Archive for May, 2009
Tech Tip: Navify
Redeveloping my presentations and material year to year, I’ve been waiting for the search engine that looks for:
Historical Information – encyclopedic
Images
Video
with any given search term (for example: Boston Tea Party). I’m still in the process of review, but Navify seems to be what I’m looking for. Type in the search terms, and it returns wikipedia [...]
Tech Tip: Jing
On your new computers you have the most excellent program called “Jing” (look under “all programs – it’s called “Tech Smith”).
What does Jing do? First, it allows you to camputer pictures of what’s on your computer screen. You can then add text, shapes, highlights, etc. to the picture. Second, it lets you create screencasts of [...]
Tech Tip: Vimeo
If you’re looking for an excellent website to upload video (perhaps using your new, nifty webcam), Vimeo’s the site to use. With Youtube blocked, and Teachertube relatively worthless (both with high quality content and technical abilities), Vimeo’s the best option (at least currently). You can find some really good clips on Vimeo (check out [...]
Lesson Plans: May 18-22
Continuing our Western Theme.
Monday
WU: Seating Chart
Frontier House
Tuesday
Field trip to High School
Wednesday
WU
Conclude Handouts from Last week
Frontier House
Thursday/Friday (block schedule)
WU
Handout
Frontier House: Conclude
Begin Project
Tech Tip: Wordpress
What is Wordpress?
Wordpress is a blogging platform used by the majority of bloggers on the web. It is ridiculously simple to use and atheistically pleasing in design. It’s also free open source.
Students can easily post their thoughts, video, or images.
Why use it in the class?
Teachers use blogs for a number of reasons. Speaking personally, I [...]
Lesson Plans: May 11-15
This week we continue to look at the settlement of the American West.
Monday
WU
Frontier House
Tuesday
WU: Story of Stuff
Guided Reading: The West
Wednesday
WU
Frontier House
Thursday
WU
Frontier House
Friday
WU
Finish guided reading
Getting your Bookmarks out of Safari and Using Delicious
The new computers teachers receive this year are PCs and, consequently, won’t feature Safari as the main web browser. The problem is that many teachers have a number of bookmarks saved in Safari and want them to travel with them to their new computer. This post suggests 2 solutions.
First a quick primer on browsers. The [...]
In: General · Tagged with: Bookmarks, browser
