Back to School 2010: Tips for Teachers

With the summer vacation being over, it’s not just the kids who have to adjust to new sleep schedules, a return to harried days and even a worry of how to manage all that homework. Teachers are also under lots of pressure to make back to school a success each and every year. Lucky for you, with a little foresight and planning, you can make the most of summer vacation for an easier return to school.
Here are tips by teachers for teachers to help you get ready for back to school.

• 1. Housekeeping. Start readying your classroom at least two weeks before school starts, so that you do not feel rushed or overwhelmed. This can include minor repairs, decorations, desk arrangements and even creating your own space in the room.
• 2. Get the Direction. Ask other teachers about their former students to gain insight, tips and techniques to help manage your new students. This is also beneficial to learn how to work with a new class of parents.
• 3. Play the Disciplinarian. Reassess your discipline plan and make any updates based on last year’s experiences. Know how you want it to look and how to not only implement it, but make it stick.
• 4. Plan Ahead, Way Ahead. Make an overview plan of the year for each subject. They don’t have to be deep or final plans, but more like a simple blueprint to keep you on track as the year progresses.
• 5. Advocate for Teamwork! Meet with other teachers on your team and determine how you will work together. Take the time to get to know the new members.
• 6. Stock up. Classroom essentials like glue sticks, pencils, erasers, dry erase markers or chalk, and other miscellaneous school supplies will go quickly. Shop back to school sales and dollar stores for good bargains. And always ask or a teacher discount!
• 7. Plan Ahead for Deadlines. Know when the deadlines are and focus on one thing at a time. Review the school calendar in advance to get a feel for what lies ahead.
• 8. Buy Good Shoes! You’ll spend most of the day on your feet and you’ll be more comfortable if you invest in quality footwear.
• 9. Create Boundaries and Enforce the Separation of Home and School. Make sure work isn’t interfering with personal family time by setting a time to leave the school each day, and possibly even setting a late night where you allow yourself to stay late one night a week to catch-up. When at home, determine a cut-off time to stop grading papers or doing other work-related tasks. This also applies for how early or late in the day you’ll meet with or accept phone calls and answer email from parents. Make sure the weekend is reserved for you.
• 10.Introduce Who You Are and Who They Are. The two most concerned things for the students at the first day of school are to know their teachers and peers well. Therefore, as a teacher, making preparation well to introduce yourself and all the students you know at a cool and impressive way is a must. You can turn to PowerPoint if your classroom is equipped with computer and projector. However, if there is only a TV set in your classroom, you can also play the slideshow after burning it into DVD with some professional tools and make the DVD as a gift to give your students, or you can share the PowerPoint document via video sharing website, such as YouTube after converting it into video.

P.S.: Check more tips for Teachers, Students, and Parents here.

Back to School 2010: High School Supplies List

Along with the start of the new semester, one of the best ways to be successful in high school is to be prepared for any assignment that comes your way.

It’s a good idea to keep an inventory of supplies on hand, so you’ll be ready when it really counts. Avoid those last-minute trips to the store! This list contains recommended supplies for high school.

General Supplies for Every High School Student

Some supplies are necessary year after year, no matter what grade you’re in. When you’re planning for a new school year, it’s pretty safe to invest in these.

• Flash drive
• 3-ring binder
• Backpack
• Colored pencils
• Colored pens
• Eraser
• Glue stick
• Graph paper
• Hand sanitizer
• Highlighters
• Markers
• Organizer/planner
• Paper clips
• Pens/pencils
• Pencil sharpener
• Pocket dictionary
• Pocket folders
• Poster paper
• Public Library card
• Ream of computer paper
• Scissors
• Spiral notebook
• Stapler
• Thesaurus
• Tissues

Some extra supplies will be necessary each year, but the specific requirements will differ from school to school and grade to grade. This list is a guideline. Check with your teachers for specifics!

Supplies for Tenth Grade

Algebra II

• Scientific calculator with fraction key

Geometry

• Scientific calculator with fraction key
• Circular protractor
• Ruler marked with in and cm
• Compass

Foreign Language

• Index cards
• Foreign Language Dictionary

Supplies for Eleventh Grade

Biology II

• Science/Biology dictionary

Calculus

• Graphing calculator, such as TI -83 or 86
• Graphing paper

Accounting

• Four-function calculator with percent key

Foreign Language

• 3×5 Index cards
• Foreign language dictionary
• Translator

Supplies for Twelfth Grade

Marketing

• Four-function calculator with percent key

Statistics

• Scientific calculator with fraction key

Chemistry

• Scientific calculator

Physics

• Scientific calculator

Foreign Language

• 3×5 Index cards
• Foreign language dictionary
• Electronic translator

Pricey But Worth It

• Smartpen by Livescribe: This is a favorite tool for math class. Students always seem to “get it” when a math teacher lectures and works out problems, but then they “lose it” when they sit down to do math problems on their own. The Smartpen enables students to record a lecture while taking notes. The pen will enable the student to place the pen tip on any word or drawing and listen to the part of the lecture that was taking place when those notes were recorded.
• Post-It^TM Easel Pads: This item is useful for brainstorming, but it’s a little pricey. It’s basically a pad of giant sticky notes that you can put on a wall or any other surface and cover with a mind-dump of notes, list items, ideas, or anything else. This tool is great for study group brainstorming sessions.
• Laptop Computer: You will have access to computer labs on campus, but a laptop computer will free you up to do your work anywhere.
• PowerPoint to DVD/Video Converter: Maybe you appreciate the teaching slideshows created by your teacher, or you make some study notes in the format of Microsoft PowerPoint yourself. Moreover, you want to watch them on TV, or burn it to DVD and sent to others as a gift, or upload them to video sharing website like YouTube, you should turn to some PowerPoint to DVD burner or PowerPoint to video converter.
• PowertPoint/Word/Excel to PDF Converter: PDf file is highly compact, small, securable, anti-viruses and convenient, and compatible with modern portable reader systems. There are so many free all-in-one PPT/Word/Excel to PDF converters you can download from related websites.
• Printer/Scanner: If you can afford to have an own printer in your room, be sure to get a printer with scanning capabilities. Scanners can be used to create study guides from your books.

More Purchase, More Discounts – Moyea Back-to-school Sales Promotion Activities Are Underway

Before September 16 of this year, everyone can enjoy impressive discount in the event of purchasing Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Edu Edition or Moyea PPT to Video Converter Edu Edition in bulk.

Shenzhen, P. R. China (August 12, 2010) – To celebrate the beginning of new school term, Moyea Software Co., Ltd. (“Moyea Software”), an innovative provider of multimedia presentation solutions, has launched a variety of back-to-school sales promotion activities recently, one of which is the More Purchase, More Discount favorable promotion.
Moyea Software has been researching and developing sorts of PowerPoint converters since the date of its foundation, such as PPT to DVD (Pro/Lite/Edu), PPT to Video (Pro/Edu), PPT4Web, and PPT to PDF(FREE), all of which are building various bridges linking PowerPoint documents and other format files.
As one of the flagship products, Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Edu Edition is an easy-to-use tool that helps you convert PowerPoint to DVD or video perfectly, with all the original elements of PowerPoint documents reserved.
Edu Edition is without much difference from the Pro Edition, excepting the education-specific template and the price. Compared to the price of the Pro Edition, that of the Edu Edition is nearly decreased by 40%.
In addition, Moyea PPT to Video Converter Edu just provides the conversion between PowerPoint and video at a more reasonable price, which is designed for the users who just needs this service.
Just as a gift to all the teachers and school-aged kids at present, the more you buy the more discounts you will obtain. The quantity-price lookup table is shown as below.

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Note: if you buy ten or more volume licenses at a time, please contact with the Moyea staff (sales@dvd-ppt-slideshow.com) to enjoy bigger discounts.

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Both Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Edu Edition and Moyea PPT to Video Converter Edu Edition support Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 or higher, including PowerPoint 2010. Applicable operating systems contain Windows 7/XP/2000/NT/Vista.

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Three Effective Methods to Share PowerPoint Presentations in Blogger or WordPress

Many people showcase their marketing presentations on products and services, create e-learning content, publish reports with audio-visual slideshows created with PowerPoint, or find, browse and download PowerPoint presentations created by other members.
In addition, they also want to embed those PowerPoint presentations in BlogSpot, WordPress or the like, or convert and download them as video or share on iPods, iPhones and YouTube.
Therefore, I will introduce three effective methods to you to share PowerPoint documents in blog websites or SNS websites.

1. Slideshare.net – Present Yourself
SlideShare.net is an online slide hosting service provider. Individuals or organizations can upload files to share their ideas, connect with others, and generate leads for their businesses in the following file formats: PowerPoint, PDF, or OpenOffice presentations.
Anyone can find presentations on their topic of interest, tag presentation, and download or embed them into their own websites or blogs. Besides, you can also synch audio to your slides, or download the original file.
Key steps to embed the PowerPoint presentations in your Blogger or WordPress  with the help of slideshare.net:

• Step 1 Register an account of Slideshare.net.
• Step 2 Upload your files by browsing and selecting files.
• Step 3 Embed the auto-generated code in your blog or SNS websites.

Note: the slide transitions and animations of your original PowerPoint presentations cannot be reserved after conversion. There is a limitation on the max file size: 100MB for presentations & documents.

2. authorSTREAM.com – Do More with PowerPoint!
authorSTREAM is a web-based PowerPoint presentation sharing platform. Just as its slogan - Do More with PowerPoint! – implies, after creating a multimedia presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint, users can upload presentations to authorSTREAM, which get converted to flash format.
A Presentation uploaded to authorSTREAM shows up on a unique URL and is available in a Flash player. Users can get the unique code of the Flash presentation to embed in blogs and websites. Every presentation also provides users the option to share the presentation through e-mail.
authorSTREAM also allows its users to share their presentations on Apple iPod or iPhone or on equivalent devices, and to upload it to YouTube.
Key steps to embed the PowerPoint presentations  in your Blogger or WordPress with the help of authorSTREAM:

• Step 1 Register an account of authorSTREAM.
• Step 2 Upload PowerPoint presentations (Maximum file size: 1 GB, you can upload maximum of 10 files).
• Step 3 Wait a moment for the e-mail when your presentation has been processed and is available.
• Step 4 Embed the auto-generated code in your blog or SNS websites.

Or

• Step 5 You can convert your presentation to video once your presentation appears on authorSTREAM. Just click on “create video” in the “Your Presentations” page, or from “Actions” on your dashboard.

Note:

• 1. Create this video with watermark or advertisement (Free!)
• 2. Create this video without watermark or advertisement, but you need to buy video credits.

3. Moyea PPT to Video Converter – Professional and Powerful PowerPoint to Video Converter
Compared to the two online PowerPoint presentations sharing websites, Moyea PPT to Video Converter is a kind of specialized and easy-to-use conversion software, whose highlights lie in:

• 1. Support batch conversion, up to 12 files can be processed at a time.
• 2. Provide various output formats.
• 3. Reserve all the animations, sounds, slide transition, and movie clips of the original PowerPoint documents.
• 4. Be able to insert background pictures and music, and record real-time narration.
• 5. Process at a high speed.

Key steps to embed the PowerPoint presentations  in your Blogger or WordPress with the help of Moyea PPT to Video Converter:

• Step 1 Download and run this software.
• Step 2 Import your PowerPoint documents by pressing Add.
• Step 3 Do further selections, such as output format.
• Step 4 Launch conversions by pressing Start.
• Step 5 Upload the converted video to YouTube or other video sharing websites.
• Step 6 Embed the auto-generated code in your blog or SNS websites.

In a word, choose the suitable method you prefer, but professional software will provide professional conversion effects of course. Just try them! Let your PowerPoint presentations be vivid in your Blogger or WordPress.

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