PowerPoint Flash Cards

What do you use flash cards for??? For just about any skill that you would use flash cards to support learning, you can create PowerPoint flash cards to do the same thing.

PowerPoint slide shows are a great way to provide independent practice on a number of skills. With simple animations and voice recording, your slide show can support learning in your classroom when you don't have time to get to everything that needs to be done.

We will have a workshop at Everett on Wednesday, Nov. 21st at 9am. Please come with your ideas and be prepared to make a slide show!

For kindergarten, I am working on slide shows for; alphafriends chant, numbers 1-20, sight words, word families, fluency sentence practice...

See you there!

Formatting Palette

Just a tip for today...When you're working in Power Point or Word or Excel, work with the "Formatting Palette" open.

On the top bar, go to View>Formatting Palette and this will open it for you. A little window will open on the side and will assist with you with all kinds of formatting tasks - font, font size, underline, bullets, spacing...you name it, you'll probably find it there.

Desktop Web “links”

I have been asked to share the directions for creating a link to a website with a matching icon on your desktop. I thought I would go ahead and put the directions in a blog so that you can access them whenever you want.

1. Open your web browser to the site you want to create a link to.

Move your mouse over the little icon that shows up to the left of the address that is in the address bar in your browser. When you get to the right spot, the mouse will turn to a hand and there will be a little direction box that says “drag and drop this icon to make a link to this page”. – Do that!

2. Find a picture – any picture….and get it on your desktop. Either click & drag it or do (Shift+apple+4) to “capture” a photo you would like. You can use your own photos - if the site you want is to be used specifically with a student, you may want to use their picture.

3. Open up your picture on your desktop. Copy it – Edit>Copy

4. Highlight your web “link” (click on it once) – Get Info – File>Get Info.

When that window is open, highlight the existing icon (very small, to the left of the web address toward the top – click on it once).

5. Paste your picture – Edit>Paste

It should magically change before your eyes!