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Educational Technology in the Classroom (K-12 Education)

Why we’re thinking about leaving Bluehost and finding a new home for our Classroom Blogs

December 5th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Web Design for Teachers, WordPress

We run several classroom blogs and professional sites, including this blog on using educational technology in the classroom. Mostly we use WordPress, but lately we’ve been experimenting with bulleting boards (phpBB) for our online literature circles.
You can only go so far with free accounts, whether they’re with Blogger, WordPress.com, Edublogs, or Wikispaces. Eventually, you want [...]

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Make Money Online in the Classroom

October 17th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Classroom Technology Ideas, Make Money Online

If you’ve spent any time on the internet, you’ve already been indoctrinated into the world of Making Money Online. Just do a search using one of the big 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft), and you’ll see ads beside your results.
When we were growing up, we made money as teens by mowing the lawn, babysitting [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-11

October 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Classroom Technology Thoughts (Tweets), Uncategorized

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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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-04

October 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Classroom Technology Thoughts (Tweets), Uncategorized

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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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-27

September 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Classroom Technology Thoughts (Tweets), Uncategorized

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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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-27

September 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Classroom Technology Thoughts (Tweets), Uncategorized

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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Tags: blog·classroom·ebook·SMART

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-20

September 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Classroom Technology Thoughts (Tweets), Uncategorized

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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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-13

September 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Classroom Technology Thoughts (Tweets), Uncategorized

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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Still using WordPress for our Classroom Website

September 6th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Classroom Blogs, WordPress

We’re just creating our new classroom website for the 2009-2010 year. We had it up and running in about 15 minutes by setting up WordPress 2.8.4 (3 minutes to create the site; 12 minutes to cut and paste the content from our Meet the Teacher newsletter.)

How to Make a Class Website
Should I use Google Sites or [...]

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Classroom Technology Thoughts (Twitter Weekly Updates) for 2009-07-12

July 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Classroom Technology Thoughts (Tweets)

Installed Google desktop on our MDG flip to provide a more powerful computer file search tool; sidebar gadgets might distract students. #
WordPress allows you to compare revisions (like Google Docs or WikiSpaces), but you can only compare the HTML code, not the WYSIWYG text. #
Is there a way to hide certain WordPress posts from getting [...]

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