More and more teachers are starting to use Dropbox as a way to share files and collaborate in the classroom. Using Dropbox has saved us hours of marking when we were able to restore an accidentally deleted file. (Dropbox is a little program that you install on your computers and mobile devices. It creates a […]
Nuance (Dragon NaturallySpeaking) Gave Us a Full Refund
UPDATING: Jul 2, 2019 – FYI There is a newer version of Nuance Dragon voice software. After 9 years, I still use Dragon speak naturally, and blog. Here is the post from October 2010 about Nuance Dragon Naturally Speaking Full Refund: I recently canceled my order for Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 Wireless Teacher and Student […]
Using Picassa and Face Recognition Software to Organize Your Classroom Photos
Nobody does it like Google. If you’re like most teachers, you have access to a digital camera. Maybe it’s your own personal digital camera from home, or maybe it’s the school camera, but chances are you’re snapping photos of your students and filling up your hard drive. Maybe you’re putting together a year-end slideshow and […]
Behind the Scenes
We haven’t posted here in a while, but things have been busy behind the scenes. We’ve been setting up classroom blogs for some of our colleagues. (Who knew that the domain edublogs.ca would still be available.) We’re focusing and reorganizing this site (blog.classroomteacher.ca) to focus more on technology in the classroom rather than blogging in […]
Using Clickers in the Classroom
Our school is fortunate enough to have access to interactive whiteboards (SMARTboards), SMART airliner tablets, and a class set of clickers. If we were going to invest our own personal money into our classroom technology, we would definetely get a class set of clickers over the airliner tablet or interactive whiteboard. No contest. Here’s why. […]