Many students have cell phones that can take pictures and shoot video. If you have students using the cell phones for collecting media, how do they share the pictures and video with you? One way is for them to email the pictures directly to a class picasa album. Students can also email the pictures directly…
Category: Tricks
Students Making Screenshots
In my quest to be paperless, I ask my students to keep a digital portfolio where they post all of their work. The problem is how to capture work completed by students on the web or on tablets. I address this problem by asking students to take screenshots of the work they are doing and…
Golden Keyboard Shortcuts
If I can give any educator a piece of advice, it is to learn some keyboard shortcuts. The faster you are with keyboard shortcuts the more productive you are. We spend so much time planning, grading, creating, interacting with students, doing yard duty, meeting with parents, attending meetings, cleaning our own whiteboards, etc… we need…
Infographic Technique: Text that Pops
Currently I am into creating infographics using Google Drawing. This is an activity that students can do that is fun, forces them to think critically about how to best represent information, is collaborative, is free and does not require an additional account beyond their Google account. Previously I blogged about how to create opacity with…
Images Make Things Better
A picture is worth 1000 words right? Inserting images into our webpages and documents helps the information be more interesting and important. On the web everything has an “address.” Each element that loads on a webpage is saved on a server somewhere and there needs to be directions to tell the computer where to go…
Format Painter
Click here for the document with my format painter tips.
Teaching on a Mac with Mountain Lion
I am using a Macbook Pro most of the time. I actually like the notification features on Mountain Lion. Shows me when people mention me on Twitter or Facebook or when I have tasks due from my producteev todo list. However, when I am teaching I do not want the notifications to show. Hold down…
Table Properties in a Google Doc
Copying and pasting from one location to another does not always work out. The screenshot above is a copy and paste from a table in Moodle into a Google Doc. To fix this you will want to right click on the table and choose table properties. Under table properties you are able to change the…
Hall Davidson Demo Slam Custom Wikipedia Book
This morning at the eLearning Strategies Symposium Hall Davidson was presenting on ways to use video. Before the session he really quickly did a demo slam of how to make your own custom Wikipedia book. So I’m not 100% sure how I feel about this. I have burned into my brain from the English teachers…
PhotoBucket – Quickly Add Pictures to Your Student Resources
When using Web 2.0 tools such as a wiki, survey monkey or other places where I want to create resources for my students to use in class I frequently want to add images. Some places only allow me to upload my images via URL. This means I have to host them somewhere such as flickr…
A little HTML for teachers
I have found that knowing a little bit of HTML is wildly useful. One might be surprised at all of the Web 2.0 applications that allow you to insert HTML tags. I always recommend to fellow teachers to learn a few basic tags. Learning these tags will help them to be more productive and to…
Document Camera Use
Recently I have gotten an iPevo document camera. What I really like about it is that it is a nice little document camera that is inexpensive ($69) and highly portable, fits in my purse. I found that if I plug in the camera via USB I am able to use the iPevo as my webcam…
Oh mighty shift key… how I love you!
For some reason I was inspired this morning by the shift key. Here are some really handy things you can do with the shift key Hold down the shift key before you click on a link, this will cause the link to open in a new window. Place your cursor in your text and…
Download a QR reader
What is a QR code? Surprisingly many people still are unsure and don’t use them. A July 2011 article said 35% of Americans own a smartphone and I am guessing that after this last Christmas season that number just got significantly higher. As a high school teacher in an inner city school I am amazed…
Mac Tip: Spacebar to Preview
One trick on my MAC that I use quite frequently is to hit the spacebar to preview a file. I have lots of screenshots (command+shift+4) on my desktop and they all say screenshot so it is challenging to know which one I want. I have PowerPoints, text documents, PDF’s, videos, etc… and I tend to…
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