Friday, March 28, 2014

Microsoft in iPad

Microsoft released the Office suite for iPad today.  It uses Office365.



https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-powerpoint-for-ipad/id586449534?mt=8

App of the month: Totes M'Notes



Totes M'Notes is free for a limited time! Check out the new version!

Totes M’Notes is an iPad app that combine school folders with powerful note-taking and classroom tools, like calculator and conversion tables, file sharing….all inside cool, customizable folders.

When you’re are woring on Totes M’ Notes, all your notes are right there inside your folders – the way they’re supposed to look. And all your folders sit on a bookshelf, so you can find them even quicker than you could if they were in your backpack, briefcase or locker.

Choose from dozens of cool folder designs, then customize them with stickers and doodles that you can create using pencils, plus different colored pens and sharpies. Create a different folder for every class or piece of business!

With Totes M’Notes, you can customize your paper and font styles, write in either vertical or landscape format -- you can even use your finger to doodle in the margins when you get bored. Your notes are organized by the date you take them, with a scrolling list that makes it easy to find them later.

Totes M’Notes makes sharing notes easy. Just open a page of notes and click the Share button, and you can send them to anyone via email. You can also receive notes, too. It’s a great way for teachers to send the entire class a syllabus or assignment – it goes straight into their folders!

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Friday, March 7, 2014

Happy thanksgiving!!!


Erm, she's no spring chicken.
Graphic Credits

This saying is thought to have originated when farmers discovered that chickens born in the spring were far more desirable at market than older chickens that had lived through the winter. Sometimes a farmer would try to pass off a winter chicken as a young chicken, to which the buyer would respond "that's no spring chicken!"

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Movie Maker movies!!!!

The technology integration team has implemented this year online classes to help teachers to master some technology integration tools. I was fortunate to facilitate the movie maker course.

Here are some of the final products.