Category: Problem solving
169 Tech Tip #99: Need Email Accounts for Registration? Try This
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #99–Need Email Accounts for Registration? Try This
Category: Email
Sub-category: Webtools, Problem-solving, Classroom management
Q: A lot of web-based tools require email verification. Many of my students don’t have these at school or home. What do I do?
A: This is a lot easier than you’d think. Gmail ignores anything that comes after a + in a username. JonDoe is the same as JonDoe+thinglink. Use that to your advantage with student accounts. They can use your email address and append their name with the +. You can even set up a filter to send all those + emails to a separate folder so it doesn’t annoy you.
169 Tech Tip #83: Find Outlook Follow-up Folder
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #83–Find Outlook Follow-up Folder
Category: Email
Sub-category: Problem-solving
Q: I had to reformat my computer and lost the ‘For Follow Up’ folder in Outlook. How do I bring this back?
A: This isn’t important until it happens to you. To re-create it, choose File>New>Search Folder or use the shortkey Ctrl+Shift+P. Highlight ‘Mail flagged for follow up’ and click OK.
A note: Search folders are collected at the bottom of the folder list.
169 Tech Tip #126: 7 Tips to Differentiate with Tech
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #126–7 Tips to Differentiate with Tech
Category: Differentiation
Sub-category: Teaching, Pedagogy
Here are seven ways to differentiate instruction every day:
169 Tech Tip #17: No Excuse for Spelling Errors
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #17–No excuse for Spelling Errors
Category: EDIT/FORMAT
Sub-category: MS Office, Google Apps, Internet
Q: What are those red and green squiggly lines in my document?
169 Tech Tip #82: How do I use a ‘Read Only’ Doc?
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #82–How do I use a read-only doc?
Category: EDIT/FORMAT
Sub-category: Security
Q: The file I’m trying to edit say’s ‘read only’. What do I do?
A: A ‘read only’ document means you can’t edit the author’s work. Adapt to this by saving the file under a different name, say, ‘revised’, and then edit. There might be an amber bar at the top of the document asking you to do just that.
169 Tech Tip #10: How to Undelete with 2 Keystrokes
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #10–How to Undelete with 2 keystrokes
Category: Edit/format
Sub-category: Keyboarding, Problem-solving
Q: I was typing and wanted to make a change (such as format, edit, etc.). Suddenly, my whole paragraph/sentence/document (fill in your disaster) disappeared. How do I get it back?
169 Tech Tip #127: 12 Tips on Hard-to-teach Classes
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #127–12 Tips on Hard-to-teach Classes
Category: Differentiation
Sub-category: Teaching, Classroom management, Pedagogy
Here are twelve ideas:
169 Tech Tip #119–What to do when Computers are Down?
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #119–What to do when Computers are Down?
Category: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
Sub-category: Problem-solving, teaching
Here are six suggestions:
- discuss digital citizenship
- build a digital citizen
- review computer hardware
- assess student knowledge with a blank keyboard quiz
- play Tech Challenge
- play a tech-themed Jeopardy
169 Tech Tip #116–How to Take Screenshots
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #116–How to Take Screenshots
Category: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
Sub-category: Keyboarding, PC, Mac, iPad, Chromebook
Here are the screenshot shortkeys for five platforms:
- Windows: a tool included in Windows called the Snipping Tool
- Chromebooks: Ctrl+Window Switcher key
- Mac: Command Shift 3 for a full screenshot; Command Shift 4 for a partial screenshot
- Surface tablet: hold down volume and Windowsbutton
- iPad: hold Home button and power button simultaneously
There are also screenshot programs you can download like Jing and Printkey (the latter uses your keyboard’s Print Scr key) or use from your browser (like Nimbus or Snagit). Each has a different selection of annotation tools. You may find this works better for your needs.
169 Tech Tip #15–Save Early Save Often
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to today’s tech-infused education.
Today’s tip #15–Save Early Save Often
Category: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
Sub-category: Keyboarding, Problem-solving
Q: My computer crashes often. How do I keep from losing my work unexpectedly?
A: Saving is easier than you think. I know–you think it is easy, so what’s the deal? Have you ever lost your work because… it just disappeared–maybe a power surge, maybe you pressed the wrong button. Who knows, but hours of work evaporated. Encourage students to make it a habit to save every ten minutes.
Here’s what you do:
