http://tech.savvyteachers.com Helping Technology Work For You! Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:19:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en photo credit: Extra Ketchup Typer Shark Typing of the Ghosts Cup Stacking Alphattack TuxTyping Learn2Type TyperShark Bubbles Baracuda Arachnid Falls Spacebar Invaders Outerspace Fleet Commander The Frogs are Off Their Diet Have a site that your kids love? Leave it in the comments! http://tech.savvyteachers.com/2008/11/12/keyboarding-sites-that-your-kids-will-love/ Math Class Starters Online Stopwatch Scientific Method Lab Promethean Planet (World's Largest Interactive Whiteboard Community) Classroom Game Show Templates Smart board has many activities that work great with the mimio also. A Large list of interactive site resources organized by subject. Found a great site or resource for your smart board or mimio? Share it here! Leave ... http://tech.savvyteachers.com/2008/11/10/smart-board-and-mimio-ideas-and-resources/ Schools can defitely use donations in the technology department. However, schools are not places to dump your "tech-junk". Wired has a great guide on what to donate. Technology and Your Local School: What to Donate and What NOT to Donate | Geekdad from Wired.com. http://tech.savvyteachers.com/2008/11/07/donating-to-your-school-what-to-donate-and-what-not-to-donate/ Edutopia has a great article on how many teachers are finding ways to use web2.0 sites that are often blocked in the classroom. This goes along well with our recent article on how to bring youtube videos to class dispite filters. http://tech.savvyteachers.com/2008/11/06/bringing-web20-into-the-classroom-dispite-a-filter/ YouTube is often blocked at schools due to the inappropriate content that is hosted on the site. However, there is a great wealth of educational content as well that you might wish to show to your classes. We will be downloading a copy of the video that you can bring into ... http://tech.savvyteachers.com/2008/11/05/using-youtube-in-the-classroom-without-filter-hassles/ It's finally summer! If you're at all like me, you have a packed summer full of vacations, perhaps a side job or two, and even some planning for the next school year. But take some time out and brush up on some technology skills. Here's a few good ways to ... http://tech.savvyteachers.com/2008/06/10/staying-tech-savvy-in-the-summer/ Note: This is an on going part of a look at six issues that we face in keeping our children and students safe online. We’ll be looking at the issue, discussing some solutions and recommending some free and commercial software that can help protect the children you work with online. The ... http://tech.savvyteachers.com/2008/03/07/keeping-kids-safe-online-general-concern/ Note: This is an on going part of a look at six issues that we face in keeping our children and students safe online. We'll be looking at the issue, discussing some solutions and recommending some free and commercial software that can help protect the children you work with online. The ... http://tech.savvyteachers.com/2008/02/29/keeping-kids-safe-online-issue-5-online-predators/ Note: This is an on going part of a look at six issues that we face in keeping our children and students safe online. We'll be looking at the issue, discussing some solutions and recommending some free and commercial software that can help protect the children you work with online. The ... http://tech.savvyteachers.com/2008/02/21/keeping-kids-safe-online-issue-4-illegal-downloading/ Note: This is an on going part of a look at six issues that we face in keeping our children and students safe online. We’ll be looking at the issue, discussing some solutions and recommending some free and commercial software that can help protect the children you work with online.The issue: SpywareSpyware ... http://tech.savvyteachers.com/2008/02/12/keeping-kids-safe-online-issue-3-spyware/