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Similar to last week's tip, this trick is really neat!  If you want to delete the word to the right of where your mouse is positioned, just use this little shortcut in Word or PowerPoint!

One of the best parts of being a teacher is getting to hear all of the cute and innocent things that kids say! <div align="center"><a href="http://aturntolearn.blogspot.com/" title="What Did They Say!?"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OIhmtxluCS0/ULwEfazkl1I/AAAAAAAADpM/MMMzxm23B0Y/s320/What+Did+They+Say+Wednesday.png" alt="What Did They Say!?" style="border:none;" /></a></div> This week's story is another reminder that you have to always be careful what you say... even if it's "So-and-so stole the cookies from the cookie jar!" I'm 99% positive that the first week of school one of my students went home and complained to his mom that I accused him of stealing cookies. Why am i convinced of this?  We did "Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar?" and he started to throw a tantrum when I put his name in the song.  In the cutest, most innocent voice, he yelled &q

I remember the days when my iPad automatically loaded the full version of a website... then I upgraded to IOS6 and all of a sudden the whole internet thought my iPad was a mobile device... yikes!!! Unfortunately, there's no magic setting to switch the iPad back to the way it was before the update, but there are lots of ways you can load the full version of a website on your iPad! Here's the poll for those of you keeping track!  And, for those of you who haven't been able to vote from your iPad/smartphone, do this tutorial now to load the poll so you can vote for next week! :) There are three different options that you can use to load the full version of the site... and here they are!  You can download this tutorial as a PDF by clicking this picture! Note: This tutorial is hosted on Google Docs.  To save it from there, just open the file and click File > Download to save onto your computer!   For next week's poll, I'm going to add another iPad tutorial: how to ta

This trick is so nifty!!!  I only learned it recently, but I find myself using it a fair amount already!!! If you want to delete the word to the left of where your mouse is positioned, just use this little shortcut in Word or PowerPoint!

One of the best parts of being a teacher is getting to hear all of the hysterical things that kids say! <div align="center"><a href="http://aturntolearn.blogspot.com/2013/01/whatdidtheysay1-23.html" title="What Did They Say!?"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OIhmtxluCS0/ULwEfazkl1I/AAAAAAAADpM/MMMzxm23B0Y/s320/What+Did+They+Say+Wednesday.png" alt="What Did They Say!?" style="border:none;" /></a></div> This week's story is a reminder that you have to always be careful what you say! In drawing a picture of myself, I drew flats on my feet.  The kids had asked me why I didn't draw high heels for myself. I said "I usually wear flats so that's what I'm going to draw. Maybe two days later, I wore a pair of heels to work. One of my girls comes up to me at the beginning of the day and says "You lied to us." I'm shocked... since it was first thing in the morning and I

I have to say, when I realized how easy it was to put a pattern over text right in PowerPoint I was floored!  I had been doing it in Photoshop forever and it's much more time consuming!  More than half of the votes were for how to give text a pattern/texture!  If you're looking for some textures to put over your text, scroll to the end of the document to grab three free textures!  You can download this tutorial as a PDF by clicking this picture! Note: This tutorial is hosted on Google Docs.  To save it from there, just open the file and click File > Download to save onto your computer! Now, for your three free textures! To save the files, just click the image to get to the higher quality picture, then right click (or Mac: Ctrl + Click) to save the image onto your computer!  As for next week's tutorial, I'll be adding a Smart Notebook option... how to "Erase to Reveal" an answer.

CSS Sprites most web developers should have heard this term, so what is it ?. CSS Sprite bunch of other images transformed into one Big Image. The origin of the term "sprites" comes from old school computer graphics and the video game industry. The idea was that the computer could fetch a graphic into memory, and then only display parts of that image at a time, which was faster than having to continually fetch new images. A dding Sprites to our websites helps with webpage performance, since the webpage has to make only one request to the server, which will fetch the Sprite (the Big image) which includes all the other images that you want to use in your webpage. since the server makes only one request your page will load a lot faster compared to conventional way of linking each images separately. H ere is a demo on how to use CSS Sprites. further more there a many Sprite generators online to create CSS Sprites all you have to do is upload a bunch of images to these Online too

Don't kids say the most hysterical things!  I just love hearing all of the cute things my kids say and I'm looking forward to all of the cute things your students say as well! <div align="center"><a href="http://aturntolearn.blogspot.com/2013/01/whatdidtheysay1-15.html" title="What Did They Say!?"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OIhmtxluCS0/ULwEfazkl1I/AAAAAAAADpM/MMMzxm23B0Y/s320/What+Did+They+Say+Wednesday.png" alt="What Did They Say!?" style="border:none;" /></a></div> Since I'm sick this week, this story is from earlier this year! One of the first weeks of school it was dismissal and I had two kids left... one who stays late at school and one whose mom works at the school. I said "Come on cuties! Let's go upstairs!) to which one of the students replied: "I'm not a cutie!!!!!!" I took him around to ask all of the teachers if he was a cutie and sure enough

I know so many of you were looking forward to this week's tutorial but I've come down with a nasty cold and I can't write up the post today!  I'll be visiting the doctor later today... hopefully it's not the flu! I extended the poll for another week, so if you didn't get a chance to vote yet be sure to do that!

HTML markup has changed a lot especially when the WHATWG introduced semantic tags.   Semantic Tags? What do they mean. The Semantic Markup helps Humans and Machines to Interpret the HTML markup in a more meaningful way. Which helps the HTML markup to be structured in a more meaningful way. remember adding semantic tags to your HTML5 markup wont change the apperance of your page, but it Gives more meaning to your Markup.   Here is a list of few HTML5 semantic tags. <section>  </section> <article>  </article> <header>    </header> <nav>          </nav> <aside>      </aside> <footer>    </footer> As you see above the above tags wont make our web pages pretty but it gives more meaning to the markup.

CSS works with HTML, but it’s not HTML. It’s a different language altogether. While HTML provides structure to a document by organizing information into headers, paragraphs, bulleted lists, and so on, CSS works hand-in-hand with the web browser to make HTML  look  good. For example, you might use HTML to turn a phrase into a top-level heading, indicating that it introduces the content on the rest of the page. However, you’d use CSS to format that heading with, say, big and bold red type and position it 50 pixels from the left edge of the window. In CSS, that text formatting comprises a style—a rule describing the appearance of a particular portion of a web page. A style  sheet  is a set of these styles. You can also create styles specifically for working with images. For instance, a style can align an image along the right edge of a web page, surround the image with a colorful border, and place a 50-pixel margin between the image and the surrounding text. Once you’ve created a style, y

If you used one of the past two tips to double space or 1.5 space your text and you want to make your document single spaced again, this tip is perfect for you!  Again, this tip is meant for Microsoft Word.

Kurt Vonnegut always says the words I need to hear.

Don't kids say the most hysterical things!  I'm am looking forward to the cute things my kids say in 2013 and I can't wait to read your kids' stories as well! <div align="center"><a href="http://aturntolearn.blogspot.com/2013/01/whatdidtheysay1-8.html" title="What Did They Say!?"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OIhmtxluCS0/ULwEfazkl1I/AAAAAAAADpM/MMMzxm23B0Y/s320/What+Did+They+Say+Wednesday.png" alt="What Did They Say!?" style="border:none;" /></a></div> This week's story comes from one of my most mature five year olds... he's definitely an old soul so this was especially surprising coming from him! When we opened up Safari, there was a picture of an iPad on the screen.   Student: I always wanted one of those but I forgot to ask my dad for one for my birthday. Me: Oh yeah?  Well, maybe you can ask for one next year.  But iPads are very expensive. Student: Do you know

This week was a three way tie on the poll... I was beyond shocked!!!  I was especially surprised since this is the first time there was a tie!  Since there was a tie, I blogged about the item that had been on the poll the longest, which was how to add html/embed code to your blog post! Here's the poll: It'll be interesting to see which wins the poll next week.  In the meantime, here is a short and sweet tutorial that shows how to copy that embed code to your blog post! You can download this tutorial as a PDF by clicking this picture! Note: This tutorial is hosted on Google Docs.  To save it from there, just open the file and click File > Download to save onto your computer!   As for next week's poll, I'll be adding something that a lot of you have been asking for... how to add a texture/pattern to text!  Be sure to vote!

So after yesterday's blog, I thought now I should be post about something happier. And what's a better way to start off 2013 than with good news about my books? For the month of January, Wake (the first book in the Watersong series) is only $2.99 for the Kindle, the Nook, iBooks, Kobo, and Sony eReader . So if you haven't checked out Wake yet, now is the perfect time do it. Plus, the second book, Lullaby is already out now, and the third book Tidal is coming out in a few months. To get Wake for $2:99: Click here for the Kindle Click here for the Nook Click here for iBooks Click here for Kobo Click here for Sony eReader And for those of you who have finished Lullaby and are chomping at the bit for Tidal , I highly recommend you check out the short story Forgotten Lyrics . I originally intended it to come out between Lullaby and Tidal , and it really sheds the light on some important information coming up in Tidal . That's basically my big news right now. I do plan

Does it leave a little bit too much space in between your lines when you double space it?  If so, you may want to 1.5 space your text!  This keyboard shortcut works perfect in Microsoft Word!

So my last blog was November 30th, and I was like "Hey watch out for my blog and all this fun stuff happening!" And then I never posted again. December 2012 marks the first month in the history of this blog that I didn't blog at all. I knew I needed to take a break from blogging, but I didn't want to say why I was taking break, because I'd have to explain it, so I kept putting it off. And then I didn't want to blog, because I'd have to explain why I hadn't been, and that would mean really talking about it, and I didn't want to. But now I think it's time. The best way for me to tell this story is to tell it all. This is going to be a long blog, so you can choose not to read it. But here's the beginning: My favorite person in the whole world died. Not my fake favorite like Tom Hardy, but the actual person that meant more to me than anything. I think that's the best way to say it, because saying "my grandma died" doesn't actu

Don't kids say the most hysterical things!  I'm am looking forward to the cute things my kids say in 2013 and I can't wait to read your kids' stories as well! <div align="center"><a href="http://aturntolearn.blogspot.com/2012/12/whatdidtheysay12-26.html" title="What Did They Say!?"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OIhmtxluCS0/ULwEfazkl1I/AAAAAAAADpM/MMMzxm23B0Y/s320/What+Did+They+Say+Wednesday.png" alt="What Did They Say!?" style="border:none;" /></a></div> This week's story has a little bit of tech humor... which I totally appreciated! :) The students need to login with their username/passwords to use a certain program on the computer.   One of my girls said "You don't need to help me with it. My username is such and such and my password is three dots!"  Her password is actually 123 but when I type it, it looks like three dots so no one else can see it... I wa

Happy New Year everyone!!!  I am so excited to be writing up the first Technology Tuesday tutorial on the very first day of 2013!  The winner of this week's poll was how to make text boxes that are transparent and semi-transparent/translucent! This week's poll was pretty spread out, but this choice was the clear winner! I've outline how to do this in both PowerPoint and Word!  Enjoy!  You can download this tutorial as a PDF by clicking this picture! Note: This tutorial is hosted on Google Docs.  To save it from there, just open the file and click File > Download to save onto your computer! For next week's poll, I'm going to add an iPad/smartphone tutorial.  Lately when I've been visiting blogs on my iPad, the mobile version of the blog has been loading, and it doesn't look as pretty!  So, I'll be adding how to change the view so it shows the full version of the blog you're visiting!