Teachers & Training

Infosthetics.com introduced me to a hilarious video on PowerPoint Presentation Humor.  The video was created by Don McMillan.  Check it out!
Also, visit Don’s MySpace page for more of his videos.
Like that?  Search for other PowerPoint Presentation humor (at your own risk) on YouTube.com.

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Widgets are a lot of fun and can be quite useful. There are Widgets for just about everything! I am a fan of iGoogle and use a few of the many choices offered there. There are many sources for widgets. Here is a widget from Scholastic.com that may […]

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“USA.gov now offers a new page called Teen Resources, which contains information on:

Driving
Education
Environmental Consciousness
Health and Safety
Internet and Mobile
Jobs and Volunteering
Money
Travel and Recreation”

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Not only is it Back-to-School but it is also the beginning point of many new teacher’s careers.  If you are a teacher, a media specialist or an administrator then you can make a world of difference to them!   Do what you can to help them - they will really appreciate it!
Scholastic.com offered an article entitled, […]

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Harrison Hoffman wrote on Cnet.com an article, “Easy as ABC: Web apps for students”
“Summer is, unfortunately, almost over and that means that students are starting to head back to school in the coming weeks. There are so many online tools that can help students today to stay more organized and productive that I thought I […]

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An interesting article appeared in the InsideHigherEd.com newsletter. It was the title caught my attention! FISH TO PROFS: STICK TO TEACHING. I could just visualize one of those mounted ’singing catfish’ talking to a group of professors! The article, of course, was more serious. The premise - “Should we […]

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I have spent several periods of time (too long to be proud of) trying to figure out how to effectively use Google Documents , an often praised resource or tool for collaborating with others . I was wasting my time until I ran across the brief tutorial in Using Google Docs in the […]

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LibX: Browser Plugins for Libraries
By Laurie N. Taylor
LibX is a browser plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer that provides direct access to your library’s resources. It’s an Open Source framework from which editions for specific libraries can be built. Currently, 330 academic and …
Digital Library Center Blog | UF - […]

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Melissa Kelly of About.com’s Secondary Education does it again! Check out the resources she provides here.

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An interesting article appeared in The Washington Post entitled, ‘Question for the Ages: What Books When?‘ The article was written by Valerie Strauss of the ‘Post’. After giving a few examples of parents being upset about books their children were reading or being read to at school she says,
‘The episodes illustrate […]

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