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• Got it. Wrote a WordPress plugin to tell Ozh’ Who see ads plugin what city you are from. That way we can hide google ads from our students #
• If you used twitter in the classroom, the twitter tools wordpress plugin could summarize your students’ tweets as a record of learning. #
• Tweets on twitter are kind of like the notebook beside your bed. A quick and easy way to keep jot notes of the ideas you come up with. #
• How often do you change your passwords? Do you have the same password for multiple sites? #
• How do you teach students about password safety when they share their locker combinations with everybody? #
• It’s cool to watch people follow you on Twitter. If you used Twitter in the classroom, how do you prevent strangers from following? #
• You could set your students’ twitter account so only people who are approved can follow updates. Still, the students could turn this off. #
• A cap of 140 characters on Twitter is great. It forces your students to rework their thoughts to be concise by identifying the main idea. #
• And, having students post on Twitter is an opportunity for them to be precise without resorting to MSN / IM speak. #
• How does Open Office compare to Microsoft Office? Is Open Office better than MS Works which comes bundled with Vista but no one ever uses? #
• Will using Open Office prepare our students for the business world? Is Microsoft Office or Open Office more prevalent in the real world? #
• Twitter isn’t blocked by our school board’s firewall which means we can explore using twitter in the classroom. #
• Twitter in the Classroom: student privacy versus a live feed of what your child is thinking. #
• Classroom Blogs, wikis, or Google Docs. Thinking about what to do next year. #
• Some celebrities stop tweeting when they realize that random strangers are following their every word. Thankfully, we’re not popular. #
• How do I get more traffic to my site? #
• Twitter in the classroom: Create anonymous student accounts (i.e. 8301) and then put their number on their user pic for easy reference. #
• There are times you don’t want your students to access your class blog from home (so their parents don’t do their homework for them.) #
• You can lock your classroom blog so it can only be accessed from school – if it’s a self-hosted WordPress blog. (with a .htaccess file) #
• How can I get the tweets from accounts I am following to update automatically without refreshing the page? #
• Google docs vs DropIO. Which one is better? #
• How secure is the educational vs the corporate version of Google Docs? Save enough to collaborate & store confidential student information? #
• Beware: unmoderated student comments appear on the dashboard to everyone logged in when using WordPress to power your classroom blog. #
• You need to use a WordPress plugin to hide (unmoderated) comments from students who are logged in. #
• When you open up the comments on your classroom blog to the internet, a lot of the comment spam you will get is inappropriate. #
• You could use classroom clickers (SMART response system) to get students to peer mark each other. Quick way to consolidate data. #
• Is there a way to use the free MaxMind IP city data with the Geo Mashup WordPress plugin? #
• Is there a wordpress plugin that lets you geotag the comments on your blog? #
• During earth hour at school, you can see how much electricity you are saving when you kill the lights with Google Power Meter in real time. #
• Can you pivot tables using the spreadsheets in Google Docs? #
• Use the Comment Luv WordPress plugin to encourage bloggers to comment on your teacher blog or classroom blog. #
• Use a WordPress plugin like Live Comment Preview to show what the comments on your classroom blog will look like before they submit them. #
• Is there a way to stop showing Google Ads on your WordPress blog to specific IP addresses? #
• I heart Bluehost and WordPress. Period. #
• Very cool. Google analytics lets me track our adsense earnings all the way down to which posts are making how much money. #
• Are we adapting to our students (in terms of technology) or are our students adapting to our schools? #
• Franklin Covey Plan Plus (for Outlook) is a neat version of their time management philosophy. Pity it crashed and lost my hierarchial tasks. #
• Downloading the trial version of the Franklin Covey Plan Plus for Windows. Lets see how stable it is. Will it replace my day book? #
• Can I export / import appointments & tasks between the Franklin Covey Plan Plus for Windows and the Franklin Covey Plan Plus for MS Outlook? #
• Franklin Covey Plan Plus for Windows has an easy one-click import / export synchronization feature with MS Outlook. Looking good so far. #
• Franklin Covey Plan Plus for Windows looks good, but I don’t think it has the hierarchial project task feature that the Outlook version has. #
• On the other hand, the Franklin Covey Plan Plus for Windows can handle digital ink. And you can back it up with one click #
• Our teacher blog has been up for over 1 year. We’ve had around 30,000 visitors from 130 countries and have made around $150 USD. #
• With the Franklin Covey Plan Plus for Windows, you can only view the calendar at 30 min intervals. You can’t zoom in to every 10 minutes. #
• The contacts also look better on the Franklin Covey Plan Plus for Outlook add in. #
• Went to Future Shop to check out those mini net books. Trying to have a digital day plan book instead of paper-and-pencil. #
• HP All-in-one touch screen computer is cool. Set it up in your classroom: students can flip through the calendar, announcements, homework. #
• But at $1800 + tax would it be better to get an interactive whiteboard? #
• HP All-in-one touch screen computer. It’s kind of like the iPhone touch interface… or those computers in Iron Man. #
• Why does Norton Ghost always crash when I try to back up my computer? #
• Can you get the HP All-in-one-computer touch screen software to work with Johnny Lee’s wiimote interactive whiteboard software? #
• Can you buy the HP All-in-one-computer touch software separately or does it only come with the computer? (They’re using Windows Vista) #
• How do you organize your life so your to-do list doesn’t manage your life? What’s your vision for who you want to be? #
• How do you use digital ink in your classroom? Tablet PC? SMART board or some other interactive white board? ELMO projector? #
• Can you sync the emails and contacts between multiple copies of Microsoft Office. (i.e. between a desktop and a laptop.) #
• The Franklin Covey Plan Plus for Windows version doesn’t include a space to record your mission or values. You’ll need the outlook add-on. #
• http://freeplaymusic.com – Great music for classroom projects. Free student educational use, but no broadcasting or publishing allowed. #
• Haven’t decided if my HP touch screen computer is for the home or classroom, but I’ll wait til the back-to-school specials come out to buy. #
• The MDG tablet netbook PC is geared towards the student/teacher education market: durable, handwriting, water-resistant, and light weight. #
• The only downside with MDG computers is their no return policy. Future shop and Best Buy will let you return a computer within 14 days. #
• Classroom Wiki vs Classroom Blog: Wikispaces doesn’t have a spell check. WordPress does. #
• If you do reading responses on wikispaces, you can use the history feature to track the changes your students make between drafts. #
• It’s hard to moderate comments left in a class wiki – you have to go through them one-by-one. #
• In a WordPress powered class blog, you can see all of the comments on one page and you can batch moderate them/delete/publish them at once. #
• The challenge with a self-hosted WordPress blog is that it might crash if your entire class leaves comments simultaneously. #
• You can’t change the title of a post in a class wiki (wikispaces). You can change the title of a post using a class blog (WordPress.) #
• How important is spelling in today’s digital world? #
• Does google docs allow you to see the revision history like you can in a wiki? #
• Do you need a google account to have access to the google docs or can it be from any email account? #
• You can share individual files on Google Docs but you can’t share an entire folder which means you have to individual share each document. #
• Google docs doesn’t let you batch upload several files at once. You have to do each one separately. #
• Google docs has a limit of 10mb for PDFs. Our summer school program is 13mb. Curses. #
• We used Excel for our common marking database in our school this year. Google docs has a cap of 1mb for spreadsheets which is too small. #

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