PBS has created teacher activity packs, a collection of educational resources focused on a theme, and packaged as a widget that you can be embedded in class web sites, blogs or wikis. Packs include links to PBS web sites and a sets of grade level activities. There are several categories of activity packs from which to choose – The Arts, Health and Fitness, Reading and Language Arts, Science and Technology, and Social Studies. Within each [...]

Sometimes, I just want to see what other people have bookmarked. With delicious, there is an easy way to find the most recent and/or popular bookmarks on a topic quickly. Here’s how… In a web browser, enter the URL for the delicious web site: http://delicious.com To find the most recently added bookmarks for a topic, just append the address to include /tag and then the topic you want, such as /algebra The full URL should [...]

The New Hampshire Society for Technology in Education (NHSTE) produces a newsletter called, “Connections.” In the August 2008 issue there is a great article on page 9 by Nancy Keane titled, “50 Ways to Use Your Wordle.” I am sure this article will inspire even more uses! Share them!

I just upgraded to Firefox 3 and have been pleased with the browser so far. But there has been one thing that really bothered me – the Send Link… command didn’t work! Since I share a lot of web resources with others, the ability to quickly send a web site is essential. Fortunately, I found a post by Mark Russell on a Firefox Google Group with directions for fixing this problem: In Firefox, type “about:config” [...]

A colleague of mine sent me this Wordle tip the other day. If you want a line of text to stay together when creating a word cloud, place the ~ symbol between the words. For example, if I were creating a Wordle based on my favorite musical groups, the text would look like this: Dave~Matthews~Band Matchbox~Twenty Soundgarden Audioslave Foo~Fighters The~Offspring Green~Day Here is the word cloud created by using the “~” to connect the titles [...]

I was working with a small group of teachers recently when the topic of F Keys came up. Since I like to play, I spent some time testing the F Keys in Firefox to see what they would do. Here is what I discovered… F1 – Will display the Firefox Help window. If you have a question or want to learn more about Firefox, this is a good place to start. F3 – Opens the [...]