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Digital storytelling is an easy way for your students to shine in a new way. Do you have a budding Ansel Adams photographer? How about a future Diane Sawyer reporter? Maybe digital storytelling is a way to allow your students to create a fun twist on a popular picture book like these first graders did [...] Did you notice those SMART Board tools floating on the left edge of your computer screen? Even though you can click the little tab to have them retract, the little tab still sticks out. Annoying. Hide those floating tools by going to the SMART Tools icon (looks like a Peppermint Lifesaver in a little blue box) [...] Parents love to meet the teacher on back-to-school night, but even more than that they love seeing their children on the big screen! Vinnie Palladino came up with a great way to involve his students in his back-t0-school night presentation: he had the students tell the parents about the classroom in a video. For [...] Parents love to see their children on screen, so why not entertain them with a classroom tour given by your students in ABC book style? Nancy Volker’s students made a list of items and areas in the classroom that began with each letter of the alphabet. Then the students posed with a sign (P is [...] From maps to current events, Social Studies Online has dozens of links to websites and lesson plans you can use every day. You can browse by topic and grade level, so finding what you need is easy. The site was created for Jefferson County in Tennessee, so there are some references to when topics [...] You’ve got about three hundred photos from the first few days of school, and you want to put a handful of them into a slideshow folder you created. How can you select a bunch of them without dragging photos one-by-one to your slideshow folder? Use the Ctrl key and Shift key with the mouse to [...] Looking for an easy way to create a slideshow with some music for back-to-school night? Try using Photostory. It’s easy, and installed on all of our school computers. An added bonus: it’s FREE! So if you want to play around with it at home, you can download it HERE. The video below is a quick run-through [...] Your class is scheduled for 40 minutes of tech lab time, but what are you going to do with them? Do you need a high-quality activity as a station during your small group instruction time? Are you looking for a great set of computer activities that can be used as a reward but retain academic [...] In the same way that you go into the supermarket for a bottle of ketchup and come out with a cart full of items, you probably go online to check just one thing, and suddenly it’s three hours later. If you need help getting away from the computer, you could visit a massage therapist who [...] Tired of having to use the Ctrl key AND a mouse click to follow a link in a Microsoft Office document? Here’s how to make all links open with a single click of the mouse: 1. Click the Office Orb (Office logo in the upper-right corner of Word, for example) 2. Click the “Word Options” button at [...] |
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