TUESDAY TECH TIPS (times two)

06-08-10: Office 2007- Dialog Boxes

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06-01-10: Word 2007- Office Button

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05-25-10: Computer Protocol Using Bcc in Emails

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05-18-10: Computer Protocal- Keeping Personal Information Safe

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05-11-10: Computer Protocal- Logging Out & Replying

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05-04-10: Fun Tips- Page Borders

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Tuesday’s Tech Tip:  04-27-10: Fun Tips- Special Symbols

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04-20-10: Fun Tips- Webdings & Wingdings

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04-13-10: Fun Tips- Smiley & Sad Faces

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03-30-10: Blogs

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03-23-10: Wikis

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 03-16-10: Twitter

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03-09-10: Social Networking

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TUESDAY TECH TIPS (times two)

Last year we had the privilege of receiving some wonderful tech tips from our colleagues in the San Diego Community College District. This school year they are hard at work again, providing us with many useful technology tricks and tips that we can benefit from. Be sure to check in every Tuesday to get the latest tip! [...]

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TUESDAY TECH TIPS (times two)

Last year we had the privilege of receiving some wonderful tech tips from our colleagues in the San Diego Community College District. This school year they are hard at work again, providing us with many useful technology tricks and tips that we can benefit from. Be sure to check in every Tuesday to get the latest tip! [...]

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TUESDAY TECH TIPS (times two)

Last year we had the privilege of receiving some wonderful tech tips from our colleagues in the San Diego Community College District. This school year they are hard at work again, providing us with many useful technology tricks and tips that we can benefit from. Be sure to check in every Tuesday to get the latest tip! [...]

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TUESDAY TECH TIPS (times two)

Last year we had the privilege of receiving some wonderful tech tips from our colleagues in the San Diego Community College District. This school year they are hard at work again, providing us with many useful technology tricks and tips that we can benefit from. Be sure to check in every Tuesday to get the latest tip! [...]

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SpellingCity + SMARTBoard = Seriously Simple

SpellingCity.com has: Over 42,000 spelling words and ten learning games! A REAL person who says each word and sentence. Free home pages for teachers and parents to save lists. How To Videos to show teachers and parents how to use SpellingCity.com But wait, there’s more…SpellingCity.com

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TUESDAY TECH TIPS (times two)

Last year we had the privilege of receiving some wonderful tech tips from our colleagues in the San Diego Community College District. This school year they are hard at work again, providing us with many useful technology tricks and tips that we can benefit from. Be sure to check in every Tuesday to get the latest tip! [...]

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TUESDAY TECH TIPS (times two)

Last year we had the privilege of receiving some wonderful tech tips from our colleagues in the San Diego Community College District. This school year they are hard at work again, providing us with many useful technology tricks and tips that we can benefit from. Be sure to check in every Tuesday to get the latest tip! [...]

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TUESDAY TECH TIPS (times two)

Last year we had the privilege of receiving some wonderful tech tips from our colleagues in the San Diego Community College District. This school year they are hard at work again, providing us with many useful technology tricks and tips that we can benefit from. Be sure to check in every Tuesday to get the latest tip! [...]

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TUESDAY TECH TIPS (times two)

Last semester we had the privilege of receiving some wonderful tech tips from our colleagues in the San Diego Community College District. This semester they are hard at work again, providing us with many useful technology tricks and tips that we can benefit from. Be sure to check in every Tuesday to get the latest [...]

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TUESDAY TECH TIPS (times two)

Last semester we had the privilege of receiving some wonderful tech tips from our colleagues in the San Diego Community College District. This semester they are hard at work again, providing us with many useful technology tricks and tips that we can benefit from. Be sure to check in every Tuesday to get the latest [...]

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TUESDAY TECH TIPS (times two)

Last semester we had the privilege of receiving some wonderful tech tips from our colleagues in the San Diego Community College District. This semester they are hard at work again, providing us with many useful technology tricks and tips that we can benefit from. Be sure to check in every Tuesday to get the latest [...]

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TUESDAY TECH TIPS (times two)

Last semester we had the privilege of receiving some wonderful tech tips from our colleagues in the San Diego Community College District. This semester they are hard at work again, providing us with many useful technology tricks and tips that we can benefit from. Be sure to check in every Tuesday to get the latest [...]

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TUESDAY TECH TIPS (times two)

Last semester we had the privilege of receiving some wonderful tech tips from our colleagues in the San Diego Community College District. This semester they are hard at work again, providing us with many useful technology tricks and tips that we can benefit from. Be sure to check in every Tuesday to get the latest [...]

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TUESDAY TECH TIPS (times two)

Last semester we had the privilege of receiving some wonderful tech tips from our colleagues in the San Diego Community College District. This semester they are hard at work again, providing us with many useful technology tricks and tips that we can benefit from. Be sure to check in every Tuesday to get the latest [...]

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TUESDAY TECH TIPS (times two)

Last semester we had the privilege of receiving some wonderful tech tips from our colleagues in the San Diego Community College District. This semester they are hard at work again, providing us with many useful technology tricks and tips that we can benefit from. Be sure to check in every Tuesday to get the latest [...]

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TUESDAY TECH TIPS (times two)

Last semester we had the privilege of receiving some wonderful tech tips from our colleagues in the San Diego Community College District. This semester they are hard at work again, providing us with many useful technology tricks and tips that we can benefit from. Be sure to check in every Tuesday to get the latest [...]

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TUESDAY TECH TIPS (times two)

Last semester we had the privilege of receiving some wonderful tech tips from our colleagues in the San Diego Community College District. This semester they are hard at work again, providing us with many useful technology tricks and tips that we can benefit from. Be sure to check in every Tuesday to get the latest [...]

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TUESDAY TECH TIPS (times two)

Last semester we had the privilege of receiving some wonderful tech tips from our colleagues in the San Diego Community College District. This semester they are hard at work again, providing us with many useful technology tricks and tips that we can benefit from. Be sure to check in every Tuesday to get the latest [...]

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TUESDAY TECH TIPS (times two)

Last semester we had the privilege of receiving some wonderful tech tips from our colleagues in the San Diego Community College District. This semester they are hard at work again, providing us with many useful technology tricks and tips that we can benefit from. Be sure to check in every Tuesday to get the latest [...]

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TUESDAY TECH TIPS (times two)

Last semester we had the privilege of receiving some wonderful tech tips from our colleagues in the San Diego Community College District. This semester they are hard at work again, providing us with many useful technology tricks and tips that we can benefit from. Be sure to check in every Tuesday to get the latest [...]

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TUESDAY TECH TIPS (times two)

Last semester we had the privilege of receiving some wonderful tech tips from our colleagues in the San Diego Community College District. This semester they are hard at work again, providing us with many useful technology tricks and tips that we can benefit from. Be sure to check in every Tuesday to get the latest [...]

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TUESDAY TECH TIPS (times two)

Last semester we had the privilege of receiving some wonderful tech tips from our colleagues in the San Diego Community College District. This semester they are hard at work again, providing us with many useful technology tricks and tips that we can benefit from. Be sure to check in every Tuesday to get the latest [...]

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TUESDAY TECH TIPS

Our friends and colleagues in the San Diego Community College Continuing Education Program have been working hard! Cindy Wislofsky and Donna Price are both ESL Tech Resource Instructors as well as ESL Teachers for their school. Every Tuesday they send out a wonderful Tech Tip for everyone to learn from. We have decided to post their Tech [...]

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Let Your Fingers Do the Talking…

Texting. You’ve seen it. You’ve probably even done it. But chances are you don’t do it in class. Guess what? We’re breaking all the rules! We are bringing texting into the classroom! Nearly every student has a cell phone and chances are they are texting in class anyway. Why not have them use their piece [...]

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“And In This Corner…”

Here’s a cool website that I have been using in my classroom. It has lots of activities including thematic units, lesson plans, and printable worksheets for your students…and it’s FREE! Check it out! http://www.theteacherscorner.net/

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NPR’s All Tech Considered

New on NPR: All Tech Considered Every Monday, All Things Considered will air its new series called All Tech Considered to explore the sometimes daunting – always changing – world of technology. Are you baffled by your cell phone? Wondering what your kids mean when they say they’re tweeting on Twitter? Whatever it may be, [...]

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Wiki What?

Would you like an explanation of a wiki…in plain English?  Here’s a video for you… Wikis in Plain English Runtime: 03:54       Say, while you’re at it…check this one out, too:    Blogs in Plain English Runtime: 02:58

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Miguel’s Tech Tip of the Week: http://classtools.net/

Miguel’s Tech Tip:  Our computer/digital photography teacher, Miguel Vasquez, shared a cool website http://classtools.net/ at last week’s PLC for our daytime ESL teachers.  Overview:  It’s a great interactive tool for practicing vocabulary, comprehension, and grammar. Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, [...]

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Blog to Blog Learning

Why did yesterday’s blog post Verb Power! Simply Pointing It Out get 329 student views in less than six hours? One reason is that Newport-Mesa Adult School ESL Multi-Intermediate teacher, Taylor Blakely, linked to the post on his class blog.  Check out what he did here:   TeacherT4U’s Weblog Great idea, Taylor! 

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SMART Board Tech Tip: Touch, Write and Save

From SMART Technologies Training Center:  You must have Macromedia Flash player installed to watch it.  Also, don’t forget to turn on your speakers.     Touch, Write and Save 9.7  (1.4 MB) This 2-minute tutorial is a quick introduction to the basics of SMART Notebook software. You will see how to launch an application with your [...]

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Teacher-Made PPT for Teaching Time

After attending Mandi and Anna’s tech training How to Make a PowerPoint on March 26th, Ines (Beg. Low ESL) created this PowerPoint to review Telling Time (All-Star 1, Unit 4): Telling_Time_(ppt) Ines says, My students were active participants in the review of Unit 4 of All-Star 1.  They were even the ones that generated the list [...]

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Tech Tip du Jour: Adding Screenshots

A picture is worth a thousand words.  Here’s how you add a screenshot to a document. Get your screen set up the way you want it in the shot. Press PrtScn (upper right section of keyboard) for entire screen or Alt + PrtScn for active window only. Paste in word document or PowerPoint. Add autoshapes to [...]

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Safe and Sound Blogging

At our March 26th tech training, we will discuss “safe and sound blogging.”  Here’s a brief preview. Sound blogging: In this 2.5 minute video, teachers and students share their positive experiences with blogging for educational purposes.      Safe blogging: Don’t post confidential information.  Don’t write anything that will embarrass you later.  Use features in blogging software that [...]

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Tech-Tip Tuesday: March 11

Our next BESST-Evening Tech Tip is tomorrow, March 11, 2008 from 6:00-6:20pm.  Beginning Low ESL instructor Anna will demonstrate how she uses PowerPoint to support the All-Star curriculum.  Read on to learn more about what you’ll be learning and doing at this Tech Tip Tuesday.

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Tech-Tip-Tuesday Plan Revised ~ Based on Survey Results

  A big THANK YOU to the 8 BESST-Evening Site teachers who participated in last week’s tech tip survey.  To view the results and read teachers’ feedback, please read on. 

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Tech Tip Survey

At last night’s Team Huddle, the BESST-evening teachers requested an opportunity to do a survey of their preferred time(s) and frequency of tech tip meetings.  I created an online survey this morning that I hope will meet your needs.  To access and complete the survey, click on the below hyperlink: Tech Tip Survey The survey will take approx [...]

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Tech Tip: Building Basic Computer Skills w/Mouserobics

Many of our adult students are first-time computer users.  They often approach a computer with some fear and trepidation.  As an ESL/Computer instructor, I use Mouserobics to build my students’ confidence with basic computer skills.  Read on to learn why I adore this site!  Lead on!!

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Sales Tax Calculator and Other Online Conversions

Ack!  I’m trying to calculate sales tax on a textbook order this morning, and I’m starting to sweat.  It’s time I open the digital toolbox and find me a tool.  This morning, I have discovered the world of online converters.  I’m using a sales tax calculator to complete my order with assurance.  If you share this [...]

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Tools and Templates for the Adult Educator

 Are you looking for some time-saving tips to add to your bag o’ instructional tricks?  Read on to find…teacher tools and templates…with the adult learner in mind.

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A Spotlight on Top Tech Tips of 2007

 As 2007 draws to a close, we celebrate our favorite picks and most cherished tricks of our 2007 Tech Tips.   Here are just a few from October-December… We share to impart, impact, improve and empower!  Read on. Lead on!

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Time Management: A Trick with a Tick

Are you looking for a new trick for your bag of time management skills? Here’s a trick with a tick…  Read on. Lead on!

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ESL Tech Tip from Taylor

Contributed by Taylor Blakely – NMUSD Adult School Technology Peer Mentor Here are Taylor’s tech-tip handouts and PowerPoint presentation from his latest Tech Tip featuring UsingEnglish.com, esl.about.com and EnglishClub.com.  We share to impart, impact, improve and empower!  Read on. Lead on!

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You Can Build a Teacher Web Page!

By Carole Kamper – NMUSD Adult School Technology Peer Mentor DID YOU KNOW???  You can easily build a web page for use with your Adult Education class.  We share to impart, impact, improve and empower!  Read on. Lead on!

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Two Thumbs Up for this ESL Site

The 80th annual Academy Awards are coming!  Create your own BUZZ by using this free website that helps your students study English through movie trailers and reproducible ESL activities that go with them.  You’ll be an instant celebrity!   Read on. Lead on!

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Have You Tried Google’s Web Page Translation?

Google breaks the language barrier with this translation feature. Using machine translation technology, Google now gives you the ability to translate any web page with a single click.  Read on to see how Google Translation can work as a powerful instructional tool for you!  Read on. Lead on!

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Have “Sum” Fun with Google’s Built-In Calculator

In addition to providing access to billions of web pages, Google has many special features. In this article, we will spotlight Google’s calculator feature.   Read on. Lead on!

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Daily Oral English: Conversation Starters

If you are looking for some conversation starters and reading comprehension activities, this website may just be what you need to get your students listening, talking and learning together.  We share to impart, impact, improve and empower!  Read on. Lead on!

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a4esl.org – Building Vocabulary using Smartboards

Are you looking for a virtual picture file by topic with instant assessment built right in?  Look no further than http://a4esl.org/.  It’s a homerun!  Read on. Lead on!

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