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I was walking by a classroom today when the teacher grabbed me to help figure out why the kids couldn’t access the clipart in Microsoft Word. While we don’t know why the Word clipart was not coming up, the more important issue is that you and your students have access to a MUCH BETTER clipart collection [...] Got some good graphics or clipart you use all the time? Try adding them to the My Content area of the SMART Notebook Gallery. The video shows you how to simply drag-and-drop items into your own quick-access clipart folder! swfobject.embedSWF(“http://www.youtube.com/v/nH_qajc-mkA&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=0″, “vvq-410-youtube-1″, “425″, “344″, “9″, vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes); You’ve heard of blogs, but what about glogs? Teachers looking for that next Web 2.0 project idea may want to try Glogster EDU. Glogster gives students a web-based way to add text, pictures, audio, and video to an interactive web page. Think PowerPoint meets Google Sites. Students are able to add nearly any content to a [...] 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 [...] |
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