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Greg Goins Is K-12 Education Ready For This?

How would you teach if you faced this every day of the week?

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Added by Greg Goins on November 23, 2009 at 5:15pm — No Comments

Susan Hood Check out this video about tehcnology of TODAY!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGQikoRPyns&feature=related Continue

Added by Susan Hood on November 23, 2009 at 12:50pm — 1 Comment

Greg Goins "The Fun Theory"

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Added by Greg Goins on November 22, 2009 at 8:52pm — 2 Comments

Mary Slider Ideas please?? How to transfer from a web page so I can print a student's paper

Help tech folks out there!...One of my students saved her paper with much sweat equity as a web page, rather than for print. She has a text box that prints black from my computer at school...and when I tried to open it at home, I was unable to try to edit and paste into word. The three pictures she provided are to the left and the text box with the print then additional titles etc are squeezed in vertically to the side. Any ideas how we can rescue and print this paper? Do we have to go back to t… Continue

Added by Mary Slider on October 2, 2009 at 7:01am — No Comments

Terry Shelton I Need My Teachers to Learn

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Added by Terry Shelton on September 4, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Greg Goins Teacher Feedback (Joesph Lee - Apple Computers)

Have received some feedback via email, but would like to get more here. Please share your thoughts with me on Joe Lee and his presentation on the opening TI day. Continue

Added by Greg Goins on August 20, 2009 at 10:40am — 1 Comment

Greg Goins Mac vs. PC

I'm pleased to announce that Mr. Joseph Lee, the Illinois K-12 Apple Rep. will be our featured presenter at our opening Teacher Institute Day on Monday, August 17th. I had the chance to meet Joe at the Technology Conference at John A. Logan last spring and was amazed at all the innovative Apple features. I'm a life-long PC guy, but I have to admit that I've got my eye on a Mac Book Pro - the multi-media is just incredible. I knew I was hooked when I spent two hours in the Apple store at the St.… Continue

Added by Greg Goins on August 12, 2009 at 5:25pm — No Comments

Greg Goins School Center Tip #2 - Sorting Newsletter Boxes

Another change is in how newsletter boxes are sorted. In the past, you could click on sort newsletter boxes and revise by placing numbers above text boxes and the page would refresh. With the revised SC Pro program, you need to drag and drop newsletter boxes from the current page to the sorted page box. To make items one, two, or three columns, click on the small white box in the bottom right hand corner of the blue text box and drag across to whatever column preference you desire. When you crea… Continue

Added by Greg Goins on July 23, 2009 at 9:17am — No Comments

Greg Goins School Center Tip - Add Border To Text

As we prepare for the upcoming school year, I'm sure many of you will begin updating your school web pages. School Center has made some upgrades and a few of the editing features have been tweaked. One problem I have encountered is adding border around text. This is a common practice among print media to assure that text, more specifically "headlines" do not bump and run into one other. The old way to add a border was to simply use the styles feature. However, if that does not work try this: 1)… Continue

Added by Greg Goins on July 23, 2009 at 9:05am — No Comments

Greg Goins Welcome To West Chicago Middle School

Here's a great school or classroom project to promote your individual buildings and school curriculum. Take a quick look and give me some feedback. Continue

Added by Greg Goins on May 4, 2009 at 10:18am — 1 Comment

Mary Slider embedding Youtube videos - redo with instructions

Dear Lisa and all, I like to use Youtube and Teachertube ( for more controlled content). I have started embedding music video and lyrics to my website. These instructions from http://www.labnol.org/software/insert-youtube-video-in-powerpoint-presentations/5393/ .... If you plan to deliver a presentation without internet, take the following approach. 1. First download the YouTube video locally in either Windows Media or AVI format since PowerPoint doesn’t understand the default F… Continue

Added by Mary Slider on April 13, 2009 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Lisa Price Downloading Videos from utube

A few classes at the high school have downloaded videos from utube to use on presentations, however the site that they were using no longer allows downloades. Does any one have a suggestion for a good site to use to achieve this. I would love to hear any suggestions. Continue

Added by Lisa Price on April 10, 2009 at 9:52pm — 3 Comments

Susan Hood Think Ahead Conference

The Think Ahead Conference I attended in Springfiled on Thursday was very informative. It explained how students of the 21st need to be creative, mobile, multitasking, collaborative, and productive. Students need to be the pilots in the learning, not the passengers. I saw how to use the iPod touch as a tool to create 21st centruy students. I also learned how teachers need to become facilitors that communicate, collaborate, and learn along with the students. Overall, it was more interesting and i… Continue

Added by Susan Hood on April 10, 2009 at 8:04pm — 3 Comments

Greg Goins Blues Hockey Photos With BlackBerry

Had the chance to attend my second hockey game ever on Saturday night in St. Louis and watched the Blues beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-3 in an overtime shoot-out to keep their playoff hopes alive. I know nothing about hockey, but just wanted to add some pictures to show just how easy it is to take pictures with the BlackBerry Smart Phone. I simply took the pictures, emailed them to my school account, and then uploaded to the site. With today's technology, it's so easy to share photos and I en… Continue

Added by Greg Goins on March 29, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Greg Goins Notes From Tech Showcase

For those of you unable to attend this year's technology showcase at John A. Logan, here are a few of the highlights from what I felt was an outstanding professional development and networking opportunity. Google: There are so many free Google features for teachers and classrooms and Google For Educators (www.google.com/educators) is really all you need to meet all your instructional needs. The site has sign-ups for free classroom posters and materials and also offers ideas for lesson pl… Continue

Added by Greg Goins on March 26, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

Terry Shelton Upcoming April 1 Worm

In case you have not heard, the world-wide computer industry is alerting us of a bad Internet worm coming on April 1; it is called Conficker.C and is supposed to be very hard to detect and clean. But the good news is BitDefender Labs has released a scanner that, they say, will detect and clean this worm. Go to BitDefender Labs and click on QuickScan or download the home version of the cleaning tool. Continue

Added by Terry Shelton on March 24, 2009 at 7:53pm — 1 Comment

Terry Shelton Internet Explorer vs. Firefox

Here's a good unbiased article comparing the two Internet browsers. Explorer vs. Firefox Continue

Added by Terry Shelton on March 20, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Greg Goins Technology Showcase

Glad to see District 168 will be so well represented on Thursday at the ROE Technology Showcase at John A. Logan College. I look forward to seeing everyone there and hope those that attend can share thoughts and feedback on new products, software, or suggestions for possible speakers and professional development opportunities that we can bring back to the district next year. See everyone tomorrow. Continue

Added by Greg Goins on March 18, 2009 at 5:23pm — No Comments

Terry Shelton Need another computer at home?

Call Sarah Johnston at 888-226-5727, x3730 Continue

Added by Terry Shelton on March 17, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Greg Goins Kaplan University Spot ("It's Time")

Found this promotional video for Kaplan University (never heard of it). However, I think it's a very powerful message about the role of technology in higher education in the 21st century. Let me know what you think. Continue

Added by Greg Goins on March 13, 2009 at 6:43am — No Comments

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