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Chances are, your students are tired of PowerPoint. It was catchy at first, but now your students are used to having lessons on the data projector. They’ve seen bulleted lists fade in and out and they’ve watched slides go by one by one. PowerPoint doesn’t hook your students anymore. Been there, done that, and they’ve even [...]

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We recently canceled our order for Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 Wireless Teacher and Student Edition. Not because we don’t love Dragon 11 – we’re still cautiously optimistic and excited by the voice-recognition software. In fact, this post was written using Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 Premium Wireless. (Jump to the bottom to see the accuracy rate.) No, we [...]

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We just got Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 Wireless Premium and we are cautiously optimistic. We’re trying to figure out whether speech recognition software can make us more efficient, as well as how good it would be in the classroom. Right now, this post is being written using Dragon and Internet Explorer. (I did have to use [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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? [...]

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At the end of June, our Grade 8 Language Arts (English) class experimented with using Twitter in the classroom. What is Twitter? Why use Twitter in the classroom? Examining Twitter in the classroom to see how social media tools are changing the way the world communicates. Using Twitter in the Classroom as a collaboration tool Review [...]

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We made $21.80 in June 2008 from Google AdSense. How can we integrate Reading, Writing & Media Literacy into a unit on Making Money Online. # Typing on the little keyboard on a netbook laptop is slower than typing on a regular keyboard because those keys are so darn close together. # The SD card [...]

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MDG Flip tablet netbook has a home button on the machine that gives you one-click access to the desktop (blue dolphin touch interface) # The MDG Flip tablet netbook uses Intel Edu Admin software to backup images of your student laptops. 10 min to backup; 10 min to restore. # Punching a hole through Zone [...]

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