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Media Monday

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 [...]

Media Monday

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, [...]

Media Monday

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 [...]

Media Monday

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 [...]

Media Monday

Today’s post is a bit of a blend between Media Monday and Website Wednesday.  Imagine old-school media like BOOKS brought to life through technology.  The International Children’s Digital Library  allows you and your students to browse and read any of the 10,000 books in about 100 languages online.  The site even has a number of [...]

Media Monday

Welcome to the newest category on the K-6 Tech Talk blog: Media Monday!  With the proliferation of audio and video in our lessons, it makes sense to take time each week to have a look at some of the aspects of technology related to audio, images, and video.   This week we’ll review Audacity.

Back on March 11 (my [...]