#9 How to Be a Better Google User

Richard Byrne, of Free Technology for Teachers, is one of my library/technology heroes.  Each week he highlights tools and tips for teachers.  This week, he mashed up an older post and added some new material that I had to share with you all.  If you would like to read his original post, you can read it HERE.  He shared a few strategies to make the time you spend searching with Google more efficient and beneficial.

Here is a screenshot of the PDF that you can print and keep in your computer area of your classroom or at your own desk.

In addition to this tool, he shared an infographic that he created about alternative ways to search using Google.  Click HERE to download the infographic.

If you've decided that this is pretty cool, feel free to check out the lesson plans that Google has created to help you and your students be better 'searchers.'  

I hope that this has inspired you to search a little more smartly the next time you decide or need to 'Google' something.

#8 How to Save Anything as a PDF

How many times have you wished you could print out a copy of web paqe, internet receipt or something else?  Well, you can do this very simply.  All you have to do is choose the print command:  Command P or go to the File menu and select print.  Then, instead of choosing print, click the PDF pop-up menu and choose Save as PDF.

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On some web browsers like Chrome, you can actually add the functionality to do it right from the File menu.  Click HERE to download the add on if you use Chrome.

There you go!

Got something you want to learn?  Let me know and I'll be glad to make a tip just for you!

Also, don't forget, you can visit the Todd's Tuesday Tech Tips website where you can view the tips for the past several years.  The link is HERE.

#7 Todd's Tuesday Tech Tip: The Hubbard Woods Resource Center Web Site

Dear Colleagues,

This tip is a bit of a remix from one a couple of years ago. Hopefully many of you know of the Hubbard Woods Resource Center's Website.  If not, you should be!  The site is a 'one stop shop' for you, your students and their parents.  

The first thing I want to point out are the three tabs on the left hand side.  Here you can find a drop down menu for all three groups of visitors.

Next, below that you will see the links below the welcome for WGST, Book Trailers and other events happening in the RC.  Below that you will see our Online Resources, including sites that we have licenses and memberships for teachers/students to use.

Finally, below that is a link to the Winnetka Public Library and the Winnetka Public School's site.

Lastly, there is a link to our Online Catalog.  Here you can search our catalog from anywhere you have an internet connection.

Now, let's look at the Teachers' Tab.

Here you will find new books in the RC as well as specific book lists for your teaching units.  On the left hand side, you'll see all the Book Room Resources and the links to the various lists.  There are also links to the Todd's Tuesday Technology Tip Blog where you can read the tips for the past four (+) years!

Below these resources specific sites and tools that will help you support your classroom instruction.  There are links to specific writing tools and in depth links to objectives.  Don't see something you are looking for?  Let me know and I'll add it for you and the others.  

I hope that you will bookmark this site so that you can use it frequently.   I know it is my 'home page' on every computer I use.  It might be yours soon too!