Tech. Tuesday- Jan. 17

My focus today is on providing some tips and strategies for the technologies that most of you use daily in your work or in your classroom.

Outlook:
Check out this video for some excellent tricks and tips for Outlook email and calendars:



SMART Board:
Check out this link to a LiveBinder site with a smorgasbord of pre-made interactive lessons and activities to use on the SMART Board.  Click on the SMART Lessons tab and then the  SMART Board Templates tab. Then scroll down to the grade level that you teach.  I was especially pleased to see that there are some potentially useful activities for French classes.
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=7376



Microsoft Word:
Here is a great tutorial video about some tricks you may not know about in Word!



A number of you have asked about using photos and clip art in your Word documents. Here is another tutorial clip with some great tips.



The only thing I would add to this is to make sure that you click and drag from a corner if you want to enlarge a picture. This will enlarge it proportionally. If you click and drag from a side, your picture will become skewed. I see this all the time.