Sean's+Tech+Tips

10.26.11 I was forced into spending my saturday at a conference about using technology in the classroom for my masters, but was presented with lots of pretty cool tools and ideas. everything from new ways to poll your students (or staff) to online cork or post boards to making podcasts/videos/pictures/powerpoints to a website where people post their powerpoints for you to download and use. below is the link and if you find something you like, i would be more than happy to come teach you how to do it.

http://worldlanguagestech.wikispaces.com/Workshop+agenda (just scroll down to below where it talks about making the wikispaces).

if you are curious, the lady who gave the presentation has her own site which you can explore. i havent had time yet and it seems fairly expansive, but there is a lot of material there if you are interested. http://tonitheisen.wikispaces.com/

10.24.11 Ann Marie has begun sending out invites to a bunch of various events around campus. While at first you might wonder why you would want to add every little thing to your personal outlook calendar, I think you should for a few reasons…

1 – if you accept the invitation or add it to your calendar and a change is made, you will be notified via email 2 – you will be able to go onto your calendar and check the start time/location/for any necessary documents for any and all events 3 – if an event in deleted or moved, you will be notified.

Also, to help Ann Marie out, if the invite is for something like red ribbon week or a book fair and you’re receiving it as more of a heads up than being asked for your participation in a meeting, PLEASE accept the meeting without sending a response. She doesn’t need an email notification from each of us to attend spring break and is only sending out the invite to help us all stay informed

10.19.11 Here is a pic of my desktop as an example of how to get your outlook events to show up on the desktop to help remind you of your upcoming committments