February3
10 Tech Skills Every Student Should Have Earlier this month, I wrote “10 Important Skills Students Need for the Future.” After reading a few articles about specific tech skills, I thought I write what I think are the 10 Important Tech Skills Students Need. 1. Internet Search – students need to know how to do a proper internet search, […]
July23
Open a magazine, a catalog, or take a look at sign in your local grocery market these days and you’re likely to see a QR code. To that end, Russel Tarr has developed the QR Treasure Hunt Generator. The QR Treasure Hunt Generator provides you with all of the things you need to get started […]
June16
Education blogger David Kapuler has created a free slideshow of 50 great sites for education, creativity, organization and more. Each slide includes basic information about the site, a link to the site, and a link to Kapuler’s review of the site. Also has other slide shows on this SlideShare channel.
June6
All types of tools for students and teachers–research tools, slideshow tools, music tools, graphing tools. Excellent jumping off point for Web 2.0 tools. Another site that shows a lot of promise is a blog by the David Andrade, “Educational Technology Guy“.
April30
Simple Booklet is advertised as the “Web’s Simplest Do-it-yourself Digital Booklet”. Using templates, you can create any type of booklet on the web. The booklet can be any size, and you can publish it anywhere you want. It can be emailed, embed it on a website or blog or even store it on simplebooklet.com and […]
April27
Five Ways to Make Word Clouds from Text Wordlings is a new service for creating word clouds from blocks of text. Sign into Wordlings with your Twitter or Facebook account to have it create a word cloud of your posts. You can also copy and paste chunks of text into Wordlings. Wordlings allows you to […]
April17
The Teacher’s Guide: Great interactive resource websites for the SMARTboard, PowerPoint, printables, and other interactive links with virtual field trips, whiteboard templates, book activities, songs organized by grade level, themes, or technology items. Also included teacher-submitted materials all free for use by students or teachers.