This is fun stuff. National Geographic has a neat little utility, Wildlife Filmmaker, that lets students create their own wildlife movie using video, sound, and music clips built right into the site. Students can add their own captions and save (though not download) their movie. No registration is required, no fee, just easy movie editing [...]
With Google Docs’ presentation tool (docs.google.com) you now have the ability to publish presentation slides online within your webpage. This means that your students could view slide sets without the need to download them and launch them in PowerPoint, a tool which they may or may not have. This could be great for sharing student [...]
As programs go, PowerPoint is not terribly difficult to learn. New slide. Insert text. Save. Go. It is routinely used with students as young as the elementary grades and, in some cases, is the hallmark of technology implementation in the school. When teaching PowerPoint to students, it’s not the program itself that is difficult to [...]
