Sunday, November 15, 2009

Create a Blog with Blogger Wed November 18, 7:30 AM

Please be sure to have created a google email account before coming to this! Our goal is to create a class blog for you to use with our students.


Remember I have step by step from December of last year found here:

Previous Blog with Instructions
How to Embed a YouTube video on your blog:
First, go to YouTube and find a video that you like. It doesn't have to be a video that you created. Next, look for the box directly to the right of the video. Not only does this box let you subscribe to videos, it also gives you the code for embedding video. Go to the line marked Embed at the bottom of this box. Click inside the code box next to the word Embed. All of the code text should automatically be highlighted. If not, you'll need to select it. Copy this code. You can copy by right-clicking on your mouse and selecting copy from the drop-down menu.
Log into your Blogger account and compose a new message for your blog. Select the edit HTML tab, and paste the code you copied from YouTube. It is important to make sure you have the HTML tab selected first. You can paste the code by right-clicking and selecting paste from the drop-down menu. That's it. Press the post button and then preview your blog, to make sure everything works. When readers look at your blog, they'll see the embedded video, and they can click on the play button in the center to view the video.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Wanna Know Wednesday November 4, 2009 7:30 AM GOOGLE!

Google has so much to offer everyone! You don't have to have a google mail account to use google docs, but why not set one up. Simplifies things!


Folder with information about google:

Friday, September 25, 2009

Wanna Know Wednesday Teacher Reports in DDN Campus September 23, 2009

Liz showed some of the different reports available in DDN campus to print out to see your students progress per assignment, blank spreadsheet, portal usage, student summary, student labels, etc.

We then looked at newsletters to publish to the DDN site for parents to see as well as the messenger service to send to their inbox info about failing grades, missing assignments, etc.
http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B53GzZRq31tXODE0ZjRjOTMtZDBkMy00Mzc3LThjODYtZjEyZjk5ZWU4MTRk&hl=en

Wanna Know Wednesday Smart Board Applications September 9, 2009

Jay Swatek was our guest presenter and show us different sites he has found to use the smart board with. Here is a link to his porta portal with his resources listed!
http://guest.portaportal.com/swatek

We also showed how to hook a doc cam up to the smart board and told to shut them down if there weren't going to use them for 5-10 minutes or more.

Wanna Know Wednesday Lab and Resource Scheduler September 2nd, 2009

Liz showed Lab and Resource Scheduler, explained how to log in and their password, as well as the labs available by time. We then did a tour of all the labs and were shown how to use the projectors and where to get the key to use the lab.

Wanna Know Wednesday School Reach August 26

Mr. Long showed the school reach system our school is using and gave the teachers a template to put their information on. He showed how to record a message and send it to your group.