10 Social Media Commandments for Kids & Parents
Repost from: Leaderswest Talk to your kids about Social Media. Don’t hand your child an iPhone and tell them to “be careful with it”. If we don’t lay down the ground rules of what is acceptable and...
View ArticleReduce Dock Clutter In OS X
Repost from: OS X Daily If you minimize a lot of app windows while using a Mac you’ve probably noticed that the right side of the Dock in OS X quickly becomes cluttered with tons and tons of those...
View ArticleHow To Add Text To Photos Using Preview In Mac OS X
Reprint from: OS X Daily Adding text to images is a fairly simple process to begin with that is made even easier with Preview, the basic image viewing app that is bundled on all Macs. Most people...
View Article5 Steps For Sanitizing Facebook Accounts
Reprint from: May 13, 2013 By: J. Robinson “Collectively, all of the digital content you create, and that others create about you, becomes your online reputation. And today, that’s the reputation that...
View ArticleGoogle Drive For Teachers With 'How to' Video Links
Repost from: syded Google has tripled free storage space, across Gmail, Google+ and Drive, bringing the total to 15GB. This is a serious move by Google as it places the company at the forefront of...
View ArticleApple Announces IOS 7
Apple announced an update for iOS devices today. Here are some of the new features that will be coming soon: "Biggest change to iOS since the introduction of the iPhone. It's packed with amazing new...
View Article8 Overlooked Useful YouTube Tools
Repost from: Richard Byrne When most people think about YouTube they think sharing videos and or about all of the videos they can discover. Most people don't think about the useful editing tools that...
View ArticleConvert an Image into Black & White with Preview in Mac OS X
Reprint from OS X Daily: Want to convert a color picture to a beautiful black and white version? Believe it or not, you don’t need any fancy apps like Adobe Photoshop, Pixelmator, or even iPhoto to...
View Article170 Ways To Use Word Clouds In Every Classroom
Repost from: Tech & Learning Once again, I am amazed every time I talk to groups and find out so many educators have not used word clouds with their students. In fact, I am so sure that you will...
View Article12 Valuable Wordle Tips You Must Read…Word Clouds in Education Series: Part 1
Repost from: 21st Century Educational Technology and Learning Welcome to a series of posts devoted to the use of Word Clouds. I know you will find new information… whether you are a seasoned user of...
View Article108 Ways to Use Word Clouds in the Classroom…Word Clouds in Education Series:...
Repost from: 21st Century Educational Technology and Learning Welcome to a series of posts devoted to the use of Word Clouds. I know you will find new information… whether you are a seasoned user of...
View Article9 Amazing Word Cloud Generators For The Classroom …Word Clouds in Education...
Repost from: 21st Century Educational Technology and Learning Welcome to a series of posts devoted to the use of Word Clouds. I know you will find new information… whether you are a seasoned user of...
View ArticleTagxedo: Amazing Word Cloud Generator And 101 Ways To Use It… Word Clouds in...
Repost from: 21st Century Educational Technology and Learning Welcome to the fourth post in this exciting Word Cloud Series. Last time I gave you nine Word Cloud Generators and promised you that the...
View Article11 Fantastic Ted Ed Talks For Your Students
Repost from: Educational Technology and Mobile Learning One of the wonderful video resources I have been recommending for teachers and students is TED Ed video library on YouTube. This library...
View ArticleAdd Images and Videos to Your Google Forms
Repost from: Educational Technology and Mobil Learning Google Forms do not have to necessarily contain only textual input, adding some multimedia materials like images and videos can even make these...
View ArticleNo Facebook or Twitter in Class? Try These Teaching Work-Arounds
Repost from: EdTech K-12 Conversations about the use of social networks in education have become commonplace both online and off. Teachers with Twitter handles, for example, encounter discussions of...
View Article27 Simple Ways to Flip the Classsroom
Repost from: Edudemic We chat about flipping classrooms every week on Edudemic and it’s for good reason: this relatively new classroom organization style has been adopted by countless teachers around...
View ArticleGreat Teacher Tools
How to Use the Random Name Selection Tools on Classtools.net On Russel Tarr's Classtools.net you can find lots of great tools for your classroom. The Random Name Picker and the Fruit Machine are two...
View ArticleJeopardy Style Review Games
Three Nice Online Tools for Building Jeopardy-style Review Games Playing Jeopardy-style review games is a strategy that most teachers have in their playbooks. It's a simple game and, when played in...
View ArticleCustom Backgrounds for Google Slides
How to Add Custom Backgrounds to Google Slides When I design slideshows that are intended for sharing on the web I use Google Slides. (For in-person keynotes I use Keynote for the timing features that...
View ArticleColor Filters for Google Slides
Adding Color Filters to Images In Your Google Slides A few months ago Google added the option to crop and add borders to images within your Google Slides. Beginning today you can now add color filters...
View ArticleFlipQuiz
FlipQuiz Adds a New Timer Display Option FlipQuiz is a nice tool designed to make it easy for teachers to create and display Jeopardy-style review games. I initially reviewed FlipQuiz last spring....
View ArticleFinding FREE Images
Tips and Resources for Finding Free Images for Your Projects Tony Vincent is a great person to turn to for advice on multimedia projects. Tony is particularly good when you need advice on elementary...
View ArticleInserting Special Characters
Posted by: Richard Byrne How to Insert Special Characters Into Google Documents I recently received a question from a reader who was asking how her students can insert special characters into their...
View ArticleFake Text Messages
Original Post by Richard Byrne How to Use Classtools.net to Create a Fake Text Message Exchange Russel Tarr, owner of Classtools.net, has developed and published a bunch of great tools over the years....
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