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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 [...] Snow is on the way! If your students are thinking about zooming downhill on snowboards, skis, sleds, or saucers (hey, they all begin with S), then they might like to create some snow themselves one snowflake at a time at Make-a-Flake. Make-a-Flake has been a favorite in my classroom for years, but it’s only one of [...] 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 [...] Secret Builders is new to me–I’ve tried to be a part of virtual worlds like Second Life, but have been hampered by a slightly older computer. Virtual world sites do require a fast internet connection and a late-model computer, but they are worth investigating. Second Life is great for adults and teenagers, but for the elementary [...] 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 [...] Your voices have been heard loud and clear! United Streaming–now called Discovery Education Streaming–has returned! Teachers in the School District of the Chathams may view the video about how to create a new account by CLICKING HERE and using your regular login credentials to see the video from either in school or at home. You may [...] We’ve seen Animoto here, and we’ve seen how to add video to your teacher web pages here, so how do you put those two together? Kay Grusenski in second grade at WAS did just that! Have a look at her website or go directly to her Animoto page. Fellow second grade teacher Sarah Gutierrez was [...] Digital storytelling is an easy way for your students to shine in a new way. Do you have a budding Ansel Adams photographer? How about a future Diane Sawyer reporter? Maybe digital storytelling is a way to allow your students to create a fun twist on a popular picture book like these first graders did [...] |
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