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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With the New Year I thought I would focus on a few New Year’s Technology Resolutions. The first one is: “I will learn to avoid the commons PowerPoint mistakes.” PowerPoint is a great tool for getting information presented to a group of people, but too often we try to make PowerPoint do too much for [...]
I was looking over my blog tonight and realized how LONG my posts have gotten lately. So along with a new appearance I want to try to get back to short and sweet tips on using technology in the classroom. The ideas are there, but I need to slow down and break them into smaller [...]
This post explains a work around to posting audio files when you don’t have the space to host and stream the files. Back in the fall the US History teachers wanted to post student created audio files and videos quickly (24 hours turn around). We didn’t have a space to host these types of files for [...]
Did you know that you can embed YouTube video into PowerPoint 2002? I just figured this out and wanted to share what I learned. This only works when the computer you will be showing the powerpoint on will be connected to the internet. Find the movie you want to embed and find the URL: In the address [...]
Google is a powerful search engine and can do so much more than just return websites that have the info you are looking for. I thought I would find a few of those tricks and pass them along. 8 Google Search Tricks: 1. Specialized Information Searches: Definitions: You can get a word defined in by using [...]
Need Pictures: Comp Flight – http://compfight.com/ What is it? Searches Flickr for photos for the term you give it. The results are returned on one page in thumbnail form instead of a list of images that you have to page through in Flickr. Hold your mouse over an image and you can see the image [...]