Thing #1 Shortcuts

It was so serendipitous that Ron mentioned the F5 key last Tuesday, because just a couple days before one of my kids told me "Just hit F5" when we were showing kids' introductions. They had a choice of a glog, comix, xtranormal, or blabber and one of the glogs was hung up waiting to load (we had gone through quite a few that day!). I really like it when kids show me something--it makes me more "human", I think and levels the playing field. I like to at least try some of the sites I suggest to them, but I don't by any means worrying about mastery. I usually find out who did something cool and make them the expert--and then they're the 'go-to' guy for the rest of the kids (and me!). I digress--but I thought it was a coincidence.

I knew a few of the shortcuts, but I ALWAYS forget about Ctrl F for some reason, and I am geeked to know that I can right click for spelling in Word, too, just like Google docs! So here's my screen shot--and I did the Hot Key with no problems whatsoever. Yeah!

Thing #1 Diigo

I have used Google bookmarks for about a year (after taking Google Tools for Educators last fall) and really love it--I felt like I was losing my mind going between my school computer, my netbook, our home lap top. Grrrrr. Then last spring I added my iPad and I could never remember where I put what. I will slowly move my Google bookmarks over because I like the fact that I can go between my Microsoft stuff and my iPad. (I didn't use Google Bookmarks for my iPad--just the iPad bookmarks). I started switching over one of my lists: Tech to use. You can check it out here http://www.diigo.com/user/lalars

I thought we had to screen shot every, though, so I also did a screen shot of my library! It is my first one, so I figured I'd post it anyway since I'm proud : )  However, it was a bit hard to maneuver the cross hairs and I only captured the first two bookmarks. 

I DO know that I am posting out of order--I am waiting to see if I get any answers to my forum posting re: screen shots of Word docs. (I DID use Ctrl+B to do that!)