Utilizing the Internet

My Favorite Twitters

Follow Friday is a way to introduce your Twitter Followers to other Twitter Followers.
I’ve decided to keep my list on my blog instead of posting individual Tweets.

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Blogging & Twitter Addictions?

Are you worried you spend too much time Twittering or blogging? Its a good thing to analyze how you spend your time.
We can turn anything into sin if it’s out of balance or if we have the wrong motivation. Shoes, make-up, food, TV, sports, pets, etc. can become addictions or idols.
Volunteer work at church [...]

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Be Picky About Who You Follow On Twitter & Facebook

What a great time to live in, we can fellowship, pray for one another, share burdens or blessings, get laughs and valuable information in a few key strokes with Twitter or Facebook.

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Optimizing Your Blog Reading Potential

I subscribe to a few hundred homeschool, spiritual encouragement, and homemaking blogs. How do I read them all? I use Google Reader. This video will give you a great overview.

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Twavorite Tweets Thursday

A Twitter Tweet is a 140 characters about anyone, any topic, anything. Tweeting is micro-blogging.
Clcik continue for a list of my Tweets this week. I’ll list some each Thursday for those who don’t twitter or those who were not online when these were Tweeted.

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Tweet Your Testimony on Twitter#

Can you give your testimony in under 140 characters?
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows messages known as tweets, which are posts of up to 140 characters in length.

Help me spark a testimony fire. I’m asking all Christians to add a Tweet Your Testimony on Twitter to witness on Twitter. [...]

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What is RSS? Can it Make My Life Easier?

Do you try to keep up with more than one blog? I do. I enjoy several blogs but I don’t have the time to jump around to all of them. So I use an RSS reader.
RSS is Rich Site Summary. Most news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed [...]

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Save $10 on ClickN’ READ Phonics

I started using ClickN’ READ Phonics with my 6- and 8-year-olds this summer. It’s a great program. The boys love it and compete with each other to see who can get to the highest level each day. It is the latest in beginning reading phonics instruction used in thousands of schools and homes in [...]

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Visual Thesaurus

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The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. You’ll understand language in a powerful new way.
Stumped for just that right phrase? Type in a term and watch as an interactive [...]

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Computer Age

Cartoons used by permission from Reverend Fun

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Instant Online Writing Prompts

A writing prompt is a statement that asks the students to write a paper about a specific topic. It defines the audience and purpose for writing. The list below from Creative Portal will help when you need an idea or a writing prompt or two to get your student in the writing mood. [...]

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Think Quest

If you are using Heart of Wisdom unit studies you have probably visited a ThinkQuest site via HOW links.
ThinkQuest inspires students to think, connect, create, and share. Students work in teams to build innovative and educational websites to share with the world. Along the way, they learn research, writing, teamwork, and technology skills and compete [...]

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Teachers Xpress

Teacher’s Xpress describes itself as the “the education web for busy teachers. Find everything in one place”. It is a gateway to a wealth of useful information and resources, of especial value to teachers. This is a secular site. With the number of web pages more than doubling every 3 months, teachers need [...]

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Using Web2.0 to Teach

This is part of a series of articles on Utilizing the Internet focusing on Web 2.0 communities.
I’ll be discussing this topic much more in upcoming posts. For now this video from Teacher Tube may get you thinking about the possibilities.

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Del.icio.us Social Bookmarking – A Powerful Tool

This is part of a series of articles on Utilizing the Internet focusing on Web 2.0 communities. We begin with is a video (be patient, it takes a while to load but worth it)

Del.icio.us in the Classroom

Del.icio.us is asocial bookmarking website, which means it is designed to allow you to store and share [...]

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Google Alerts

This is part of a series of articles on Utilizing the Internet focusing on Web 2.0 communities.
Google Alerts are emails automatically sent to you when there are new Google results for your search terms. Its almost like having a research secretary! Alerts results come from News, Web, Blogs, and Groups. You can use Google Alert [...]

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Websurfing with Stumble Upon

This is part of a series of articles on Utilizing the Internet with Web2.0 communities.

Channel surf the internet with the StumbleUpon toolbar to find great websites, videos, photos and more based on your interests–I use to find homeschool sites, Bible studies, and web design. You can use it to find things you that [...]

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Library Thing

This is part of a series of articles on Utilizing the Internet focusing on Web 2.0 communities.

Library Thingis the program for book lovers (or should I say bibliophiles). Years ago I spent days attempting to record all the books I own (and want to keep). It took too long just to type in the title [...]

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Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

These are very handy. My favotite is Ctrl+= to make the text larger on almost any page. Once you learn these your browsing will be super fast.

Spacebar (page down)
Shift-Spacebar (page up)
Ctrl+F (find)
Alt-N (find next)
Ctrl+D (bookmark page)
Ctrl+T (new tab)
Ctrl+K (go to search box)
Ctrl+L (go to address bar)
Ctrl+= [...]