Roxio!!

  This is rough – just messing around but it only took me 15 minutes to put together. Cool!!

Great Video Sites

With projectors and/or SMARTBoards it is easy to bring video into your classroom. Here are a few great sources I have found. If you have found any others please post them to share with us. You Tube (of course)  – Here is a link to my favorite video… http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=LTLARW0-EIA Another favorite: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=rvTFKpIaQhM Teacher Tube – They are amassing quite a collection of SMARTBoard instruction videos… http://www.teachertube.com/ Teacher TV – Great educational videos, and professional development videos…  http://www.teachers.tv/ This one is about a student’s life in India: http://www.teachers.tv/video/29290. At our Last PD day we watched a video about Assessment for Learning: … Continue reading Great Video Sites

Kerpoof

Kerpoof  Check out this fantastic free site where kids can write stories, draw a picture, or make a movie. Kids can collaborate with others on their projects, and provide each other with feedback. It will be so fun to play with the drawing function on the SmartBoard as the kids illustrate their own stories. It is a great way to introduce the read-write web to students.  If you are concerned about using a social site with your children or students please check out my thoughts (and hopefully the comments of others … someday) about why we need to provide children with … Continue reading Kerpoof

ZoomIt

ZoomIt is a program that provides users with three tools. It runs in the background and is quickly activated by hotkeys. It allows you to quickly zoom in on any are of your screen within any program, to mark the screen using your mouse or touch pad (especially useful during presentations using any program), and to turn your computer screen into a countdown timer. Read more and download this freeware at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx/.

Phun Physics

Check out Phun Physics. Some of my students have been working on building interresting 2d objects and watching how they interact. They especially enjoy the water effects. One of them was experimenting with creating shapes that would float and that would sink. Very fun when used with the SmartBoard. Download at http://www.phun.at/ [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/0H5g9VS0ENM” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]