Posted by Paige on Jul 25, 2009 in
Technology
Last year a friend told me about this neat application called Grand Central that gave you a centralized phone number which, when called, would ring to any phone number(s) that you wanted. When I heard about this I immediately went to sign-up. Unfortunately at that point Grand Central was defunct. However, Google had taken it over and there was a post stating it was coming soon and I could sign-up to be notified when it was ready. Of course I did. Now, a year later, Google Voice is finally… Continue reading
Posted by Paige on Jul 23, 2009 in
Best Practices,
Technology
Today was funny (peculiar, not haha). Yesterday when I started thinking about posting my top Google tips I knew that I wanted today’s post to be about Google Reader (a tool I heavily rely on). Then today I was showing my site to my husband and three teachers. Each of them asked “what is that little thing in the coffee cup?” (BTW, a HUGE thank you to the maker of this theme, Edward Caissie for doing so much to make my cute little icon work!). My response was, “that’s how you can… Continue reading
Posted by Paige on Jul 22, 2009 in
Best Practices,
Technology
If you do a search for the phrase “Google Rules The World” you will come up with 2,010 hits on Google, and about the same number on Yahoo. My point is there’s lots of chatter about Google and their enormous suite of products (I don’t even know all of them). Then why is it that so few educators (that I know) use Google products? As I was talking with a friend the other day it occurred to me that many just don’t know about all Google has to offer. Continue reading
Posted by Paige on Jul 21, 2009 in
Best Practices
While I am no “newbie” when it comes to reading blogs, I most certainly am a newbie when it comes to authoring and setting-up one (see previous post!). That’s why I am extra honored to have been included yesterday in Tom DeRosa’s series 52 Teachers, 52 Lessons. Tom asks the insightful question: “what is the most important advice you can give to other teachers?”
It was so hard to narrow down my thoughts, but in the end I opted for some advice for a new teacher.
Tom is on week 25 of the series… Continue reading
Posted by Paige on Jul 21, 2009 in
Rants
If you have visited my site in the last few days you may have noticed a couple of things: 1. no new posts and 2. odd & continual design changes, or perhaps 3. you weren’t even able to access the site. If any of the those sounds right, I apologize. Continue reading