Twiducate
Twiducate is a social networking site that doesn’t require a student to have an email address AND the site can be easily monitored by a teacher. I’m looking at this site as a way for Katie’s class to collaborate on the Eaton Trail project.
When in Rome…
Adobe announced Project Rome yesterday. Project Rome can be run as either web based or as a desktop application for Mac or Windows. Project Rome is an “all in one content creation and publishing” tool. For a limited time, it is available as a free preview. What I find particularly interesting is the fact that [...]
Programming and Kids!
There are lots of different ways to teach kids the fundamentals of programming. For the really young (Pre-K through 4th), there is Turtle Logo and the Bee Bots from Terrapin Software. Then there’s Scratch from MIT which I used with the 3rd and 4th graders last year and will use with them again this year. [...]
ArtRage2
ArtRage2 is a paint program that I found for Heather to use with the 5th and 6th graders. This is an incredible, low-cost and even free software that is available for both Macs and Windows. ArtRage 2 has a set of familiar painting and drawing tools like oil paints and pencils, and features like tracing [...]
SmartTable
Thanks to a Special Ed grant, there is a SmartTable in the Warren School Lab. The SmartTable allows multiple students to work around it, much like the high-tech mission control desk in a spy movie. It comes with preinstalled activities which run using Adobe Air. There are puzzles, arithmetic problems, paint, and a few other [...]
QR Code is awesome!
Here’s the QR code to this web site: QR Code (qr = quick response) is a square piece of code that is readable by a cell phone camera. A QR Code can hold much more information than a barcode. What you need to read my QR above – a QR Reader for your smartphone. I have [...]