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 […]
Digital smartpen assistive technology in the classroom
“I know my weakness at school: a laptop. I get distracted by videogames.” At least, that’s what the guy at Future Shop told me when I was looking into getting an echo smart pen. And I believe him. I see it all the time with students in my classroom who use assistive technology. The computer […]
Upgrade to Windows 8 Pro by Jan 31, 2013 and save $30
I recently upgraded my old Windows XP machines to Windows 8 Pro. I was talking about this with a few teachers in the staff room, and they didn’t know that, right now, Microsoft has a special upgrade price. Windows 8 Pro costs $69.99 to buy a DVD. You can download the Windows 8 Pro upgrade […]
Backing up Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 User Profile
There is nothing scarier than opening up Dragon Naturally Speaking 12 to get an error message saying there’s something wrong with your user profile. (Well, I suppose your computer not booting up is pretty scary too. Or, when your hard drive crashes and you lose all of your family photos, that sucks.) If you’ve been […]
Can your students guess your password?
Teachers live in a digital world. We use computers and email systems to store and communicate student information to parents, teachers, and other colleagues: marks, assessment information, tests, special education data, etc. Could one of your students guess your password? Obviously, this isn’t a problem if you teach grade 1, but if you teach in […]