PowerPoint Jeopardy Templates

Use a PowerPoint template provided by M. Schimdt to create a PowerPoint Jeopardy game for your classes. The site will give you templates for single and double Jeopardy as well as instructions for the use of the template and instructions regarding how you can create your own PowerPoint templates.

Using Excel for Marks (and here's a tutorial)

Here is a sample excel file to help to keep track of Group IV IB Internal Assessment. Here is a Lifehacker link to an excel tutorial.

Educational Resources on the Web through Lifehacker

A recent visit to Lifehacker, worth a visit on its own, lead to the discovery of this set of links for free educational resouces. I have found the courses offered my MIT to be useful as they often offer many good links. There is also the growing trend for universities to offer lectures in podcast format and in particular, the wealth of material found at the Berkeley site for podcasts.

Using Blogs as Class Pages

Here is an example of how a blog, sample homework blog, with minimal changes can be used for a class. The moderate comments option would be turned on so that all comments are emailed to the teacher, who can then post or delete comments.

Setting up a Moodle Account

Please note that as of August 29, moodle was not live to the web, it should be soon. If you would like a new account please contact Derek Parker or Alan Dick.

Open another webbrowser, or internet explorer window, and follow the steps listed below.

You will start the moodle program by simply typing "wilson" into the address bar for your web browser.

The school's moodle website, KESPER, will appear.

A login box will appear below the calendar on the right of the moodle start page.

Click on "login" and use your first initial and your last name as your username and use your username as your initial password.

After you have logged in, go tothe upper right hand corner of the screen or the login box where you logged in and select your name and on the next screen click on the button that says "change your password."

You have likely been given creator permission and so you may now go to a course category and create your course. Please use the name on the report card when naming a new course, if you are unsure of the name please contact Derek P.

Presentation Ideas from the Web

While trolling the web looking for a blog who's address I had lost, I came across several blogs/sites of interest. The first is Technology Enhanced Learning and it is just that. That website lead me to Presentation Zen, a good site, well actually a set of sites by Garr Reynolds. He presents a set of presentation tips that includes creating and presenting in PowerPoint - or without it. Image below is from one of the postings at Presentation Zen.

Using PDF Files and Making PDF Files

Most of us use PDF documents, but we may not realize that we can copy and paste parts of PDF documents and that we can make PDF documents using the school photocopier. This first fact means that you can make tests and work sheets more quickly and the second means that you only need to photocopy (scan) something once and it is emailed to you as a PDF file to use.

To copy a part of a PDF document in Adobe Reader, click on the camera button and then select the image or text that you wish to copy, You may then copy and paste as normal. In Adobe Acrobat, you follow a similar procedure and you can capture images, or text. In the case of copied text, it may be pasted into a word document and then edited.

Derek P. can set up an account for you with the school photocopier that will allow you to access the scanner options.