Teachnology reminds you to have a great Holiday season

So we are on Winter Vacation, Christmas Break or whatever we call it.....rest and relaxation is always good for the mind. I will post every couple of days during the break..........feel free to join and post

Enjoy your Holiday!!!!!!

Reality 101 for Teachers

Ok teachers get into your own reality with this blog link...........

Reality 101 for Teachers

Top 50 Special Education Blogs

Hey Special Programs teachers you don't want to miss this link. And it's not just for Special Program Teachers, we all have these students in our classroom, let's take a look at what others are doing

Top 50 Special Education Blogs

The Best Education Techology Blogs

I found this link to all of these really cool blogs that share ideas about teaching and learning in the 21st Century. Enjoy!!

Visit Kathy Schrock's best of Education Blogs

Instructional PowerPoint on blogging in Secondary Classroom

Blogging in the Secondary Classroom

Blogger help

Blogger has many ways to help you learn how to use its services. Click on the link below and you will find about anything you like. Unfortuantely the video tutorial is blocked at school because it has a You Tube address, but everything else should be accessable.

Blogger Help

Getting Started Guide (This is very helpful getting started with your first blog)

January Exam Schedule

Click on the link below and open up the Google Doc version of the January Exam Schedule. You can dowload this document as a word document. To do this you want to select "file", "download as" and select word.

January Exam Schedule

Parent Exam Retest Letter

What is an RSS feed?

If you have ever watched a sydicated show on cable you know the basics about RSS. Real Simple Syndication (RSS) is a way to get news feeds, blogs or press releases send directly to your reader instead of getting a steady strem of emails that have to be opened to see what they contain.

RSS Wikipedia Page

Teach our students about FICO scores

Our students should be armed with some knowledge of how their credit scores work.

How are FICO scores rated

Stanford University Free Online Video and Audio Lectures

Yes, that right....FREE

Click on the link below and then choose to download the Stanford I Tunes store

Stanford I Tunes

Top 10 Free Education Training options

This is a list of Lifehackers top 10 fee online educational training options

Make sure you scroll down and take a Look at # 1 it is especially interesting.....that Stanford is actually making available through I-tunes free educational materials.

Also take a look at the link below for free online educational courses

Free Online Education Portal

Ok so Just how BIG is the internet today....

A day in the Internet is Mindblowing...but illustrates the point that today's students are not like those even two years ago

The Truth is no one really knows how big the internet is but this is the best guess

How to avoid online scams

Worried that paying bills online is risky, actually according to most web security experts it is the safer that paying by mail. Click on the link below for Lifehacker.com's guide on avoiding online scams.

The Complete Guide to avoiding online Scams

Craigslist avoid scams section is also good advice in general to avoid 99% of all scams

Wolf Ram Alpha for Math.....

Ok this new search engine can help students get extra tutorial help for math problems

Help with Math Problems

Tutorial for PowerPoint 2007: What's changed in PowerPoint 2007

This looks like a very helpful tutorial on how to use the new 2007 PowerPoint....
What's changed in PowerPoint 2007

If you follow the tutorial down the page on the left margin you will see a practice link. Click on that link and it will automatically open up a sample PowerPoint presentation for you to practice with. It will automatically open up another smaller window that will give you very detailed directions.

Give it a shot..Also there is another post below this one on effective PowerPoint Presentations

Good luck and happy e-learning today!

Five ways to help Special Programs Students get organized

Click on this google document and download this and use it or make changes to it. I really like this....

Five ways to help Special Programs

A relevent look at Math...not technology today

Ok all of you math teachers....I found this and thought you might like to take a look at this relevent use of Math...and weight loss this might be useful.

http://lifehacker.com/5416072/use-basic-fat-math-to-lose-extra-weight

Five tips for a better PowerPoint Presentation

Did you ever go to one of those meeting with the endless PowerPoint Presentation? Check this out....

Tips to a better PowerPoint Presentation