Monthly Archives: August 2008
Back to School with SMART Board Lessons and Games
New York City teachers are headed back in their schools and many schools are already back in session. Didn’t the summer just start? What happened?
The TeqSmart Blog is still on location in Chicago, but we’re hard at work, too. Yesterday, for instance, we did a marathon training day of three schools, three trainings, … Read more
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Educators can get Google Earth Pro for Free. No, seriously.
Hello from Skokie! The TeqSmart blog is coming to you from a different time zone this week, and the hour difference is only throwing us off a little. We hope everyone had an awesome weekend. We are super stoked because:
Friday Wrap-Up
How awesome was this week?
We know a lot of teachers are looking at the calendar, scratching their heads, and puzzling on how the time flew by so quickly. Can it really be almost September?
It’s true, but:
- It’s still summer.
- The Olympics are on.
- We’ve been having a lot of fun at some great
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Customizing Your Toolbar for Maximum Awesomeness
“No more rhyming now, I mean it!” “Anybody want a peanut?”
Today we want to share a resource a teacher told us about at a training in Manhasset yesterday. Poets.org is a giant collection of poetry and information about poetry. It is full of poet biographies, interviews, tips for aspiring poets, and lots of other materials. Their large library is a great resource for teachers.
For … Read more
SMART Notebook, Graphic Design, and Fantasy Football
When we talk about SMART Notebook, we usually focus on it as software for creating interactive lessons, but it has other uses.
Notebook 10 is a great tool all kinds of classroom lessons and activities, but it is also a user-friendly drawing program. Being able to make unwanted parts of an image transparent, easily manipulate … Read more
We have friends
Friends are awesome. What you may not know is that blogs, just like people, can have friends. I expect this to be a theme of an upcoming episode of Sesame Street.
We posted a link to ICT Games a little while ago that was provided by TeqSmart friend Sandy Krochek. She very kindly posted some … Read more
New Scholastic SMART Board Lessons
Q: How was Miami?
A: Fantastic.
Q: How was the drive from Miami to Tampa?
A: Long.
The TeqSmart crew is very grateful to all the schools that we have visited on our trip thus far: Lehrman Community Day School, Hochberg Preparatory School, RASG Miami Hebrew Academy, and Congregation Bet Breira. Tomorrow, we are visiting … Read more
Grants for Educators
Before we jump into today’s post, let us just say, we did not quite make it to Miami as we had planned. Flight cancellations in New York sent us into a non-stop stream of phone calls and the discovery that the only way to get to Florida out of New York in the next few … Read more
Friday Wrap-Up
Did we post every day this week? Yes. We even posted on Sunday. This is the first time in our proud history that we put up new material every day. Thank you for not pointing out that yesterday’s post was two sentences long.
To follow up this week’s landmark, we are going to bring you … Read more
