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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 [...] What one tool makes writing disappear, spotlights items onscreen, and magnifies the minute? The Magic Pen of course! The Magic Pen Tool in SMART Notebook allows you to do three things (see that there are three stars around the pen?). 1. Write with disappearing ink. Sometimes you just need to make a quick note that does not [...] 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, [...] 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 [...] We’re still unfortunately without our fancy features for the blog like photos and embedded video, so today’s Tech Tip is a Text Tip: Next time you are typing something in Microsoft Word (or many other programs), try changing the size of text by highlighting it then hold down the Ctrl key and tap either [...] I’m at the NJECC (www.njecc.org) December meeting now, and we’ve seen some neat websites and gadgets! Here are some worth seeing: Buildings that look like letters: Type your message, and geoGreeting (http://www.geogreeting.com/#t) finds buildings that look like the letters you type! It’s Christmastime, so you may want to hear some carols as sung by emoticons: http://emoticarolers.com/ Jamstudio [...] 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 [...] |
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