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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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