For those of you, like me, who love to use Firefox, here are some cheat sheets that you might find helpful. Enjoy! Firefox Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts Source: AccessFirefox.org Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts Tri-fold Source: CHRISdotTODD Mozilla Firefox Cheat Sheet Source: Leslie Franke

In a previous post, I shared how to set the starting point of a YouTube video by appending the link URL with some extra code. I thought this would be helpful for many. But no, that wasn’t good enough for some, and I was asked how to do the same but with an embedded YouTube video. Thanks, Tim! Well, you asked, and I will answer! Below is the embed code for the same video by [...]

Sometimes you might need to show a clip from a YouTube video but don’t want to show all of it. If you are presenting in front of a class, fiddling around with the slider to the proper location might be distracting for the students and waste valuable class time. So, how do you get a video to start at just the right place? Well of course, you could have the video preset so that when [...]

While working on another post I came across this video by Sir Ken Robinson. Something to think about…

A colleague asked me if I could suggest a way to communicate with parents about their elementary-age children during the school year. She wanted a record of all correspondence, feedback from parents/guardians, and a simple way to manage it. As I listened to her needs I considered a variety of options including Moodle, WordPress, and Outlook e-mail groups. But ultimately, I recommended a Ning site for this situation. Ning is free social networking software. Create [...]

Dr. Scott McLeod says, “As I’ve said many times: If a teacher gets it, a classroom changes. If a principal gets it, the whole building begins to change. If a superintendent gets it, the whole district begins to change. [And, if state or federal policymakers get it, the statewide or nationwide climate begins to change.] Seems obvious, right? So why are so many government / corporation / foundation educational technology reform initiatives (money, time, training, [...]

Courtesy of LearningToday.com, here are two posters with a NETS Pledge for Teachers. NETS-Poster-Color NETS-Poster-Black/White The National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) are a set of standards published by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). The standards serve as a guide for educators to improve teaching and learning through the effective use of technology in K-12 education. These performance indicators were developed to help teachers motivate their students, create engaging learning environments, improve their [...]

Why Google Docs? Import existing docs, or create new ones from scratch. Edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations from anywhere. Share docs online and collaborate instantly. Store docs securely online. Eliminate confusing email attachments and version-control issues. To get you started, here is a Quick Start Guide to Google Docs!

Will Richardson says, “More and more, though, as I look at my own kids and try to make sense what’s going to make them successful, I care less and less about a particular teacher’s content expertise and more about whether that person is a master learner, one from whom Tess or Tucker can get the skills and literacies to make sense of learning in every context, new and old. What I want are master learners, [...]

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 original plan was to contact Mark from one of the venues but a wireless connection was not reliable for this [...]