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Passwords matter. Give them some thought.
Fri Jun 1, 2007 12:04 PM EDT
Before you take off for the summer, take a moment to write down your passwords for things like eSembler, Chancery and etc.
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No More @$!%# in Pandora
Wed May 30, 2007 3:19 PM EDT
I've talked about Pandora in the past. It is a great site for discovering music and it's an easy way to play some tunes in the classroom. One drawback to Pandora was that naughty words popped up in some of the songs. Fortunately, Pandora has a fix to this little problem.
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A book about email
Thu May 24, 2007 11:03 AM EDT
Recently I heard an interview on Wisconsin Public Radio about email. The guest was David Shipley, coauthor of SEND: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home.
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Use Rules to prune your Outlook inbox
Tue May 15, 2007 11:19 AM EDT
With all the messages that get sent around at work, we need to prune our email inboxes every once and a while.
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You need to fight for Pandora and NPR
Thu May 3, 2007 6:04 PM EDT
A few weeks back I wrote about streaming music in your classroom. I left out the fact that Internet radio (like Pandora) is in jeopardy due to a possible royalty hike brought on by the RIAA. Savenetradio.org explains:
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Abstinence Only? Not for my TV.
Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:20 PM EDT
April 23rd marks the start of Turn of TV Week. Children across the nation will be pledging to abstain from viewing television for one week.
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Research doesn't favor notes via PowerPoint (Neither do I)
Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:16 PM EDT
Recent research on cognitive load theory suggests that PowerPoint is doing more damage than good. From the full story in The Sydney Morning Herald:
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Research points the finger at PowerPoint
Seeded on Wed Apr 4, 2007 5:53 PM EDT (The Sydney Morning Herald)
"The use of the PowerPoint presentation has been a disaster," Professor Sweller said. "It should be ditched."
Cut-and-Paste Is a Skill, Too
Seeded on Wed Apr 4, 2007 5:28 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
The most obvious choice for teachers and schools is to simply change the way they assess students. Schools could turn to in-class assignments as a more reliable way of evaluating what students know and how well they can express it.
Music in the Classroom
Thu Mar 8, 2007 12:27 PM EST
If you like to play music in the classroom, consider these sites. Pandora: Enter a song (or artist) that you like; Pandora will create a radio station that plays music similar to the song you entered. You can tweak the profile by giving a thumbs up or down for each song.
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Play YouTube Videos at School
Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:14 PM EST
From time-to-time I find videos online that are perfect for the classroom. At school we can look for online videos via Google Video. Now that Google purchased YouTube, you can find YouTube videos in Google's search results.
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My Video Podcast Trek
Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:39 AM EST
I’ve been tinkering with video podcasts the past few weeks. My goal is to use the podcast so students can review: notes from the past week the practice problems at their own pace demonstrations and lab activities performed in class
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No Time to Search—Try ChaCha
Thu Jan 11, 2007 11:02 AM EST
Today, a student asked me if Florida had a sales tax. So I thought I'd put ChaCha to work. ChaCha is a new search engine that uses social searching.
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Change your Homepage
Mon Jan 8, 2007 12:58 PM EST
Make any website your homepage. Change the homepage by: visiting the website that you want as your homepage drag the icon in front of the address over the house button on your toolbar click 'Yes' to approve the change That's it! Your done!
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VLC Plays it All
Mon Jan 8, 2007 11:29 AM EST
Sometimes I get video or sound clips that won't play in Windows Media Player. To get around this, I use the VLC media player.
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Podcasting: Start listening
Tue Dec 19, 2006 5:52 PM EST
Before you start creating your own podcast, I think it is important that you first listen to a few. To get started I'd like to recommend one of my favorite tech sites: digg.com.
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Working together with del.icio.us
Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:49 PM EST
What is it? del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website -- the primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. Big deal. I already have Favorites.
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Podcasting: Start reading
Mon Dec 18, 2006 2:53 PM EST
Several of you have asked me about my podcasts. (here and here) In the future, I hope to offer some specific steps explaining how I get my shows online. This will take a little more time to prepare. For now, I'm going to suggest some readings about podcasting.
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Convert a CD holder into TP dispenser
Wed Dec 6, 2006 1:47 PM EST
Okay, this really isn't tech but it is clever. AASD doesn't provide facial tissue for the classroom but they do provide toilet tissue. Here's a neat way to convert an old CD holder into a tissue dispenser.
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Linux Desktops Catching On In Education
Seeded on Tue Dec 5, 2006 9:33 PM EST (Slashdot)
Xandros Professional 4 lists for $99, versus anticipated Windows Vista pricing of $199.
Runtime error? Make it stop.
Mon Dec 4, 2006 1:02 PM EST
Are you getting this error message (see Figure 1) when surfing to certain sites? The AASD Helpdesk has a quick fix for this.
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Fighting Plagiarism: Taking the Work Out of Homework
Seeded on Mon Dec 4, 2006 12:07 PM EST (The Journal)
With the rise of the internet, schools are seeing an epidemic of cut-and-paste [which is how I got this summary] plagiarism. But the same technology that's making plagiarism easy is being used by teachers to catch copycats in the act.
Grade student work digitally
Mon Dec 4, 2006 11:43 AM EST
By this time you may have started to have students turn in digital versions of their reports and other assignments. The advantage to this method is that you can avoid carrying home giant crates of student work every weekend (a la Leschke). We also save toner in the printers.
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Technology liaison for Appleton East High School.
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