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These Kids Have No Skills

Photo courtesy of http://www.britannica.com/blogs/ The school district where I am a K-12 technology integrator moved away from computer labs at the elementary level about five years ago. Each...

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Google Advanced Image Search

This post will show you how to do a Google Advanced Image Search in order to find images that are licensed to be used in student work. It is important that we teach kids how to be good digital...

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Using Text To Speech

There are a lot of hidden features in the Mac operating system that are extremely useful. One of those features is the Text To Speech technology that allows your computer to speak selected text. This...

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Dashboard Widgets

Dashboard widgets are mini applications that provide quick and easy access to information on your Mac. This episode of the Tech Tips Podcast will show you where they are, how to manage them, and...

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Proud Parents!

As parents, we try hard to make our children kind, thoughtful people – and so far it looks like we’re succeeding. Below is an article from our local paper. They did all of this completely on their own....

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2011 in Review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,200 times in 2011. If it...

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QR Codes…the beginning

Our school district is experiencing many economic challenges like so many other districts across the country. The technology department has taken an especially hard hit over the last two years. As an...

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QR Codes…the next step

In my previous post, QR Codes…the beginning, I outlined how we began using QR codes in one of our elementary schools. The posters  were up for scanning and we seemed to have worked out some of the...

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Moving Forward with QR Codes

Short URL: goo.gl/vLs0O I am happy to report that our QR project continues to progress and morph as we learn and share more. If you haven’t been following our story, you’ll want to check out the...

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No Texting While Driving Campaign

According to a report published by the NHTSA, of the 26 percent of drivers involved in a crash over the last five years, 3.5 percent attribute distraction as the reason for their crash. When converted...

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Not Using QR Codes?…Are You Qrazy?

Last week I had the pleasure of presenting a session at the Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo & Conference (PETE&C) about using QR codes in education. I had a fantastic time in my...

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An iPad Journey Begins

One of the items our department was charged with this year was replacing some of our oldest elementary technology devices. We were specifically focused on grades K-2. Historically we have been a Mac...

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Our iPad Learning Community

As mentioned in my previous post, teachers that were accepted into our iPad cadre group had to agree to become part of a learning community where they would share successes, challenges, and lessons...

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2013 in Review

So how am I going to use this 2013 in Review blog report?…As motivation to reenergize my blogging  habits in 2014. The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog....

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iPad Fluency

I’ve been sitting on this post for quite some time now, and it’s time to get it “on paper”. As I was reading through my Twitter feed, I noticed a tweet from Silvia Tolisano (@langwitches) that stated...

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