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What it is: I don’t know about you, but printers can be a mixed blessing.  On the one hand, if you have one, your students are able to print out their work and finished projects; on the other, printers also make for a lot of wasted pages and ink when students (or teachers) are printing from the Internet. Print What You Like solves this problem by letting you format any web page for printing.  No more pages of ads, empty space, and the extras that you didn’t want.  Print What You Like works in three easy steps: 1. Go to Print What You Like and paste the URL of the page you want to print, 2. Edit the page, 3. Print it!  Very easy and a great way to cut down on paper waste!  I like that there is nothing to download with Print What You Like, it runs directly from your browser.  You can make the page you are printing more readable by changing font size and typeface and removing the background.   Print What You Like gives you the ability to combine multiple web pages by editing them and printing them as one document.  You can even save your modified page as a PDF or HTML document…so cool!  If you sign up for the service, you can even save the changes you make to a page so that other pages from the same site are automatically formatted the same (I’m thinking this would be great for recipe sites!). How to integrate Print What You Like into your curriculum: Introduce students and other teachers to Print What You Like for printing web pages.  Post instructions for using Print What You Like next to classroom computers, printers, and in the computer lab (I have attached the instructions card that I created for Print What You Like below.  Feel free to print it out and use it in your classroom or computer lab).  Make it even easier to use Print What You Like and add it to the bookmark bar in your favorite browser or add the bookmarklet editor directly to your browser. Tips: If you have a website that students are constantly printing from, consider adding a printer friendly button that creates a printer friendly version of your website with the click of a button. Please leave a comment and share how you are using Print What You Like in your classroom!

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Posted by admin | Posted in Blogs, Middle/High School, Primary Elementary, Secondary Elementary, Teacher Resources, Web2.0, Websites | Posted on 20-03-2008

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What it is: Qlubb will change the way you communicate and interact with parents and families. Qlubb includes features perfect for the classroom such as: event calendaring, sign-up sheets, to-do lists, automatic event and task reminders, photo sharing, member rosters, and bulletin boards. Everything on Qlubb is intuitive and extremely simple. Parents and teachers will have no problem jumping in and using Qlubb to enhance home/school communication. This is social networking at its finest for schools!

How to integrate Qlubb into your curriculum: Start off the 2008/2009 year off right by creating a Qlubb network for your classroom. There is plenty of time for you to try it out before then, I have to say that it is truly so intuitive that you won’t need that much time to get it up and going. Use Qlubb as a place to post class pictures, class information, daily homework, and as a place where parents can sign up to help in the classroom or for field trips. This is a great solution for parent/school communication. Qlubb would also be great for after school clubs or sports organization.

Tips: Sign up today and familiarize yourself with Qlubb…you and your parents are going to love it!

Please leave a comment and share how you are using Qlubb in your classroom.

Comments (4)

technicolor said on 21-03-2008

What a nice resource, and I see how it could be easy to use as an organization tool for teachers, parents and students! This may be a resource that would be of good use to the teachers that I serve in my district. The only set back for our district is that flikr is blocked by the district filters.
Francis Toulouise said on 26-03-2008

We were introduced to Qlubb a few months ago and we have been really pleased. Aside from it being free (a BIG plus), the user interface was very simple – all 21 parents in my daughter’s class have gone on and participated (100% parent participation – unheard of!) and taken on tasks for themselves!

For us, we don’t use the photo option at all, since parents are pretty careful about their kids’ pictures. So the flickr thing really didn’t impact us.
admin said on 26-03-2008

Francis,
I am blown away by the parent interaction you saw added with Qlubb…that is amazing!
Qlubb said on 09-05-2008

Our users have seen a tremendous improvement in parent participation since using Qlubb. Over the next few weeks we will be adding a lot more cool features and so we encourage our users and our new users to send in your suggestions! Keep Qlubb-ing!

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