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Many of you have tried blogging with your students. It’s a good way for you to pose a question and have the students answer online, but how about creating a blog with a character host? A “bear-y” interesting version of a blog for an elementary classroom is The Adventures of Jefferson Bear. A third grade teacher [...] Rather than tell you that you can set your internet start page by going to the page you’d always like to begin with (I love the weather, so I use www.noaa.gov pre-set to Chatham’s weather) by opening your browser and clicking Tools > Options and clicking “Use Current Page,” I’d like to offer a little [...] Science is one of the subjects I love the most, so when I was teaching, I pulled out the stops to make science as interesting and multidisciplinary as possible–that included having students perform a song about the way the Sun works. I was so happy that my favorite band, They Might Be Giants, released an EP [...] Don’t you love saving time? What if it takes only one click to start a program rather than two clicks? That’s a 50% savings! Cut your clicking in half by using the Quick Launch area of your Task Bar–the blue bar at the bottom of your screen. Go to Start > Settings > Taskbar and Start [...] Your students just recorded a poem with Audacity, and they swear that they saved the MP3 file in the right location, but they don’t understand why the program is asking them to save it again. What’s happening? This is a common experience with Audacity, Photo Story, Windows Movie Maker and many media-creation tools such as Photoshop, Premiere, [...] Putting our educational technology tools to use in the language arts classroom is never a challenge when you use the Lesson Activity Toolkit in SMART Notebook! Robin Van Der Linda, a sixth grade language arts teacher at CMS, recently put together an entire review lesson using the Lesson Activity Toolkit in the Gallery tab. [...] Remember that logo? For many of us, research began in the library with a trip to the reference section’s gleaming World Book Encyclopedia. It’s many volumes glistening with gold leaf and promising all the knowledge we needed at our fingertips. Well, times have changed, and I was in a school yesterday whose library didn’t even have [...] Sometimes the content you want to show on a web page is pretty small, and even with the SMART Board you wish you could enlarge the text or image on a web page. Your wish has been granted! Most browsers allow you to easily enlarge a web page by simply holding down the Ctrl key and [...] What qualifies as new media for Media Monday? Certainly photos, video, web 2.0 applications come to mind, but would you consider the blog a part of new media? Of course! How can you harness the interesting educational possibilities of the blog? Your Schoolwires Centricity teacher website is the perfect starting point, and the latest Tech Talk [...] |
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