Farmers, Eyeballing, Taxes…

Agriculture is big business here in Michigan.  Check out the Harvest of History from The Farmers’ Museum and discover how farmers produce the food we eat everyday.
While studying geometry, have your students play The Eyeballing Game.  Players adjust a line segment to bisect an angle, form a parallelogram, or several other tasks.  It only takes [...]

Chem Is Try…

I know some of these will be blocked, but these Top 10 Amazing Chemistry Videos are awesome.  View them at home, save them to a CD or flash drive, then show them at school.  There’s also a link on the page to more  science videos!
If you don’t know how to download and save YouTube videos, [...]

Tiny, Bitesize, and Teen Writing…

Happy New Year! I suspect that you’re all a little fuzzy-headed this morning after not having to get up so early for two weeks. Once the fog clears, check out these great sites and resources.

Keep your eyes open for our Spring 2008 Tech Integration Workshops flyer…it should be making it’s way around this [...]

(Another) Google Presentations Post

The online world has been all abuzz with the announcement that Google Docs now includes the ability to create, edit, and share Presentations. I found out the news while reading the Webware blog, which by the way is great for keeping up on Web 2.0 apps, and they weren’t as impressed with it as [...]

Weekly Web Wonders SE

Yes, it’s the Special Google Edition of Weekly Web Wonders. Google is the source of such a plethora of great free tools that they are hard to ignore. Check these out! Keep in mind is that you have to have a Google Account to access some of these tools, but it’s free [...]

My favorite stuff is getting better

I usually take July off…there’s not much going on around the ISD and most teachers are busy with other activities to want to come to any workshops. So, with one more day of work to go I’ve discovered that some of my favorite tools are adding features. I thought I’d better blog these [...]

Corn Maze Geography

This is going to be so cool…
Next fall we’re hosting a new workshop integrating Social Studies and Technology: Corn Maze Geography.
What’s that, you say? Well, it started out as Kelly Gaideski (BCISD Social Studies Consultant) and I were putting some ideas together for a workshop for using GPS receivers and Google Earth together [...]