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WordCamp Toronto 2008
I’m excited about attending a geeky opportunity this weekend – WordCamp Toronto. WordCamp is a gathering of WordPress users held regionally around the world throughout the year (see this page for other WordCamps). Over two years ago I switched to using WordPress to power this blog, and never looked back. 🙂 One of the main…
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Content Tech: 8th Grade Science
Science exams are full of diagrams and models, and terminology associated with them. Following are 2 examples from the 2008 8th grade science exam (click each image to enlarge): Marzano’s work in Building Academic Vocabulary certainly would be helpful in these examples, as the distractors are set up to trick students who might confuse circulation/respiration…
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TTT: Windows Key
Keyboard shortcuts are nifty ways to get things done quickly on the computer. On any keyboard with the Windows key (just to the left of the Alt key, with the Windows logo), here are a few shortcuts you may find helpful: Press To Display or hide the Start menu. Windows key + D Show the…
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TTT: Windows Task Manager
Sometimes a program will stop responding (such as Internet Explorer), while you have work open in other programs. The Windows Task Manager lets you choose a specific program to end, while leaving other programs alone. To use the Windows Task Manager: Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete while logged in Click on Task Manager In the window that appears,…
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Content Tech: 5th Grade ELA
The 2007 5th Grade listening section had a very cute story about a photographer who encountered a rare lioness: Lion Story After 2 readings, the following questions were asked: Lion Questions Two of the questions have reasonably tricky distractors, and the question asking for supporting details from the story could be a stumper if not…
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TTT: Creating a PDF of a Document
You can create a PDF (Portable Document Format) file of any computer file. PDF files are easier to share with other computer users as there is less worry if they have the same software you do. Click on the link below to see how to create a PDF file. Hat tip once again to Nancy…
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Content Tech: 8th Grade Social Studies
In what I plan to be a new regular feature, Content Tech, we’ll look at examples in various content areas of what students are to know, and how tech may (or may not) help. For the first stop in this endeavor, we take a look at Social Studies. Here is a set of questions from…
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TTT: Reading Pane in Outlook 2003
Welcome to the 2008-09 TTT (Tuesday’s Technology Tip)! This tip is designed to give a quick “how-to” to hopefully make your computing life easier. Nancy Wilhelm, our district trainer, has created many helpful documents about using Office and other programs. Here is her tip on the reading pane in Outlook 2003: Reading Pane The Reading…
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First Day of Kindergarten
My son started his school learning journey today. He was very excited when he woke up, hopped on the bus (yes I was a doting dad with the video camera) and had a great day. We had a bit of extra excitement at the end of the day when he did not get off the…
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PowerPointlessness is Everywhere
Thankfully (tongue-in-cheek), the education realm is not the only place PowerPoint is abused…here is today’s Dilbert-enjoy! Note that you may have to click on the comic to see the last frame – you will be taken to the Dilbert site.