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You’ve heard of blogs, but what about glogs? Teachers looking for that next Web 2.0 project idea may want to try Glogster EDU. Glogster gives students a web-based way to add text, pictures, audio, and video to an interactive web page. Think PowerPoint meets Google Sites. Students are able to add nearly any content to a [...] Windows Media Player is probably the application you use the most to watch videos, and it’s a good player, but what if you want to make some notes about a video while you watch it with your class? Wouldn’t it be cool if you could annotate and diagram images from a video clip right on the [...] Today K-6 Tech Talk is coming to you from the 24th Annual NJECC conference. There will probably be many tips and tricks to pick up today (and the next two days as the conference continues), but we’re starting off with a keynote address from Will Richardson. Keep checking today for news from the conference. Will is talking now (his [...] Click image for full-size view The sounds of silence–or not! So your students have been using Audacity to record news events, interesting science facts, or stories they created, but getting the recording just right is a bit troublesome, and no one wants to try 15 takes. Can the audio be edited? Absolutely! Audacity has some pretty [...] You’ve reached a new height in creative SMART Notebook lessons, and you’ve posted all your glorious work on your teacher website (or moodle site), but your students are complaining that they cannot open the files at home. What can they do? Students can download, for free, software from SMART called Notebook Viewer which will allow them [...] Did you know that you can download sounds and sound effects from our Clipart.com for Schools subscription? These sounds are great to use in SMART Notebook lesson activities, but they are all in the WAV format, and SMART Notebook really only likes the MP3 format. How do you convert them? EASILY of course! Using Audacity, you [...] After having a SMART Board in your classroom for a couple of years, you are probably familiar with many of the things you can do with the SMART Board and Notebook software. The next level of SMART Board use is to focus on how your subject area can be enhanced by using the SMART Board. While [...] Remember the technology survey you took a short time ago? At a meeting on Tuesday, Anne Dudley mentioned that after reviewing the results, she and our Director of Technology, John Abdelmalak, were ecstatic about the improvement in our technology use compared to the survey from three years ago–so CONGRATULATIONS to all of you! From websites, to [...] What can you learn about science in 60-seconds? How about the fact that chickens see more colors than we do? Scientific American posts daily facts about science that are available as 60-second audio files–yes, a podcast! What is this good for? If you are simply a science aficionado, it’s fun, but in the classroom, the podcasts [...] |
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