Tips on Hardware, Software, Lessons, and General Computing
Posted in BrainPop, NECC, Resources, Student Tech, Tools, Web on Jul 1st, 2008
As attendees of one of BrainPop’s presentations were discussing some of the cool ways that they were using BP in their classrooms, I had a chance to pick up an awesome tip. Monica Nahas, an Instructional Technology Specialist, mentioned that Readwritethink.org has a tool for creating your own comics, and it [...]
Posted in Lessons, Student Tech, Web on Jun 25th, 2008
Frequently, I find myself going to Google to solve this or that. - maybe too frequently. Needless to say, I’ve got it down to an art. The question is whether or not spending a few minutes here or there to answer questions like “What was the name of GI Joe’s arch nemesis” and “Who played [...]
I realized after posting the poll about Twitter that it may be unknown to some exactly what Twitter is. Describing Twitter isn’t so much hard, as it is difficult to explain without leaving people wondering why anyone would want to use it… which is a question most people ask, and only try out of curiosity. [...]
Posted in Resources, Student Tech, Tools, Web on Jun 1st, 2008
A couple of weeks ago I received an email telling me about a site that offered up video content from the likes of the University of California that combined trusted video content with a sort of social media twist. And to be honest it has taken me quite some time to really dig into their [...]
Posted in Productivity, Resources, Tools, Web on May 1st, 2008
Flash animations can be found all over the web, and several can be very useful in the classroom-especially with interactive white boards. But what would happen if the site that offers it were to go offline, get blocked, or delete the video?? For these moments, it would be great to have a copy of it [...]
Posted in Freebies, Lessons, Productivity, Resources, Tools, Web on Apr 16th, 2008
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, [...]
Posted in Lessons, Resources, Student Tech, Tools, Web on Apr 10th, 2008
We’ve talked before about the incredible movies that Brainpop has to offer for a very wide selection of topics and content areas. But we have failed to mention one feature that places Brainpop above being just a place for good educational movies. Other than providing quizzes and the soon-to-be-added lesson plans, the site offers [...]
Posted in Productivity, Resources, Tools, Web on Feb 17th, 2008
If you’re like me, you probably have an assortment of Education related blogs and sites loaded into your feed reader or bookmarks that you like to check on a frequent basis, but one way to add to your list of resources is to use the browser add-on, StumbleUpon.
If you are unfamiliar with StumbleUpon, it’s a [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Resources, Student Tech, Tools, Web on Jan 30th, 2008
If you are unfamiliar with HotChalk, it’s a free, web based course management solution that allows teachers to create dynamic lessons and content in a online environment. Beyond just allowing teachers to create their own lessons, HotChalk also lets you share lessons in their Swap Shop. Meaning that teachers can access many quality lessons created [...]