KB0000162 - Windows 7 - What is the Hotkey to Extend my Desktop to Dual Monitor? {More Shortcuts Here} KB ID 0000162 Dtd 25/03/13 Problem If (Like me) you dock your laptop with various monitor configurations, there is a tendency for the Laptop to assume you want "Cloned Monitors" when what you actually want is an "Extended Desktop." Solution Annoyingly simple - Press the "Windows Key" and P. Windows 7 Extend Monitor Then select as appropriate. Windows 8 Extend Monitor Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links 3 Simple Steps to Do-it-yourself Professional Development Professional Development | Viewpoint 3 Simple Steps to Do-it-yourself Professional Development By Meg Ormiston06/21/12 Today, every teacher needs to be in charge of his or her own professional development, if for no other reason than district budgets require everyone to be so much more creative. Formal professional development would be workshops, conferences, and college classes. Watch and learn...everyday Attending a conference or a workshop outside the district is a great way to broaden your exposure to new theories and methods as well as to network with other people but, in most cases, there is a cost associated with formal learning opportunities, as well as a need to miss a day of instruction with students. Between the formal professional development sessions, each professional educator needs to seek professional development each day. YouTube is a great place to start.
How to make RSA Animate style videos with your class… Here is a post on how to make RSA style videos with half the work and time, and with a lot less tech experience needed. And another post on RSA-lite style videos. If you like the idea in this post, then you might also enjoy my other post 24 Assessments that Don’t Suck. Nothing fancy in this post, just the nuts and bolts of how to make an RSA Animate style video with your class! This is also one of those posts that is so long that there is simply not enough time in my life to go back and edit and revise it…so you get what you get and please don’t get upset. What is an RSA Animate style video? Let’s start with the most popular one: And the one most popular with educators: If you want to start at the end and see a student’s final product before getting to the steps involved in making them, pause and watch an example of one of the final videos below before reading on: This is a unit that was built from the beginning to end with an RSA Animate style video. So let’s start there… Day 2-Drawings
The EdAdmin Minute - A New Podcast For The Busy School Administrator This article has been just updated: May 2, 2020 Podcasts have never been more popular. It’s hard to find time to sit down and read a feature-length article—let alone a book—which is why more people than ever listen to podcasts while driving, cleaning, working out, or cooking. There are podcasts on just about any subject you can think of, but educational podcasts are in particularly high demand these days. Regardless of whether you want to learn about history, finance, or the world we live in, our selection of top 7 best educational podcasts in 2019 has you covered. 1. Best for: Believers in the scientific method. The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe, or SGU for short, is an 80-minute podcast hosted by Steven Novella, MD, an American clinical neurologist and assistant professor at Yale University School of Medicine, and co-hosts Evan Bernstein, Cara Santa Maria, Robert Novella, and Jay Novella. 2. 99 Percent Invisible 3. Best for: Everyone who actually paid attention in history class. 4. 5.
ICDL - International Children's Digital Library mrhooker: Here's the #SchoolCIO movi... Kidsruby.com Write Code You can see your code, run it, and see what it outputs all at the same time. This makes it a lot easier to learn. Try Code KidsRuby is real Ruby code. Blogstitute Week 1: What We Talk About When We Talk About Writing June 25th, 2012 We are excited to kick off our Summer Blogstitute series with a post by Mark Overmeyer, author of When Writing Workshop Isn’t Working and What Student Writing Teaches Us and the DVD on conferring How Can I Support You? Mark has written many times for the Stenhouse blog and in this post he explores how the language we use in writing workshop turns an assignment into a treasured opportunity to write, and a student into a writer. Be sure to leave your comments and questions! Three lucky commenters during the blogstitute will receive a package of five books of their choice. What We Talk About When We Talk About Writing Summer: a time to reflect on our teaching practices, a time to read more and write more for us, not just for our students. All of these experiences have shaped me as a writer and as a teacher of writing, and in particular they strike me as places where so much talk about writing happens. So, what do we talk about when we talk about writing? Me: How is Skittles?