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Grant Guru


Grant Tip #48: We Wish to Thank You for Applying by Gary Carnow July 12,2010 A Letter Will Eventually Arrive. It May Be Good News, And It May Be Bad News. In Either Case, You Have Won. More
Grant Tip #47: You’ve Got Work to Do by Gary Carnow July 5,2010 Your Hard Work And Late Hours Have Paid Off: Your Proposal Is Finally Finished. More
Grant Tip #46: Appendices By Gary Carnow December 10,2009 The Grant Request For Proposal (RFP) Will Specify Whether Or Not You May Include An Appendix With Your Grant Submission. More
Tip #45: Grant Forms By Gary Carnow November 17,2009 Requests for Proposals Applications for Funding (RFPs RFAs) provide you, the grantseeker, with a guide to successfully preparing your proposal. Most RFPs RFAs arrive to you as a word document and are downloaded from the web. My first task as More
Tip #44: Scoring Criteria, Rubrics and the Writing Process by Gary Carnow June 8,2009 Sponsored by Scoring criteria are often included in the grant request for proposals. The scoring criteria is often further described in a scoring rubric. Here is an example of some scoring criteria categories and maximum scores allotted in an up More

IT Guy


Keeping Flash Drives Secure By Conn McQuinn November 19,2009 My USB flash drives (or thumb drives or whatever ) are really handy, but also really easy to misplace. Is there a way to protect the files if (or when) I lose it?The good news about USB drives is that More
How to avoid background noise in our podcasts by Conn Quinn May 27,2009 We’re trying to create podcasts in our class, but we’re having a really hard time recording without getting a lot of background noise. (A classroom is not a particularly quiet place ) What can we do to minimize this problem?In More
How can I hook up my document camera so I can view the images on the computer? April 19,2009 Most of the document cameras made in the last two or three years have a very cool feature that is often overlooked. Typically, the document camera is hooked up to the computer projector and the computer is hooked up to More
What is the difference between a regular hard drive and an SSD drive? By Conn McQuinn April 15,2009 SSD (depending on whom you ask) either stands for “Solid State Drive” or “Solid State Disk.” Solid State Drive makes more sense, because the most important characteristic of an SSD is that it in fact has no disk – instead, More
Hard Drive Cleanup January 26,2009 I’ve been trying to make room on my Windows XP computer’s hard drive. I’ve deleted applications, thrown out old files by the bunch, and yet I still don’t seem to be freeing up as much space as I would expect.I More

Leaders' Edge


Your Flowing Data: Using Twitter to Track Your Life August 3,2009 In a recent post, Alan Levine discussed the use of a web tool called Your Flowing Data. Your Flowing Data(YFD), is a Twitter application that lets you collect data about yourself. It allows you to use direct messages from your More
Tim Lauer Reviews The Kindle2 June 8,2009 The first thing to note is that the Kindle is not the first e book reader. Its basic functionality can be found in similar devices from Sony and other manufactures. The difference with the Kindle is n the delivery of More
Make Your Handwriting into a Font by Tim Lauer April 10,2009 YourFonts is a free online font generator that allows you to easily create a computer font from a sample of your handwriting. Fonts created work on Windows, Mac OS and Linux. The process of font creating involves downloading and printing More
Readabilty By Tim Lauer March 23,2009 Readabilty is a web browser bookmarklet that allows you to display the full text of an article in a text only minimalist view, stripping out advertisements, images and other web page clutter. Basically it will render just the text of More
Kindle Content Comes to the iPhone and iPod Touch by Tim Lauer March 18,2009 Amazon recently made available a free application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that allows you to download and readbooks that they have made available on their Kindle e reader platform.The application allows you to add bookmarks, enlarge the text, More

News


Powerpoint Plug In August 9,2011 More
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Mini digital storage solution offers LCD display August 9,2011 The Taurus Mini Super-S Storage Solution Is A 2.5” Dual Bay SATA Enclosure, Compact, And Includes A Built-In LCD Display And Two FW800 Ports For Daisy Chaining. More
Grammar-checking technology makes online debut August 3,2011 Iparadigms Today Announced That The Educational Testing Service’S (ETS) E-Rater® Grammar-Checking Technology Is Now Available Within Grademark® More

PD Tips


Video Tutorial: Being Familiar with your LMS May 20,2012 More
Video Tutorials: Overview of APA (6th Ed.) Guidelines May 13,2012 More
Video Tutorial: APA (6th Ed.) Research Paper Basics - Intro to Style May 7,2012 More
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PDQ


Magnetic Poetry and More: Interactive Language Arts July 20,2009 How do you help your students to love words? You already have lots to do to teach students how to read, write, and speak. How about encouraging your students to get involved with words? Have students play with words using More
Computers And Eye Strain July 13,2009 Do you find yourself squinting more? Maybe you are having more difficulty driving at night? Do your eyes get irritated or drier than usual? It could be how you are looking at the computer. Our eyes were designed for hunting More
Website Basics July 6,2009 How do you create a good looking website that engages your audience if you are not a graphic designer or software engineer? Here are some tips to help you create a professional looking and high quality web site using the More
Descriptive Writing June 29,2009 The 15 Sentence Portrait, developed by Wendy Bishop, is a guided writing exercise. Each of the 15 sentences in the writing assignment has an instruction on what to include in that sentence. It could be a color, a wish, a More
Discover Software And Games June 22,2009 With all the new Web 2.0 tools on the Internet, how do you know what is worthwhile? Here’s a social networking site, Wakoopa (www.wakoopa.com), where you can track your apps, discover new software, share what you use, and get updates More

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