by Dr. Jason Neiffer | Sep 11, 2015 | Get your geek on!, How-To
Happy Friday from the Tech-Savvy Teachers! Fall means more than football and back-to-school, it is smartphone release season! Technology companies ranging from Apple to ZTE have released or will release new phone models in time to upgrade during the holiday season....
by Mike Agostinelli | Jun 26, 2015 | How-To, Media, On Our Radar..., PowerPoint
The Microsoft PowerPoint team recently announced that Office Mix will now integrate with all major Learning Management Systems through the LTI standard. Office Mix is a free add-in for PowerPoint that makes it easy to author and share interactive online lessons....
by Mike Agostinelli | Jun 18, 2015 | Google, Google Apps for Education, How-To
If you do not have access to Microsoft Word, you can use Google Docs to edit and or create your documents. The following documentation outlines the process:To start you will need to change a setting in your Google Drive to handle Word files correctly. Login to your...
by Richard Snyder | Apr 26, 2015 | Announcements, How-To, Twitter
This Wednesday marks our first #NCCEchat. Our goal is to connect with members on a monthly basis and chat about all things edtech. New to Twitter chats? Let me explain how one works. Here are 5 steps to having a good Twitter chat experience. Step 1 – Find a...
by Mike Agostinelli | Dec 17, 2014 | How-To, Microsoft, On Our Radar..., PowerPoint
Embedding YouTube videos into PowerPoint – Thank you TubeChop! I always loved the PowerPoint feature that let me embed YouTube videos into a presentation. That way I wouldn’t have to leave an IE window open during my presentation, fumble with ALT-TAB keystrokes, and...
by Mike Agostinelli | Dec 5, 2014 | Announcements, Hour of Code, How-To
During the Hour of Code Vocareum (A first look feature this summer) is offering a course created by teacher Alexandra Vlachakis and student Ty Simpson of Sandy Creek High School in Georgia.
Designed to familiarize students with JAVA, a language that is used in the...
