Technology through Time

Here is a quick walk through for organizing your navigation bar in Google Sites.  1. Click on More on the right hand side when editing your Google Site. 2. Click on Site layout and Select Edit navigation 3. Uncheck the box, "Automatically organize my navigation." 4. A new window will appear with links to all of your pages. Use the arrows to organize the pages.  5. Be sure to click save when done. 

First of all, if you do not follow Edutopia's articles, you should. There are many thoughtful and great ideas about utilizing technology in education. Second of all there are often articles that get you thinking about why certain technologies are beneficial to educators.  For example, Edutopia's article, Five-Minute Film Festival: Twitter in Education , provides a good reason in a set of videos as to why Twitter is so beneficial.  Now having used twitter for a long time, I have not really thought about this, but if you are a first time user, you will find these ideas useful. 

Edutopia's article,  Code Literacy: A 21st-Century Requirement , makes a great argument as to why teachers should include some type of coding in the school curriculum. But I can just hear it now, "where do we fit in 1 more thing. " You don't. That is the simple answer, but the long answer is that it is time to think about what we are really teaching and decide what items are important and need to be done in the 21st century. Teachers are right, we can only teach so much in  a short amount time, not to mention constant classroom distruptions. But when you look beyond these issues and focus in on important standards, ones were students are struggling, ones that will be required in the new work force, then we might think again about including coding as part of our literacy. Think about it, how many times have you come across HTML embed code and think to yourself, "That is really only for the geeky." When in actuality, it is a skill that is needed as muc...

Did you know that you can embed your Google Images straight into your Google Presentation? Here are the steps for how to do this. 1. Create your image in Google Drawing. 2. Go to Edit > Web Clipboard> and Copy the Drawing to the Web Clipboard 3. Go to your Google Presentation 4. Select Insert> Drawing 5. In the new window, Select Actions.  6. Select Web Clipboard> Drawing (NOTE When you hover over the picture of the drawing, it will appear on the desktop.  7. Voila! You are done!

This lesson is specifically for how to edit a link to a collaborative google site page and to then edit and record your journal. Create a Link on Collaborative Page.  1. Click the pencil at the top right. This allows us to edit the page. 2. Highlight the word you would like to link: 3. In the new window, select open in a new Window, Select create a new page. 4. In the new window, enter teacher name, Select open in a new window, make sure it is under Home, and create new page. Then Click ok on the next window. How to edit your Journal Page.  1. Now click on the newly created link to your page.  2. In the new page click the pencil to edit the page, like we did above in Step 1.  3. Add the following information: What you teach, what grade level and content, what school, and what is your goal for this class.  (See example here)  4. Now go ahead and upload your picture or a picture that represents you. I will show here how to up...