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Billmcbride / Welcome to my Wiki. Capture Screenshots at Defined Time Intervals Automatically. Screenshots are part of our daily routine as tech support professionals.

Capture Screenshots at Defined Time Intervals Automatically

There is no better way to explain to someone how to do something from a distance than through a mixture of both words and visuals, and since we cannot always make a video, screenshots are the next best thing. However, there are times when individually capturing and saving multiple screenshots grows tedious. During those times when you need to capture and save many screenshots in a row, it is helpful to have an application that automates the process. Apps in Education. Sylvia's DIY webshow on everything cool and worth Making. Classroom 2025. Spell with flickr. Please send me comments, suggestions or questions, kastner@gmail.com.

Spell with flickr

I love getting emails about Spell with Flickr - and all my programming projects. It was just a few hours ago that I posted my Goals for 2008 and I'm releasing my first project of the year. It's nothing big, but it was a fun little distraction. The hide-an-image-in-text-with-css3-creator-thing If you're one of those folks who might care about how something like this might work, here's the source. read the rest at Meta | ateM Spell with flick grabs images from flickr (the One Letter and One Digit groups) and uses them to spell what you've typed in.

- How to edit PDF forms without Adobe Acrobat. Combine Multiple PDFs into One File. 9 YouTube Tips and Tricks for Teachers. Hello there!

9 YouTube Tips and Tricks for Teachers

If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates and/or follow me on Twitter. Info on how to contact me is on the About page. Thanks for visiting! YouTube is still the best place to find videos to use in the classroom, despite being blocked in many schools. If your school does allow you to use YouTube there are a few cool tips and tricks to improve your use of YouTube in the classroom. Remove the clutter: Often, the biggest problem with YouTube isn’t the video content, but some of the inappropriate comments that can occur in the space below the video. 1. 2. 3. 4. (Update – sadly XL is no more. Other YouTube Tricks 5. If you now use this link as a hyperlink in your IWB software or PowerPoint, the video will start playing at the point that you chose. 6. 7.

Don’t forget that you can choose the video quality of the video, where available. 8. Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine. 1 Tool at a Time: Build Your Toolbelt - home. Word Dynamo - Free Study Guides, Quizzes, Games and Flashcards. Surveys/Interest Inventories. Technology Of The Future: 11 Awesome Videos That Will Blow Your Mind. - Top 100 Sites of 2011. 0 Comments November 23, 2011 By: David Kapuler Nov 23 Written by: 11/23/2011 3:54 AM ShareThis.

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- Ten Steps to Transforming Past Lessons for 21st Century Learners by Michael Gorman. Fact checking on the internet - 180 Free Technology Tip #39. Technology Tip Number 39 I can't believe it...

Fact checking on the internet - 180 Free Technology Tip #39

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. " ~ Winston Churchill With the internet it’s probably possible for a lie to get all the way around the world several times before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. So how do you find the truth online? How do you check the facts? Here are a couple of websites that can help you sort fact from fiction and outright lies: A time-ticking countdown of 1000 awesome things by Neil Pasricha. LYNELL BURMARK, Ph.D. : Visual Literacy. Compare & Find Best Free Solutions. Text Messaging For Teachers.

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