K-6 Tech Talk

It has been a long time since I’ve posted here mostly because of other responsibilities that I have taken since April when I discovered that my position as a technology curriculum coordinator was eliminated from the school’s budget.  Fortunately, I’ll be back in the classroom rather than out of a job, so I can’t complain, [...]

It’s NJECC Friday for April, and it’s a short meeting, so there may not be much to discuss today, but here are some highlights.

The conference in March was great, and next year’s conference will continue the focus on content-related workshops.  For example, there are a lot of SMART Board courses specific to science, math, language [...]

POW!  No, it’s not Adam West fighting with the Joker’s henchmen.  It’s a Problem of the Week at Math Forum.

Drexel University has an amazing collection of math resources for teachers, and the Forum is your place to discuss math topics and find resources such as the Problem of the Week for any level of ability.

Windows Media Player is probably the application you use the most to watch videos, and it’s a good player, but what if you want to make some notes about a video while you watch it with your class?

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could annotate and diagram images from a video clip right on the [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]