I am prepping for a presentation to middle school girls on the topic of Internet safety next week. Looking through some of my resources, I stumbled upon these videos on YouTube. They might be a resource worth sharing with students and other educators.  

SimpleBooklet claims to be “The web’s simplest booklet publisher.” Well, I like to consider myself a simple person, so if they made the claim, I was going to test it. And I did. There are several levels of accounts but I, of course, chose the free demo which did not require registration and offered unlimited booklets and up to 20MB content storage. To begin, you enter a name for your booklet and then choose the [...]

21 Skype Resources posted by Shelly Terrell on www.techlearning.com and cross posted on Teacher Reboot Camp. Skype in Education Technology 4 Kids Wiki: Skype Resources Using Skype at School (The Dummies Series) Skype in School Wiki 50 Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom Student Inter-school Debating with Skype by Lois Smethurst Giving Students Skype Jobs by Langwitches Skype an Author Wiki 10 Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom Motivating Adult Learners: Skype an [...]

“I want students to mark up grammatically incorrect sentences on my interactive white board. What’s the easiest way to do that?” My answer was “PowerPoint.” When you use Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 to display presentations, or in this case sentences, you can annotate right on the slide. This option appealed to me because we did not have to launch the board’s software to annotate on the slide. We could accomplish the same task within just [...]

Have you ever wondered how you could embed a viewer in your blog or web site so you could display a PDF? Well, wonder no more! Google offers a feature that lets you embed a PDF. To make this work, the file you want to display must be available online. So, upload a document somewhere on the web and then follow these instructions! We need to insert an iframe. An iframe allows content that is [...]

Having created a video Playlist, now we need to share it. The first step will be to create a custom video player to display your Playlist. To begin, login to your YouTube account. Click on your username and select Account from the drop down list Look for the More column and click on the Custom Video Players link On this page, we create a new video player and customize its appearance. Click on the Create [...]

I visit YouTube often. Sometimes for educationally related videos, and other time just for fun. In the past, when I found videos that I wanted to share with other teachers, I would copy the embed code that is usually provided to the right of the video, and paste it into my blog, wiki, or web site. Easy enough. But this process only allows me to embed one video at a time. What if I wanted [...]

PBS Teachers® and Classroom 2.0, with support from Elluminate,are partnering on a series of free monthly webinars designed to help preK-12 educators learn new ways to integrate online instructional resources in the classroom and engage students in curriculum lessons. Some past events are archived and available for download. Check it out! View all PBS events.

A colleague sent me a link to this video from the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference in February. Wow! Siftables are small computers that can be manipulated like children’s block. When you move them, sort them, stack them, turn them, they interact with each other to do amazing things! While watching the kids play with the “blocks” I couldn’t help thinking of my children and exciting technologies that will be a part of their generation. [...]

If I needed to contact you, would I be able to find you online? Could your students? Other educators? I believe, like other educational bloggers, that it is essential to be able to find  and connect with educators today on the web. If you have followed prominent edubloggers Will Richardson or Dr. Scott McLeod, you know that they have both written about the value of having an online presence. Some refer to this concept as [...]