Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Ooops, What is an RSS feed?

If you have ever watched a sydicated show on cable you know the basics about RSS. Real Simple Syndication (RSS) is a way to get news feeds, blogs or press releases send directly to your reader instead of getting a steady strem of emails that have to be opened to see what they contain.


Read this Wikipedia Page and gain further insight into RSS

Google Reader Tutorial

Want to know how to sign up for RSS feeds in Google Reader?

Here is a good beginning tutorial

Monday, December 14, 2009

Teach our students about FICO scores

Use the following link to help educate our kids about the FICO credit scoring system.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

So just how BIG is the Internet today....

This is a mindblowing look at the size of the Internet...but illustrates just how much our students have changes in just a couple of years

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Google Reader...well its Fun-da-mental to RSS Feeds

Yes, another product from Google, The Google Reader is fantastic for keeping up with the last news about you teaching area. You can subscribe to RSS feeds and have them all at your finger tips while logged into your email account.

Take a look at Google Reader Demo

Ok so what is an RSS Feed and why is it relevent to education?

Great Questions

A RSS feed stands for Real Simple Syndication. That's pretty simple isn't it?

more on this subject later.........

Friday, December 4, 2009

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Five tips for a better PowerPoint Presentation

Ever been to a meeting where the PowerPoint had no real point?....Take a look at these idea's and create a an effective PowerPoint Presentation.

What makes a better PowerPoint Presentation

Now we have 3 of 4 buiness teachers at Athens that has joined the blog

Let's set the bench mark for the rest of the WCPSS teacher by joining the blog. What can we do to make it 4 out of 4......