Post #9 STARS • Common Core • Word Salad

I had the pleasure this last week to work with 4 great school assets that work with 4 of our Region IX Schools as STARS Coordinators!  They invited me to come work with them to share some technology tips on working smarter.  We followed an outline based on saving at least 1,000 mouse clicks over the next year.  Topics included were:  using the application switcher on PC or Mac, using highlight duplicates in Excel, use of sorting & subtotaling and count functions in Excel, then we moved on to fun things in email like accessing themes, using signatures & right sided chat.

My utmost respect goes out to these ladies for the job they do for their schools with highly important task.

1. Karen Seely - Corona STARS Coordinator (1 of many hats she wears)
2. Teresa Woodard - Capitan STARS Coordinator (1 of many hats she wears)
3. Kathy Saenz - Hondo STARS Coordinator (1 of many hats she wears)
4. Kathy Weinman - Ruidoso STARS Coordinator (1 of many hats she wears)

This weeks app of the week is very timely with Common Core on everyones mind these days:
Common Core Quest currently contains activities for every middle school and high school Common Core math and language arts standard. Coverage of elementary school standards is being added (currently about half of the standards are included). A student can invite his or her teacher to view the progress that he or she is making toward each goal in Common Core Quest. Students can invite teacher either by email or by class code if the teacher has created a class account on OpenEd.io.

Web Site of the week is a follow up from last week and Word Salad.   I had a lot of inquiries about Word Salad last week and if I knew of a alternative for people that didn't have an iPad.  This is a good free web based alternative: Wordle which can be accessed at http://www.wordle.net/

Here's a simple word salad to get you motivated. 

Post your comments or share you ideas - I'd love to share them as we move forward.