Archives for March 13, 2007

  1. You Shoot It, We’ll Share It

         That’s what a half dozen people from the local FOX station came out to tell us at our March meeting of the Chicagoland Television Educators Council. After making a two hour trek (one way!) out from Chicago to our Naperville meeting site, two of the webmasters, two station managers, and two of the [...]

  2. I'm Back…

    I didn’t really make an announcement here, but I’ve been pretty much incognito for the past few weeks. My wife and I took the plunge and became homeowners for the second time in our lives. BIG step for us. It’s a beautiful house in a great location (7 minutes from my new school!) So if [...]

  3. Dandelife – Timelines made easy

    Oh the things I could have done with this in history class.  Or any class now that I think about it.  Meet Dandelife.  It’s your Web 2.0 timeliner.  Register for your free account and then get rolling.  All you do is type in a title, a description and drop in a date.  It plops it [...]

  4. March Madness for the classroom

    March Madness is upon us and if your school is anything like mine was, brackets are flying around the halls.  It didn’t seem to matter whether you were a student, a teacher or an administrator, everyone participated in one way or another.  So in the words of Emeril, let’s kick it up a notch this [...]

  5. Tuesday's Tips and Tricks

    Have you ever wondered how to increase the size of the close captioning text when viewing it full screen?  This tip comes to us via Jeff Smith at the Erie County Technical School in Pennsylvania. Increasing the Close Caption Text SizeWhen using closed captioning, the text may not be as large as you would like [...]

  6. Tuesday’s Tips and Tricks

    Have you ever wondered how to increase the size of the close captioning text when viewing it full screen?  This tip comes to us via Jeff Smith at the Erie County Technical School in Pennsylvania. Increasing the Close Caption Text SizeWhen using closed captioning, the text may not be as large as you would like [...]