Posted by Paige on Jul 15, 2009 in
Technology 
Kevin Hutchinson, creator of the iConnect iLearn Ning site, came up with an amazing idea to make a web 2.0 key chain. He took a bunch of great sites and added them to “keys”, laminated them, then put them all on a key ring. It is such a great way to have your top sites right in front of you. You can see his creation at the iConnect iLearn Ning.
I love Kevin’s idea, but the keys just weren’t doing it for me. So I decided… Continue reading
Posted by Paige on Jul 13, 2009 in
Best Practices,
Technology
I heard about Drop.io last year and immediately thought of a dozen ways to use it in my personal life. In fact, it just came in handy when I needed to get a huge slideshow to a friend for use in his wedding. However, the more I thought about it the more I realized just how useful a tool Drop.io could be in my classroom.
First let me back-up a few months… Sometime last Spring I read a blog (I am SO sorry I don’t… Continue reading
Posted by Paige on Jul 8, 2009 in
Uncategorized I recently signed-up with Conduit and created a nifty toolbar that anyone can install. My students are my target audience for this one and I was quickly able to customize it to fit their needs.
Each toolbar has a bunch of options that you can add, however because mine is for my students I tried to make it as simple as possible. Here is the result:
There are some very cool features that I would like to point out…
1. See the “Messages” button?… Continue reading
Posted by Paige on Jul 3, 2009 in
Technology 
Box.net is a site that I learned about last year when my husband bought a netbook and was given a free subscription. Upon looking at the site and all it had to offer I quickly realized what a powerful tool it is.
At first my thought was to use it to “transport” documents from my home computer to my school computer and visa versa. However, once I really started playing around I saw how I could easily incorporate Box.net into my students lives.
Yes, Box.net is… Continue reading
Posted by Paige on Jul 1, 2009 in
Technology 
One of the handiest programs I’ve used in a long time happens to be one of the programs I’ve had for a long time: Microsoft’s OneNote.
OneNote has been around for a couple of incarnations of MS Office. I remember seeing it as an option when I installed Office 2003 and thinking “sure, I’ll add it, maybe it’s cool.” I remember opening it and thinking that it was indeed cool, but I had no idea when I would use it. Then came Office 2007 and I again… Continue reading
