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I’m at the NJECC (www.njecc.org) December meeting now, and we’ve seen some neat websites and gadgets! Here are some worth seeing: Buildings that look like letters: Type your message, and geoGreeting (http://www.geogreeting.com/#t) finds buildings that look like the letters you type! It’s Christmastime, so you may want to hear some carols as sung by emoticons: http://emoticarolers.com/ Jamstudio [...] Snow is on the way! If your students are thinking about zooming downhill on snowboards, skis, sleds, or saucers (hey, they all begin with S), then they might like to create some snow themselves one snowflake at a time at Make-a-Flake. Make-a-Flake has been a favorite in my classroom for years, but it’s only one of [...] You probably use our Clipart.com for Schools subscription to add great clipart, photos, and sounds to your lessons, or maybe you use the still images collection at Discovery Education’s United Streaming site, but it’s hard to beat the quality of National Geographic photography, and now you can use some of their unparalleled photos in class. The [...] Two amazing keys for your web browser! While there are so many keyboard shortcuts to discuss, these two keys are great to discuss when thinking about web browsers. The F5 key will refresh the page you are viewing. This is handy when you are making changes to your teacher web page. After making and saving [...] Secret Builders is new to me–I’ve tried to be a part of virtual worlds like Second Life, but have been hampered by a slightly older computer. Virtual world sites do require a fast internet connection and a late-model computer, but they are worth investigating. Second Life is great for adults and teenagers, but for the elementary [...]
You might be familiar with the clock in the lower-right corner of your screen, but did you know that area is officially called the “Windows Notification Area”? There isn’t much to look at down there, but if you see the SMART Tools icon (the white circle looks like a peppermint LifeSaver), then you are [...] With the rain we’re having today, I guess the best site of the day is Chatham’s weather at NOAA (as a pilot and weather watcher, I love NOAA’s site), but really we’re here to look at the website of one of our colleagues: Ginny Connolly at CMS. Our district subscribes to a number of high-quality research [...] Okay, so we’ll skip Tech Tip Tuesday today to recognize WAS teacher Sarah Gutierrez and her student teacher, Cathy Gomber, for teaching their second grade students how to narrate their fossil dig. The kids didn’t get to travel to the wilds of Montana to dig, but in science class they did get to be paleontologists for [...] Welcome to the newest category on the K-6 Tech Talk blog: Media Monday! With the proliferation of audio and video in our lessons, it makes sense to take time each week to have a look at some of the aspects of technology related to audio, images, and video. This week we’ll review Audacity. Back on March 11 (my [...] |
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