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Teacher Triumph

How are we the same?  How are we different?  It’s easy to have that discussion among the students in our classes, but what are kids like outside Chatham?  Sandy Kelly, Michelle Monahan, and Jennifer Lehotay-Taylor have regular visits with fellow third grade students in Illinois to find out.

Using a webcam and Skype, a few students [...]

Website Wednesday

Just a reminder to check the Tech Talk video blog at http://techtalk.chatham-nj.org, and that we’re now on YouTube with our own channel at http://www.youtube.com/sdoctechtalk.

If you’re looking for something you haven’t seen before, how about an online community for interactive whiteboards? Your SMART Board is part of the general category of “interactive whiteboards” because there [...]

Teacher Triumph

With six more months of school, it’s time to think about updating your teacher website, but what can you do to make it more interesting to students and teachers while using your time effectively? How about incorporating student work into your website?

While reading Helen Keller’s Miracle Worker, Lisa McTague had an interesting challenge on [...]

Website Wednesday

Yes, we’re still without the fancy features for the blog, so I’m going to capitalize on that fact by introducing you to FAST websites. Yes, many moons ago when many of us only had dial-up connections, web pages needed to load quickly, so a clean site didn’t have many photos which made a site [...]

Tech Tip Tuesday

We’re still unfortunately without our fancy features for the blog like photos and embedded video, so today’s Tech Tip is a Text Tip: Next time you are typing something in Microsoft Word (or many other programs), try changing the size of text by highlighting it then hold down the Ctrl key and tap either [...]

Media Monday

If you’ve spent any time in an art museum, you know the term “mixed media,” but when it comes to technology, we don’t have oil paint, newsprint, and feather dusters glued to the monitor. Instead, we have digital art, video, and sound.

In second grade at WAS, Sarah Gutierrez is working with her students as [...]