Facebook – A New Twist on an Old Assignment

(If you just want the template…scroll to the bottom of the post!) If I had a nickel for each time over the past couple of years a student asked me, “Do you have a facebook?” or “Do you have a MySpace?” I could retire. Okay, so maybe I couldn’t actually retire, but I could afford [...]

Filamentality – A Cool Tech Tool

Filamentality is a free fill-in-the-blank web activity building tool. You can create the activities and place a link to them on your blog. Filamentality – Create your own web-based activity and publish it immediately – for free! Sponsored by AT & T. Filamentality – Formats – An overveiw of

Teen Tech Week 2010 – Learn, Create, Share

The Young Adult Library Association (YALSA) – a division of the American Library Association (ALA) – is sponsoring Teen Tech Week. Events will be held March 7 – 13, 2010. Teen Tech Week is a national initiative aimed at teens, media specialists, teachers, parents, and other interested adults meant to encourage teens to explore the many [...]

Moodle in Education

Moodle – with apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I use thee? Let me count the ways. I use thee to the breadth and depth and height of Professional Development Online courses for CEUs and/or other incentives Book Studies – Online forum style Wikis or Forums on Technology Integration Ideas (among other things) I [...]

Animoto for Education

Animoto is fast, fun, free, and absolutely fabulous!! When you apply for a teacher account (it took 2 days for my application to be processed) they will set you up with an account – to which you can add your students. If you create a gmail account, you can create sub email accounts for all of [...]

Creating a Distribution List in Outlook 2007

Wow, Outlook 2007  sure looks different! If you want to set up a distribution list and don’t know where to begin, Microsoft has made a nice little set of instructions for creating a distribution in Outlook 2007. Here is the link to the Microsoft site for instructions. 

Opening Office 2007 Documents with Office 2003

Okay, several colleagues have expressed concern about not being able to open documents at home that have been emailed to them or that they have found on the internet because they have been created with Office 2007 – and they have an earlier version of Office at home. Well, Microsoft has got you covered on [...]

MS Office 2007

Many schools are upgrading from Office 2003 to Office 2007.  I had a chance to look at Office 2007 recently and here is what I found:

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