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With 84 tutorials (and counting!) my Technology Tuesday page is starting to look a little bit overwhelming!  Ive played around with different ways to organize this page but finally decided to do it on Pinterest!  Ive sorted all of the tutorials into five boards:

• Making Products for Teachers Pay Teachers
• Blogging Tips and Tricks
• Using Technology to Make Your Teaching Life Easier (a.k.a) "Make technology work with you and not against you!"
• Smart Notebook Tips and Tricks
• Web 2.0 Tools

You can check out/follow each of the boards by clicking on the pictures below:

Do you want to help your students write their letters properly?  Then these fun poems are the perfect answer!  I have been meaning to post these alphabet writing signs for a white but I wanted to be sure to spruce them up for TPT!  I am so excited by this new update and I cant wait to re-print them for myself later on!

The signs are available at TPT for $3.50, and if offers three different sizes for you to print.  You can head there by clicking any of the pictures below!





And, heres a free frame for all of my fabulous followers!  Be sure to click the picture below to load a higher quality version of the frame!  Youre more than welcome to use this frame in your TPT paid/free items, just be sure to give credit to me for creating it!  Enjoy!

Here we are again... its Technology Tuesday!  The winner of this weeks poll was How to Embed Fonts in Word and Powerpoint!


More than 2/3 of you voted for this option in the poll!


Unfortunately this is currently not possible to do on a Mac (unless you save as a PDF), but I included directions for how to do it on a PC and will keep my eye out for an update on the Macs that allow for it to happen!  Here are the directions:



To grab a freebie I posted with an embedded font, click the picture below!


I have had so many requests come in on the "Technology Tuesday Request" above... thank you everyone!  Im going to try to knock out as many of these requests as I can!  For next weeks poll, Ill add one thats been requested by a few people... how to add a form to your website (just like the Technology Tuesday Request form!) I cant wait to see what you vote for!

Before I write up this post I want to take a minute to thank everyone for your sweet words on all of the other tutorials Ive written!  Im so glad that people are actually using them!

This week the winner of the poll was how to make an editable powerpoint!  For anyone who has purchased clipart online for your teacher products, youll notice it always says that the images need to be locked down... but how do you lock the images down and still keep an item editable!?  Well... heres how!


This was a close one in the poll!


Now, onto the tutorial!

Whenever Im in the middle of a project, it drives me bonkers when it opens up to the first page.  Okay... maybe it doesnt drive me bonkers, but it does make it a little frustrated to have to scroll all the way down, particularly in a long document!

If this happens to you as well, youll love this tip for PowerPoint/Word!

First of all, Im loving the flash giveaways that Im doing with my new products, so be sure to keep your eyes open for a lot more of those!

Second of all, one of my favorite art units is coming up... Georgia OKeeffe.  Each year I teach my kindergarten students about her, and they learn how she created such beautiful images of flowers.  They are always inspired by her work and love using colored pencils to try to be an artist just like her!  After their artwork is done, I have them do a follow up writing piece describing their flower or trying to convince someone to plant their flower in their garden.  Its always adorable to see what they write!

I finally made the project a little cuter and posted it up on TPT.  Be sure to check it out by clicking the picture below!


Now for the flash giveaway... guess which month I teach this unit in!  Leave a comment with your answer and email address!
Update 10:00pm: I teach this unit in April!  Congrats to all of the winners!


While youre here, be sure to vote on the poll in the top right to pick what I will blog about this Tuesday!

This weeks poll was really exciting... the bloggers united to vote for adding a facebook like button to the side bar of the blog!  You can check out how mine looks on the side of my blog under where it says "Social Networks!"


 Check out the poll! 


For the tutorial, youll this link:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box/






For next weeks poll, Ill add another blogger tutorial - how to add a poll to your blog! Be sure to vote!

Though some of you may be on summer vacation, Im just coming up towards the end of my school year.  This word family Prezi is the last one for the year!  Click the picture below to check out a fun Prezi for the -ay word family!



Come next year, Ill be revamping some of my older Prezis to add animations and creating some new Prezis for other topics!  Until then, check out all of my other Prezis at the link below!


And of course, head over to Manic Monday for some other great freebies!

I probably use this little tip at least 30 times a day!!!  How to quickly open a new tab in your internet browser!


For those of you who are a fan of my Thursday Tips, I am sorry to say t hat this is the last one I can think of!  However, this does leave me some time to start a new regular feature: Fonts on the First!  Stay tuned this Monday, April 1st for my first collection of seasonal fonts for personal and commercial use!