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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...]
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 [...] I know I’ve mentioned this site before, but it bears repeating: Thinkfinity is probably your best one-stop website for academic content. Regular users will be familiar with the many lesson plans, activities, games, and content available for FREE, but new users may be interested in the Thinkfinity Tour. One of the many teacher helpers is something [...] In a previous post about online video sources, I mentioned the Watch Know site, but it wasn’t ready for prime time at that point. Well, even though we use Discovery Education’s Streaming Video service, you may find some interesting content at Watch Know. Let me know if you find something worth sharing! How do your students compare to their peers around the world? The New Jersey State Department of Education is working with EdSteps to compile the world’s largest collection of student work. Right now the organization EdSteps is looking for teachers and students to submit writing samples and samples of what they call “Global Competency” which [...] |
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