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Media Monday

What qualifies as new media for Media Monday?  Certainly photos, video, web 2.0 applications come to mind, but would you consider the blog a part of new media?  Of course!

How can you harness the interesting educational possibilities of the blog?  Your Schoolwires Centricity teacher website is the perfect starting point, and the latest Tech Talk [...]

Website Wednesday

I know I’ve mentioned this site before, but it bears repeating: Thinkfinity is probably your best one-stop website for academic content.  Regular users will be familiar with the many lesson plans, activities, games, and content available for FREE, but new users may be interested in the Thinkfinity Tour.

One of the many teacher helpers is something [...]

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!

Tech Tip Tuesday

How do you get to your frequently-used websites–especially your teacher web page?  You may use netTrekker, First Class bookmarks, Diigo, or Delicious to store all of your bookmarks, but for the handful of websites you visit every day, you will love having one-click access to them every time you open your browser.  The text directions [...]

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 [...]