This six-minute YouTube video provides a nice overview showing how to use the basic features of ActivInspire software for the Promethean interactive whiteboard, including setting up a new flipchart; adding, editing, and formatting text; using the pen tool to add annotations and highlighting; and more.
Episode #119 features a review, including spoilers (you have been warned), of the new Superman movie, Man of Steel, and how it relates to contemporary assistive technology and educational practices.
Episode #119 features a review, including spoilers (you have been warned), of the new Superman movie, Man of Steel, and how it relates to contemporary assistive technology and educational practices.
"The TED Radio Hour is a journey through fascinating ideas: astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, new ways to think and create. Based on Talks given by riveting speakers on the world-renowned TED stage, each show is centered on a common theme - such as the source of happiness, crowd-sourcing innovation, power shifts, or inexplicable connections. The TED Radio Hour is hosted by Guy Raz, and is a co-production of NPR & TED. Follow the show @TEDRadioHour."
Episode #37 is up for your listening pleasure! Episode #37 features Part 1 of a two part interview with Chris Cummins, a high school English teacher and adjunct professor at the State University of New York at Fredonia who is currently teaching a class on
Episode #37 is up for your listening pleasure! Episode #37 features Part 1 of a two part interview with Chris Cummins, a high school English teacher and adjunct professor at the State University of New York at Fredonia who is currently teaching a class on
Episode #35 is up for your listening pleasure! Episode #35 describes two websites that contain online painting programs. The episode also features a bumper from Julie Bisbee, a speech-language pathologist from San Juan County, New Mexico. Also, mentioned in this episode is the "Accessing the Artist Within" project from the Anne Carlsen Center in North Dakota.
The Actuarial Foundation supports mathematics achievement among students in grades 4-12 through an array of educational initiatives. The Foundation inspires this new generation of "math skilled thinkers" by delivering educational resources and activities tailored to students and educators. All of these lesson plans, discussion materials, posters, online activities and competitions are free!
Browse these math resources by subject area, or view the Foundation's classroom materials by title.
Geocaching is a high tech treasure hunt that utilizes a GPS receiver to determine a cache's location. Coaches are hidden all over the world by geocachers who post latitude and longitude coordinates online and challenge other to find them. A GPS receiver can pinpoint one's location anywhere on the Earth to within several meters.
"We Give Books is a new digital initiative that enables anyone with access to the Internet to put books in the hands of children who don't have them, simply by reading online."