to forget how you did it last time.
This guide assumes that you have Excel and Word, and that you have an Excel [...]
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 [...]