http://www.utechtips.com Articles, Tips, Screencasts, and Tutorials for Educators Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:36:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.utechtips.com/park-some-themes-at-google/ http://www.utechtips.com/park-some-themes-at-google/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:48:07 +0000 Mike Romard http://www.utechtips.com/?p=1629 Google Documents just got more teeth — the introduction of themes makes creating a document online even easier.
I’m a big fan of Google Documents, maybe too big a fan as I have several older documents that I need to purge. But, there have been times I wish I had a template – in particular when [...]

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The title of this video struck a deep cord hold on me. I found myself asking – what can I do to help change? What got me started in this path was I’ve [...]

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