Print This...Not That!

In times of shrinking budgets and the increase of 'green' society, the importance of not wasting paper has grown  increasingly important.  In addition to having your students print things at home (which works surprisingly well) as well as doing work/submitting work digitally, you can trim down what you're printing, too.  Many times, I only want a small part of a webpage, but when I try to print it, tons of other (often ink-wasting) graphics, ads, information are printed-often cutting off what I actually wanted.

Never fear, Print What You Like is here.  Just enter the website of the page you want to print.  Then, just click on the part you want to print:

Your options are to: 


You can select a part and then add more to it as well.  This is what isolate goes to:

When you have what you want, just click print on the left and you have it.  No ads, no graphics no annoying cut offs.  

Enjoy!

Too long? Not anymore!

Many of my colleagues like to use YouTube videos, especially after we found that most of the History Channel videos (including our beloved French Revolution video) have been included in the Youtube catalog.  However, we frequently hear the battle cry of the administrator..."No Whole Videos!...Only Clips!...Keep it Short!"  Woe to the teacher whose administrator walks in as the credits are rolling on Gandhi.  Some teachers have tried to move away from video playing (which is a shame, especially in history) as to not incur the wrath of administration.

But happy days are here again thanks to TubeChop.  The Chopper (as I affectionately call it) is quite a handy little utility that allows you to edit YouTube videos you wish to use-TubeChop gives you the weblink as well as the embed code for you to view it.  You could then use something like Zamzar, to download it if you wish.

Click each one and it will grow.

What do you think about The Chopper?  Useful?

5:30 AM Comes Fast.

So today was the first day back to school and heavens was I suffering this morning.  As I joked with one of my new students, 5:30 comes awfully quick when you're used to getting up at 11 (I was referring to me, not her). 

This site-Wakerupper, made me giggle a bit when I saw it this afternoon.  I wanted to think that I could use it to help me wake up in the morning, but when I give it serious though, I know that it won't make any difference.  I did, however, think of a fantastic use for it- to aggravate my colleagues during their classes.  

Seriously though...I could see people using this to remind themselves of things, especially if they don't have a smartphone.  It's extremely easy to use-just put in the phone number and the message.  

What could you see using this for?