Tips on Hardware, Software, Lessons, and General Computing
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 on Feb 12th, 2008
I came across this site today and was blown away by the model they are using. Though it doesn’t seem comprehensive as of now, and I am in the works of contacting the creator, it does seem to offer quite a bit or promise. The site offers interactive quizzes for keyboard, theory, and song analysis. [...]
Posted in Productivity, Resources on Feb 10th, 2008
Next year my school will start the process of moving to Infinite Campus. It won’t be an easy switch, as it seems that we still have to do training for the old system quite frequently. For the tech-savvy, it looks to be an incredible leap forward, but for the rest it could make for a [...]
Consistency can be a good thing. People rarely like change, and students often find it calming when they walk into a classroom knowing what to expect. But sometimes this same consistency causes ruts that keep student brains from having the proper traction for learning. If you happen to find yourself in one of these ruts, [...]
Sorry for the absence of content lately. TTB Headquarters has sprung a leak(literally). So while we’re bailing out the water and cutting out the carpet, you can check out this list of the 13 most overlooked Tax Deductions. My personal favorite:
2. $250 educators’ expenses. Teachers and their aides can deduct up to $250 they spent [...]