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Ideas and links to other sites with great smartboard ideas. Excellent site for teachers with access to this technology.

www.office.com/setup Blogs: New to Visio? This tutorial will help get you started with Visio 2016. We'll take you through starter diagrams to give you an idea of what diagrams look like. Then we'll take you through the four basic steps to creating your own diagram. START VISIO Click the Start button, type Visio, and then click the Visio icon to open the program. (If Visio is open already, clickFile > New.) LOOK AT THE STARTER DIAGRAMS Before you dig in and start making things yourself, let's show you a couple starter diagrams that Visio has made for you. That way you can get an idea of what diagrams look and feel like in the program. Click Categories. Categories link - www.office.com/setup Click Flowchart. Flowchart category thumbnail - www.office.com/setup Now pay attention to this step: single-click the Basic Flowchart thumbnail. Basic Flowchart thumbnail - www.office.com/setup Let's explain what this dialog is all about. Visio Basic Flowchart thumbnails: 1 blank template, and 3 starter diagrams - www.office.com/setup You choose the blank template when you have some experience with Visio (like after you've made a few practice diagrams). But if you don't have any experience, choose one of the other three starter diagrams. Double-click one of the starter diagram thumbnails. This is a starter diagram. Visio 2016 comes with many starter diagrams to give you ideas and examples. You can customize this starter diagram by typing your own text, adding your own shapes, and so on. Also, take a look at the tips and tricks. These help you work with the diagram. Let's open another starter diagram. Click File > New > Categories > Network. Single-click the Basic Network thumbnail. Basic Network thumbnail - www.office.com/setup Double-click one of the two starter diagram thumbnails. This is just another example of what you can do with Visio. On your own, go to File > New > Categories and explore the various starter diagrams in Visio. Not all diagrams have them, but many of the

I found a blog that lists 20 ideas for using Wordle. Many of the ideas can be used in the classroom. I think students of all ages will find Wordle fun and interesting.

Great ideas for teachers to make writing easier for their students.

This website has many links to websites that give great ideas for teaching children how to write, for example, I searched around and found an idea for creative writing: students sit in circle, start a story, when time is up, pass the story along to have peer continue it.

In order to stay competitive in today's world, teams need to connect and share with each other more than ever before. On March 28th, we had the pleasure of hosting Rob Koplowitz from Forrester Research and Walton Smith from Booz Allen Hamilton in a live webinar where they discussed why organizations are turning to enterprise social and how they are using it to help their teams work more openly and efficiently. Rob discussed how communication is changing, and how we're accessing and interacting with information in new ways-incredibly, 66% of information workers in North America and Europe already work remotely.* The shift to cloud-based software and platforms is definitely contributing to some of these changes. The old way of building software involved engineers, months of coming up with specs, running Beta programs, and debugging. The time from idea to ship could take years. So the introduction of the cloud-and social-to the Enterprise is enabling companies to innovate and move to market faster than ever before. The cloud provides anytime, anywhere access which is essential to our increasingly mobile work environments; today employees can quickly and easily access a range of business systems, information and expertise from anywhere in the world. Our shift to cloud-based platforms and the introduction of working openly with social are changing the way teams collaborate. Take, for example, Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading provider of management and technology consulting services. The company has over 26,000 employees worldwide, with over 71% of their employees working on-site with customers, which often limits their access to company resources.** But in order to provide the best service to their clients, consultants need to be able to quickly and easily access information and expertise. Booz Allen recently integrated Yammer as a social layer across business tools because the cloud-based platform enables consultants world-wide to collaborate virtually. When o

Includes writing prompts and ideas. Good for when you are struggling with finding an interesting topic to write about.

Writing and art should be combined to enhance lessons and this site has many great ideas.

This webpage is for teacher who are having conferences with parents. It gives tips, things to be sure to hit on, and ideas for things not to mention.

Eating at college can be difficult, but it can be easy at the same time. Making healthy choices can also be a little bit difficult in the beginning, but you'll get the hang of it. This website offers idea and suggestions to help you make better choices and plans at college.

Creative writing prompts website is a site that provided prompts and idea to create stories, poems, and other forms of writings.

This is a forum in which one member asked for some good creative writing exercises. Other users responded with some great exercises, ways to generate ideas, and ways to kick writer's block.

A very cool and unique site (gallery?) of pictures that were never taken; all described through a paragraph of text. Interesting idea.

You may be wondering what professions are available for the writing arts major. I was, and this website gave me some ideas!

A place for teachers to go and get ideas, collaborate with other teachers

This is an amazing site by Jennifer Myers that has a lot of great step-by-step ideas about teaching language arts effectively in the elementary classroom. It includes things like reading and writing workshops.

This website is a teaching resource page. It includes teaching resources such as, lesson plans, printables, a sharing community, a professonial development page, numerous sources for the best childrens books, and many others. Scholastic has created quality products and services that educate, entertain and motivate children and are designed to help enlarge their understanding of the world around them.

Some ideas/resolutions to behavior issues in class.

Great site to get lesson plan ideas and information and a site to send students to for homework help

Teacher Vision is a great website for teachers and parents. I used this website when I was preparing one of my lesson plans for field work. The website includes lesson plans, printables, themes, classroom management ideas, and professional development resources.