Robin Young on February 27th, 2009

This Youtube Video was sent around a few weeks ago and just made me smile.  I thought I would pass it on for all of those who need a good ending for a long week: The power of random acts of kindness. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.robinstechtips.com%2F%3Fp%3D228′; addthis_title = ‘And+Now+for+Something+Completely+Different%26%238230%3B’; addthis_pub = ”;

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Robin Young on February 23rd, 2009

I had a request from the 6th grade science teachers to create a video tutorial on Audacity so kids who choose to make a podcast in an upcoming webquest, could do so if they so chose.  I thought I would share the video here as well. Here is the handout that goes with it.  Audacity [...]

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Robin Young on February 18th, 2009

One thing I learned at TCEA was how to use conditional formatting in Excel.  This is probably something everyone else knows how to do, but I had always wondered how this was done, but had never asked.  Since this is new to me, I thought I would share. Conditional Formatting: I always wondered how people [...]

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Robin Young on February 17th, 2009

There were no BIG ah-ha moments for me at TCEA this year, but I did find  myself collecting tidbits of info and ideas I liked.  I thought I would share two of those ideas in this post. 1.  Heads or Tails – Tammy Worcester – She played Heads or Tails with the workshop attendees to [...]

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