This post in Ars Technica offers some great advice on how to keep your Facebook presence as private as you would like.
Posted on August 14th, 2009 by Curt Lieneck
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Facebook Privacy Tips and Tricks
What’s RSS and how can I use it?
Real Simple Syndication (RSS) is something you’ve likely heard mentioned in discussions about the web but may me confused about. Very simply, RSS is something which allows you to subscribe to a web site’s content. Instead of checking a site to determine if there’s something new, you can use RSS to have the new content [...]
Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Joe Kallo
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Backchannels in the classroom
Backchannels are text-only, web based conversations that can supplement face-to-face discussion in the classroom. Maybe you’ve had the experience of attending a presentation where there were many participants with lots of questions, making it almost impossible for the presenter to address them all and still cover the material. Backchannels can alleviate this problem by creating [...]
Posted on May 1st, 2009 by Allison Weiss
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Alan November Courses Online…Free!
Catie Bell let me know this morning that free online courses from Alan November Learning are available at no cost to Lab School teachers and administrators through pooled Title II funds. These are high quality, high impact online experiences that will absolutely improve your ability to conduct effective web searches, evaluate the information you find, [...]
Posted on April 29th, 2009 by Curt Lieneck
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Check Out Wordle
Want to give a different twist to a writing assignment? Try using Wordle. Here’s how the Wordle people describe the tool:
“Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different [...]
Posted on April 25th, 2009 by Curt Lieneck
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Breaks and Paragraphs in HTML
One more thing about those lovely little HTML text boxes you’ll find in PowerTeacher.
If you want to start a new paragraph, use the <p> tag. If you want to be fancy and end a paragraph, use the same tag with a forward slash before the p, like this </p>. The ending tag is usually [...]
Posted on October 28th, 2008 by Allison Weiss
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Accents in HTML
Here is a handy chart for inserting accented characters into HTML-only text boxes, like those used in PowerTeacher for interim grades. Look for the character you want in the first column and then copy the HTML Entity in the second column for use in your text box.
Even the innocent-looking double curly quotes (“,”), the [...]
Posted on October 28th, 2008 by Allison Weiss
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Curious About Great New Web Tools?
One of the best, easiest ways to learn more about new web tools and how they can help students learn is the k12 Online Conference.
Here’s the blurb from their web site:”The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. [...]
Posted on October 17th, 2008 by Curt Lieneck
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Common Craft Videos
A two-person company based out of Seattle, Common Craft specializes en explaining complex ideas simply, all with a white board, colored markers, paper cut-outs, and simple film editing techniques.
Here are a few of my favorites:
Web Search Strategies in Plain English
Podcasting in Plain English
Blogs in Plain English
Google Docs in Plain English
Posted on September 30th, 2008 by Allison Weiss
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Adobe Video Workshop
Adobe has recently publish a treasure-trove of video tutorials for its CS3 suite. These videos cover everything from basic use of the programs to high-end tips and tricks. Check out the video workshop here.
Posted on February 29th, 2008 by Joe Kallo
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