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• Windows 7… touch-enabled? Will I be able to do digital ink in the classroom with it? #
• New wiimote controller is coming out…Will we be able to still use Johnny Lee’s wiimote software to create an… less than 5 seconds ago #
• Will students use bing or google in the classroom? (I wonder why they generally don’t yahoo at all…) #
• How do I get google analytics to ignore my visits? #
• Google Analytics for WordPress plugin tracked our AdSense earnings, but the Google Analyticator from Spiral Web Consulting did not. #
• We made some adsense money on our http://balancedliteracy.ca blog, but the Google Analyticator WordPress plugin did not seem to work. #
• Last month, we made $14.43 using Google Ads on our professional blogs (WordPress). #
• Does a WordPress blog hosted on WordPress.com do better in the search engines that a self-hosted WordPress blog on your own domain name? #
• You can’t show that lines are parallel or equal in Geometer’s Sketch Pad. #
• Google Analytics data is 1 day off. It shows your traffic for today… tomorrow. #
• We can’t get the Google Maps to show up with the Geo Mashup Plugin and the TDO Mini Forms WordPress plugin together in the sidebar. Pity. #
• You can modify your external website links to track outgoing links to your affiliate links with Google Analytics. #
• Mask your affiliate links using a 301 redirect with an .htaccess file on a Linux web host. Less obvious that the links are making you money. #
• Track 301 redirects with Google Analytics using this code: onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(‘/outbound/name-of-your-link’);” #
• Google Wave – part wiki, part email, part instant messaging… Will it replace Google Docs, Classroom Blogs, and Student wikis? #
• Android phones. How can we use them in the classroom? #
• How well do Spec Ed students with IEPs use Dragon Speak to dictate in their school work? #
• Twitter was a little slow on our school board’s network, but that might be because lot of people are tweeting right now. #
• We set up multiple twitter accounts on the same email account (email+1@gmail.com, email+2@gmail.com). After 10 accounts, twitter stopped us. #
• We tried to set up a class set of twitter accounts for our students but twitter stopped accepting new accounts from us after the first 10. #
• Is there an easy way to bulk create accounts for your students on twitter? Will their support team help you? #
• Using twitter in the classroom was great. High interest from all students. (We live in a texting generation.) #
• We only had time to create 10 accounts. students worked in groups, but several students can log into the same twitter account simultaneously #
• If students tweet from the same twitter account, you can’t track who says what. It would be better if they had individual twitter accounts. #
• In many ways, a Google doc would have worked better than twittering in the classroom. We analyzed commercials for media literacy in groups. #
• Half of our students have a cell phone; 3 had unlimited text. You could tweet from your cell but students would text their friends too. #
• Twitter was great in the classroom because the 140 character cap made students be precise. You had to revise your words to maximize content. #
• When you geotag the IP addresses of your visitors, you might consider Scarborough to be part of Toronto, but the IP address might not. #
• Second Life in the classroom… what would the benefits be? #
• How many special education students assigned a laptop with Dragon Naturally Speaking do not use the voice recognition software effectively? #
• As teachers, do we need to be modelling in the classroom how cool and effective Dragon Naturally Speaking and Kurzweil are as literacy aids? #
• Does your school board use Open Office or Microsoft Office? Which do teachers prefer? #
• Sometimes Open Office and Google Docs don’t convert a Microsoft Word document perfectly… but it ain’t bad. #
• How can we modify our WordPress IP plugin so that it will hide Google Ads if you’re from several cities instead of just one city? #
• Could we use Google Docs to do common marking of student work between teachers from different schools, school boards, cities or countries? #
• Moderated marking between different countries would probably be difficult – is the provincial standard the same in Ontario as it is in LA? #
• Moderated marking between school boards within Ontario probably wouldn’t be more difficult than common marking between different schools. #
• Technology improving the methods of education: http://www.techlearning.com/article/2280 #
• Things to do: become a Google certified expert in AdWords, AdSense and Analytics. #
• After using twitter in the classroom, I wonder how many of my students created twitter accounts? How many asked their parents first? #
• Is there a quick and easy way to batch edit your student twitter accounts so they can’t use them outside of the classroom? #
• Common marking between teachers in the same school is pretty darn difficult but the professional dialogue about marks is worth it. #
• Our Literacy PLC used MS Excel when we were doing common marking. Open Office didn’t convert the document / pivot tables correctly. #
• Could we use the Open Office Base as our database for common marking between schools? Our teacher computers don’t have Microsoft Access. #
• Can you connect to a Google Docs spreadsheet from OpenOffice.org Base? Google Docs doesn’t pivot tables very well… #
• What do Professional Learning Communities look like at your school? One school I worked at had one hour every Friday during the school day. #
• The new image on our school computers has Internet Explorer 7. Finally, tabbed browsing. #
• Is moderated/common marking easier in the US (i.e. 90-90-90 schools) because there is a standardized test that teachers are working towards? #
• Google Android: Can this free open-source operating system power netbooks and small laptops? Will the price of a class set of laptops drop? #
• What’s the difference between Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred and the wireless version? Can you use a bluetooth headset with both? #
• How does your digital handwriting compare when you use a SMARTboard, a tablet PC, a touch screen, and Johnny Lee’s wiimote whiteboard? #
• Google Analytics may under-estimate how much money you make according to your AdSense account, but Analytics can show the difference. #
• Why doesn’t our Google Adsense revenue show up for all of our websites in Google Analytics? #
• Mike Jolley’s Wordpress Download Monitor now allows you to host a variety of file types from your blog, including powerpoint presentations. #
• The Comment Luv WordPress plugin is a neat way to get bloggers to comment on your blog by automatically placing a link to their last post. #
• Sometimes you can run out of memory with a WordPress blog http://bit.ly/MrwA4 #
• If you run a classroom blog using Edublogs, do you ever have problems with the server not handling your students commenting simultaneously? #

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