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teachweb2 - home The Campus Buzz open thinking Top how-tos and tech tips of 2011 I began this series with a list of my 11 most popular blog posts of 2011. As I looked through my analytics in preparation for that post, I was interested to see the appetite for posts that offer specific tech tips and how-to guidance. Today, I round up the 2011 posts that I think offered the most useful tech how-to tips. 3 steps to creating a Facebook friend list for your kid-related content: Whether or not you have kids, there’s no question that creating smart, specific lists of different Facebook friends is the essential skill for successful Facebook use. This post walks you through the steps for creating a list to protect your kids’ privacy, but it’s just as applicable to creating a list of close friends, trusted colleagues, or simply a list of the Facebook friends you actually know.Create a category-specific series box with WordPress, Thesis and Organize Series: If you use WordPress, I highly recommend the Organize Series plug-in.

50 Ways to Anchor Technology (Ways to Anchor Technology in Your Using Free Websites as Learning & Teaching Tools 1. Have students use Spelling City to learn their spelling words, vocabulary words, or site words through games, practice, and quizzes. www.spellingcity.com 2. www.brainpop.com 3. www.dovewhisper.com 4. www.flashcardexchange.com 5. people.uncw.edu/ertzbergerj/ppt_games.html 6. www.clustrmap.com 7. www.ustream.tv 8. www.fanfiction.net 9. www.ccmixter.org 10. www.toolsforeducators.com 11. www.animoto.com/education Share your ideas for integration on Animoto. 12. www.makebeliefscomix.com 13. www.wordle.net 14. www.surveymonkey.com 15. www.readwritethink.org/materials/timeline 16. www.kerpoof.com 17. classtools.net 18. www.buildyourwildself.com 19. www.freerice.com 20. www.fluxtime.com Using Free Websites for Management 21. www.myavatareditor.com 22. www.dropbox.com 23. www.evernote.com 24. www.superteachertools.com 25. www.sharinglinks.com 26. www.bighugelabs.com 27. rubistar.4teachers.org 28. fur.ly 29. www.jingproject.com 30. www.mystudiyo.com 31. www.kidblog.com 32. 33.

Web Color Chart - Hexadecimal - by VisiBone Why Teachers Should Blog: An Example (Education - Change.org) Just a quick share about an exchange with a couple of readers on an earlier post, " Calling Bullsh!t on Textbooks ," that is a great example of how blogging can help teachers develop ideas for teaching - through the conversations that happen in the comment threads. I closed that post with this: Nothing turns students on to a textbook like a teacher who starts the year by saying, “As we learn the material in this thing, we’re also going to talk back to it, criticize it, ask why it left these facts out while including those, and what sort of person it’s trying to mold you into. We’re going to reward anybody who comes up with a good case for calling bullsh*t on the textbook.” Calling BS on any authoritatively packaged knowledge is mere slang for “critical thinking.” Then Claus von Zastrow, who writes on the excellent Public School Insights blog, commented: Of course, Calling bulls**t on a textbook requires you to know more than is in the textbook itself. I replied: Know what I mean?

The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You 100 Web 2.0 Tools Every Teacher Should Know About 44.24K Views 0 Likes We're always trying to figure out the best tools for teachers, trends in the education technology industry, and generally doing our darnedest to bring you new and exciting ways to enhance the classroom. But I wanted t... 20 Free and Fun Ways To Curate Web Content 23.98K Views 0 Likes What's the best way to organize it all into at least some reasonable manner? It’s Time To Crowdsource Your School’s Social Media Policy 12.53K Views 0 Likes Every school has a different policy when it comes to social media. Technology and Education | Box of Tricks 10 Free Resources You Need to Know About | SHRINK the church If it’s too good to be true, you can probably find it online. At least, that is how the new version of that wise old saying goes. Today, the web has made possible a soft tech market where supply is endless and demand does not really matter. But first, take a look at your budget. For Your Website BowserLab by Adobe ( If you are a web designer, you may already know about this web-based tool created by the good folks at Adobe. Google Analytics ( You can put a big “duh!” W3C Validator ( In the ever-changing world of the web, it is important to have design and function standards. For the Social Stuff SocialOomph ( Twitter can be a pain to manage and maintain but SocialOomph makes it easy for you. CoTweet ( Another great Twitter resource, CoTweet is also web-based and gives you the ability to let multiple Twitter users post to one account.

UMW Blogs has Cancer of the MS Word Strain at bavatuesdays Anyone who is running a pretty big WPMu installation will sooner or later come to hate Microsoft Word in the unlikely event they don’t already. I can’t count the number of times I have seen it break themes over the last two years. And, truth be told, at least 90% of the issues people are having with their blogs are related to the malignant code in Word they unknowingly copy into the text editor. But today I found a far more insidious and potentially devastating strain of the MS Word text encoding cancer: the RSS feed breaker strain. A closer look showed me it was the telltale sign of malignant MS Word code cells eating away at the healthy XML: Once I removed the above code from the student’s post, the feed worked fine again.

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