Monthly Archives: July 2011
LATK, Hebrew, and a little Emunah
SMART Notebook’s Lesson Activity Toolkit is a quick and easy way to make interactive lessons for the SMART Board. Category Sort, Image Arrange, Keyword Match and many more. Jewish educators should be happy to know that these Flash-based learning objects will work with Hebrew as well.
Even better news is that the new SMART Notebook … Read more
The 100th Anniversary of Machu Picchu
This week marks the 100th year anniversary of Machu Picchu. The rediscovery of the “Old Peak” was made by an American historian, Hiram Bingham. His search of the hidden Incan city in the Urubama jungle began with rumors of a forgotten city nestled high in the Andes, covered in vegetation. A place that the Spaniards … Read more
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Hebrew Typing in Notebook
Unless you bought your computer in Israel or were able to acquire Hebrew stickers to add to your keyboard (or just know how to touch-type in Hebrew), you probably find typing Hebrew text challenging. However, Notebook comes with its own online virtual keyboard as long as you installed the SMART Product Drivers (http://www.teq.com/resources) … Read more
Spelling and Vocabulary City
Spellingcity.com is a vocabulary and spelling website that allows you to create your own spelling lists and use them with a variety of different activities.
To create your own spelling lists there is a free sign up where you can sign in as a parent or as a teacher. They offer a premium package, which, … Read more
What’s the Point(s)?
This is a shout-out to all of the happy OCD’ers out there in teacherland. Yes, those who have alphabetized their sock drawer and are frequent users of SMART Notebook’s Alignment Tool will be happy to know that SMART Notebook software allows the adjustment of the number of orientation points. The more points of orientation on … Read more
Welcome to College
Interested in furthering your education, but don’t have the resources to do it? Academic Earth offers students and teachers access to the classrooms of leading educational institutions across the country. Regardless of your field of educational interest, Academic Earth is rich with material provided completely free of charge. Academic Earth offers users access to video … Read more
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Growing with Technology
Calling all technology teachers! If you’re looking for an interactive website to use with your students, do I have the site for you! Growing With Technology has six levels based on grade, and each level can take a school year to complete.
There are many sub categories in each level with both animated and non-animated … Read more
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Two Minute Tables Tutorial, Part 2
Using the Tables Tool in Notebook software is an effective way to create interactive graphs and collaborative graphic organizers for students. In this blog post, “Two Minute Tables Tutorial, Part 2”, we’ll continue to take a look at the tables tool. Adding columns and rows, merging cells, adding text to cells, changing table colors and … Read more
Online Certification
Busy at the beach this summer and can’t make it to our sparkling new offices? Live in the southern hemisphere and don’t want to miss out on some great skiing? The good news for you is we still have space in our online certification course starting Monday, July 11.
The course is designed to be … Read more
