Archive for the ‘Tech Tips’ Category
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
The social bookmarking website del.icio.us has been redesigned! There are several new exciting features they have added.
del.icio.us now redirects to delicious.com Whew! Glad those periods are gone from the middle of the name. It was awkward to say, remember, and type. Now that problem is gone.
Searching is much more dynamic. ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Well, it's official. I'm a huge fan of the Google Custom Search Engine tool!!
I have now created several of them:
Elementary Math, Ancient Greece-6th Grade, Biomes-6th Grade, and Ancient China-6th Grade
These are groups of websites I've put together. When you go to any of the above web pages, you get a ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
OK, I'm finally blogging about this article, Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, by Marc Prensky. Get it here from the author.
It's been around since 2001, and has been talked about and referred to at almost every Educational Technology conference I've been to since that time. The terms "digital natives" and "digital ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
I had the privilege of hearing Alan November speak to a group of about 150 educators on May 7, 2008. He had some very provocative things to say, as usual. Here I'll give you some of the most salient points...the things that struck me most...the things that I most feel ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
It seems like I've been telling people about delicious a lot lately. I have blogged about del.icio.us before:
Here's a kind of intro to the whole concept of social bookmarking, of which delicious is the most well-known site.
Here's an explanation of how you can, from your delicious account, easily suggest sites ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
I just found a great website that helps teach typing! It’s called TypeRacer. You are given a passage to type, and random people are competing with you at the same time.
I like the fact that it’s an actual passage (real English words and sentences), rather than made up collections of ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Today, April 5, 2008, Central Valley Computer Using Educators put on their Spring Conference at Sunnyside High School which is a part of the Fresno Unified School District.
The Keynote address was Marco Torres, an amazing educator. Here are some links that he gave us about him and what he's done.
http://sfett.com/
http://torres21.typepad.com/flickschool/
http://cinedelagente.com/
He ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
This post is intended to be a companion to my presentation, "GoogleEarth" at the CVCUE conference on April 5, 2008.
Most of the session will consist of demonstrating the application. We will also cover "Google Sketch-Up." Here are some links that you might find useful in getting familiar with GoogleEarth and ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
This post is intended to be a companion to my presentation, "YouTube or DVD to your hard drive!" at the CVCUE conference on April 5, 2008.
I have blogged about Zamzar and Handbrake in the past, but here is a more detailed account of this particular conference session.
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Zamzar
http://zamzar.com
1. Select files (Choose ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
A while back, I blogged about the Readability Statistics feature in MS Word.
Just recently, though, I ran across a suggestion to use it with students more directly. I plan to make a video podcast of this tip, and I'll eventually post that video podcast here.
But since my students won't be ...
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