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Apr
30
2012

Cyber Monday April 30th 2012

Cyber-Monday

So every Monday I meet with my elementary teachers and I share 5-10 resources with them that I have found or we talk about possible ideas they want to implement. I figured I would do a quick blog post recording these so they can go back and see what we went over in case they miss it.

Apr
27
2012

Checking Google Drive Available Space

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Earlier today while playing with Google Drive I noticed they did not display how much room I have left like they do in Gmail. While poking around I did find it. Here is a super quick tutorial on finding how much space you have left in your Google Drive.

Apr
20
2012

Displaying Multiple Google Calendars on Your Website

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Recently we needed to display all of our different athletics calendars into one calendar to display on our website. You may want to merge your different building calendars into one calendar or you may have several different clubs or groups that you want to make a “Social” calendar for. Google makes this very easy with their configuration tool.

Apr
19
2012

Free Autism Apps For The Month Of April

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This month is Autism awareness month. Kindergarten.com is giving away all of their updated apps for free. You can view the apps on your computer here or on your mobile device search the appstore for Kindergarten.com.

Apr
18
2012

Publishing Live #Bullying Data to your website using #Google Spreadsheets

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So as always I am trying to use Google Apps / Docs to automate things. I was building our bullying site today and we need to show our bullying numbers on the website according to a new house bill that was passed. I simply created a Google Spreadsheet and embeded it on the site. Here is the walkthrough on how I did it.

Mar
24
2012

List.ly, a Free Service For List Collaboration

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Many times people ask a question on social media services like “What are your favorite apps for history?” or “What is the best service for saving your bookmarks online ?” and you get either a ton of responses of the same thing because people don’t see what others say or you are overrun with responses and you can’t keep up. List.ly is a tool that you can create a question and people can collaborate on [...]

Mar
21
2012

Merge info from Google Forms to PDF Document and Send via Email

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Today we needed a way to easily take information submitted from Google Form and create a form letter so administrators can sign and send it home with a student. I went through several mail merge scripts but nothing fit exactly what I needed so I took some of the best ideas from all of them (especially the employee of the month script) and created a system that works for us. This method of utilizing Google [...]

Mar
16
2012

Job security

Random thought… Do I want to keep my job because I have all of the “secrets” or the “keys to the castle” or because I am helping people and changing lives? I’m a fan of the 2nd one…

Mar
12
2012

Cyber Monday March 12 2012

Cyber-Monday

So every Monday I meet with my elementary teachers and I share 5-10 resources with them that I have found or we talk about possible ideas they want to implement. I figured I would do a quick blog post recording these so they can go back and see what we went over in case they miss it.

Mar
12
2012

Cyber Monday Mar. 5 2012

Cyber-Monday

So every Monday I meet with my elementary teachers and I share 5-10 resources with them that I have found or we talk about possible ideas they want to implement. I figured I would do a quick blog post recording these so they can go back and see what we went over in case they miss it.

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My name is TJ Houston.
I am the Director of Technology at Huron City Schools. I love integrating technology into the classroom and helping teachers find the way on the information super highway. Things I love: My family, My awesome Girlfriend, Technology, Education, and Photography.

I run PD sessions twice a week and run community training the first Saturday of the month. I love teaching people new things.

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