Archive for the ‘Tech Tips’ Category
Saturday, June 16th, 2007
This week, I worked with some of my colleagues on a very important and exciting project. There were 5 of us teachers in all. We also had some great support from the Tulare County Office of Education.
First, we came up with a general scope and sequence of what things we ...
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Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Handbrake – rip scenes from DVD’s to your hard drive
Ever wish you could rip a certain scene from a DVD to your hard drive? (Maybe you want to have easy access to it; maybe you want to embed it in a PowerPoint presentation.) Handbrake will help you do just that.
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Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Zamzar – free online file conversion
Have you ever had a Windows Media Player file (.wmv) and needed it in Quicktime (.mov) format, so you could edit it in iMovie? Or maybe just the opposite, if you’re on a Windows machine. Have you ever had an image that you need in ...
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
I have blogged earlier about some ideas about how to use wikis in your classroom.
Since I gave a session at the recent CVCUE conference about wikis, and directed those in attendance to check out my blog, I thought I'd share the following (as well as a reminder about that previous ...
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Sunday, April 15th, 2007
It's official - I'm a geocacher!
I've been doing a lot of geocaching this Easter break. For those of you who don't know what geocaching is, here are some links I've assembled: http://del.icio.us/wark/geocaching
Basically, geocaching is a big treasure-hunting game that people with GPS devices play with each other. A cache is ...
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Sunday, April 1st, 2007
I heard a podcast a while back, and thought it was absolutely fabulous, and knew that I had to share what I learned here. The podcast was a presentation by Chris Walsh called "Google Universe". This post will be a different style - kind of a list of tidbits of ...
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
I'll soon be leading a workshop called, "Math on the Internet."
In planning for this workshop, it occured to me that in order to pass along everything that I would want to pass along to those who come, I would have to give out more than one URL. My goal is ...
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Thursday, February 8th, 2007
An article in the Fresno Bee today described how Fresno Unified is finally going to take seriously the fact that they are woefully behind in their technology hardware, network, etc. The Chief Technololgy Officer for FUSD, Kurt Madden, called the district's technology, "the worst in the state."
Some tidbits that were ...
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Thursday, February 8th, 2007
I blogged a while ago about an exciting opportunity that presented itself for me to use blogging and wikis with one of my students that was going to be gone to India for a few weeks.
The dream was dependent on my student having internet access when she was in ...
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Monday, December 25th, 2006
Windows Vista has fiiiiiinally been released.
Judging by this review by David Pogue, there won't be much for us Mac users to adjust to!
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