Still one of the best sources for simple, to-the-point explanations of emerging tech concepts, Common Craft has now produced “Podcasting in Plain English.” Podcasting in Plain English explains, in about 3 minutes, the essential hows and whys of podcasting. The process is pretty easy and really requires only a microphone and some free software in [...]
There are two questions that are helpful when considering authoring a blog: What would I write about? Am I able to keep up with it? There are a handful of models that could work well for you professionally, depending on your personality, classroom, and writing style. Think about how any of these might fit you. [...]
TechLearning has a good article today on computer lab practices. Educator Larry Ferlazzo reflects on teaching in a computer lab, describing his own learning experiences and sharing with us some recommendations from those experiences. This is the short list of five recommendations: Use computer more to reinforce key concepts, and less to teach them Students [...]
This fall I had the opportunity to sit on a meeting detailing the importance of using digital technologies appropriately as an education professional. While the presentation was very well-intended, it seemed that a number of my teacher colleagues left with sense that there is no safe way to professionally use technology and that doing so [...]
If you could customize the search results for your class searches would you do it? How would you tweak the results? Would you select a list of sites to search? Specify sites that should get preferred listing? A list of sites to leave out of the search? Google’s Custom Search allows such customization. With Custom [...]
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 [...]
[via TechLearning.com] Harry Grover Tuttle, writing for TechLearning, offers 14 tips for integrating technology to enhance reading instruction. Some suggestions require more specific resources or are incompatible with our filtering, but several can be implemented in essentially any classroom setting with commonly available computing tools. Target grades: Varied
Facebook best practice: Sophos recommended privacy settings for Facebook This article contains some really practical tips on Facebook privacy settings. Though Facebook is most likely not part of your classroom practice, it never hurts to equip your students with good tips for their real-world use of online tools. The article, written from the perspective of [...]
