iPhones and other smart phones and cameras may include geotracking information on photo's you post online or share, which can lead people to find out exactly where you have been. These features can be great for field trips and classroom projects, but if you aren't careful they can reveal more information than you want at times.
Watch this video to learn about it:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=11443667
Go to this web site for more examples and to get directions on how to turn off these features:
http://icanstalku.com/
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Powerpoint Tip
Just came across a cool PowerPoint Tip for presentations:
When in presentation mode, you can press the letter B and the screen goes blank with a black background, and when you hit w the screen goes white. You can use the arrow keys (or any other key) to bring your presentation back to life, right where you left off. A nice trick, when you want to get the focus off the screen and back on the you (the presenter).
When in presentation mode, you can press the letter B and the screen goes blank with a black background, and when you hit w the screen goes white. You can use the arrow keys (or any other key) to bring your presentation back to life, right where you left off. A nice trick, when you want to get the focus off the screen and back on the you (the presenter).
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Xerox 8560 Driver for MAC users (Workroom Printer)
For the workroom printer you need to follow these directions that Jon created.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
ECO Challenge
ECO Challenge - Make money, while saving the World!
Scholastic.com and Lexus are sponsering an Eco Challenge for Middle School and High School teams. They are giving away up to $1 million dollars, with the largest prize being $50,000.
Part of the incentive to the kids is a large portion of the money they get to keep.
This may present certain clubs or classes with an opportunity to get money for things they are doing, or as part of the school's sustainability initiative.
The flyers are in Casey Asato's classroom.
You can check out the program details at www.scholastic.com/lexus
Scholastic.com and Lexus are sponsering an Eco Challenge for Middle School and High School teams. They are giving away up to $1 million dollars, with the largest prize being $50,000.
Part of the incentive to the kids is a large portion of the money they get to keep.
This may present certain clubs or classes with an opportunity to get money for things they are doing, or as part of the school's sustainability initiative.
The flyers are in Casey Asato's classroom.
You can check out the program details at www.scholastic.com/lexus
Saving Paper
Aloha fellow faculty members:
During the Curriculum/Sustainability meeting today one of the hot topics was the amount of paper we use. One thing we talked about was digitizing handouts so that instead of giving students a hard copy we can just post the file online for them to retrieve, and even if ¾ of them eventually print it out, it does save us some paper.
1) One great tool that we have is the Xerox copier in Cooper House. If you have a hard copy of something, instead of making copies, you can easily have the machine scan it into an Adobe PDF format (which it then emails to you) that we can easily distribute to students via the homework web site. We won’t have to make copies.
2) Another option you have is if you have a computer document, you can make it into a PDF files (by choosing File-Print and choosing “Adobe PDF”, you can easily make a PDF that can be put on the web site.
Most internet users have the ability to read PDF files easily.
3) Lastly, you can print double sided on the printers in the lab/library.
When you go to File-Print you need to choose Properties and under the General tab will be the settings for double sided printer, similar to the picture below.
If you have any questions on how to print in PDF format, or on double-sided printing, please contact me.
If you have any questions on using the Xerox, please talk to Bridget who uses the scanning feature every day!
Friday, October 17, 2008
C-SPAN: Free Resources for Social Studies Teachers
C-SPAN classroom is a free service for educators.
Visit c-spanclassroom.org to join.
It has free video clips which you can show in your classroom.
Visit c-spanclassroom.org to join.
It has free video clips which you can show in your classroom.
Friday, October 3, 2008
MISO Conference - Podcasting
Okay! For those of you at the conference presentation on Podcasting, here is a PDF file of the Powerpoint presentation and Dr. Kate Ireland's lesson plans.
Thank you for attending.
Open the Slideshow (in pdf format)
Here are the PDF lessons from Dr Kate Ireland.
Thank you for attending.
Open the Slideshow (in pdf format)
Here are the PDF lessons from Dr Kate Ireland.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Calendar Magic
Google Calendar Sync is a neat little program that will allow you to sync your Outlook calendar with your Google Calendar.
This is handy if you need to access the same calendar from your home PC or your school laptop. If you have Outlook on your PC at home you can use Google Calendar Sync to synchronize your calendar on your work laptop to your home PC.
Google Calendar is a cool feature that it allows you to be reminded via email, or text message to your phone, for any appointment.
The downside: it only works with Windows XP/Vista and Outlook 2003/2007 - sorry MAC folks.
This is handy if you need to access the same calendar from your home PC or your school laptop. If you have Outlook on your PC at home you can use Google Calendar Sync to synchronize your calendar on your work laptop to your home PC.
Google Calendar is a cool feature that it allows you to be reminded via email, or text message to your phone, for any appointment.
The downside: it only works with Windows XP/Vista and Outlook 2003/2007 - sorry MAC folks.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
SMART training & solutions
At NECC the SMART Technologies people were pushing a couple of web sites I thought anyone using a SMART Board or Sympodium might find useful.
The first site is: http://smarttech.com/trainingcenter/
This is a training center that SMART has up for users to get more knowledge of the SMART Board, Sympodium or Notebook. They have weekly online-live training sessions and there are a lot of materials you can download for free.
The second site is: http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-us/
This is SMART's Education Solutions Web site. They have resources and contests you might be interested in. It's applicable to the SMART Board and Sympodium. Maybe it'll give you an idea you might find useful in your class.
I have a 48 page instructional booklet "SMART Board Interactive Whiteboards for Dummies".
If you have a SMART Board and want this booklet, just post a comment letting me know and I'll give it to you. Middle or Upper School teachers -whoever uses a SMART Board.
The first site is: http://smarttech.com/trainingcenter/
This is a training center that SMART has up for users to get more knowledge of the SMART Board, Sympodium or Notebook. They have weekly online-live training sessions and there are a lot of materials you can download for free.
The second site is: http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-us/
This is SMART's Education Solutions Web site. They have resources and contests you might be interested in. It's applicable to the SMART Board and Sympodium. Maybe it'll give you an idea you might find useful in your class.
I have a 48 page instructional booklet "SMART Board Interactive Whiteboards for Dummies".
If you have a SMART Board and want this booklet, just post a comment letting me know and I'll give it to you. Middle or Upper School teachers -whoever uses a SMART Board.
Lulu.com
An interesting site I came across at NECC was LULU.COM.
This is basically a self-publishing book site. You upload your writing, create your cover art and they will 'publish on demand'. No cost to the writer. You can even set the 'profit' you want to make per copy. For $3 profit, if a book costs $7.00 to publish, they'll sell it for $10 and get you the funds. Some schools have even done yearbooks this way.
It's perfect for combining a classes writings (poems and short stories) and publishing them. The thought is the students will actually try to do better work if they know it will be published for anyone to read...similar to publishing writings in a blog for peer review.
(Middle School Teachers Read This)
They have a program for K-8, a teacher can sign up a class to 'publish' a book (individually) and they will ship the student the first printed copy FREE. For details go to:
http://www.lulu.com/en/products/aspiring_authors/
This is basically a self-publishing book site. You upload your writing, create your cover art and they will 'publish on demand'. No cost to the writer. You can even set the 'profit' you want to make per copy. For $3 profit, if a book costs $7.00 to publish, they'll sell it for $10 and get you the funds. Some schools have even done yearbooks this way.
It's perfect for combining a classes writings (poems and short stories) and publishing them. The thought is the students will actually try to do better work if they know it will be published for anyone to read...similar to publishing writings in a blog for peer review.
(Middle School Teachers Read This)
They have a program for K-8, a teacher can sign up a class to 'publish' a book (individually) and they will ship the student the first printed copy FREE. For details go to:
http://www.lulu.com/en/products/aspiring_authors/
First Contest
My first 'contest' prize give-away. A winner will be drawn randomly from all entries posted by Aug 13th. Winner will be given their prize at our faculty meetings on the 14th. Open to Upper and Middle School Faculty.Prize: Software "Wheel of Fame For Interactive Whiteboards". Value $29.95 single user license.
Basically it is a Wheel of Fortune type game that you type in the puzzle/answer to and 3 teams compete against each other.
This software will still work even if you don't have a SMART board, but it's not as interactive for the kids.
Leave me a comment on this blog entry letting me know what type of short and quick tech training sessions you would like to see this year. Maybe it's how to use TurnItIn.com, or AtomicLearning.com, or how to do blogging, anything you want technology related. It could be something we can cover in 5-10 minutes at a Divisional Meeting, or a 30-45 minute training session we can do during lunch or after school. I'm looking for ideas of what you want to learn about.
Be sure to leave me your first name on the post so I know who to credit for the drawing :-)
The winner will also receive free tech support from me to get it installed and up and running!!
NECC Conference Notes #1
Over the next couple of week, I'll be posting up information I gathered from the National Education and Computing Conference I attended in San Antonio, TX.
I also got a bunch of 'freebies' that I'll be giving away to interested SH faculty who follow this blog.
Texas was very hot (100+ degrees every day) , but the Convention Center and everywhere I went was air conditioned so I didn't feel the heat too much, except when I walked along the RiverWalk area and went to the Alamo.
First off, two web sites I think some people might be interested in.
1) TeacherTube.com - It's similar in look to YouTube, but videos are posted mostly by teachers for their students or other faculty to learn from. Might be a good resource for some of us to just learn how others are doing things or using video.
Here is one video I like that I think we should show at a Freshman Seminar.
But there are a lot of math and science related videos.
2) SchoolTube.com - This has a lot of videos by kids for kids, but it also has stuff for teachers.
I'm still looking into these site, but seems SchoolTube is a bit more moderated so only 'safe' videos make it online - everything is reviewed before being posted for all to see.
Both are definitely safer than YouTube.
CONTEST ALERT:The first 5 SH employees to visit one of these sites and leave a comment HERE on what they liked/disliked, or found useful will be entered into a drawing to a DVD movie by Discovery Education called "When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions, Landing The Eagle"
Another copy of this video was given to the Library if you want to see it.
When you leave a comment, be sure to put write in your first name so I know who to credit :-)
I also got a bunch of 'freebies' that I'll be giving away to interested SH faculty who follow this blog.
Texas was very hot (100+ degrees every day) , but the Convention Center and everywhere I went was air conditioned so I didn't feel the heat too much, except when I walked along the RiverWalk area and went to the Alamo.
First off, two web sites I think some people might be interested in.
1) TeacherTube.com - It's similar in look to YouTube, but videos are posted mostly by teachers for their students or other faculty to learn from. Might be a good resource for some of us to just learn how others are doing things or using video.
Here is one video I like that I think we should show at a Freshman Seminar.
But there are a lot of math and science related videos.
2) SchoolTube.com - This has a lot of videos by kids for kids, but it also has stuff for teachers.
I'm still looking into these site, but seems SchoolTube is a bit more moderated so only 'safe' videos make it online - everything is reviewed before being posted for all to see.
Both are definitely safer than YouTube.
CONTEST ALERT:The first 5 SH employees to visit one of these sites and leave a comment HERE on what they liked/disliked, or found useful will be entered into a drawing to a DVD movie by Discovery Education called "When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions, Landing The Eagle"
Another copy of this video was given to the Library if you want to see it.
When you leave a comment, be sure to put write in your first name so I know who to credit :-)
Follow Blog updates easily with Google Reader
Google Reader is an RSS Feed Agregator. It allows you to be notified (similar to email), when a web site or blog is updated. This way you don't have to go to the web site every few days to see what has been added. You just log into Google Reader (like you would for an email account) and it will display any updates on sites you have asked it to track for you.
Go to http://www.google.com/reader and sign up for a free account.
I've actually found Google Reader, Gmail and Google Docs all very useful.
P.S. - RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication
Go to http://www.google.com/reader and sign up for a free account.
I've actually found Google Reader, Gmail and Google Docs all very useful.
P.S. - RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Free Wiki for Teachers
Wiki's are a tool that allows everyone to edit and post comments on a web page/site. There is a lot of potential collaboration uses for it.
Wikispaces.com is offering teachers a free wiki's from their "Plus" program. Normally it costs $50/year - which means no advertising and no usage limits. Check it out at:
http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers100K
Wikispaces.com is offering teachers a free wiki's from their "Plus" program. Normally it costs $50/year - which means no advertising and no usage limits. Check it out at:
http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers100K
Phone - Voicemail doesn't pick up
If voicemail does not pick up, reset “forward no answer/busy” to voicemail:
1) Push the "infinity" button
2) Enter access code: 358
3) Choose "voicemail" from the screen menu
1) Push the "infinity" button
2) Enter access code: 358
3) Choose "voicemail" from the screen menu
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