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Today K-6 Tech Talk is coming to you from the 24th Annual NJECC conference. There will probably be many tips and tricks to pick up today (and the next two days as the conference continues), but we’re starting off with a keynote address from Will Richardson. Keep checking today for news from the conference. Will is talking now (his [...] Click image for full-size view The sounds of silence–or not! So your students have been using Audacity to record news events, interesting science facts, or stories they created, but getting the recording just right is a bit troublesome, and no one wants to try 15 takes. Can the audio be edited? Absolutely! Audacity has some pretty [...] You’ve reached a new height in creative SMART Notebook lessons, and you’ve posted all your glorious work on your teacher website (or moodle site), but your students are complaining that they cannot open the files at home. What can they do? Students can download, for free, software from SMART called Notebook Viewer which will allow them [...] After emerging from the mountains of snow in our yards, it’s back to school and back to the blog! Media Monday’s tip today is a bit of a blend between media and Website Wednesday. We love our Discovery Streaming subscription, and it’s nice that YouTube is not blocked for us, but sometimes you need something a [...] Many of you have tried blogging with your students. It’s a good way for you to pose a question and have the students answer online, but how about creating a blog with a character host? A “bear-y” interesting version of a blog for an elementary classroom is The Adventures of Jefferson Bear. A third grade teacher [...] Rather than tell you that you can set your internet start page by going to the page you’d always like to begin with (I love the weather, so I use www.noaa.gov pre-set to Chatham’s weather) by opening your browser and clicking Tools > Options and clicking “Use Current Page,” I’d like to offer a little [...] Science is one of the subjects I love the most, so when I was teaching, I pulled out the stops to make science as interesting and multidisciplinary as possible–that included having students perform a song about the way the Sun works. I was so happy that my favorite band, They Might Be Giants, released an EP [...] Don’t you love saving time? What if it takes only one click to start a program rather than two clicks? That’s a 50% savings! Cut your clicking in half by using the Quick Launch area of your Task Bar–the blue bar at the bottom of your screen. Go to Start > Settings > Taskbar and Start [...] Sometimes the content you want to show on a web page is pretty small, and even with the SMART Board you wish you could enlarge the text or image on a web page. Your wish has been granted! Most browsers allow you to easily enlarge a web page by simply holding down the Ctrl key and [...] |
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