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Our school is fortunate enough to have access to interactive whiteboards (SMARTboards), SMART airliner tablets, and a class set of clickers.
If we were going to invest our own personal money into our classroom technology, we would definetely get a class set of clickers over the airliner tablet or interactive whiteboard. No contest. Here’s why.

What are [...]

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We’ve been teaching our speech unit to Grade 7 and 8 students for several years, but this is the first year we’ve really had an opportunity to integrate different types of technologies into our English lesson.
Let’s be honest. Most students hate doing speeches. They don’t like spending the time to write the speech, revise their [...]

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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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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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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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