30 Technology Tips in 30 Minutes

1. 30 Technology Tips in 30 Minutes Wilmington University Faculty Development Day

2. We cannot teach like we’ve taught forever We must educate the students we have, not the student we used to have, nor the student we wished we had. We must adapt to today's student, not them adapting to us. We must change ourselves to adapt to their world.

3. Did you Know?

4. Today's student is the millennial, born 1982-2000. • They are the first networked generation. • They are hyper-communicators and must "power down" just to go to school.One way that we can reach them is through YouTube.

5. Using You Tube in the Classroom 1 2 3 Incorporate You Tube videos into student projects Have students find You Tube videos relating to the course content Use You Tube videos to introduce concepts to students

6. Technology Tip #1 Embedding a You Tube Video into PowerPoint

7. Embedding a PowerPoint

8. Technology Tip #2 Speaking of Videos www.teachertube.com Teacher Tube www.google.com Google Videos www.cnn.com/video/ CNN Videos http://learner.org/ Annenberg Videos http://www.edutopia.org/ The George Lucas Educational Foundation http://www.easehistory.org/index2.html Ease History

9. Technology Tip #3 Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate http://www.ultimatesteal.com/ Can download this for $60 if you have a .edu address Offer ends on April 30, 2008

10. Technology Tip #4 PowerPoint me Through This 2 Ways to Blank the Screen: During a presentation your audience will naturally focus on the screen rather than the presenter.  To get the audiences attention back on the presenter you could blank the screen during the presentation.  Here's how to do it:        Type the letter "B" and the screen will go black     Type the letter "W" and the screen will go white 1 Way to draw on the screen     Right click on the screen and select "Pointer Options" and then "Pen“

11. Technology Tip #5 Take A Picture of Your Screen To take a screen shot simply press CTRL and Print SCRN/SysRq in the upper right hand corner of your keyboard. Now, open a new document and click CTRL V to paste the item in the document (or right click and paste).

12. Technology Tip #6 Work Smarter, Not Harder http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/syllabi/ www.edu/syllabi/docs www.google.com

13. Technology Tip #7 Just GOOGLE IT!!!! How can you use GOOGLE to plan and prepare for your WU course?

14. Technology Tip #8 Course Cartridge http://cartridges.blackboard.com/catalog/

15. Technology Tip #9 Managing “My Courses” Do you have too many courses listed on your Blackboard page?

16. Technology Tip #10 Time to Make the E-mails Did you know that you can use Microsoft Outlook to make emails in advance and have them go out automatically hours, days, weeks, months or even years later? 

17. Technology Tip #11 Store It in Your CyberCloset Have you ever lost something you saved to a disk?  Ever had your home computer crash?  Pretty annoying to lose everything isn’t it?  Here’s a way to save files so they are accessible anywhere in the world without carrying a disk around or saving them to your computer. JUST E-MAIL IT TO YOURSELF!

18. Technology Tip #12 Go to M.I.T. for Free As part of its mission to “advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century” the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has decided to put all their courses online for free.  They call it Open Course Ware or OCW and the stated goals of the program are:  MIT OCW's goals are to: Provide free, searchable, access to MIT's course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. Extend the reach and impact of MIT OCW and the "opencourseware" concept. http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

19. Technology Tip #13 But wait, there's more... MIT has also created a specific version of it's OpenCourseWare for high school students.  This site is definitely a worthwhile destination for any secondary education teacher to check out: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/home/home/index.htm

20. Technology Tip #14 Edit undo, Undo, UNDOOO! Have you ever made a mistake? The programmers of the Microsoft software (Word, Outlook, Excel, Publisher, etc.) knew we would make mistakes so they programmed in a couple of ways to “undo” them.  Here are a few ways to undo your next mistake: OPTION #1:  On the menu bar select “Edit” and then “Undo.”  OPTION #2:  On the tool bar you can use this button to undo something you just did  OPTION #3:  There's also a keyboard shortcut to undo something you just did.  Try using CTRL + Z to undo and CTRL + Y to bring something back that you undid.

21. Technology Tip #15 Table That! Add the table Merge the cells Use color Adding more rows

22. Technology Tip #16 You Can Never Have Too Many Accessories Doodling with Paint Calculator Games

23. Technology Tip #17 Are You Having Control Issues? Did you know that the CTRL key can be used for lots of keyboard shortcuts?  Try some of these the next time you’re using a Microsoft Word or Excel: Shortcut Keys http://www.computerhope.com/shortcut.htm#2

24. Technology Tip #18 Can You Control Your Outlook Did you know that there are some unique CTRL options in each Microsoft program.  For example, below are some things you could try the next time you’re using Outlook for your email: And for a bonus here’s one more shortcut to try:  ALT + S will send an email

25. Technology Tip #19 Did They Read My E-mail? Did you ever wonder if anyone actually opened your email?  There is a way to confirm that your email was delivered and to be informed of when an email was opened by the recipient.  This is only going to work in the full version of Microsoft Outlook but other email systems might have similar options. 

26. Technology Tip #20 Cite Me A Citation Online There are several websites out there that will format citations for you.  Check these sites out: http://citationmachine.net/ http://www.easybib.com/ Students will find these sites and they will use them if given the opportunity.  It's up to their teachers to be aware of these sites and be prepared to honestly talk to them about them. 

27. Technology Tip #21 Fancy E-mail Stationary Have you ever wondered how other people managed to change the background of their emails? 

28. Technology Tip #22 Simple Search Tips Quotations Plus Minus Searching for a Word on a Webpage Plagiarist

29. Technology Tip #23 Rubric Me Please Making Rubrics Online: Here are some online resources for making rubrics that many teachers have found to be useful: RubiStar:  http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php Click here for a direct link to their rubric maker. Teach-nology:  http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/Click here for a direct link to their "General Rubric Maker" Rubrics4Teachers:  http://rubrics4teachers.com/.

30. Technology Tip #24 Making a Comment in Word Did you ever want to mark up a Word document without having to print it out?  This tip will show you how to insert a comment into a Word document. Adding a sound wave

31. Technology Tip #25 Reusable Learning Objects A learning object is a reusable unit of instruction for e-learning . The Wisconsin Online Resource Center describes the characteristics of learning objects: http://www.wisc-online.com/default.asp http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

32. Technology Tip #26 How to Catch the Big Images Do you have trouble finding pictures on the internet?  When you do finally find a picture from the internet does it look all grainy when you enlarge it to fit in your PowerPoint show? Google Images, AltaVista Images, and Yahoo Images picsearch.com

33. Technology Tip #27 Spring Cleaning Did you know that every time you visit a website a complete copy of that website as well as all the pictures on it is downloaded and stored on your computer? Delete cached copies Defragging Your Hard Drive 

34. Technology Tip #28 BCC Me Sometime Did you ever want to send an email to a whole bunch of people but you didn't want everyone on your email list to know who everyone else is?  Or did you ever have a need to secretly share an email conversation with another person?  Then you need to know what that Bcc is for on your email list.

35. Technology Tip #29 Making a Photo Story Here's a free download from Microsoft that can help you make some real professional looking slideshows on your computer. You could do it all in PowerPoint but this free software from Microsoft is much easier to use. To get this free software check out Photo Story 3 here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/ photostory/default.mspx Sample Photo Stories http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/task/photostory/ps3demos.htm

36. Technology Tip #30 Discounts for Educators 20% off Barnes & Noble purchases:  http://img.sparknotes.com/content/educators/pdf/edu_discount.pdf Some Cruise Deals for Teachers:http://www.cruisedirectonline.com/community_appreciation_ cruise_deals.htm 15% off at FedEx Kinkos for Educators:https://psg.kinkos.com/educator/ Discounts on Apple Computer Products:http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/routingpage.html Educators Discounts Information at About.com:http://712educators.about.com/cs/webresources/a/discounts.htm Not good enough?  Looking for more than just a discount? How about Free Stuff for Educators: http://www.kalama.com/~zimba/freeforteachers.htm http://www.teacherfreebies.com/index4members.htm http://www.free.ed.gov/ To help you get travel discounts you might want to apply for an International Teacher Identity Card from myISIC.com for about $16.  You can find out more about the discounts this card affords you here:  http://www.myisic.com/MyISIC/Specials/SpecialsAndDiscounts.aspx?MenuID=3000

37. Technology Tip #30 Online Gas Price Help http://www.gasbuddy.com/

38. Questions?