I know this isn’t really a technology strategy that will help you in the classroom, but sometimes a little tech at home is necessary. That mentioned, there’s been quite a bit of buzz going around about a free service that unmasked calls in which the caller has chosen to block their number. Not a bad little feature to have when the little jerks youngens decide to prank you at home.
The service is called trapcall and here is what lifehacker.com has to say about how it works. “TrapCall works like this: …

My students and I just finished a unit in which they were producing short commercials using still images and voice overs on Windows Movie Maker. We were in the process of adding audio when a student asked if I had any music they could use, and a quick Google scored this gem. http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/
Kevin MacLeod over at www.incompetech.com has produced tons of high quality music segments that served as a priceless resource for adding great music to each of the projects. Since scoring films/commercials etc… require fitting music to the …

Learning to use a computer efficiently can be a tough task if you weren’t born with one already at your finger tips. Solutions to simple problems typically aren’t obvious, and unless you have spent a great deal of time with one you won’t inherently know whether something needs to be clicked, double clicked, downloaded, uploaded, or just plain opened. J. McNulty understands your frustration and has developed a solution to alleviate these struggles over at  his site, 180techtips.com.

We’ve talked about BrainPop here before, and how they have some incredible content for K-12 through their animated lessons, but now they would like to extend an opportunity to the readers here at TTB. So, from now until the end of May if you sign up for their free trial to you can enter in the access code “TEACHERTECH” you will receive an all-access pass to explore all of their content for 30 days. Thanks BrainPop!