Tuesday Tech Tip: Browser Basics

What is a browser? Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome are browsers.  They’re windows through which we look at content on the internet–content like Google Mail, Docs, Skyward, and other web pages.  Each browser is a little different and each has its unique quirks. Here’s the skinny on browsers, tabbed browsing, and bookmarks.

Tuesday Tech Tip: Search Tools

While “Google” is now a noun and a verb, most people don’t regularly use Google Search to its fullest potential.   Here are a few tips on how to use Advanced Search to sort your results by reading level and by copyright license. Here’s a quick video overview of Google Search A Google A Day:  It’s a [...]

Tuesday Tech Tip: Quietube

Today’s Tip comes from Ashley Nowak at EPES.  She shared a nice tool for watching YouTube videos:  Quietube.  It’s a tool to remove all the distractions like comments, related videos, etc., and especially nice for projecting videos in the classroom.  Here’s an example. The thing I like best is that there’s a Chrome extension for [...]

Tuesday Tip: TED

Yesterday, the TED-Ed YouTube channel was launched.  Here’s the scoop. Not only can you consume TED content, you can create it.  TED-Ed is an invitation to educators, including you! The biannual TED conference was held a few weeks ago in Long Beach, CA.  TED was created in 1984 as a place for “Ideas Worth Spreading” [...]

It’s Digital Learning Day!

Digital Learning Day is being celebrated all over the country today!  To peek in on the celebration, search Twitter for #DLDay and #WiDigitalLearning.  You can even tweet your own Digital Learning question or comment with #dldefo In honor of the event, you’ve been adding to our Digital Learning Day Showcase.  Check it out to see [...]

Updated CMS Web Guidelines

The CMS Web Guidelines have been updated… Revised Web Page Manual, Oct 11

Tuesday Tech Tip– Links by Staff

Today I’d like to share with you the work of others. Fifteen of your colleagues recently finished the Viterbo course, “Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works” and have cultivated over 200 resources for a wide variety of uses in the classroom.  They are all available from our district website. Here’s how to get there: [...]

Tuesday Tip: Infographics

Tip duty falls to me today . . . Infrographics! I have come across two articles on this topic recently. This one from Fast Company was the shortest, but has 5 great ways you can create or consume infographics. Some of you may be familiar with my fondness for flowcharts and diagrams. Infographics Whether you [...]

Tuesday Tech Tip: Powerpoint & Projectors

Today, I want to share some tips for Power Point, along ideas for using your projector, wireless keyboard, and wireless mouse. I ran across this site recently, SlideFest is a “PowerPoint Awards Festival” with Do’s & Don’ts, Slide School 101, Best Of…, and a wealth of tools to help avoid death-by-Power Point.  (You’ll need to [...]

Tuesday Tech Tip: Japan/Earthquake Resources

I want to share two timely tools with you today. I imagine students and teachers in most classrooms, in some way, are talking about Japan.  It’s a teachable moment–earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear reactors, relief organizations, engineering, the stock market, charity, satellite imagery, and more.  Here are two resources for understanding the scope of what’s happened. The [...]