Mr. O'Connell's Technology Home Page

Links and Tutorials

Shortcuts

• 60 time-saving keyboard shortcuts every office worker should know

Business and Finance

• ADDITIONAL PAYMENT CALCULATOR: Calculate your loan payment and more.

Web Design

• Why You Should Never Center Align Paragraph Text This website is ideal for beginning web designers who make the standard rookie mistake of center aligning everything.
• Easton Public Schools: Technology Request Follow this link to get technical support within the Easton Public Schools network.
• One Extra Pixel 40 Stunning Website Designs with Great Color Schemes
  
• Galleria "Galleria is a JavaScript image gallery framework that simplifies the process of creating beautiful image galleries for the web and mobile devices."

Color Schemes

• HTML Color Picker
• Coolors
• Website Color Schemes
• Trendy Web Color Palettes
• Colorpicker.com
• 25 Awesome Tools for Choosing a Website Color Scheme
• Trendy Web Color Palettes and Material Design Color Schemes & Tools

Dreamweaver and HTML

• Lissa Explains it All
• Dreamweaver CS6 Keyboard Shortcuts
• Radio Buttons Video Lecture
• Pop-up Windows
• Form Validation of Checkboxes Video Lecture
• Using Web Fonts in Adobe Dreamweaver CS6
• Using Frames
• SPRY Drop-Down Menu
• Play Sound on Mouseover or MouseClick
• Dreamweaver CSS Styles Tutorial
• 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
  • 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.
  • Dreamweaver Tutorial Embed YouTube Videos
• Are URLs on your servers "cAse SenSiTive"?
• Linux/Unix Case Sensitivity
• PHP Calendar Script - Easy PHP Calendar
• Austin Independent School District Schools
• Photoshop CS6
  • How to Change Eye Color in 1 Minute in Photoshop
  • How to Create a LIGHTSABER in Photoshop #MinutePhotoshop
  • Curving photos for a print look
    
  • Keep selective color when making black and white conversions
  • Applying Digital Makeup in Photoshop

Information About Adaptive Technology for Web Users:

• www.afb.org
• www.sciencedaily.com
• www.michigan.gov/lara
• www.amdsupport.ca
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
• http://fromtexttospeech.com/

Google Resources for Educators

• GEG (Google Educator Group), Massachusetts
• 20 Things You Can Do With Google Classroom
• Google Says Apps For Education Now Has More Than 20 Million Users

Google Resources for Everyone

• How to Create a Hanging Indent in Google Docs by Caroline Forsey
  • This is a link to a .PDF that contains a good explaination about the use of hanging indents and how to create them in Google Docs. Why do you ned to know this? Because it's a required skill you will need to create an MLA formatted Works Cited section.
• 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
    • More Sharing
      (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)
• Only one in 10 know what Ctrl+F does

Time Management:

• Parkinson's Law
• Pareto Principle

Emerging Technologies:

Useful Online Tools:

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

General Technology Information:

• Boston Dynamics: Cutting Edge Robot Designs
• Three Laws of Robotics
• TL;DR
• Electronic Mail: the Basics
• The Guide to Password Security and Why You Should Care
• Mail Merging with Microsoft Excel and Word
• How to do a Mail Merge Using Google Docs

Music Technology

• PhET Interactive Simulations: Sound and Waves (courtesy of Ms. Mine)
• Guitar Electronics
  • Guitar Repairs - Proper Soldering Technique
  • Mojotone Tutorial Videos
• How Much for Just the MIDI?
• Music Machinery | a blog about music technology by Paul Lamere
• SALAMI (Structural Analysis of Large Amounts of Music Information)
• Echo Nest
• Peachnote
  

Computers and Office Procedures

• Microsoft
• Apple
• Google
• Webster Dictionary
• Easy Bib
• Learn Excel by Yourself

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, smart phones, 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 Judgment 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.”

• Cyberbyullying: the Complete Resource Guide
• Easton Public Schools Bullying Plan
• Committee for Children
• 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
• NSTeens Cyberbullying Video