How To: Cool Tools
Wikis Make Learning Wicked Fun
By Jon Orech
It’s not wacky to use wikis with your students, since they foster collaboration and encourage student involvement. Making Book Trailers with Photo Story 3
By Mark Geary
Ken Burns, move over! Now your students can create “moving picture” stories adopting many of Mr. Burns famed techniques, and all with totally free software. Tips For Digital Story Telling
By Jon Orech
Using digital images to tell a story is not just creative but fun; and here are some tips to help make the end-product worth watching. You Can Take It With You
By Jeffrey Branzburg
Integrating video segments in curriculum with ease. Adding Impact to Digitally-Filmed Stories
By Jon Orech
Help your students make their digitally-filmed stories even better with these valuable professional-grade tips. Ten Tips for Digital Movie-Making
By Janet Buckenmeyer
Here are ten tips to make your students' experience in digital video educationally worthwhile; they will enjoy making digital movies as they learn. Ten Tips for Making your Photos a Curriculum Hit
By Matt Bamberg
Digital photos can make your lessons come alive and grab your students' interest -- and here are 10 tips to take professional-quality photos. Technology Funding: A How-To Guide
By Ken Brown
Technology needs two things to run well – electricity and money; here are some very useful tips from a veteran director of technology focusing on ways to keep the funding flowing. Feed Yourself Information With an RSS Feed
By Amber Price
Follow these few simple steps to keep current and up-to-date with the latest information from as many Websites as you choose. How To Take Notes Online
By Julia VanderMolen
Students will actually enjoy taking notes for their projects with this assortment of Web-based note-taking tools. Sidebar: 3 x 5 Cards Go Online
By Julia VanderMolen
Students will actually enjoy taking notes for their projects with this assortment of Web-based note-taking tools. Going Digital
By Matthew Bamberg
Here are tips and ideas to using a multi-disciplinary approach that will help students learn with digital photography. How To Create Slideshows with the Free PhotoStory 3
By Julia VanderMolen
A step-by-step guide to using Photo Story 3, a quick, easy, free and fun way to transform still photos into slide shows with motion, sound, and narration. Make Your Own Interactive CDs
By Michael J. Calhoun
CD-ROMs that run like interactive Web pages can help students master complex concepts and you can make them to suit your needs without crashing your budget. How To Use Picasa for Student Creativity
By Amber Price
How to edit images and create slideshows, collages, timelines, and more. Better Bookmarking: Taking Bookmarks To the Next Level
By Laura Fogle
How to bookmark better and change the solitary act of bookmarking into a social activity, creating communities of shared interests. Create Net Shortcuts
By Amber Price
Make Web research easier by adding URLs to your desktop. You Talk - the Computer Types: How to use the Text to Speech Feature in Windows 2002 & 2003
By Laura Turner
Speech to text technology has been around for a number of years, and the technology is now at the point where you can talk and watch the computer type. Learn how to use the Text to Speech Feature. Tips for Presentations with Movies
By Wesley A. Fryer
This article presents four different strategies that educators and students can adapt to include movie clips and animations in digital presentations using PowerPoint or other multimedia software. How To: Using Microsoft Word Like a Pro, Part 7
By Daniel Lake
Learn how to use tables to place items into organized boxes (cells) on a page in Word. How To: PowerPoint E-Books
By Cynthia Gautreau
You can use PowerPoint to create an interactive e-book. Follow this step-by-step lesson to create a storyboard, use interactive hyperlinks, record voice-overs, and develop cooperative group strategies. Using Microsoft Word Like a Pro, Part Six: Using Edit/Paste Special and Insert File
By Daniel Lake
Learn how to use the edit/paste special and insert file features in Word to create documents that can display information imported from other applications. Using Microsoft Word Like a Pro, Part 5
By Daniel Lake
Learn how to use text fields, checkboxes, and drop-down menus from the Forms Toolbar to create more impressive documents. Using Microsoft Word Like a Pro, Part 4
By Daniel Lake
Learn how to use the Microsoft Work feature to Track Changes and the Tool Bar for more professional and interactive documents. How To: Using Microsoft Word Like a Pro, Part 3
By Daniel Lake
Learn how to insert hyperlinks into Word documents so you can jump to related resources quickly and easily. How To: Using Microsoft Word Like a Pro, Part 2
By Daniel Lake
With this tutorial you can learn how to insert recorded sounds to support text in Word using the Insert/Object/Wave Sound Feature. Using Microsoft Word Like a Pro, Part 1
By Daniel Lake
Want to add a comment directly into student writing or into a grant proposal draft? Here's how to use the Comment feature in Microsoft Word. How To Embed Video in Classroom Presentations
By David Pendery
Many educators are using multimedia controls within some of their regular applications to powerful instructional tools. You can too. Here's how. Technology Funding: A How-To Guide
By Ken Brown
Technology needs two things to run well — electricity and money; here are some very useful tips from a veteran director of technology focusing on ways to keep the funding flowing.
Feed Yourself Information With an RSS Feed
By Amber Price
Follow these few simple steps to keep current and up-to-date with the latest information from as many Websites as you choose.
How To Take Notes Online
By Julia VanderMolen
Students will actually enjoy taking notes for their projects with this assortment of Web-based note-taking tools.
Create Slideshows with the Free PhotoStory 3
By Julia VanderMolen
A step-by-step guide to using Photo Story 3, a quick, easy, free and fun way to transform still photos into slide shows with motion, sound, and narration.
Going Digital
By Matthew Bamberg
Here are tips and ideas to using a multi-disciplinary approach that will help students learn with digital photography.
Make Your Own Interactive CDs
by Michael J. Calhoun
CD-ROMs that run like interactive Web pages can help students master complex concepts " and you can make them to suit your needs without crashing your budget.
How To Use Picasa for Student Creativity
by Amber Price
How to edit images and create slideshows, collages, timelines, and more.
Better Bookmarking: Taking Bookmarks To the Next Level
by Laura Fogle
How to bookmark better and change the solitary act of bookmarking into a social activity, creating communities of shared interests.
Create Net Shortcuts
by Amber Price
Make Web research easier by adding URLs to your desktop.
You Talk - the Computer Types: How to use the Text to Speech Feature in Windows 2002 & 2003
by Laura Turner
Speech to text technology has been around for a number of years, and the technology is now at the point where you can talk and watch the computer type. Learn how to use the Text to Speech Feature.
Tips for Presentations with Movies
by Wesley A. Fryer
This article presents four different strategies that educators and students can adapt to include movie clips and animations in digital presentations using PowerPoint or other multimedia software.
How To: Using Microsoft Word Like a Pro, Part 7
by Daniel Lake
Learn how to use tables to place items into organized boxes (cells) on a page in Word.
How To: PowerPoint E-Books
by Cynthia Gautreau
You can use PowerPoint to create an interactive e-book. Follow this step-by-step lesson to create a storyboard, use interactive hyperlinks, record voice-overs, and develop cooperative group strategies.
Using Microsoft Word Like a Pro, Part Six: Using Edit/Paste Special and Insert File
by Daniel Lake
Learn how to use the edit/paste special and insert file features in Word to create documents that can display information imported from other applications.
Using Microsoft Word Like a Pro, Part 5
by Daniel Lake
Learn how to use text fields, checkboxes, and drop-down menus from the Forms Toolbar to create more impressive documents.
Using Microsoft Word Like a Pro, Part 4
by Daniel Lake
Learn how to use the Microsoft Work feature to Track Changes and the Tool Bar for more professional " and interactive " documents.
How To: Using Microsoft Word Like a Pro, Part 3
by Daniel Lake
Learn how to insert hyperlinks into Word documents so you can jump to related resources quickly and easily.
How To: Using Microsoft Word Like a Pro, Part 2
by Daniel Lake
With this tutorial you can learn how to insert recorded sounds to support text in Word using the Insert/Object/Wave Sound Feature.
Using Microsoft Word Like a Pro, Part 1
by Daniel Lake
Want to add a comment directly into student writing or into a grant proposal draft? Here's how to use the Comment feature in Microsoft Word.
How To Embed Video in Classroom Presentations
by David Pendery
Many educators are using multimedia controls within some of their regular applications to powerful instructional tools. You can too. Here's how.
Excel Spreadsheets: An Excel Shortcourse for Teachers
by Wesley A. Fryer
After becoming comfortable using other teaching and administrative software, a logical "next step" for educators is to begin using spreadsheets. Educators can use spreadsheets to improve administrative tasks and communication and this article describes ways to use spreadsheet software — specifically Microsoft Excel — to manage lists within an educational context. Steps for Excel in this article apply to the following versions: Excel 2000 for Windows, and Excel 2001 for Macintosh.
Webpages to Go: Offline with Internet Explorer
by Wesley A. Fryer
Learn to copy Internet Web pages to your own hard drive or network file server to use during your lessons. Access to these offline pages is faster and guaranteed, regardless of the speed/status of your Internet connection during classes.
Digital Photos Online
by Wesley A. Fryer
There used to be a considerable delay between capturing an event on film and sharing the resulting photos with others. Digital photography, based on bits rather than atoms, is dramatically changing this process. Today, teachers and students all over the United States have increasing access to digital cameras and digital tools, including computers, software, and Internet connectivity. This article describes several ways to share digital photographs with others on the Internet, using free online services and software available to all educators connected to the information superhighway.
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