Visual Task Tips

I am making a list of the Technology Tools I use regularly and I will post those sometime soon, but in doing so, I came across a cool little know download that is helpful - Visual Task Tips

http://www.visualtasktips.com/

Once installed, it allows you to have a visual of anything that is on your taskbar. It is an easy download and free for non-commercial use.

Google docs - a learning curve

I created a rubric with which I can track quarterly progress of my students for the rest of the year - as I test-run the rubric. I have my results from 3rd quarter.

The learning curve of using google docs as an assessment aggregator is pretty steep. I am having trouble editing and moving columns etc.

To the basics, I did not know how to create a documents, so I went to templates and searched for rubrics and found one that made sense for what I was trying to do. I figured out what sort of questions it contained and then I started from scratch and made my own.

I have completed the rubrics for two classes and that information goes automatically to a spreadsheet. I created the formulas on the spreadsheet because I do not see any place that does that automatically.

There are graphs available which are very easy to generate, but they are not allowing me to save. That is something I have to figure out. It tells me it is incompatible with API.

This has potential, but after 3 hours at it today, I am finished.

A weekend to remember - not to Blog!

My son's wedding! It was a low-tech weekend - except that we all kept in touch around the resort via cell phones and text messaging! Then before I went to bed, I posted all my photos (and those of my sister) on Picasa and sent the link to the bride and groom. I said low-tech, right?