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 […]
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 […]
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