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You can't transfer ownership of a google doc if you're in a different domain from your students. #
Our students and staff use google docs – the students are set up on a separate domain with "student" in the domain name #
Teacher are using Google docs on a separate domain – students need to type the [...]

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Trying to mail merge mark sheets via email. Here's a script to add the same attachment to all of the emails: http://omma.sourceforge.net/ #
Mail Merge VBA script for MS Word to attach unique attachments in each email:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm #

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Parents / students can download the SMART interactive viewer to open SMART notebook files at home. (Save is disabled.) http://bit.ly/3SUrXy #
Wow. Twitter had an over-capacity message: too many tweets. How many people social-networking can shut down Twitter? #
When you share a google document with students – you can set them up "to edit" or "to [...]

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Parents / students can download the SMART interactive viewer to open SMART notebook files at home. (Save is disabled.) http://bit.ly/3SUrXy #
Wow. Twitter had an over-capacity message: too many tweets. How many people social-networking can shut down Twitter? #
When you share a google document with students – you can set them up "to edit" or "to [...]

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We can now batch import a list of student contacts into Google Docs with an excel file http://bit.ly/b29Hl #
What do you use to secure your data in case your laptop or cell phone gets stolen? #
Is there a list of "verified" twitter accounts so you can see which celebrities or personalities are tweeting? #
Some "verified" [...]

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WordPress plugins for our class website: Global Translator – not ideal, but uses Google Translate to help non-English speaking parents. #
WordPress plugins for our class website: Mike Jolley's Download monitor tracks how many times the handouts are viewed. http://bit.ly/rLhvT #
WordPress plugins for our class website: TinyMCE Advanced customizes which tools students can use in the [...]

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Many teachers are blogging in the classroom. It’s authentic writing that hooks struggling readers and writers, especially boys.
However, there is one huge flaw with using WordPress or Edublogs in the classroom. Students can read unmoderated comments when they are logged into the edublog or class blog before the comments get moderated and published online. They [...]

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This post is a work-in-progress as we experiment with using wikis in the classroom and school environment.

What is a wiki?
Why use a wiki in the classroom?
How to start an educational wiki for your classroom
Things to know about Using Wikis in the Classroom

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Our Google pagerank has dropped to a rank of two and we’re not sure why.
Pagerank is Google’s opinion of how important a website is. The higher the pagerank, the more important Google (and apparently the world) thinks you are, and the higher you show up in a search listing.
In a nutshell, Google is a popularity [...]

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This is an ongoing draft about students who do inspiring things. Eventually, I hope to use these examples to inspire students in my own class. We’ll keep you posted as our research unfolds.
Dalton Sherman, fifth grader in Dallas ISD

Keynote speaker at the Dallas ISD addressing 20,000 district personnel at the start of the school year [...]

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