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Your Home Page is the first page that opens and loads when you start your web browser. Did you know that you can have more than one home page? Use these steps to create multiple home page tabs and speed up your daily work-flow. 1. Navigate to the page you want to add. The URL [...]
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People frequently ask me how I get ideas for the resources that I share on Tablet Talk. The simple answer is that I have a list of blogs that I read very carefully and a second list that I skim from time to time. I also follow about 350 teachers on twitter, I am in [...]
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How To Disable Start-Up Items In a few easy steps you can tell your computer which items you want to be running when you start-up or restart it. By having fewer items start-up automatically you will decrease the amount of time that it takes to power on. You will also have fewer items that are [...]
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Is your computer driving you crazy because it is running so slowly? I have a few tips that will help the situation. Try one or more of these items and I bet you will be happy that you did: Get rid of programs you don’t use or want Tread lightly in this area, because you [...]
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Another way to make YouTube work for you is to use the free online conversion tool Zamzar. Located at http://zamzar.com/ this utility helps you convert files from one format to another. Using YouTube as an example I can copy the web address of the video I want to show. When I paste the URL of [...]
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It’s no secret that YouTube contains some excellent videos for teaching and learning. You can find videos on any subject under the sun and they can help you illustrate many teaching points, serve for class discussion starters or introduce difficult concepts. YouTube can be a little challenging for teachers, though, because of the “recommended” videos [...]
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As you may know, the popular collaboration tool Etherpad was recently bought out and dissolved. The code, however, was made available so that others could create similar services. I recently discussed TypeWithMe and now there is another service called Titan Pad. http://titanpad.com/ In the URL bar of your web browser type http://titanpad.com/xxx where xxx=what you [...]
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I’m not sure how long it has been available, but I just noticed that one of the options on Google Docs is a draw document. I could see this coming in very handy for Tablet PC users who want to collaborate on sketches or diagrams with multiple users at once. At a glance the draw [...]
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In my previous post “Timing Is Everything” you learned about several options for keeping the flow of instruction and activity moving in your class. Today I would like to introduce yet another option from ClassTools.net called Countdown Timer. The Countdown timer plays a recording of motivational music while counting down to zero. If you choose, [...]
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Site: http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/ Do you ever want your students to chart their findings of scientific observations? Do you need to create a pie chart, bar graph or other representation of data for a class meeting and find Excel to be just a little intimidating for a quick project? Here is the most simple and straight forward [...]
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