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From Eunice Borrelli - Michigan eLibrary Internet Librarian- Since March 2004, when the U.S. Senate passed Resolution 316 officially recognizing April as National Financial Literacy Month, organizations including libraries have provided resources and training for youth and adults. ALA’s Money Smart Week® initiative in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank (Chicago) offers many ideas and

2016-2017 Grant Program Michigan Educators: Have a great idea you would like to implement into your classroom, but need some help with funding?  MACUL is currently accepting Grant Proposals for the 2016-2017 school year! Purpose To encourage and support members interested in promoting effective instructional uses of the computer or related-equipment. Goal Each project should focus on an

USAGE DRIVE:  ANNOUNCING DISCOVERY EDUCATION’S SPRING TRAINING!   Spring Into Digital Hit it out of the park with Discovery Education's Spring Training. Bring new instructional ideas into your everyday practice with this series of exercises to use with Discovery Education. We all need a little workout every now and again to hone our skills and develop our practice and that's what Discovery

  Have you wanted to participate in the 21 Things 4 Teachers PD during the summer?  Here is your opportunity!   From the 21 Things Team: The 21Things4Teachers Statewide summer course runs June 20 to Sept 6, 2016. After registering for the course, you will receive instructions on how to login to Moodle and how to attend the virtual event June 20 at 4:30 p.m.  21Things4Teachers helps

MDE in collaboration with MeL has put together some sample activities to "encourage reading month activities that go beyond reading contests and encourages purposeful reading for all Michiganders."  Check out this site which has some sample activities that tie into Michigan Electronic Library databases - resources that available for FREE to all Michigan educators and students.

Being public supported, PBS provides many videos that are available for teachers to use in their classrooms. But did you know some of their series provides teaching resources free for your use?  Check out the series Nature.  If you go to the Classroom section, they have provided video clips from episodes, along with teaching resources and relationship to educational standards.  Notice on the

One of my favorite template pages provided on Google Sites is the File Cabinet.  This type of page allows you to share a plethora of resources in a nice organized way. To add a File cabinet page, first click on the icon to add a new page to your site - To create the new page, you will give it a name and set its location in your site hierarchy - in addition, you will need to change the

#CISD Inspire Workshops on Relevant topics that involve Education & Technology Our next #CISD Inspire workshop will be May 19 on the topic of educational records.  This workshop will focus on many aspects of educational records - what they are, the laws about them, and protection & retention practices.  One portion of the workshop will be a refresher on FERPA.  We encourage REMC12E districts to

Whenever you are working with a website, there is definitely a better way to make formatting changes that involve fonts & colors.  And this way does NOT involve using the little icons on the formatting toolbar - which is the obvious way since it is there visible when you are editing your pages! The proper way is to make those changes so they will set them for the entire site.  With Google Sites,

In a prior post (from 2 years ago!), I shared how you can add an event to your calendar from email. Today I noticed a nifty little change in a calendar event that I had added this way.  It now has a Source link that links back to the the originating email the date was in.  I don't know how long it has been there, but it sure is a nice piece of information to have!

Recently I was looking for a way to schedule tweets for my work Twitter account without using an application (such as TweetDeck).  I was on a device that was not my own, and had a need for this.  Enter twuffer - I stumbled across this (ok - really got it as a result of a Google search), and after exploring it found it to be the near-perfect tool for the job. To use twuffer, you first need

Are you an educator in a Title 1 school?  If so, you are eligible to participate in the Open eBooks Initiative! Go here to get more information at Open eBooks.  This does require registering with First Book - which supplies both access to the app and "new books and educational resources - for free and at low cost - to schools and programs serving children in need, from birth to age 18."  

From Discovery Education -   The Smart Farm: Where Technology and Innovation Meet Join the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance and

Google has implemented an option that is a great alternative to the Table of Contents! Many people felt (especially with LONG documents) that a Table of Contents (TOC) added a lot of clutter to the top of the document, even while it provided needed links to the document sections.  (If you don't know what the Table of Contents is or want to know more about it, check out my post  Google Documents

This is a very slick and easy to use way to create a random name generator by Flippity.net! And actually, in addition to being a random name generator, it is also a random group creator, and random seating chart - all in one setup. For my last post, I walked through the setup.  In this post we will look at what it generates and ways you can use it. When you first go to the generated link,

This is a very slick and easy to use way to create a random name generator by Flippity.net! And actually, in addition to being a random name generator, it is also a random group creator, and random seating chart - all in one setup.  For this first post, I am walking you through the setup.  In my next post we will look at what it generates and ways you can use it. To set this up for your

This feature has actually been showing up on my documents for awhile, and it is a handy one if you need to make comments on a document as it eliminated several clicks from the "old" way. When in a document, if you highlight text in the document an icon appears on the right hand of the document: If you click on this icon you get a comment window: The comment you enter will then be connected

My previous two posts have been about setting up and creating modifications to an awesome template created by Flippity.  Today I'll walk through game play. To play, you need to use the link that was created after you Published your spreadsheet - This will open your customized Game Show in a new window - When teams (or you) select a category and value, click on the corresponding box to see

Yesterday I shared how to set up a Game Show from Flippity's template (and work into scripting!).  Today's post is about other modifications that can be made to your game - There are a few modifications that can be made. 1. If you want to set up fewer questions, you can put a capital X in for a category name (row 2) to exclude that column- 2. Likewise, if you use a capital X in a question box

I am often asked about the availability of templates or ways to run trivia game show type activities in the classroom with custom questions.  This last week I was exposed to a new one that is definitely worth sharing as it meets all four criteria I consider important: Is it affordable?  Yup! It's free to use Is it easy to set up? Yes, it took me about 15 minutes...you could probably do it