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Happy Holidays! While you’re enjoying your holiday break, we hope you’ll take a few minutes to read (or re-read) some of our favorite tech articles and explore a few of our most popular technology features. |
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Teacher Templates Why reinvent the wheel? Use our computer-editable templates instead.
Flyers, Posters, and Signs Learning center signs, event flyers, a school-year calendar, and more.
Graphic Organizers Venn diagrams, a family tree, concept maps, a comparison chart, more.
Tech Lessons of the Week These engaging lessons focus on content -- and integrate technology.
Get Animated About Chemistry Students create an animation representing one of the elements in the Periodic Table.
Creating a Multimedia Journey Students take a journey through sound, exploring the sounds of the places they visit.
Techtorials Step-by-step tutorials -- for teachers and students -- on using a variety of technology tools.
Talk to Anyone, Anywhere -- Free Learn how to install and use Skype, a free peer-to-peer Internet-based telephone system.
Record It With Audacity Learn how to record, edit, and share sound files using Audacity -- a free software program.
Sites to See Themed lists of some of the best sites on the Web.
Online Literacy More than three dozen pseudo-sites to use for media literacy lessons throughout the year.
Writing Tools A dozen Web sites with online or downloadable tools for improving student -- and teacher -- writing.
Fugle Flicks Give New Meaning to "Art Film" Making movies to teach art concepts transformed Tricia Fuglestad's teaching and the way her students learn.
Going Green With Virtual Learning By adopting virtual learning programs, schools can conserve energy, fuel, and perhaps most importantly, time for effective teaching.
Essential Computer Tips for Parents and Teachers What every student, parent, and teacher can do to protect his or her Windows™-based investment.
Create Your Own Web Site Bernie Poole provides 11 easy-to-read handouts designed to lead you or your students step-by-step through the process of creating a content-rich education-oriented Web site.
What can you do with SchoolNotes? Give it a try!
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Miguel Guhlin provides practical advice and solutions to "the IT crowd." Whether you're a school administrator or IT professional, you won't want to miss this 3-part series on five essential tools for school administrators:
Doug Johnson provides an up-close, common sense look at teachers and technology.
And, Not Or When asked if something should be x or y, try answering, "Yes -- x and y." Find a solution everyone can live with.
The Importance of an Aggregator How the news finds me instead of me having to find the news.
Brenda Dyck, a preservice instructor and moderator of the MiddleTalk listserv, explores a variety of ed-tech topics and issues.
My Weary Query How can the very thing that invigorates my teaching serve as a draining experience for another teacher?
Do You See What I Mean? How do we teach learners to interpret and create visual, digital, and audio media.
Alma Row shares her favorite interesting and useful (and free) online tools. Who doesn't love a gadget?
Glogster is a nifty web 2.0 tool that allows you to create electronic posters.
SketchUp SketchUp is a 3D modeling program available through Google.
HearWho allows users to convert text to mp3 files.
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Interactivities Collaborative projects, virtual field trips, interactive games, and more.
Site Reviews More than 1,000 original reviews of some of the best sites on the Web.
Tip of the Week Themed tips make technology integration easier.
Video of the Week Be sure to explore this online resource for
ed-tech professionals.
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