Last Thursday morning I traveled to Vancouver to speak with Mark Bricklin, a reporter for the Vail Daily (Vail, Colorado), who was covering elements of the 2010 Winter Games for the newspaper. Okay, I didn’t really go there in person but used Skype to transport two classrooms of students to the Media Press Center. The [...]
A colleague asked me how to delete every second row of data in an Excel spreadsheet that contains thousands of rows. Manual deletion in this case (holding the CTRL key on a PC) while selecting every second row would take too long.
A quick search turned up this tip in the Excel Forum.
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On Friday (February 5, 2010), I first heard about this online tool from the network administrator. It seems that a teacher had requested that he unblock this site from our Internet filtering software, and wanted to know if I knew anything about it. This was the first I had learned of the site so I [...]
I am not sure how I stumbled across this resource but it is one worth sharing. The folks at makeuseof.com have created a Guidebook to Internet Searching that is worth reviewing. I am sure that there are things inside with which you are already familiar but I am willing to bet there are a lot [...]
I was browsing through an older issue of Learning & Leading with Technology (September/October 2007) when I found an article titled, Improving Student Research by Catherine Tannahill and Leslie Ricklin. The authors break the research process into four steps, the first being investigation. In this step students should identify the type of information needed and [...]
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