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Teacher Triumph

Parents love to meet the teacher on back-to-school night, but even more than that they love seeing their children on the big screen!  Vinnie Palladino came up with a great way to involve his students in his back-t0-school night presentation: he had the students tell the parents about the classroom in a video.

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Back to School Night Treat

Parents love to see their children on screen, so why not entertain them with a classroom tour given by your students in ABC book style?  Nancy Volker’s students made a list of items and areas in the classroom that began with each letter of the alphabet.  Then the students posed with a sign (P is [...]

Tech Tip Tuesday: Shift How You Ctrl Your Clicking

You’ve got about three hundred photos from the first few days of school, and you want to put a handful of them into a slideshow folder you created.  How can you select a bunch of them without dragging photos one-by-one to your slideshow folder?  Use the Ctrl key and Shift key with the mouse to [...]

Back to School Slideshow

Looking for an easy way to create a slideshow with some music for back-to-school night?  Try using Photostory.  It’s easy, and installed on all of our school computers.  An added bonus: it’s FREE!  So if you want to play around with it at home, you can download it HERE.

The video below is a quick run-through [...]

You’re So Incredible

Welcome back to school!  With technology developments coming at us at breakneck speed, there are going to be so many ways to accomplish your dream lessons this year.  Let’s begin with a quick look at some of the teachers who have inspired us with their technology achievements.  Watch the short (30 second) video clip and [...]

Video on Your Teacher Website

Now that you’ve learned how to shoot video using your digital camera, how can you share that video of your students making electric circuits in science class?  Your Schoolwires teacher website space has the ability to add a video right there on the web page!  Watch the video below to learn how easy it is [...]