Change is tough for some people. So I imagine when your school computers switch from Windows XP (or Windows 7) to Windows 8, a lot of students and teachers will wonder where the start menu went. (It takes a while getting used to a new operating system. Ask anyone who’s switched to a Mac or […]
Things I like about Animoto for Education
A colleague of mine recently showed me a very cool way for students to create good-looking videos. It’s called Animoto. Animoto lets you quickly and easily combine text, images, and videos into beautiful videos. The videos really do look good. Your students will be impressed with what they can create. My friend’s grade 6 students […]
Google chromebooks now available for the Canadian classroom
The official Google Canada blog made an exciting announcement today (Tue Mar 19, 2013). Google Chromebooks are now available in Canada. Up until now, if you wanted a Google Chromebook and lived outside of the US, you had to buy it on eBay, go to the States yourself, or find some other way to get […]
Teaching Media Literacy using (legal) Hollywood Movie Clips in your class lesson
Do you teach media literacy? Do you want to spice up your lesson with a short scene from a real Hollywood movie? A colleague of mine recently showed me the coolest website. MovieClips.com has posted online free and legal clips from Hollywood movies that you can share with your students and embed into your lessons. […]
YouTube videos not embedding correctly on WordPress class blogs
Whoops? Did something break? [stextbox id=”info”]Looks like the glitch is fixed. Youtube videos look just fine now.[/stextbox] I was just about to email a friend to show them how they could embed YouTube videos onto their classroom blog when I noticed YouTube videos on my own classroom blogs weren’t working properly. (I run a self […]
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