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Teacher Triumph

How are we the same?  How are we different?  It’s easy to have that discussion among the students in our classes, but what are kids like outside Chatham?  Sandy Kelly, Michelle Monahan, and Jennifer Lehotay-Taylor have regular visits with fellow third grade students in Illinois to find out.

Using a webcam and Skype, a few students [...]

Teacher Triumph

With six more months of school, it’s time to think about updating your teacher website, but what can you do to make it more interesting to students and teachers while using your time effectively? How about incorporating student work into your website?

While reading Helen Keller’s Miracle Worker, Lisa McTague had an interesting challenge on [...]

Teacher Triumph Tuesday

Okay, so we’ll skip Tech Tip Tuesday today to recognize WAS teacher Sarah Gutierrez and her student teacher, Cathy Gomber, for teaching their second grade students how to narrate their fossil dig.

 The kids didn’t get to travel to the wilds of Montana to dig, but in science class they did get to be paleontologists for [...]

Media Monday

Welcome to the newest category on the K-6 Tech Talk blog: Media Monday!  With the proliferation of audio and video in our lessons, it makes sense to take time each week to have a look at some of the aspects of technology related to audio, images, and video.   This week we’ll review Audacity.

Back on March 11 (my [...]

Watch Know Now

In a previous post about online video sources, I mentioned the Watch Know site, but it wasn’t ready for prime time at that point.  Well, even though we use Discovery Education’s Streaming Video service, you may find some interesting content at Watch Know.  Let me know if you find something worth sharing!

Welcome Back Video Streaming!

Your voices have been heard loud and clear! United Streaming–now called Discovery Education Streaming–has returned! Teachers in the School District of the Chathams may view the video about how to create a new account by CLICKING HERE and using your regular login credentials to see the video from either in school or at home.

You may [...]

Video Sources for the Classroom

We’re all experiencing a sense of loss with the departure of Discovery United Streaming this year, but there are alternatives! If you’re trying to find some video content for your lessons, take a look at the sources on my website.

Additionally, we have our own NJN Digital Classroom Video Server
This icon on your desktop will allow [...]

Teacher Triumph

We’ve seen Animoto here, and we’ve seen how to add video to your teacher web pages here, so how do you put those two together?  Kay Grusenski in second grade at WAS did just that!  Have a look at her website or go directly to her Animoto page.  Fellow second grade teacher Sarah Gutierrez was [...]