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Saturday, March 22, 2014
A Fun End of Year Gift Idea!
All over the blog world, everyone is talking about the end of the year! Im not even close to it! I still have about 50 days left and two more report cards to write! My school does start a bit late though... it starts after Labor Day, so it evens out.
Anyhow, Ive come across two linky parties with some end of year gift ideas, and I figure Id do a quick blog post about the gift I gave my kids last year!
Their gift included:
-a beach bucket and shovel
-7 books (see my previous post here to find out how to get books for dirt cheap)
-a wiffle ball
-bubbles
-a toy car
-a necklace for the girls (the boys got two toy cars)
The kids loved it because it was simple and fun! And it was pretty inexpensive thanks to dollar store deals. But.. this gift had a catch! Their end of year gift may look fun (and it was!) but it also was academic! Check out my letter below to see how this gift helped them practice key skills over the summer! Click the picture to download it via Google Docs!
Let me know what you think!
This post is linked up with some linky parties:
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Anyhow, Ive come across two linky parties with some end of year gift ideas, and I figure Id do a quick blog post about the gift I gave my kids last year!
Their gift included:
-a beach bucket and shovel
-7 books (see my previous post here to find out how to get books for dirt cheap)
-a wiffle ball
-bubbles
-a toy car
-a necklace for the girls (the boys got two toy cars)
The kids loved it because it was simple and fun! And it was pretty inexpensive thanks to dollar store deals. But.. this gift had a catch! Their end of year gift may look fun (and it was!) but it also was academic! Check out my letter below to see how this gift helped them practice key skills over the summer! Click the picture to download it via Google Docs!
Note: This preview uses the font Janda Manatee Solid. Once you download the file off Google Docs (File > Download), it will look different if you dont have the font installed. Feel free to install the font using the link above, or use a different one!
Let me know what you think!
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
How to Make a Collage of Words in Any Shape!
You probably wouldnt believe me if I told you that at 2:00 this afternoon, this post was almost completely written! Then... I got sidetracked for eight hours (doing something fun and exciting for a friend... a surprise)! Now, here we are again, posting the Technology Tuesday post so close to the stroke of midnight that its almost a Technology Wednesday post!
Regardless, I am SO excited by being able to blog about How to Make a Collage of Words in Any Shape! So many people know about Wordle which lets you make awesome "word clouds," but today were going to play around with a fun website called Tagxedo, which in my opinion, is like Wordle on steroids!
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Regardless, I am SO excited by being able to blog about How to Make a Collage of Words in Any Shape! So many people know about Wordle which lets you make awesome "word clouds," but today were going to play around with a fun website called Tagxedo, which in my opinion, is like Wordle on steroids!
This option swept the technology poll, leaving us with yet another landslide!
Now, onto the tutorial! Head over to Tagxedo to play along!
You can download this tutorial as a PDF by clicking this picture!
Note: This tutorial is hosted on Google Docs. To save it from there, just open the file and click File > Download to save onto your computer!
Im having such a hard time figuring out what to add to the poll! For now, Im going to add one of my ideas, but after I pick a winner for Part 2 of my 500 follower giveaway, Im going to start using some of those ideas in my poll!
In the meantime, I think Ill add a Blogger tutorial, how to add a "Pin It!" button to your blog!
Monday, March 10, 2014
The Problem of the Day
The "Problem of the Day" is probably one of my favorite routines for the classroom! I ended up starting this routine as prep work for the story problems that are on the Kindergarten IOWA test... and my kids just love it!
I know a lot of teachers do math journals with their kids, which is somewhat similar. I have thought about doing those, but unfortunately the IOWA Test doesnt allow for students to use scrap paper to solve their math problems, so I use my problem of the day to focus on counting with our fingers.
(Obviously when I teach my addition and subtraction units, we do many more hands on activities, but this is a quick five minute review... or introduction! I actually use the problem of the day with my class long before I teach my addition and subtraction units!)
Anyway... back to this quick routine! First things first, download the free problem of the day set for April below!
Print them, laminate, and cut the paper into fourths. I keep my problems organized by hole punching the corner of each card and using a binder ring to hold them together.
Each day, I also pick one student to be in the problem of the day. I write each of the students names on clothespins and keep them in a Ziploc bag. I pull out one name per day and change the wording of the Problem of the Day to include that students name. I use the following poster to put the clips on for students that have already had a turn in the problem of the day.
Once I pick a student to be in the problem, I read the problem and give the class a little bit of time to figure out the answer.
Then, I have the students turn to their partner (I have assigned partners in the classroom which change monthly.) I tell the class this little poem:
(This helps avoid the students all saying "I dont have a partner!" when someone is absent or on the computer.) I tell them to be sure that both their knees are touching - this also helps to make sure that theyre looking at their partner and focused!
Ill pick a partner to go first (perhaps the partner with longer/shorter hair, or the partner who is taller/shorter). That partner has to tell their partner the answer and explain their reasoning for it. For example, "I know the answer is two because I started with five fingers up, then put three fingers back down." or "I know the answer is two because I started with five, then I counted backwards three numbers."
It really interesting to hear the kids reasoning behind their answer. Then, I count backwards from five so the students finish up their answer.
Next: its time to see who was listening! I call on students to explain their partners answer to me! This really improves their listening skills and they love it!
I then repeat visa-versa and have the other partner explain their answer.
The kids just love this routine... they really love hearing their names in the story and sharing their answers/explanations with their partner. And the best part... it really improved their listening and math skills and it made a major difference in my IOWA Test scores!!
If you want to download the April Problem of the Day Set for free, click here!
Sunday, October 6, 2013
SEO For Beginners And See Your Site With the Eyes of a Spider
SEO For Newbies And See Your Web page With the Sight of a Examine - Youve finished your web style, downloaded your information, and set up your blog, but youre still not getting as many visitors as you expected for. What gives? Chances are you havent started working on one of the most essential ways to market your site, Look for Web page Search engine optimization (SEO).
what seo is?
Search Web page Search engine optimization represents the collection of techniques and methods that allow a site to get more traffic from search engines (Google, Google, Microsoft). SEO can be separated into two main areas: off-page SEO (work that occurs individual from the website) and on-page SEO (website changes to create your site position better). This guide will cover both places in detail! Remember, a site is not fully enhanced for search engines unless it utilizes both on and off-page SEO.
what seo is not?
SEO is not buying the number #1 provided weblink through Google Google adwords and stating that you have a #1 position on Google. Purchasing paid positions on search engines is a type of Look for Web page Marketing (SEM), and is not protected in this guide.
SEO is not position #1 for your organizations name. If youre reading this guide, you probably already know that position for well-known conditions is awful near difficult, but particular conditions, such as a company name, is a giveaway. The search engines usually are smart enough to prize you that position by standard (unless you are being penalized).
who uses seo?
If a site is currently rated #10 on Google for the key term, "how to create egg comes," but wants to rise to #1, this sites needs to consider SEO. Because search engines have become more and more well-known on the web, nearly anyone trying to get seen on the web can benefit from a little SEO adoring.
See Your Web page With the Sight of a Spider
Making initiatives to boost a site is excellent but what number is how search engines see your time and effort. While even the most cautious optimization does not assurance covers position in search engines search, if your site does not adhere to basic seo facts, then it is more than certain that this excellent site will not score well with search engines. One way to examine in advance how your SEO attempts are seen by search engines is to use search applications simulation.
Spiders Explained
Basically all spiders function on the same concept � they spider the Web and catalog webpages, which are saved in a data source and later use various methods to figure out pr, importance, etc of the gathered webpages. While the methods of determining position and importance widely change among search engines, the way they catalog sites is more or less consistent and it is crucial that you know what spiders are interested in and what they neglect.
Search engine spiders are spiders and they do not read your webpages the way a human does. Instead, they tend to see only particular products and are impaired for many accessories (Flash, JavaScript) that are suitable for people. Since spiders figure out if people will find your site, it is worth to consider what spiders like and what dont.
Flash, JavaScript, Picture Written text or Frames?!
Flash, JavaScript and image text are NOT noticeable to search engines. Supports are a real problems with regards to SEO position. All of them might be excellent with regards to style and excellent but for search engines they are absolutely incorrect. An amazing error one can create is to have a Show introduction web page (frames or no frames, this will hardly create the situation worse) with the search conditions hidden in the movement. Seek advice from the Look for Web page Examine Simulator tool a web page with Show and pictures (and usually no text or incoming or confident hyperlinks) and you will see that to search engines this web page appears almost empty.
Running your site through this simulation will show you more than the fact that Show and JavaScript are not SEO preferred. In a way, spiders are like text internet explorer and they dont see anything that is not a piece of text. So having pictures with text in it means nothing to a spider and it will neglect it. A workaround (recommended as a SEO best practice) is to include significant information of the look in the ALT feature of the <IMG> tag but be cautious not to use too many search conditions in it because you risk charges for search term filling. ALT feature is especially essential, when you use backlinks rather than text for backlinks. You can use ALT text for explaining what a Show film is about but again, be cautious not to trespass the line between optimization and over-optimization.
Are Your Hyperlinks Spiderable?
The search engine spider simulation can be of excellent help when trying to figure out if the backlinks cause to the right position. For example, exchanging links sites often put bogus backlinks to your site with _javascript (using rabbit over events and products to create the weblink look genuine) but actually this is not a weblink that search engines will see and adhere to. Since the spider simulation would not display such backlinks, youll know that something with the weblink is incorrect.
It is suggested to use the <noscript> tag, versus _javascript centered choices. The reason is that _javascript centered choices are not spiderable and all the backlinks in them will be ignored as web page text. The fix for your problem is to put all food selection backlinks in the <noscript> tag. The <noscript> tag can hold a lot but please avoid using it for weblink filling or any other kind of SEO adjustment.
If you happen to have plenty of backlinks on your webpages (although it is suggested to have less than 100 backlinks on a page), then you might have difficulty verifying if they are OK. For example, if you have webpages that display �403 Forbidden�, �404 Page Not Found� or similar mistakes that prevent the spider from opening your website, then it is certain that this web page will not be listed. It is necessary to bring up that a spider simulation does not cope with 403 and 404 mistakes because it is verifying where backlinks cause to not if the focus on of the weblink is in position, so you need to use other resources for verifying if the objectives of backlinks are the designed ones.
Looking for Your Keywords
While there are particular resources, like the Keyword Play area or the Web page Keyword Recommendations, which cope with search conditions in more details, search engine spider simulators also help to see with your eyes of a spider where search conditions are located among the writing of your website. Why is this important? Because search conditions in the first sentences of a web page think about more than search conditions in the middle or at the end. And if search conditions creatively appear to us to be on the top, this may not be the way spiders see them. Consider a standard Web page with platforms. In this case chronologically the value that explains your website structure (like routing backlinks or individual tissues with text that are the same sitewise) might come first and what is more intense, can be so long that the actual page-specific articles will be displays away from the top of your website. When we look at your website in a web browser, to us everything is fine � the page-specific articles is on top but since in the HTML value this is just the opposite, your website will not be observed as keyword-rich.
Are Powerful Pages Too Powerful to be Seen At All
Dynamic webpages (especially ones with question represents in the URL) are also an extra that spiders do not love, although many search engines do catalog dynamic webpages as well. Operating the spider simulation will give you an idea how well your dynamic webpages are approved by search engines. Useful suggestions how to cope with search engines and dynamic URLs can be discovered in the Powerful URLs vs. Fixed URLs article.
Meta Keywords and Meta Description
Meta search conditions and meta information, as the name indicates, are to be discovered in the <META> tag of a HTML web page. Once meta search conditions and meta information were the best requirements for identifying importance of a web page but now search engines employ alternative systems for identifying importance, so you can securely miss list search conditions and information in Meta data (unless you want to add there guidelines for the spider what to catalog and what not but apart from that meta labels are not very useful anymore).
Sunday, September 29, 2013
F0recast 1 3 Update Released To Check Jailbreak State Of iOS Device
you dont know whether or not your device can be jailbroken or your iPhone is able to be unlocked or not, f0recast is the tool for you. Its specially for those who are new to the jailbreaking scene. Good news is that the developer, iH8sn0w has updated f0recast to version 1.3 and it now supports the current jailbreak state.
F0recast will display the serial number of your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, the baseband version if youre using an iPhone or 3G iPad, model number of both MC and non-MC devices and the bootloader version. It will also show whether or not your device can be jailbroken or unlocked, and which tools to use for that purpose. To use f0recast, simply connect your device to the computer and run f0recast. It will do all of the rest on its own. F0recast 1.3 is now available for both Mac and PC machines.
Download f0recast 1.3 for Windows
Download f0recast 1.3 for Mac
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Collection Free Software of Tweaking Windows
Heres a collection of various free software that provides many features for tweaking windows.
TweakNow PowerPack 2012
An artificial tweaknow.com software that provides a variety of tweaking windows and optimization features. So many features included in the update and still to this day.Provides a common feature tweaking windows , Cleaner, disk usage analysis, registry cleaner, the RAM optimizer, system information and more.
TweakNow PowerPack is more complete than TweakNow WinSecret. The program supports Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Windows 8. To download TweakNow PowerPack 2012 (9.1 MB)
Ultimate Windows Tweaker
This may be a program with the most small size and portable. With just one exe file which is about 345 KB, Ultimate Windows Tweaker provides a variety of features ranging from tweaking windows system information, user accounts, performance, security settings,network, and various other tweaking (total about 150 tweaking windows).
Just Supports Windows Vista and Windows 7.
X-Setup Pro
Tweaking the software was previously a paid software, but now a freeware or free.Tweaking windows has a feature very much, and perhaps the most comprehensive because it includes more than 1800 tweaking windows. Unfortunately, this software was not updated for a long time since windows 7. But for users of Windows XP, this programshould be an option.
In addition to the installer version, Portable version also available. Supports Windows9x/NT/2000/XP and Vista (from other sources also said to support Windows 7).
RegToy
As with X-Setup, RegToy is tweaking software that provides many features tweaking windows . In addition to the installer version, available jug portable version. Not only tweaking the look and performance of windows, various features are also included in it such as hardware optimization, security, startup manager, service manager, uninstall, registry cleaner and backup, disk and other clean.
Unfortunately, this software was not updated for a long time yet, so it seems not to support windows 7. But for users of Windows XP and Vista could be an alternative software tweaking. To download RegToy (2:18 MB portable version and installer 1.63 MB)
Advanced System Tweaker
This software can be said that the most recent, since 1:00 version just released a few days ago. Advanced System Tweaker is a free software that has made ??Tweaking.com tweaking windows features, such as Maintenance (maintenance windows), optimization of speed and ulitily repair windows errors or other problems.
Advanced System Tweaker tweaking but it may not only suitable for repair if something goes wrong with the window itself. And one unique is the availability of the command command prompt / edit the registry manually for most of the tweaking that is used.Download and more information visit Advanced System Tweaker.
Mz Ultimate Tools
Software made ??by Michael Zacharies (so-called MZ) has many features that quite a lot oftweaking, comparable to or TweakNow RegToy. The program is available for WindowsXP, Vista and Windows 7, and each is a separate application. So be sure to download according to the windoes we use. Has many features such as increased performance,tweak the display windows, security, memory, network, and many others.
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This software last updated in December 2010, and unfortunately there are no more updates until today. Download Mz Ultimate Tools.
Perhaps there are many more software tweaking the other windows, as some members of the other larger programs, such as Glary Utilities, Advanced System Care and so on.But the collection of the above may be sufficient for some of us who want to tamper with the settings windows without the hassle of dealing directly with the registry.
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