Thursday, December 17, 2009

PLC TECHNOLOGY TIPS

PLC Tech Ideas - Discussions and tips that came out of our Professional Learning Community on Technology.


HOW TO PLACE A WORD DOCUMENT ON YOUR HOMEWORK HELPLINE BLOG in order to post a doc you need to get your document a url or web address. We do this with Google Documents.
  1. Upload Word Document or PPT. (ppt. must be saved as 97-2003 version) to Google Documents. You can upload docx. or 2007 version docs but not pptx. Go to Google.com>click the more link > and click on documents.
  2. At Google Documents, click on the UPLOAD button. Next, hit the select file button and browse or find your file and hit open button.
  3. Word Documents (Spelling lists, Vocabulary, Study Guides upload quickly)
  4. Look for the Back to Google Docs Button and click it.
  5. Click on your document name and it will open up.
  6. Now you can copy the url at the top of the ribbon and do a right click/copy.

Go to your Blog and hit the new post link.

  1. Type the name you wish to call your document
  2. Highlight it
  3. Click the hyperlink icon and
  4. Paste the url into the hyperlink box and hit the OK button.
  5. Your document is now linked to your post.