Mr. O'Connell's Technology Home Page

Links and Tutorials

Google Resources

• Google Docs in Plain English
  (recorded in early 2012. Google Docs is now Google Drive)
• From Google:
  • Overview of Google Drive
  • Share and collaborate
    • How to share
    • Sharing settings overview
    • Chat and real-time collaboration
      (Note: This video contains a scene of people drinking root beer in a soda shop. This does not constitute an endorsement of root beer by myself or the Easton Public Schools!)
  • Research Tool
  • EasyBib for Google Docs
  • YouTube Creator Academy
  • YouTube Video Editor

Search

• Search Tips Presentation (by OAHS Librarian Joan Holt)

Information About Adaptive Technology for Web Users:

• www.afb.org
• www.kurzweiledu.com
• www.sciencedaily.com
• www.michigan.gov/lara
• www.amdsupport.ca
• www.mardiros.net/visual-impaired.html
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

Time Management:

• Parkinson's Law
• Pareto Principle

Emerging Technologies:

• Google Glass
• Boston Dynamics: Cutting Edge Robot Designs

Useful Online Tools:

• Prezi
  • The Prezi Company Blog
  • When Things Go Wrong in Public Speaking
  • Presentation Tips: Slides vs. Prezi

General Technology Information:

• TL;DR
• Electronic Mail: the Basics
• The Guide to Password Security and Why You Should Care

Web Design:

• One Extra Pixel 40 Stunning Website Designs with Great Color Schemes

• Dreamweaver:
• SPRY Drop-Down Menu
• Play Sound on Mouseover or MouseClick
• Dreamweaver CSS Styles Tutorial
• Dreamweaver Tutorial Embed YouTube Videos
• Pop-up Windows
• CSS Styles Tutorial
• How to Make Pictures and Text into Clickable Links using Dreamweaver CS4
• Publishing with Dreamweaver CS4
• Upload Your Site with Dreamweaver CS4
• Dreamweaver CS4 Tutorial -Forms and Checkboxes
• How to Insert a YouTube Video into Your Web Page with Dreamweaver
  • As of 3/2013, the Embed Code can be found by right-clicking the YouTube Video itself.
  • As of February 2014, the embed code is missing a key element.
    • Find the URL in your code. It will start with //www.
    • Click to the left of the first forward slash.
    • type in http:
    • Save and test your work.
• Are URLs on your servers "cAse SenSiTive"?
• Linux/Unix Case Sensitivity
• PHP Calendar Script - Easy PHP Calendar
• Austin Independent School District Schools
• Photoshop Elements:
  • Clone Stamp Tool: Video
  • Photo To Sketch With More Detail In Photoshop Elements
  • Grayscale
  • Warp Text
  • Filter Effects
  • Saturation & Desaturation
  • Ghost Trail Effect
  • Remove Glare From Photos
  • Remove Glare And Reflections From Glasses
  • The Straighten Tool
  • Blend Layers
  • Use a Gradient Map to Enhance a Sunrise
  • Replace The Sky
  • Burnt Edge Effect

Music Technology

• Guitar Electronics
  • Guitar Repairs - Proper Soldering Technique
  • Mojotone Tutorial Videos
• How Much for Just the MIDI?

Computers and Office Procedures

• Microsoft
• Apple
• Google
• Webster Dictionary
• Easy Bib

Creativity: Global

• Adonit Jot
  • Adonit makes the Jot line of stylus pens. These are excellent tools for drawing or writing on any touch sensitive screen (tablets, smartphones, etc.).
• Google Art Project
• What's Going On In This Picture?

Teaching and Learning

• Study Skills PowerPoint
• Tapping the trades for good jobs and good money
• Overview of Social Cognitive Theory and of Self-Efficacy
• Self-efficacy
  • Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Human Functioning
  • Relationship Between Self-Efficacy Judgement and Action
  • Technological self-efficacy
• Metacognitive Strategies
  • Learning Part 3: Thinking About Learning (metacognition)
  • Teaching Matters Metacognition
  • Metacognition: Learning about Learning
  • All Kinds of Minds
  • Faces of Learning: Your Learner Sketch
  • Minds of Our Own

The Committee for Children definition of cyber bullying is:
“Cyber bullying is when one or more people intentionally harm,
harass, intimidate, or reject another person using technology.”

• Easton Public Schools Bullying Plan
• Committee for Children
• Bullying in Schools
• stopbullying.gov
• Prior Knowledge of Potential School-Based Violence:
  Information students learn may prevent a targeted attack
• Witnesses to Bullying May Face More Mental Health Risks
  Than Bullies and Victims, Study Finds
• Prevent Cyberbullying
• NSTeens Cyberbullying Video
• Cyberbullying Prevention Online Resources