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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 [...] 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 [...] 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! From maps to current events, Social Studies Online has dozens of links to websites and lesson plans you can use every day. You can browse by topic and grade level, so finding what you need is easy. The site was created for Jefferson County in Tennessee, so there are some references to when topics [...] Testing is over, field day is over, science fair is over, the play is over, but school is not over yet! With the rest of the year being devoted to your favorite fun activities, you might be looking for a few good interactive websites for your students to use in center activities, tech lab visits, [...] Trying to dress up your teacher web pages or SMART Board presentations with great clip art images? Remember that the district subscribes to the school version of Clipart.com. We’ve got access to tens of thousands of clipart images, photos, fonts, and sounds. From within the school district, you do not need to enter a username and [...] Interactive Internet Websites is a wonderful place for the SMART Board-equipped teacher to troll for excellent sites students may use not only with their own computers but also with the classroom SMART Board. The suggested website links are categorized into subject areas, and there are a few other links to sites we’ve seen before like the [...] So you’ve got your class divided into small groups, and you’d like to use your SMART Board as a center activity, but where can you find interesting and RELEVANT educational activities your students can use on the SMART Board? Two sites I’d like to recommend today are Illuminations for math and ReadWriteThink for language arts. Illuminations is [...] Tired of seeing Times New Roman as the default font in your SMART Notebook lessons? Watch this video to see how to change it to a font you’ll love! swfobject.embedSWF(“http://www.youtube.com/v/gJEhhrWvFYQ&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=0″, “vvq-210-youtube-1″, “425″, “344″, “9″, vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes); Like ripples in a pond, sound waves are emanating from classroom computers around the district as teachers embrace web 2.0 applications like podcasting! Microphones are cropping up in classrooms, and students may be heard reciting poetry, collaborating verbally on story ideas, and explaining how the Statue of Liberty makes them feel patriotic. If you are contemplating [...] |
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